Pronunciation of forum

[benneh]

When I met up in Brighton with the OcUK mob I heard people pronouncing the word "forum" in a way that I had never experienced.

I have always pronounced it [fawr-uhm]

I head others using [fohr-uhm]

Upon checking our the web it appears both are correct. I don't know is it a / [non u] thing? Is it an American thing?

Four-uhm, you've gone wrong.

 

[j.col]

For-um

or

For-hum

this^^

 

[Marky]

I've always said it as "Four-Rum"...

 

[topgun06]

Four-Rum or Four-um

 

[Nossmayo]

Shirley its for-um not for-rum.

 

[topgun06]

Actually, its not Four-um, it's Four-Rum. I've decided

 

[Ceryndrion]

How do you pronounce "spam"?

Stockhausen?


On topic though, Four-Um for me..

Hmm.. Four-Rum eh... with coke?

 

[Kosmiche]

Fawr-Uhm you mean Fowr-Uhm?

No thats wrong. Its Four-Rum.

 

[J.T]

For rum

Truth!

 

[Energizer Bunny]

F' orum

 

[chameleon]

Aw jings! ahm frae gawds ain erf up in bonnie teuchterland. Nae bugger canna understaun I bluddy wurd ah Sez.
Whit chance hauv ah goat wiv complaykatid wurds like forrrrrrum?

Wheres the rum? Why's the rum all gone?

 

[DJMK4]

Fore arm

 

[Mark A]

Four umm

This.

 

[steve-h]

fore um

 

[Kosmiche]

Is bulletin board and forum the same thing?

 

[mrk]

forums used to be called bulletin boards back in the day.

 

[PermaBanned]

forums used to be called bulletin boards back in the day.

"Back in the day" a forum was a place you could actually physically go to and - shock horror - talk to people face to face

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Forum

 

[mrk]

That is going back quite a bit though...

 

[PermaBanned]

Meh, i just think that either 'forum' or 'bulletin board' is still perfectly acceptable.

 

[mrk]

Nobody said it wasn't