Pronounce these words

[Sims2789]

Pronounce these words:

Pronounce
Organism
Fatigue
Xylophone
Anorexic
Trian
Effect
Pleasure
Treason
Your
California
Simplify
Nation
Phoenetically
Secretary










Now that you have pronounced them, write them out phoenetically, as you said them. Don't cheat. I put this large space so that people won't be biased by knowing their pronunciation is beig "tested," and are thus likely to speak formally, where our pronunciation is that of the dictionary as opposed to how we really talk. Try to write them out using these symbols, so that there's less confusion as to their pronunciation.


Examples use the Standard American pronunciation:
ä = apple, at, café
ā = ate, eight, ancient
e = enter, exit
ee = eat, ear
i = it, idiot
ī = I, eye, science
oi = boi
o = father, often,
œ = oat, open
----- œr = organ (if an r is after the œ sound, the œ sound is pronounced the same as it would be otherwise but is much shorter in duration)
ou = ouch, outside
ŭ = football, book
uh = under, fund
ü = führer, few

er = enter, further

ž = Asian, pleasure, garage
sh = shoot, chef
ch = cheat, choose

 

[Narz]

ž = Asian, pleasure, garage

Ah, the good ol' Asain Pleasure Garage! I used to be one of their top patrons!

 

[Narz]

By the way, your sig is pretty depressing, don't you think? [/Off Topic]

 

[Sims2789]

Pronounce = pri-nouns
Organism = œr-gin-iz-im
Fatigue = fuh-teeg
Xylophone = zī-li-fœn
Anorexic = än-er-eks-ik
Trian = chrān
Effect = i-fekt
Pleasure = ple-žur
Treason = chree-zin
Your = yer
California = kä-li-fœrn-yuh
Simplify - sim-pli-fī
Nation - nā-shin
Phoenetically - fi-ne-tik-lee
Secretary = se-kri-tār-ee

 

[Gingerbread Man]

This is how I say them:

Pronounce - - Prœ-näonse
Organism - - or-gän-izem
Fatigue - - fät-ēg
Xylophone - - zī-lœ-fœn
Anorexic - - än-o-rec-zic
Trian - - chrē-an
Effect - - ef-ect
Pleasure - - ple-žēr
Treason - - chrē-zon
Your - - yor
California - - kä-lē-fœrn-ē-ä
Simplify - - sim-plē-fī
Nation - - nā-shon
Phoenetically - - fœ-ne-tē-kä-lē
Secretary - - se-kre-te-rē

Sydney-talk. Though someone with a slacker pronciantion (*cough* westies! *cough*) Would speak the following:
Penrith - - pen-rūff
Plaza - - Plär-zär
Nathan - - Nāy-fūn

 

[Yom]

Firstly, tell me what the hell a "Trian" is!

 

[Marla_Singer]

Pronounce = Prononce
Organism = Organisme
Fatigue = Fatigue
Xylophone = Xylophone
Anorexic = Anorexique
Trian = Trian
Effect = Effet
Pleasure = Plaisir
Treason = Trahison
Your = Ton/Votre
California = Californie
Simplify = Simplifier
Nation = Nation
Phoenetically = Phonetiquement
Secretary = Secrétaire

 

[The Last Conformist]

I can't be bothered to use that quasi-Americanist pseudonotation. Would it work if I gave them in X-SAMPA?

 

[Tomoyo]

Pronounce - Pruhnouns
Organism - Awganizm (New York "aw", like "I want to tawk")
Fatigue - Fuhteeg
Xylophone - Zīluhfœn
Anorexic - änereksik
Trian - Chreean
Effect - Efekt
Pleasure - Pležer
Treason - Chreezen
Your - Yœr
California - Kälifawneeuh
Simplify - Simplifī
Nation - Nāshen
Phoenetically - Fuhnetiklee
Secretary - Sekreteree

 

[Akka]

Gah...
Same as TLC, this "American Standard pronounciation" doesn't make any sense with the use of such symbols. Gimme the real one any day.

