From Pergola to Foyer and Chaise Lounge
You may love that fancy French armchair in your sitting room, but are you even pronouncing it correctly?
It turns out that while you’ve been bragging to your friends about your newly installed pergola in the garden, they’ve been sniggering about your mispronunciation of the word.
Did you know that pergola, while pronounced by many as PER-GUH-LAH, should actually be said as PER-GOL-AR.
While chaise lounge should be pronounced as SHEZ-LAWNG not SHAZ-LONG-UEE, according to Stuff.co.nz.
Dr. Ariel Goldberg, assistant professor of psychology and director university’s psycholinguistics and Linguistics Lab at Tufts University in Massachusetts said mispronouncing words relates to how we read words.
He told WBUR : ‘What reading fundamentally is is trying to understanding what words we’re trying to communicate with each other and written languages are using symbols to represent sounds.’
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‘And in some languages, we call them shallow or transparent languages, the relationship between the individual letters and sounds is relatively simple so there’s only essentially one way to read a set of letters.’
Examples of shallow or transparent languages include Finnish and Italian, ‘if you know the language you can’t make a mistake when pronouncing the word,’ Dr. Goldberg said.
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