Why Do I Pronounce It Like Ont

Your first name sounds softer in his throat, softer than the grinding S in your last, the low bite of how it was always said.

Somehow, I felt that I was not respectable enough to be called by the name I was given. Being too afraid to speak up, if it were close enough I just accepted it because I did not want to be viewed as difficult or disrespectful. When I learned to accept my unique name, it taught me to accept me as a person. It was not until I was an adult that I realized that I had allowed others to run over me when I conceded to the mispronunciation of my simple name. The more I corrected the error the more confidence I gained. Or, could it be the more confidence I gained the more I corrected them. Either way, I now refuse to continue the

I was given the name Chase Andrew Miner. My mom had liked the name Chase and Chance, but she finally decided on Chase. While that decision wasn’t too hard for her to make, (at least she said it wasn’t) my last name, Miner, was an even easier decision. My mom was married to my dad and she took his last name, so the obvious last name would be Miner. My mom told me she had a really difficult time figuring out a middle name for me. She couldn’t find a name that fit in well. One day my aunt, Lori, called my mom and asked about the name Andrew. My mom had thought about it and she decided that that name fit. So from that day I was Chase Andrew Miner. The joke my mom says now is if she knew she’d have to chase me so much, she would have named me Slow. But word got around of what

You are not to show the word to your friends but to sound it out. For example, you get ‘cher’ so you say the sound ‘cher’ from the word ‘teacher’.

On the articulation subtest of the DEAP X produced errors /ϴ/→ /f/, /ð/ → /d/ in all positions, as well as /k/→ /t/ and /g/→ /d/ in initial position. She also produced /ts/ → /tʃ/ in the final position of a word. X produced lateralizations of /ʃ/ and /s/ in all positions. The phonology subtest assess phonological processes in both single words and connected speech. On the phonology subtest she demonstrated fronting of /k/→ /t/ in initial position and blends. The single word-connected speech subtest indicated inconsistent errors when fronting /t/→ /k/. The scores based on the three subtests indicate the client produces distortions of /s/ and /sh/, as well as typical simplifications for /k/, /g/, /ϴ/, and /ð/

I know it can be difficult to pronounce unfamiliar names correctly, but one thing I have never been able to wrap my mind around is why 90% of teachers and substitutes, when taking attendance, completely butcher a simple last name that sounds exactly as it is spelled. It has gotten to the point where my close friends habitually point out the instructor’s error more than I do myself. The first occasion where a teacher takes role call for the hour calls out, “Kelsey Pahsler?” Without hesitation, I raise my hand in response and mumble under my breath, “It’s actually Postler, similar to that of a bedpost” for seemingly the thousandth time. My full name is Kelsey Marie Postler, but often times my friends and family refer to me as just Kels. Over the course of 17 years, I have come to love both my name and nickname and consider them to be very well-fitting to my personality and background.

When I was younger, I always had trouble with pronouncing my Rs and Ss. At first my parents thought that it was just normal, and it would blow

There are phonological rules that differ among African American English and Standard American English. One such difference includes the “r-deletion” which deletes /r/ everywhere except before a vowel. For example, instead of the SAE production of guard, an AAE speaker may say god (Fromkin et al., 2011). The “l-deletion” is another phonological characteristic that varies from SAE. For example, making same-sounding pairs like toll and toe (Fromkin et al., 2011). Also distinct is the glide reduction. It applies to both /ai/ and /au/ with the slight withdrawal of the onset of the second diphthong which maintains the division between the two phonemes as in wife spoken as waf (Fromkin et al., 2011). Other

The pronunciation that I presented was more clear and sounded more like a poem than the Pronunciation Sampler with J. Prathiwi.

I totally understand where he is coming from because I have the same problem with my name as well. No one can say it correctly unless they are Mexican, and I always get asked where my name is from. I always get ready to correct the person when they say my name wrong, or I just forget about it and just say that’s my name and don 't even bother to correct them anymore.

I had taken my father's first name as my middle name and the first name of his first friend back when he used to live in California. I had have no memory of anything until I had my first experience with “The Spoon.”

People who pronounce words the incorrect way also makes me mad. If you need to take the time out and sound out the word, then I would rather you do that then incorrectly pronounce a word. Some people are to ignorant and choose not to take

My name is Jiniku but everyone calls me Joey, including my parents. My father is American but my mother is not. My mother grew up in a country whose name I cannot pronounce correctly. She was educated in French and Latin, Spanish and German, and when she went off to college, she did not learn in her native language. She went to college in Paris, studied in Berlin. She spent a year in Rome and visited Madrid. She wrote letters home to her parents in an alphabet that I cannot read. I believe once her parents died, she never spoke in her native tongue again.

Many workers draw an invisible line pronouncing Enough. They neither know what that line is nor who drew it.

People in southern China always have difficulty differentiate “N” from “L”. So I taught her the two sounds’ different tongue positions in the mouth. Then she became better but there were still times she mispronounced them. I told her to be careful with these sounds for the