I use a pseudonym, because my real name is very difficult to pronounce, to remember, and to spell. And many people who have been talking about me on television have yet to pronounce it correctly.
quote by Jeff Gannon
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Three Oddest Words
When I pronounce the word Future,
the first syllable already belongs to the past.
When I pronounce the word Silence,
I destroy it.
When I pronounce the word Nothing,
I make something no nonbeing can hold.
poem by Wislawa Szymborska
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Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.
quote by Marilyn vos Savant
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My publicist always said as long as they pronounce your name or spell your name right, it's all good.
quote by Tina Yothers
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What You Can Always Misspell
you misspell the obvious sometimes
precisely
because they are too easy
because many always believe them to be
notions
prejudices
like the fact that leaves are supposed to be green
or that sickness be pale
or that life always has an ending
sometimes we make right on those difficult times
we escape
jump over fences
and breathe inside vacuum containers
and you say
this must be a joke
this cannot be true
but how come you spell what used to be hidden
correctly?
you spell hardship correctly
and since joy is too easy
you do not even bother pronouncing the word
you exclaim
baloney
but you are sometimes correct in that way
life is sometimes a play of words
a game in uttering syllables
of course
very much different than the suicide
that most of them
chose.
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Big Words
What do you mean big words don't interest you?
'Well to put it simply they're quite hard pronounce, spell, and I don't know what they mean.'
'Why would want to confuse me? '
Well, if I explained them to you would you be interested in learning them?
'No, why complicate my life? '
Your just lazy!
'Oh yeah and your just a nerd obsessed with big words.'
poem by Ace Of Black Hearts
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Me! Come! My dazzled face
Me! Come! My dazzled face
In such a shining place!
Me! Hear! My foreign ear
The sounds of welcome near!
The saints shall meet
Our bashful feet.
My holiday shall be
That they remember me;
My paradise, the fame
That they pronounce my name.
poem by Emily Dickinson
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This Feeling Does Not Linger
As strange as my name...
I can't describe this feeling.
I can't declare it stays the same.
This feeling does not linger.
I do have goals and aims.
Like others I see near me.
But 'who' they are remains unclaimed.
And that too changes.
Like storm clouds that bring rain.
We are more than what we seem.
Much more than given names.
And few care to pronounce them.
Some even denounce,
Them.
We are bigger than our dreams.
When each one comes to pass...
We seek one more to grasp.
And that one doesn't stay,
To last.
We are more than what we seem.
Much more than given names.
And few care to pronounce them.
Some even denounce,
Them.
As strange as my name...
I can't describe this feeling.
I can't declare it stays the same.
This feeling does not linger.
Like my needs.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.
quote by Vivien Leigh
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We should have an easier name to pronounce.
quote by John Oates
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Two Nations and One Religion
The gardener knows of our illicit love!
I never forget the Garden of Eden
Where the Man & Woman
Displayed the real politics of love!
This love is the one and only Religion
In simply pronounce as Humanity!
(For the poetess Sandra Dodd in gratitude!)
poem by Nimal Dunuhinga
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If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!
quote by William Strunk, Jr.
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I always pronounce my first word in Basque and, when I am lucky, also the second.
aphorism by Hasier Agirre, translated by Dan Costinaş
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Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.
When I go out with the ladies, I don't force them to pronounce my name. I tell them I like to go by the nickname of Kitten.
quote by Joaquin Phoenix
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We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.
Give a stammerer enough time and he will pronounce his father's name.
Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.
quote by William Cowper
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We all have days where we can't pronounce things or give it the emotion it deserves.
quote by Johnny Vegas
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I couldn't pronounce Arnold Schwarzenegger, so I called him Balloon Belly.
Fortnight Progress Report
My Elocution Teacher
Complains
That I do not
Pronounce
Love
Much louder!
poem by Nimal Dunuhinga
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