Envelope or onvelope...

TripleT · 4 Sep 2006 at 22:33

EN

&

HEATH

For me

Gilly · 4 Sep 2006 at 22:36

ErNciLator said:
urnvelopes - yorkshire

but i say envelopes

WTF?

Its Envelopes.

With Heathrow I don't put particular emphasis on either, but I know what you mean by HeathROW and that sounds wrong to me.

Saberu · 4 Sep 2006 at 22:38

Only people from the SW can speak English properly

Gilly · 4 Sep 2006 at 22:39

Saberu said:
Only people from the SW can speak English properly

We'd never have been respected in the world if we'd all spoken like Farrrrrmrrrrrs

Christo · 4 Sep 2006 at 22:40

"En"
"sKOn"

cleanbluesky said:
So you don't think you can speak proper, I take it?

I take thats a language joke?

properly

monkeypants · 4 Sep 2006 at 22:41

Pebbles said:
But with envelopes in that context, the emphasis is on the 've' You really say envelope like that?

No no, I'm not a freak! I mean it's the same EN sound in both words.

JohnnyG · 4 Sep 2006 at 22:44

According to the Royal Mail it's pronounced pack-et now.

Spuderoony · 4 Sep 2006 at 22:49

cleanbluesky said:
So you don't think you can speak proper, I take it? Or don't ever want to be judged, or can see no scenario whereby it may be useful?

Not as such, as "poor" inherently implies that the standard of English is somehow inferior to another dialect, rather than just different. No one form of English is superior to another as all forms can express the same ideas and actions. Just because some accents rose to prominence because they were popularised by public school systems (themselves insular and elitist by definition) does not make them in any way superior to another dialect.

Grrrrr · 4 Sep 2006 at 22:51

Scon or sc-own?

Van Hellseek · 4 Sep 2006 at 22:54

Grrrrr said:
Scon or sc-own?

done to death... but scowned tbh.

and ENvolope.

t31os · 4 Sep 2006 at 22:58

Most people say Scon, but its Scone iirc.

Envelope for me to....

I type poor english, but my speech is quite good..... i'm in the Surrey area though, lots of posh ***** around here, as some might say......

No swearing

Gilly

SpeedFreak · 4 Sep 2006 at 23:06

Posted by cleanbluesky

So you don't think you can speak proper, I take it? Or don't ever want to be judged, or can see no scenario whereby it may be useful?

I'm not meaning to be too pedantic, but if you are going to question why somebody does or does not see the importance of using correct English, maybe you should type your point out properly.

edit ( Onvelope for me, blame my mother!)

Augmented · 4 Sep 2006 at 23:27

Like enfant terrible or en guard!
Blame the French (for everything).

Amp34 · 4 Sep 2006 at 23:33

If you class 'Queens english' as proper einglish then the proper way would be onvelope. Perhaps the reason the newscaster said it?

And on to me I say onvelope.

matthew_o50 · 4 Sep 2006 at 23:35

Envelope for me. It's mostly posh people that say onvelope.

Sputnik II · 4 Sep 2006 at 23:38

say what you see ? ENvelope = ENvelope. right?

Don't get me started on people and the english language it really grinds on me that people can't just say what they see.

Pudney · 4 Sep 2006 at 23:39

Lopéz said:
On a similar note, is it HEATHrow or heathROW. Which syllable does one emphasise?

I say heaTHROW, just to go for a different option given

Mark A · 4 Sep 2006 at 23:40

Envelope for me. What a weird word

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Mark A · 4 Sep 2006 at 23:43

Sputnik II said:
say what you see ? ENvelope = ENvelope. right?

Don't get me started on people and the english language it really grinds on me that people can't just say what they see.

But then we would talk like Fred Dibnah and say things like main - tain- ance and Wole for whole

.

Posty · 4 Sep 2006 at 23:46

For nuclear do you say:
New Clear
Nu klee er