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Originally Posted by Glice
F E B R U A R Y is the way I was tought in school in the UK. And, as the English are superior speakers of English, this is the way you should spell it.
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Now this is a debate a friend of mine in Ireland and I have quite often. He gave me grief while I was over there for mispronouncing words, which I still maintain that I pronounce correctly according to 'universal' English rules.
For example, "vitamin" - standard rules of pronunciation indicate that when a vowel is followed by a singular consonant, the vowel is pronounced 'hard' instead of 'soft' (I forget the formal terms for that). Therefore, I would deduce the proper way to pronounce "vitamin" is the American way, "vY-ta-min," and not the English way. However, we say things like "der-rect" for "direct" when, if we adhered to that same rule, we would use the English pronunciation of "dye-rect."
Basically, we should standardize this shit so we stop sounding like morons.