Wednesday, July 02, 2014

A rant on pronunciation

HOW DO YOU PRONOUNCE "TUITION"?

Being as curious as ever on a lonely Wednesday afternoon, I did what any "normal" teenager would do and went through the pros and cons of living in a country where English isn't as prioritised. 

Upon minutes of thinking, it eventually led to me wonder about the differences in pronunciation between British English and American English. It was then I stumbled upon the word "tuition".

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"How DO you pronounce it?" I wondered. 

Well, according to oxford dictionary, it's pronounced as TU-EE-TION whilst I on the other hand have been pronouncing it as "TIU-TION" this whole time.

Oh gosh, so you mean to tell me that I've been pronouncing it wrong this whole time!?
It may not mean much to others but to me this is quite embarrassing. 
GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH THE FRUSTRATION OF IT ALLLLLLLLL.


TU-EE-TION.



UPDATE 02|09|2014 : So today during Biology, we were discussing about mutualism amongst living organisms (duh). When it came to the clown fish and sea anemone, I was thinking in my head: " Ooooh I remember this, it's nemo and the sea a-ne-mo-ne," I was shocked seconds later to hear my teacher pronounce it as "sea a-ne-mone". Mind you, I get really embarrassed when I mispronounce words so to think that after all these years of pronouncing it as sea a-ne-mo-ne instead of a-ne-mone ( which I thought was the correct way to pronounce it at the time ) made me want to go back in time and correct myself from the get-go that sea anemone isn't pronounced the way I pronounced it.

HOWEVER, after consulting my good friend google search, I discovered that all those years of watching re-runs of "finding nemo" proved to be beneficial as I was pronouncing it the correct way after all. Ah, it feels so good to be right.

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