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Subject: How do you pronounce microwave? Wed Dec 09, 2020 1:59 pm
Nigella Lawson has achieved Internet notoriety by pronouncing "microwave" funny. But how do you pronounce it? It's the issue that's tearing the broadband apart. So, vote! Vote Now!
And here she is, enlightening us as to how the professionals say it:
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Butterfield
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Subject: Re: How do you pronounce microwave? Wed Dec 09, 2020 2:12 pm
I hate to be pedantic and wreck the imagery, but I think she might just be saying it for "comic" effect in front of the cameras. Like pronouncing biscuits as "beece-kways" or similar.
Not that I ever have.
Nightjar
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Subject: Re: How do you pronounce microwave? Wed Dec 09, 2020 3:17 pm
Yes, and saying "Cla'ahm" for Clapham.
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Fangirl Three
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Subject: Re: How do you pronounce microwave? Wed Dec 09, 2020 3:36 pm
And calling Streatham St Reatham.
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Butterfield
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Subject: Re: How do you pronounce microwave? Fri Dec 11, 2020 12:28 am
Thinking about this further, there's actually nothing new about making "ugly" words sound more interesting and exotique by deliberately pronouncing them in a French-esque way.
Only in past decades we didn't have Twitter for it to go all ridiculously viral!
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