How were you taught to say .............

[Choccies]

I have yet to come across anyone in Adelaide that pronounces the name of the suburb of Greenwith correctly!

You mean lose one "e" and the w? I know how to pronounce it correctly but choose not to cos I think "Grenith" sounds dicky

I live there and I say Green-with !! Saying 'Grenith' is like saying 'Mobbry' or 'Lizbeth'.....

[Farbs]

I have yet to come across anyone in Adelaide that pronounces the name of the suburb of Greenwith correctly!

You mean lose one "e" and the w? I know how to pronounce it correctly but choose not to cos I think "Grenith" sounds dicky

I live there and I say Green-with !! Saying 'Grenith' is like saying 'Mobbry' or 'Lizbeth'.....

But then shouldn't the same rule apply with Keswick and Dulwich?

[Choccies]

I have yet to come across anyone in Adelaide that pronounces the name of the suburb of Greenwith correctly!

You mean lose one "e" and the w? I know how to pronounce it correctly but choose not to cos I think "Grenith" sounds dicky

I live there and I say Green-with !! Saying 'Grenith' is like saying 'Mobbry' or 'Lizbeth'.....

But then shouldn't the same rule apply with Keswick and Dulwich?

Yeah possibly..... But I only need to worry and Greenwith and not Dul-wich or kes-wick....

[therisingblues]

I worked in the Dandenong Ranges when I was 17 for two months, bloody years ago now. Just about every dinner I went to, somebody would ask if I was from New Zealand, then there would always be someone else who'd correct them and say virtually word for word no matter that it was a different person each time, "No, he's from Adelaide, I have friends there/ been there/ worked there etc. and they ALL talk like that."
Then the next year I had this ancient pommy boss who would say "Cassle" and when I corrected him he replied "Off fookin' cawse it's fookin' cassle there's no fookin' "ARE" in the fookin' word, fookin' is there for fook's sake! Now get yar fookin' arse out of me' fookin' office and go and do soom fookin' work for fookin' fook's sake you fookin' apprentice!"
He used to swear a lot.

[Lunchcutter]

always vulnerable

[dedja]

I worked in the Dandenong Ranges when I was 17 for two months, bloody years ago now. Just about every dinner I went to, somebody would ask if I was from New Zealand, then there would always be someone else who'd correct them and say virtually word for word no matter that it was a different person each time, "No, he's from Adelaide, I have friends there/ been there/ worked there etc. and they ALL talk like that."
Then the next year I had this ancient pommy boss who would say "Cassle" and when I corrected him he replied "Off fookin' cawse it's fookin' cassle there's no fookin' "ARE" in the fookin' word, fookin' is there for fook's sake! Now get yar fookin' arse out of me' fookin' office and go and do soom fookin' work for fookin' fook's sake you fookin' apprentice!"
He used to swear a lot.

LOL, lucky he's not your boss in Fukuoka ...

[redandblack]

always vulnerable

Thanks, LC.

It's interesting that the vast majority n here say the same and just about everyone knows that's the correct pronunciation, but most of the population still say 'vunerable'

[Psyber]

always vulnerable

Thanks, LC.
It's interesting that the vast majority n here say the same and just about everyone knows that's the correct pronunciation, but most of the population still say 'vunerable'

We are obviously a select group, and a small atypical part of the overall population, R&B...

[redandblack]

We're making a habit of agreeing, Psyber

You're right, obviously SAFooty posters are much more educated than the general population.......

[therisingblues]

We're making a habit of agreeing, Psyber

You're right, obviously SAFooty posters are much more educated than the general population.......

You have got me saying it over and over here R&B. "Vulnerable, vulnerable, vulnerable, vulnerable..." and I reckon that what I do is make the "l" with the tip of my tongue and then quickly flatten it out to get the "n". But it is so quick that even if you had a slo-mo camera stuck in my mouth you'd miss it, the two actions just blur together, like a ninja doing a forward roll and unleashing a shuriken at an important daimyo all at the same time. But if you listen, you'll hear my deftly performed "l" sound just before it mutates into an "n", just the same as all you hear from the ninja is a sort of "whoop-SWISH" and all the eyes take in is a rolling black blur and suddenly there's a daimyo with a shuriken sticking out of his throat. BUt you just know that he did the forward roll and all the rest of it because you heard the "whoop-SWISH".
Now that I have said it a few times, I reckon I am pretty good at it.
I hope this answers your question.

[redandblack]

I'd say that's the best answer to a question I've ever had on here, trb

I understand completely, becuase I was exactly the same. There's hope for you yet, though. I made it a lifetime issue by taking myself off to a lonely mountain range in Bhutan, where for 8 years I joined the monks in daily 'vulnerable' training. I eventually perfected the pronunciation by becoming expert in the 2,485 subtly different ways to pronounce the word, mainly through breathing exercises and thrice daily chanting sessions.

You can imagine how I felt when I returned to Australia to find that infidels had infiltrated the population and vunnerable had become accepted.

Hence my new crusade, backed by the Holy Order of the Vulnerable Bhutan Monks.