"A-lee-TOE" vs. "Aleedo"

[Patiod]

All politics aside (and I do believe the guy is an absolute fascist) ---

Commentators and newsreaders are making me CRAZY going out of their way to pronounce the "t" in Alito, which no matter how professional the speaker (I'm thinking of Nina Tottenberg) and every one of them eventually "degenerates" later in the story into the regular American pronounciation, which is "Aleedo".

Okay, folks, this is America, not the BBC. We don't do sharp "T" unless it starts the word.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

1. Ali-DOH!

[azmouse]

2. I'd prefer calling him history!

[Left Is Write]

9. Ding ding! We have a winner!

[Book Lover]

3. Whcih shows their lack of understandiing of Italian pronunciation

It's "ah-LI-to" in our mother tounge. Stressing the "t" stresses the final syllable, which is wrong, wrong, wrong.

[Reverend_Smitty]

4. It is annoying...

but then again I grew up in New Jersey where nobody pronounces internal "T"s. You can always tell when someone is from out of town just by the way he or she pronounces my home town, Trenton. Anyone who calls it Trent-ton as opposed to Tren'en, is definitely not from around there.

[Gormy Cuss]

5. Jeet yet?

My FIL is a native of Newark and until I met him I wasn't aware that it was a one syllable word.

[July]

6. No, joo?

Haven't heard that one in years.

[Reverend_Smitty]

7. We don't have time for syllables

We New Jersians are much too busy! :P I have to say I'm guilty of that too, especially when talking to friends and family

[Book Lover]

8. Hey, what's with this "New" Jersey?

It's Jersey, dammit!

[Reverend_Smitty]

12. and it's the only state where you can do that

and it doesn't sound funny...

[Book Lover]

13. Very true

Here in CA, I remember calling it "Jersey" and having one or two people act all confused, thinking I was talking about the place in England :-)

[Reverend_Smitty]

14. Silly Californians!

:P

[tjwmason]

15. Pernickety me has to point out that Jersey isn't in England

It isn't even part of the United Kingdom.

Geographically it's closer to France than England. The Channel Islands are technically the last remaining possesion of the Duke of Normandy (who is also Queen Elizabeth II), they're internally self-governing.

[Book Lover]

17. Many thanks for the correction

Is that the same status as the Isle of Man?

on edit: Ah, after a little looking up I see the Isle of Man is a different beast altogether. How interesting!

[Misunderestimator]

10. I pronounce it "au jus"

[Patiod]

19. Another irritation of mine

but well documented elsewhere on DU today...
:rofl:

[Ivan Sputnik]

11. It's "A-LIE-toe"

at least that's how it's pronounced on Majority Report.

[trof]

16. alley-tow?

[Gatchaman]

18. Al-leet-o

as in Alito Bandito.

[henslee]

20. you mean "Elite" - o?