Sentence examples for pronounced things from inspiring English sources

But the reason why English sounds like it does today is because people pronounced things incorrectly.

There's some fairly ropey singing, to be honest, and some painful intonality, but it's funny to hear how they pronounced things in those days, especially the rolled Rs, like in "more" or "afar" or "beware".

Businessman Omar Miftah, squatting on the pavement in a white robe as he listened to the sheikh's sermon, was blunt about the meaning of what had happened: "Without Gaddafi," he pronounced, "things can only get better".

It's very distinctive – people joke about the English Durbanities because of the way we pronounce things.

You have to have respect for languages and the places you travel to, to pronounce things correctly".

He added: "You have to have respect for the languages of places you travel to and pronounce things correctly".

Everyone has their habits, whether beginning replies with "Hmm" or "But" or "Well", pronouncing things a certain way, or having a characteristic pause.

"There is a tendency in this country to change names around, in order to appeal to the upper classes in a way that doesn't allow the lower classes to pronounce things correctly".

It didn't feel like nostalgia; it was more like anticipation, the excitement of looking forward to a wonderful evening with an old friend — who has such an interesting way of pronouncing things when she speaks and sings, those round "o"s and drawn-out "love"s and "you know"s.

There are variations around this, such as word guessing games, unscrambling words, filling in missing letter blanks and pronouncing things correctly (and from where I played the game, "correctly" seemed to be the Queen's English).

And it even has an MP3 player, 1.3-megapixel camera, an E-dictionary that helps you pronounce things so you don't sound stupid (well, more stupid anyway), subway maps and for the hard of seeing a magnification function to enlarge text.