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Don G. · King's Row Joined: 11 Nov 2004 Posts: 1071 Location: MA

Yes, it's time for the annual b!tchfest over February/Febuary. They should just have a national petition to officially change the name, since half the alleged pros in national ads say it wrong anyway. Yeah, "Febuary" would be easier, but that doesn't make it right.

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JBarrett · Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 9:31 pm Post subject:

I'll admit that I'm in the "Febuary" camp myself, but frankly, I can't think of a single time that I've heard anyone say it the way it's spelled. It doesn't exactly roll off the tongue with ease.
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Deirdre · Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 10:59 pm Post subject:

I don't mind an elided "R" in "Febooary" as much as the totally insane

Feb-you-ary.

Saying it that way makes Baby Jesus cry.
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Tom Test · DC Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 629 Location: Chicago, IL

Last time I pronounced it correctly in a session, the client asked me to pronounce it Fe-boo-ary (kinda slurring it). I'm totally okay with that. Listen, some words and phrases are simply too hard to say correctly.

I ask you, when you say the phrase "compact disc," do you actually pronounce the "t" at the end of "compact?" How do you pronounce "Wednesday?" Wed-n-z-day, as it "should" be? Or do you pronounce it Wends-day" as everyone on planet Earth does? I could go on and on with examples like these.

Frankly, I think that we should make some changes in the official spelling of many English words to more accurately reflect the way people pronounce them. This already may be happening by the way the younger generation abbreviates words when texting (or even typing at a keyboard). "How r u?" You know what, why the hell not? It's easier, and that's the way it really does sound.

BTW, one of my very favorite books of all time is "The Mother Tongue: English, and How It Got to Be That Way" by Bill Bryson. Totally fascinating and utterly hilarious. It also explains why we have so many words with letters in them that we do not pronounce. If I were King, it'd be required reading!
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Deirdre · Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 10:58 am Post subject:

Lance Blair · M&M Joined: 03 Jun 2007 Posts: 2281 Location: Atlanta

I'd better go to the Libary and check this out.
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Jeffrey Kafer · Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 12:10 pm Post subject:

It's a balance between proper and what people expect you to say. When I hear "febrooary" I think it sounds odd because no one says it that way.

Last week I had a gig that required me to say "insect control". Try saying that naturally without saying "Insec control".
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Tom Test · DC Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 629 Location: Chicago, IL

Rob Ellis · M&M Joined: 01 Aug 2006 Posts: 2385 Location: Detroit

Everybody knows it's

Feb- ya -wary

Diane Maggipinto · Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 9:24 pm Post subject:

i was thinking about this today and came up with a solution:
let's change the pronunciation altogether to feh-BREWERY. yeah!
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Bruce · Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 7:17 am Post subject:

February comes from the Latin Februum (now say Feb-roo-um ten times real fast) and January and February weren't "invented" until about 700BCE. The ancients just took the winter off and only had ten months to the year. Gotta love your Wikipedia.

And speaking of WP, Wednesday comes from the Middle English Wednes dei, which is from Old English Wōdnesdæg, meaning the day of the English god Woden, a god in Anglo-Saxon England until about the 7th century, which they carried over from the Norse and their god Oden.

Happy Woden's Day, y'all!

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Mike Harrison · Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 3:10 pm Post subject:

Well. Febuary, walkeen/talkeen/shopeen (and anything 'ing' which is now 'een'), dubba-yoo, and even a national spot a few years back with the extremely common word that should've been pronounced 'per-KO-late' but which repeatedly came out 'per-KYOO-late,' why are we surprised or concerned?

There's also:
o-ways (always)
firm-il-yer (familiar)
dah-com (dot com)
ow-cohol (alcohol)
real-uh-ter (realtor)
noo-kyoo-ler (nuclear)
joo-ler-ee (jewelry)
ek-set-er-a (etcetera)
fed-rul (federal)
min-a-chur (miniature)
nup-choo-ul (nuptial)
per-og-a tive (prerogative)
fine-lee (finally)
a-crost (across)
guh-by (goodbye)

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(pronounced 'Throat Warbler Mangrove')
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roger · Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 5:38 pm Post subject:

Don't forget real-a-tor and ath-a-lete.
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Lee Gordon · Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 6:00 pm Post subject: