Quotes About Pronunciation

Welsh mutates initial consonants. Actually all languages do, but most of them take centuries, while Welsh does it while your mouth is still open.

His interviews revealed that the majority of Sak's employees, half of Macy's, but only one-fifth of Klein's sounded the 'r' clearly, bearing out his theory that a more emphasized 'r' was now the more prestigious pronunciation, and that social class is inscribed in the pronunciation of even a single sound.

I think when you're acting, you usually don't have to know too much beyond how to pronounce the words you're saying.

We should have an easier name to pronounce.

In school, nobody could pronounce my name. They just called me Rocky.

I think if an actor is not able to pronounce their own dialogues, no matter what language, you are not an actor.

I am a chilled-out person. But if people call me by my name, I hope they pronounce it right. I get called Baron, sometimes Varun, and my surname is often changed to Sobit.

I couldn't pronounce Arnold Schwarzenegger, so I called him Balloon Belly.

I'll be so excited to take my daughter to her first fashion show, but I think, for her, it's best to wait until she's old enough to appreciate it. Or, at least, until she can pronounce the designer's names!

Even when I speak English to my parents, I'll say an English word differently to my Chinese parents and friends than I do to my English-speaking friends - you know, I'll pronounce 'McDonald's' differently, because it feels right, and that's what I'm used to.

My last name is difficult to pronounce. It's Toussant.

I am very up front about about my inability to pronounce things correctly.

I knew I didn't have the right name for a singer. Having a name that nobody could pronounce was hardly an asset.

I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly.

My heritage, many generations back, is Dutch and it was fun to go where nobody asked me how to pronounce my name.

When I decided to start a career in the Hindi entertainment industry, I knew I had to put in efforts as I'm not very fluent with the language of Hindi, as I pronounce certain words differently.

My real name is Davenie Johanna Heatherton, but my older brother, Dick, couldn't pronounce Johanna when he was a boy. So he called me 'Joey.'

I know I mispronounce things constantly, because maybe I read more than I talk, but I don't know the proper way to say a lot of things, even though I know what they are. But then I know I look like a moron.

Take some elocution lessons; you can joke with Ebonics, but the truth is, nothing beats the King's English. Learning how to speak properly, and the art of delivery can take you very far in life!

It's Fifty, not Fiddy.

'Nuclear' is nothing but trouble. Do you say 'new-clear' or do you say 'nuke-you-ler'? Whoever invented that word had obviously never studied the human mouth. We don't have enough muscles in our face to make that group of letters come out smoothly. The word is missing a middle syllable, for cryin' out loud.

I had a degree from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where they said, 'Mr. Jordan, please learn to pronounce your degree.' 'Cause I said I have a degree in 'thee-a-ter.'

Personally I've never put much store by honesty- I mean how can you trust a word whose first letter you don't even pronounce

No puedo evitar sonreírme cuando pienso la habilidad con la que sé pronunciar su nombre, ese nombre, en un momento decisivo.