scedule or shedule?

[bunsen burner]

I went to school (pronounced skool), so I think it is pronounced skedule.

I am interested in what shools those people went to who pronounce it shedule?

Or is this just a trend thing? Is it now trendy to pronounce it with a silent 'c' because I haven't heard anyone pronounce it with a silent 'h' for a long time?

 

[BluesBabe666]

Both.

Schedule....

SK E DULE

I think its people trying to talk differently with the c silent... cant rememer the last time i heard someone say it that way!

 

[bunsen burner]

It doesn't really matter I guess, but everytime I hear some pronounce it 'shedule', it poses heaps of questions.

1) Is there such thing as a silent 'c' in the English language that the Australian school curriculum failed to teach us?

2) Why did everyone used to pronounce it with a silent 'h' and then change to a silent 'c'. Am I not 'hip' because I still pronounce it with a silent 'h'?

3) If this ends up as the long term pronounciation (assuming that this isn't just a trend), will they recognise that there is in fact a silent 'c' in the English language?

4) Does that now mean that Molly Meldrum is in fact an ocksucker?


My therapist advised me not to worry about such trivial issues, but I just can't help myself.

 

[TigerCraig]

I saw Skedule

It was funny living in Adelaide.

I had to try and say "braaanch", "chaaance", "daaance", "Graaant", "shedule" etc

Felt like a real posh pansy

 

[BluesBabe666]

Love number 4, where did THAT come from?!!!!

(yes he is)

 

[bunsen burner]

Originally posted by TigerCraig
I saw Skedule

It was funny living in Adelaide.

I had to try and say "braaanch", "chaaance", "daaance", "Graaant", "shedule" etc

Felt like a real posh pansy

I'm from Perth and they do the 'chaaance/graaant' thing as well. I have also noticed that Perth people speak with a bit of a slow drawl (Ben Cousins for example) - some of them sound sort of 'thick'.

 

[BomberGal]

I say it like the 'c' in cat. The 'shedule' is actually more 's-ch-edule', like the 'ch' in Michelle, and I thought that was acceptable

EDIT: Looking at this nearly two years on, I have NO idea what the hell I was on about!

 

[TigerCraig]

It was funny. One of my staff's name was Graaant, but whenever he was on the phone to Sydney it was "Grant speaking".

The other thing that got me was "gel" instead of "girl"

 

[BomberGal]

Originally posted by bunsen burner
I'm from Perth and they do the 'chaaance/graaant' thing as well. I have also noticed that Perth people speak with a bit of a slow drawl (Ben Cousins for example) - some of them sound sort of 'thick'.

I think that's an isolation thing. People who live in the bigger cities such as Melbourne and Sydney, or should I say the people not living there, speak differently. I know the sort of 'accent' you mean, and I think it's similar to the so-called 'country' accent. Would someone like to enlighten me on this country accent, because plenty of times I've been told I speak like a country girl?

 

[Bomber Spirit]

I've always pronounced it "shedule". I must have some Croweater blood I never knew about.

Another interesting one is the 8th letter of the alphabet - "aitch" or "haitch"? I always pronounce it "aitch", but the other way seems to be getting more common.

 

[Portia]

I say it either way, depending on which sound is easier to make coming from the preceding words, but mostly `sh'.

 

[Docker_Brat]

People who say con-trov-ersy are lame.

It's con-tro-versy.

 

[bunsen burner]

Originally posted by Bomber Spirit
I've always pronounced it "shedule". I must have some Croweater blood I never knew about.

Another interesting one is the 8th letter of the alphabet - "aitch" or "haitch"? I always pronounce it "aitch", but the other way seems to be getting more common.

I'm an aitch man too. I was taught at school that it was definately aitch. But I couldn't be sure - it seems most teachers don't know too much.

 

[PrincessPark]

Originally posted by Docker_Brat
People who say con-trov-ersy are lame.

It's con-tro-versy.

Totally agreed. It's like the American way of saying aluminium as aloominum. What the - ?

I also hate appree-see-ate. It's appree-she-ate.

I'm South Australian so I do the graaaaph, plaaant etc. That's what happens when your state is colonised by free settlers with posh accents. But I maintain that while you may go to a daaance, you go there to dance.

The eastern states are not without their quirky accents - pewl and skewl for pool and school for example! And "cassel" instead of "cahsel" for castle.

 

[TigerCraig]

"Cassel" is a Victorian thing - NSW definitely say "carstle".

 

[skilts]

I hate to quote this book again on here, but here goes. Stephen Murray-Smith, in his 'Right Words: A guide to English Usage in Australia' says, " The Australian pronunciation of this word is SHED-yule, but the American SKED-yule is making some inroads. This is very largely due to the shortened form of the word, which is always pronounced SKED."

I don't ever recall hearing the word thus abbreviated, so I'm not sure what he's talking about here. 'Fowler's Modern English Usage' acknowledges both pronunciations, as does 'The Oxford'.

Now to my own hobby-horse. Is there anyone in Australia who knows how to pronounce the words 'etcetera' and 'statistics'? The first doesn't commence with a double 'c' after the first 'e' and the second has only three 's' s, not four.

 

[Swarbs]

scedule

 

[Scrumhalf]

Sing along..

"You say tomarto, I say tomayto.."

 

[Swarbs]

I have a posh perth accent

 

[Eriiin]

Skedule

Aitch

Con-tro-versy

Cassle

Dance/France/Grant - non posh way!

 

[Swarbs]

forehead = forrid

er

carstle

 

[- PC -]

I'm from Perth and they do the 'chaaance/graaant' thing as well. I have also noticed that Perth people speak with a bit of a slow drawl (Ben Cousins for example) - some of them sound sort of 'thick'.

BB is it Awlbany or Owlbany? Derrrby or Darby? Living in SA for a long time and been close to Victoria it was interesting seeing how people spoke differently ..Casslemaine or Carslemaine? Scheewl or school

By the way I have caught myself saying both..depending where my thought processes are....maybe its verb transitory. Have you Skeduled the meeting on the shedule?

 

[Benevolent Ert]

Here's one way of looking at it.....

How do you pronounce this guy's name?

 

[DB10]

It's even funkier when you have a fading English accent, I say: "sheh-dyell". "Cassle". "'ome". "Con-tro-verseee".

Ahh London ...

 

[- PC -]

Here's one way of looking at it.....

How do you pronounce this guy's name?

Sid Knee ?