Alacrity - how do you pronounce it?

[Swish]

Well? I was looking up something on youtube and someone said it weirdly, or so I thought. But they were American, I'm English.

So, which do you use? Just curious.

alak-rity

ala-kritty

[B4EQWASCOOL]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ1WAiwsnjM

You say it how Webster's says to say it or you're wrong.

[Jimjam]

Alacrity.

[GraveD]

Awful post.

[Dreenk317]

Originally Posted by gundumbwing [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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This isn't an abbreviation like SoW. This is an actual word.

Personally I think it's really funny when people on VoIP ask for a "Sow" (pronounced like the female pig) vs a "sow" (as in sowing seeds, pronounced like So). It's just never made sense to me when people say it like we're talking about pigs. Pigs just never seemed all that fast to me haha.

[Jimjam]

Originally Posted by Dreenk317 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Personally I think it's really funny when people on VoIP ask for a "Sow" (pronounced like the female pig) vs a "sow" (as in sowing seeds, pronounced like So). It's just never made sense to me when people say it like we're talking about pigs. Pigs just never seemed all that fast to me haha.

I pronounce it sew because it makes you go so fast and ends in a w.

[Swish]

Originally Posted by gundumbwing [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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This isn't an abbreviation like SoW. This is an actual word.

That doesn't mean people don't pronounce it differently in different countries. They do.

Thankfully on this occasion the consensus seems to be what I use, "alak-rity" <3 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]


Another one threw me today, apparently if you see the name "Warwick" some people across the Atlantic say "wooor-wick", rather than "worrick" as we would in England [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Syrie]

Originally Posted by maskedmelon [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

uh-LAK-ritty

This.

ALSO

Najena is pronounced "nuh - hey - nah".

[paulgiamatti]

My favorite British reshuffling of syllable emphasis is in "advertisement".

American: ADvertisement

British: edVERtissment

Although, in retrospect we Americans are the ones doing the reshuffling.

[Erati]

I pronounce everything wrong and I chose option 2 so option 1 is probably correct lol