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| There are towns in Illinois which totally butcher the name of their overseas counterparts, Cairo Illinois is one of those towns. One word I refuse to mispronounce by emphasizing the letter L is solder. There is a youtuber gaining in popularity that sells a sticker of a fish wearing a top hat and jacket while holding a soldering iron and it says "Colonel Lincoln the Soldering Salmon".
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| Oh, yeah. I remember reading a book of Abraham Lincoln misspelling the word soldier somewhere.
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Pretty, please no more Chinese failure.
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You guys pronounce "aluminum" as "al-oo-min-eeyum." Since when was there another "i?" The periodic table doesn't say so.  |
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It's spelt with an extra 'i' in this one. Also see here. Admit it, you lot on that side of the pond can't spell  |
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My name gets butchered all of the time and I live in the States! It's pronounced 'Max-eem' whilst most people see the 'i' and immediately assume it pronounces as 'um', so in essence I am always called 'Max-um' instead of the "proper" way. I guess this is in part due to the natural spelling / pronunciation of Maxim in the Russian language being 'Максим', the second-to-last letter being an 'e'. Anyways.... |
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| I'm guilty of doing that to your name, but now I know the correct way to pronounce it.
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Sammi, you're fine! Pronunciation is different in the UK. |
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My favorite lighting technologies at the moment are incandescent and mercury vapor, and my favorite Big 3 lighting brand of the late 20th century is GTE Sylvania.
About that Westinghouse Lifeguard disease, I think I've caught it. Thanks Eric!
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This is an interesting one?, in Cheshire we’d pronounce this as it’s written ‘max-im’ !  , good that you have cleared up the proper pronunciation though. |
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