Comments on: February, pronounced “Febuary”

By: caligari

caligari — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 07:05:54 +0000

All the letters are sounded in February. The first “r” is NOT silent, and the month is not pronounced “Feb-you-a-ry”, but “Feb-roo-a-ry”. You don’t get beer from a bewery after all, but a bRewery, and the Boston hockey team isn’t the Buins, but the BRuins. I don’t understand why people find it so hard to pronounce February right.

By: sigh

sigh — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 08:57:04 +0000

@Elizabeth Andrews

Do you also wince at those of us who pronounce the word “Past” as “Passt”, as opposed to “Parst”, I wonder?

Language evolves, get used to it.

By: ughh

ughh — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:19:53 +0000

oh nice a commentary on how education isn’t what it use to be. How f’ing original.

By: Elizabeth Andrews

Elizabeth Andrews — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 14:58:04 +0000

Even more ubiquitous these days is the dreadful “Feb-you-ary”, with a strong “y” sound. But it’s not hard to pronounce the word properly – people simply are not taught to do so any more.