Correct "English"?

[Razan]

And that "ough" is not always pronounced the same way. Funny isn't it?

D'ough ! ...as Homer would say.

 

[Lyn W]

A Poem about the Pronunciation of Words

I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble, but not you
On hiccough, thorough, slough, and through.
Well don't! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps.
Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard but sounds like bird.
And dead: it's said like bed, not bead,
For goodness sake don't call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat
(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt).
A moth is not a moth as in mother
Nor both as in bother, nor broth as in brother,
And here is not a match for there,
Nor dear and fear, for bear and pear.
And then there's dose and rose and lose--
Just look them up--and goose and choose
And cork and work and card and ward
And font and front and word and sword
And do and go, then thwart and cart,
Come, come! I've hardly made a start.
A dreadful Language? Why man alive!
I learned to talk it when I was five.
And yet to write it, the more I tried,
I hadn't learned it at fifty-five.


Does that help???

 

[Markw84]

So does that mean a group would possibly be a creep of red feet tortoises????

 

[GeorgeUK]

How do you guys pronounce Tortoise?
Here in northern England it's
TOR-TUSS

 

[Lyn W]

How do you guys pronounce Tortoise?
Here in northern England it's
TOR-TUSS

Tor toyce (soft s sound) for me in Wales

 

[hingeback]

How do you guys pronounce Tortoise?
Here in northern England it's
TOR-TUSS

We pronounce it as Tortise(o is silent)

 

[Gillian M]

How do you guys pronounce Tortoise?
Here in northern England it's
TOR-TUSS

I agree with Lyn here: "tor toyce."

 

[yillt]

Tor-tuss for me (London)

 

[mike taylor]

I was born In San Francisco, and I always say I speak American...Meaning no disrespect to the actual English people.

But that is politically correct as you can say it. Because the American language is taken from different dialects of english .

 

[Maggie Cummings]

But that is politically correct as you can say it. Because the American language is taken from different dialects of english .

Holy cow, I'd hate to be politically correct....that might ruin my reputation...

 

[mike taylor]

I know it just might . You keep doing you Maggie . That's what I love about you .

 

[Gillian M]

Holy cow, I'd hate to be politically correct....that might ruin my reputation...

 

[Razan]

Never realized it, I always say tor-tiss when speaking precisely. When casual or hurrying, I say tor-duss.

Some times it comes out as tor-tuss or tor-diss too. The tortoise doesn't seem to mind one way or the other. He has never corrected me anyway.

 

[dmmj]

I'm confused I'm going to bed

 

[AshleyRenee]

I'm in love with this feed it makes me giggle

 

[Kapidolo Farms]

Holy cow, I'd hate to be politically correct....that might ruin my reputation...

So you DO give a damn 'bout your reputation. Merica

 

[Yvonne G]

I'm confused I'm going to bed

You forgot to toss down your mic!

 

[ZEROPILOT]

I say TORTUS, but quickly, as a one syllable word

 

[Redfoot NERD]

Since I'm older than everybody here -- except of course Yvonne! -- the correct way to say you have plural redfoot tortoises is to say you have plural redfoot tortoises.. or you have more than 1 ( one ).. or state the number you have.. or when I was seriously breeding them I would say I had alot of redfoot tortoises ---- and then no doubt someone would ask how many is alot.. or is it a lot .. etc., etc. !!!


Keep watching the above...

 

[Yvonne G]

Francois = franswah
nicois = niswah

so it stands to reason that tortoise = torswah