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bobsouer
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"Community" is the word I trip over the most. The really strange thing is that I can say it with no trouble in conversation, but put a microphone in front of me and my mouth takes a powder on that word.
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Diane Maggipinto
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If you're looking for dialect guidance, Bob, some folks here say communee, making it shorter and easier to say!
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bobsouer
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| BettieWheelie wrote: | | If you're looking for dialect guidance, Bob, some folks here say communee, making it shorter and easier to say! |
Diane,
Thank you for the excellent assistance! 
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For me? Regularly. Urg.
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Deirdre
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| Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 7:46 pm Post subject: |
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The trick with the word "regularly" is to elide or merely indicate that 2nd "R".
Or, move to New England and leave it out entirely.
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Triple G
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| Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Deirdre wrote: | The trick with the word "regularly" is to elide or merely indicate that 2nd "R".
Or, move to New England and leave it out entirely. |
True. And I can say it well...twice. By the third or fourth time, I start overthinking it, adding syllables, and sounding drunk. I might be exaggerating, but if I am it's not by much.
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Bruce
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The answer to conquering hard words is something like the answer to the old joke "how do you eat an elephant?...one bite at a time".
Regularly:
Say Reg-you, Reg-you, Reg-you several times,
then lur-lee, lur-lee, lur-lee several times,
and then glue them together...Reg-you-lur-lee.
It works 98% of the time...
words like "redeemable" are in the 2%.
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Thanks Bruce! That helps! Just doing that in my head makes it all work when it come out of my mouth!
Yesterday I had to say "Uncovering bureaucratic ineptitude". You wouldn't think that would be that hard...
I also recorded a spot for a lawyer trolling for Mesothelioma cases. (If you're watching cable TV in San Diego, listen for me.) "Mesothelioma is an incurable lung cancer caused by asbestos exposure. It is inevitably fatal." How cheerful. 
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CWToo
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| Yesterday "hundreds" drove me nuts. I was, for reasons that escape me, swallowing the 'nd' sound. Of course trying to shoehorn 15 seconds of copy into 7 seconds didn't help, either. Oh AND hit the timing of the original with a new sentence added. ARRRRGGGHHH. |
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| CWToo wrote: | | Yesterday "hundreds" drove me nuts. I was, for reasons that escape me, swallowing the 'nd' sound. |
That was me this morning! All I had to say was "Now back to the music on one-hundred-point-five." Fast. Kept saying "hunnred." Never do in real life, though. Mouth was tired, I think. I had been at the mic too long. Overbooked. I'm a greedy ho.
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| asnively wrote: | | I'm a greedy ho. |
Ah! Finally! The perfect job description of what we do! |
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marko
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Man, do I hear you guys and gals on some of these.
"Particularly and F'ing "Regularly" give me quite the pain in the arse....or mouth. So much so, that I sometimes say "F it" and replace regularly with "often". |
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mllong
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Ok I have yet to have a problem saying this word in a voice over..but I know if I get hit with the word OWL ill scream!!!
Story, My ex was helping my daughter with spelling and he said OWL..she spelled it out loud O-W...NO he said try again... OWL he said..she spelled it again O-W..I was in the other room and said I dont hear the L!! He had a funny way of saying it...and of course I used it against every chance I got...(meannie me) |
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COURVO
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We've had a rash of reporters in our newsroom lately who INSIST on saying "illegal" with (it seems) an accentuated EE sound to start off with:
EElegal...
I almost get ILL hearing it.
Ill-legal is how is should be said (in my little world).
Courvo
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