 

[GEChallenger]

Didn't feel like bothering with those symbols...

Pronounce-- pro-nowns
Organism-- orgenizm
Fatigue-- fateeg
Xylophone-- zahlahfown
Anorexic-- enoreksik
Trian-- tree-an
Effect-- effekt
Pleasure-- plehzure
Treason-- tree-zun
Your-- yer
California-- cal-eh-four-nah
Simplify-- sihmp-lih-fah
Nation-- nashun
Phoenetically- foe-net-ic-lee
Secretary-- sec-re-taree

That said... what's the point of this whole thing?

 

[Milan's Warrior]

I pronounce all of them according to the Oxford English Dictionary pronounciation (which is what I was taught in school). I got both Xylophone and Secretary wrong though

I live in america, but I am not familiar with the american phonetic transcription.
You example
o = father, often,
does not sound right to me; these are two radically different sounds.
Also I think you spell "phonetically" wrongly

 

[Syterion]

Pronounce : Pruh-nounce
Organism: Ore-gah-nizm
Fatigue: Fuh-teeg
Xylophone: Zy-luh/lo-phone
Anorexic:An-uh-recks-ik/ An-O-Recks-ik
Trian: Don't know what this is, no basis for pronunciation
Effect: Ee-fect(I say it like that to distinguish the difference between affect and effect)
Pleasure: Pleh-zure
Treason: Tree - zun
Your : Yore/Yure
California: Cal-ih/uh-for-nya
Simplify: Sim-pli/pluh-fi
Nation: Nay-shun
Phoenetically: Fo-Net-i-klee
Secretary: Seh-Cruh-Tare-ee

The slashes indicate multiple pronounciations, usually determined by how fast I am talking, i.e., when talking fast I am likely to say Sim-pluh-fi, but when calm, I will say sim-pli-fi.

 

[Fetus4188]

I need better symbols, namely the upside-down/backwards 'e' thingy, since that is the most common verb sound I use.

 

[Warman17]

Too much work to get phonetic spelling, you'll just have to hear me talk some day.

 

[Mise]

I was foiled by the first word. There's no way to distinguish between an "s" with a long almost "z" like sound, and a short sharp "s".

Also, I pronounce father and often, mostly because one of them has an "a" and the other has an "o" in it.

Also,

Ah, the good ol' Asain Pleasure Garage! I used to be one of their top patrons!

 

[Arminius]

Ignoring your symbols:

Pronounce: PRO-noun-se
Organism: Or-gan-is-im
Fatigue: Fa-teeg
Xylophone: Zy-la-fon
Anorexic: An-uh-rek-sik
Trian: Tree-an
Effect: EE-fekt
Pleasure: Pleh-zyur
Treason: Tree-zhun
Your: Y'oar
California: Kala-forn-ya
Simplify: Sim-pluh-fi (in some contexts: sim-plea-fy)
Nation: Nay-shun
Phoenetically: Fo-net-ik-ly
Secretary: Sek-re-terry (as in the name Terry/Terri/Teri)

 

[Hitro]

ü = führer, few

I pronounce those two quite differently so I have no idea what "ü" is supposed to sound like here.

 

[Perfection]

Pee Are Oh Enn Oh You Enn See Ee
Oh Are Gee Ay Enn Aye Ess Em
Eff Ay Tee Aye Gee You Ee
Ex Why Elle Oh Pee Aych Oh Enn Ee
Ay Enn Oh Are Ee Ex Aye See
Tee Are Aye Ay Enn
Ee Eff Eff Ee See Tee
Pee Elle Ee Ay Ess You Are Ee
Tee Are Ee Ay Ess Oh Enn
Why Oh You Are
See Ay Elle Aye Eff Oh Are Enn Aye Ay
Ess Aye Em Pee Elle Aye Eff Why
Enn Ay Tee Aye Oh Enn
Pee Aych Oh Ee Enn Ee Tee Aye See Ay Elle Elle Why
Ess Ee See Are Ee Tee Ay Are Why