Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: My list of shame :-(

Some words whose pron I used to mistake
"Vacation": I said /v&/ instead of /veI/
(where & = ae)
"Canary": I said /n&/ instead of /ne/
"Canal": I said /k&/ instead of /k@/
(where @ = schwa)
"Situation", "notion" and other "-tion" words: I said something more
like /Son/ than /Sn/
"Post", I can't hide my blushes now, I rhymed it with "cost" and
"lost", instead of uttering a /@U/ //oU/ diphtong!
:-(

 "lost", instead of uttering a /@U/ //oU/ diphtong!
This is indeed a very common mistake. Some pronounce 'most', as well, as if
it rhymed with 'cost'.
Max

 :-(
I found out I've always been taught a wrong pronunciation of post,
that rhymes with cost and lost too.
-- 
Yeah, whatever...

 Some words whose pron I used to mistake
[...]
Now, go and look up the two pronunciation of "forehead", "waistcoat" and
"ate" (to eat, ate, eaten"), and the BritEng pronunciation of "vase".
Ciao, FB
-- 
Locked from the inside. That can only mean one thing, and I don't know what
it is.
(Murder by Death)

 "ate" (to eat, ate, eaten"), and the BritEng pronunciation of "vase".
Need I point out that I use the irregular one for all those words?
Bye, FB
-- 
Nasalization is just a part of life.
(Joey DoWop Dee on it.cultura.linguistica.inglese)

Some words whose pron I used to mistake
This sentnece sounds strange.  I would have said:  some words that I used to
pronounce incorrectly.
bye
ari


I was wondering if the delicatessen meat spelled "Bologna" here in the
States, but pronounced "Baloney", is common in the UK?
Baloney, a word derived from Bologna, is used to mean pretentious or
silly, as in "You're Fulla Baloney". :>)
Joe from Massachusetts

silly, as in "You're Fulla Baloney". :>)
I've learnt something new. I've heard that expression on TV, but no
one says it over here. "You're full of rubbish" is the nearest
equivalent that I can think of.

 little-used.
[...]
But you don't have ['fo:hed] (['forhed]), do you?
Bye, FB
-- 
Just as I thought. Another test that could have cost us our lives, saved
only by the fact that I am enormously well-bred.
(Murder by Death)

 it rhymed with 'cost'.
Yep! A common mistake, and not a slight one, in my view: in this case
there is some risk of not being  understood by native spealers, I
think, while the former errors shouldn't prevent comprehension.

 think, while the former errors shouldn't prevent comprehension.
I could have faulty ears, but I've always heard "post" and "most" being 
pronunced the way you say is wrong, in songs for examples, therefore 
from native speakers..
-- 
Ciao,
  Luigi

 and the BritEng pronunciation of "vase".
That's like "tomato".

 pronounce incorrectly.
Thanks for pointing that out 
:-)
-- 
"Ma il fior della tua carne
suso come il nénufaro s'ingiglia.
E se gli occhi tuoi cesii han nere ciglia,
neri ha gli steli il verde capelvenere."

 What do you say, /et/ or /eIt/? And what about the others?
[et], ['wEsk@t] (not that I have to say it very often; at any rate it's
much easier than ['weistk@ut]), ['fOrid] (but I'm not sure about this yet).
Bye, FB
-- 
Se dico "siedi!" manca l'oggetto.
Siedo chi? Lei o me?
(da it.cultura.linguistica.italiano)


Well , I've got to disagree a little with jonny . The word we used to use 
for the meat when I was a boy (here in the UK) was 'polony' - but I'd never 
realised till now that it came from 'Bologna' , so I've learnt something new 
too ; I remember it as a spiced sausage in a bright red skin . However , I 
haven't heard or seen the word for many years , so it looks as though it's 
simply gone out of use . And it's true we don't use 'Baloney' at all in that 
way .
 I've also never heard 'You're fulla baloney' over here - that's a very 
American expression . But I have certainly heard the word 'baloney' or 
'boloney' quite a few times , to mean 'nonsense' - 'That's boloney !'  I 
think I'd guess that it originally came over from the States , but it's been 
in use in the UK for a long time now (though I don't mean to say it's 
commonplace) . I've just checked , and it's given in this sense in the OED , 
without any attribution to the US .
Mike
 

 :-(
And I didn't rhyme "won" with "one"!
I think that in Northern England they don't rhyme it either, do they?
-- 
De la musique avant toute chose,
Et pour cela préfère l'Impair,
Plus vague et plus soluble dans l'air,
Sans rien en lui qui pèse ou qui pose.