<p>I have a friend going to UMass Amherst and he got kicked out of his dorm room on the first night for saying it wrong (the roomate was a townie). I grew up there and want to go to Amherst (living in the Berkshires right now) and I have to correct people all the time. It would be like going to Glouchester and actuallys saying "glaow-chest-ur" rather than "glahster". (Or Worchester. Or wherever. Massachusetts is full of places like that.)</p>
<p>It's "glahster"? Damn, I thought it was "glow-ches-ter"!</p>
<p>Seriously, yeah, we need to just ditch English and all start speaking Chinese. Because the pronunciations are all exactly what they say.</p>
<p>Or some Cyrillic lingo such as Russian. People have rallied for English to go phonetic for years, but it looks like the British won't ever budge.
On another note, how do you pronounce Dartmouth? Dart-myth huh?</p>
<p>Try no, know and now. Spanish is easy compared to English - 5 vowel sounds and they stay the same.</p>
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I have a friend going to UMass Amherst and he got kicked out of his dorm room on the first night for saying it wrong (the roomate was a townie). I grew up there and want to go to Amherst (living in the Berkshires right now) and I have to correct people all the time. It would be like going to Glouchester and actuallys saying "glaow-chest-ur" rather than "glahster". (Or Worchester. Or wherever. Massachusetts is full of places like that.)
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<p>oddly enough, that neighborhood in the south of boston isn't "dooster".</p>
<p>The H isn't really silent, but you just kind of pass over it. there's no syllable break in the word, so that's when you get this "am-herst" effect. I'm a townie and it's pretty annoying when people insist on pronoucing it with two syllables, since the town is named after someone whose name is understood to have been pronounced as the one syllable, thanks to the mechanics of old english.</p>
<p>So what, like "Amst" or something?</p>
<p>More like Amrst.</p>
<p>That's not a pronounceable word.</p>
<p>It is indeed!</p>
<p>That's exactly how it is pronounced - AMRST!</p>
<p>It really is. People who grew up there/are townies tend to be a little possesive of the name (and for good reason). I heard "Amust" a lot too though.</p>
<p>Mis-pronunication does not exist.
It is all just the accent of the individual.
Y'all should be more open minded</p>
<p>(bwah ha ha)</p>
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I heard "Amust" a lot too though.
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<p>Exactly. if you're from Boston that's how you'd pronounce...just skip the H and the R's, lol.</p>