How do you pronounce...

[Sascha Franck]

Allright, I'll remember this. Thanks, CypherOne.

[kevink]

In some areas, people say "pree-ferr" for "prefer", but "preference" is pretty universally "preh-fer-ens".

[Glassback]

Ah. but prefer is different to preference.

[Marc JX8P]

You say po-tay-to - I say po-tah-to...

[herodotus]

You say po-tay-to - I say po-tah-to...

One of the most painful things I ever witnessed was someone at an audition singing that song off of sheet music without ever having heard it.

"You say to-may-to and I say to-may-to. You say po-tay-to and I say po-tay-to. To-may-to, to-may-to, po-tay-to, po-tay-to, let's call the whole thing off".

The director just sat there rubbing his forehead when it was over. Never said a word to the guy.

[Bonteburg]

[Glassback]

aliasing? - ay (like hay) lee ass ing

Really? I always thought it was alley-ay-sing.

alley-ay-sing?
nah - i say ay-lee-us-ing

but i guess it could be ally (as in an ally, not an enemy)-us-sing.

Anyway, here's how I'd say them:
Words

I think the first version of aliasing is right - but you lot have even got me wondering now.

[k-bird]

As i'm not an english speaker and learned most of the technical terms here by reading, i've got one or two problems:

aliasing?
preferences?
dither?

In my own dialect of English (private school educated Australian):

Aliasing has accent on the first syllable and the first two syllables rhyme with bailey or daily. The s is pronounced like the s in sing, not like a z.

Preferences starts with a short e (the e in egg, not the long e in here); the e in -fer- gets completely left out and the other es are reduced to the sound that begins the word 'about'. Sounds a bit like preffrunsuz.

Dither has a short i (like in dip, not the long i like in dime) and -ther is pronounced like in mother with a voiced th sound, not voiceless like in think.

[Glassback]

As i'm not an english speaker and learned most of the technical terms here by reading, i've got one or two problems:

aliasing?
preferences?
dither?

In my own dialect of English (private school educated Australian):

Aliasing has accent on the first syllable and the first two syllables rhyme with bailey or daily. The s is pronounced like the s in sing, not like a z.

Preferences starts with a short e (the e in egg, not the long e in here); the e in -fer- gets completely left out and the other es are reduced to the sound that begins the word 'about'. Sounds a bit like preffrunsuz.

Dither has a short i (like in dip, not the long i like in dime) and -ther is pronounced like in mother with a voiced th sound, not voiceless like in think.

hehe - so, what I said then:

Words(this is a clicky link)

We agree on the correct pronunciation of aliasing as well.

[Big Karma]

new mic works then!!


:lol::lol:

[Glassback]

testing testing one two - yes.
it was only the lead that was knacked though.

[spaceman]

As i'm not an english speaker and learned most of the technical terms here by reading, i've got one or two problems:

aliasing?

synthedit

preferences?

no-virus

[birrbits]

not to hijack your thread but....
there are other fun uses for merriam-webster pronounciation samples..

http://www.dictionaraoke.org/

[DuX]

I often see people write things like "usefull" and "beautyfull" instead of "useful" and "beautiful"... I am a bit sensitive to those as I was an English teacher for a while - on Taiwan, it's not hard to be one there... . It gave me the opportunity to perfect my English, though, as I am not a native speaker.

Cheers.

[Ja.x]

alley-ay-sing
ay-lee-us-ing

Never mind pronountiation? Will someone explain me what aliasing is?





(Maybe we call it some other thing in my native language, you know...)