Here’s another tongue-failure that’s been biting at me for a while …FEBRUARY.<\/p>\n
Now you wouldn’t think that would be too difficult, would you? Everyone has to utter this word at some point or another. Probably several times. And I imagine the frequency is greater around the second month of every year. So why is it that so many people get it wrong?<\/p>\n
There are two ways this one gets screwed up. The first is possibly the worst – dropping an entire syllable. Now pay attention people: this word has FOUR syllables in it. Count them. FOUR. Pronounce it with me: FEB-REW-AIR-EE. That’s four. So if you’re only using three syllables (such as the very popular but badly mistaken FEB-YEW-REE) then there is the first clue to your error. Three syllables = WRONG!<\/p>\n
Then there are those that manage four syllables, but still get it wrong. You know who I’m talking about. All of you who say FEB-YEW-AIR-EE. That’s wrong people. Why is it wrong? Just look at the spelling of the word: f-e-b-r-u-a-r-y. Look closely – there’s an R in that second syllable. So that means the word is pronounced FEB-REW-AIR-EE. Say it again everyone – FEB-REW-AIR-EE. Practice it. Get it right.<\/p>\n
February = FEB-REW-AIR-EE<\/strong><\/p>\n UPDATE:<\/p>\n A while we’re on the subject of the mispronounciation of months, let me just add a quick whine about the mispronounciation of “months”!! Can you see the “th” in there? Can you? “th” as in “there”, “that”, or “this”. So the word isn’t “munce”, and it doesn’t rhyme with “dunce”. It’s not difficult to get that “th” sound in there, so stop being lazy – stop being a dunce.<\/p>\n MONTHTHTHTHTHTHS<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here’s another tongue-failure that’s been biting at me for a while …FEBRUARY. Now you wouldn’t think that would be too difficult, would you? Everyone has to utter this word at some point or another. Probably several times. And I imagine the frequency is greater around the second month of every year. So why is it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59,"href":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}