Most mispronounced words in PNW climbing?

[iain]

some other Oregon Coast goodies:

 

Yachats

Yaquina Bay

Netarts

Gleneden Beach

[sicprobo]

I have a Canadian accent, I can't pronounce (pronoonce) anything correctly.

[Chriznitch]

teva

[dryad]

adidas. I once met a Brit who thought the American way of saying it (a-DI-das) was sexier than the British way (a-di-DAS).

[Gary_Yngve]

Nike. We pronounce it with a long I and a long E, but the Greeks (she's their goddess) would have pronounced it nee-kay

 

at um vs dI uh tom

 

The word isotropy (i SAW tro pee) gives me trouble because you say ISO tro pic.

 

And then there's all the reading I've been doing this week that has left my mind as complete mush (and an impromptu game of anagram Scrabble Mon night certainly didn't help):

Lyapunov

Lipschitz

Pontryagin

and for some reason, I want to say "passivity" as "passissivity"

[graupel]

adidas. I once met a Brit who thought the American way of saying it (a-DI-das) was sexier than the British way (a-di-DAS).

 

Probably it was just 'cause you were the one saying it. He was probably already swooning and then when words came out of your mouth that clinched it.

[slothrop]

arete (uh-rhet)

 

You almost can't go wrong here.

 

Oh yes you can. Just ask eric8 about the routes he wants to do on Dragontail. That guy's a master of creative pronunciation. I make him listen to NPR as punishment while driving to climbs.

[Chriznitch]

puyallup

[jefffski]

not the pnw but wth, try these:

 

huarez, huarscaran, aconcogua, chamonix, etrier, huayna potosi,

[klenke]

Oh, the most mispronounced PNW word has got to be Methow.

It's Met-ow (silent aitch), not Meth-ow.

 

I know the correct way but I still have a hard time with it. The right way is not intuitive.

[fern]

huarez, huarscaran, aconcogua,

 

it's no accomplishment to mispronounce words that are misspelled

[sobo]

On a related note, "data" is a collective plural, not singular, noun. blah blah blah

 

...In which case "Lieutenant Commanders Data" would be the more correct plural from.

 

Yes, dryad, you win the geek award of the day, and extra credit for the correct proper noun plural.

[arlen]

gli-SAYd??? Toucheé!

[Gary_Yngve]

gli-SAYd??? Toucheé!

 

Good one -- I hear that all the time!

[Lowell_Skoog]

Goode - Good or Goo-dee ?

 

Bravo! This gets my vote. I bet Richard U. Goode pronounced his last name "good" but everybody I know says "goodie". (I usually say "goodie" too, just to be a conformist.) I bet Harry Majors knows the answer.

 

Another good one is "traverse". All my friends say tra-VERSE, but old-timers like the Fireys say TRA-verse. On a hike a couple years ago, Duke Watson explained to me that when the word is used as a verb, the accent goes on the last syllable (tra-VERSE). When it is used as a noun, the accent goes on the first syllable (TRA-verse, although putting the accent on the last syllable is also acceptable). I checked Webster's Dictionary and, by golly, he's right! So, in honor of Duke Watson and the Fireys, I think we should all go tra-VERSE the Ptarmigan TRA-verse.

[larrythellama]

sauna.

 

sow-nuh NOT saw-nuh!!!!

 

-S

[Dan_Harris]

Gary, I've always understood the brits to pronounce that alu mini um

 

And they pronounce the word "elevator" like "lift"

And the word restroom as loo.

 

The Louisiana French got me laughed at many a time - Chouest: sh-west

[slothrop]

Not PNW, but WTF? Vedauwoo.

[catbirdseat]

Goode - Good or Goo-dee ?

 

Bravo! This gets my vote. I bet Richard U. Goode pronounced his last name "good" but everybody I know says "goodie". (I usually say "goodie" too, just to be a conformist.) I bet Harry Majors knows the answer.

My friend, Roy M., says he knows members of the Goode family who still live in the state and they pronounce their name, "good".

 

By the way, plant growers are among the worst when it comes to misprouncing names. The best example I can think of is Cattleya ("cat-lee-a"), the corsage orchid. Some people pronounce it "cat-a-lay-a". How they get that from the spelling is a mystery to me.

[setnei]

I used to climb with a guy that always called them "proo-siks".

 

I called him the king of prooshia.

[klenke]

BTW, unlike the Goodes, my name is pronounced "Clink-ee," not "Clink." Now you know. This will come in handy for you in the future when you keep reading my name in all the latest and greatest guidebooks, climbing rags, climbing history books, etc.

 

 

[cracked]

BTW, unlike the Goodes, my name is pronounced "Clink-ee," not "Clink." Now you know. This will come in handy for you in the future when you keep reading my name in all the latest and greatest website spray threads, summitpost peaks, etc.

 

No doubt.

[Ursa_Eagle]

I'd heard the guy who Goode is named after pronounced it "Good" as well, and that climbers have just mispronounced it.

And down on this side of the Columbia, what about Tualatin (too-AH-la-tin) and Tigard (TIE-gerd). Then there's the ever present Deschutes (deh-SHOOTS), although that one's not bad.

 

What about Suiattle? Is that sue-AHT-el, sue-AT-el, or something else?

[Ursa_Eagle]

I'm surprised that no one's mentioned Sahale (suh-HALL-ee) yet...

[marylou]

BTW, unlike the Goodes, my name is pronounced "Clink-ee," not "Clink." Now you know. This will come in handy for you in the future when you keep reading my name in all the latest and greatest guidebooks, climbing rags, climbing history books, etc.

 

 

D'oh! I thought it was "Klen-key."