I've been pronouncing 'Banal' as 'Anal' for the past 27 years of my life...

I've been pronouncing 'Banal' as 'Anal' for the past 27 years of my life. Not once has any of my fellow colleagues thought to correct me on that.

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it's not said like that?

You thought the B was silent? Dumb frogposter.

First a is like the first a in banana. Second is like "all".

They didn't correct you because both ways of pronouncing Banal are correct.

Except
just gave a third way, somehow.

There's no correct way of pronouncing anything, only a way that let's you communicate with people. If someone tries to correct you, then it means they already understood you, thus you need not be corrected.

What's the second way then. Those are the only two I've ever heard.

With the b? So like bane-al?

Ban-aal.

Really? I'm not a native speaker and I always pronounced the word just like OP.

>constantly feel embarrased about having to read alout in class due to fear of mispronouncing words
>other students are confident and plow straight through without worrying about butchering foreign/obscure words
>constantly hear audiobook narrators mispronouncing words

i bet ya'll pronounce crevasse as "kreviss" too

crevasse, crevice, whatever

Yep, really.
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/File:en-uk-banal.ogg

Those aren't the same word. A crevice is small, a crevasse is large.
>The girl had a crevice between her legs.
>Your mother has a crevasse between her legs.

It's okay, language is a social construct.

bane?

>the asking for a draught (drawt) of Guinness for years

Drought Beer is pronounced 'Drawt' in Commonwealth countries, and 'Draft' in US.

We say "draft" in Canada

And there's something terribly sad and banal about that.

That's nice, Candy, that's nice.

Where in the fuck are you even claiming to be from?

It's Draught, pronounced Draft, you witless gibbon.

Mind you, getting actual beer out of a real keg isn't so special we need to have a word for it.

Bottled beers are for club twats.

- T. English warm beer drinker.

>fellow colleagues

English is literally the worst lenguage, we dont have those problems with Spanish.

In spanish a word is written and read in the same way and if you fuck the pronunciation of a word, you are probably clinically retarded or Andalusian

Yeah, central/south american spanish pronounciation is pretty easy

I was talking about spaniard pronunciation specifically, in south America you have some weird things like "S" instead of "z" and cutting out the last "s" of a word

whats with all these newfags not having watched a dfw interview...

>typing out y'all
Facebook please go

LOL

nah

For you.

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