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    Unhappy Would everyone stop saying "Pher-tographer"? Thanks.

    Have you noticed that nearly no one says "PHOtographer" properly? Everyone says "FER-tographer." No one ever says they are taking a "ferto" or a "fertograph", but they all refer to people who take pictures as "FERtographers."

    Perhaps I am grumpy today.
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    There a quite a few very good Fur-tographers that post very regularly to this site. I don't mind them.
    And it is certainly better to be a Furtographer, than to be asked, "Would you please take my "pharto", mate?"
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scott Stephen View Post
    Have you noticed that nearly no one says "PHOtographer" properly? Everyone says "FER-tographer." No one ever says they are taking a "ferto" or a "fertograph", but they all refer to people who take pictures as "FERtographers."

    Perhaps I am grumpy today.
    maybe a regional thing.

    dialects etc I only hear Fertographer on TV but-- do hear phEtgoraphers
    .. and keep speakers turned off on this site so never noticed


    oh.. lol you won't like this \fə-ˈtä-grə-fər\
    http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dict...q=photographer
    http://www.merriam-webster.com/audio...9%99-f%C9%99r\

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    I may be Italian from my mothers side but my father is from the south and for some wierd reason I do tend to say many words with quite the southern drawl so now that you bring this up, I just took a minute or two and said it a couple times and just realized I say "phEtographer".

    Not quite as bad as how I pronounce some other words though being the midwest italian-hillbilly that I am!

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    What'er y'all talkin' 'bout on this here fertografy forrrm. Tha ain't nuttin wrerong with how I pernounce "fertografy."

    [being from Georgia, I'm an expert in adding syllables where there are none, removing them from where they're supposed to be, and mispernouncin' all kinds of words]

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    Ah, the lot of you are from the States, aren't you? (even Steve is from the 51st state, Brisvegas or so).

    Come down to South Australia, we're probably the only ones who actually pronounce english properly...
    An awful lot of electrons were terribly inconvenienced in the making of this post.
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    It is a US English thing, I guess. I am a transplanted southerner, but I hear it all the time in Pennsylvania, and from the news presenters on CNN, etc.. But if you listen, EVERYONE does it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr Croubie View Post
    Come down to South Australia, we're probably the only ones who actually pronounce English properly...
    In the US we do not speak English. Remember, we fought a war well over 200 years ago to break away from English rule. We speak American. and it is quite different.
    Of course here in Texas we speak Texan. Click image for larger version. 

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    Just be glad you're not in New England, where the terminal letter 'r' is missing from the local patois, and they say, "phertahhhgraphahhhhhh."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve U View Post
    There a quite a few very good Fur-tographers that post very regularly to this site. I don't mind them.
    And it is certainly better to be a Furtographer, than to be asked, "Would you please take my "pharto", mate?"
    In todays world of politically correctness, instead of fur-tographers they should be faux-tographers.

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