How should one pronounce 'portrait'?

[nq:1]Just that: how should one pronounce 'portrait'? I've always pronounced it like 'port rate' but I think some pronounce it like 'port rit'.[/nq]
Only those who can't speak properly. Your pronunciation is correct.

[nq:2]Just that: how should one pronounce 'portrait'? I've always pronounced it like 'port rate' but I think some pronounce it like 'port rit'.[/nq]
[nq:1]Only those who can't speak properly. Your pronunciation is correct.[/nq]
Collins disagrees: it gives both, with the "rit" pronunciation first.

Cheers, Harvey
CanEng and BrEng, indiscriminately mixed

[nq:1]On 23 Sep 2009, Farmer Giles wrote[/nq]
[nq:2]Only those who can't speak properly. Your pronunciation is correct.[/nq]
[nq:1]Collins disagrees: it gives both, with the "rit" pronunciation first.[/nq]
I'm not a native speaker but I guess it might be a pondian thing. The second one sounds slightly American-ish to me.

qt

El Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:57:37 +0100, Frederick Williams escribió:
[nq:1]Just that: how should one pronounce 'portrait'? I've always pronounced it like 'port rate' but I think some pronounce it like 'port rit'.[/nq]
The majority of normal bods say "porch-rate". Well, in the UK anyway. This tendency hinders a lot of the Brits trying to speak Spanish here. When they want a straight glass of b

[nq:2]On 23 Sep 2009, Farmer Giles wrote Collins disagrees: it gives both, with the "rit" pronunciation first.[/nq]
[nq:1]I'm not a native speaker but I guess it might be a pondian thing. The second one sounds slightly American-ish to me.[/nq]
I'm reading Wes Butler and Russell Davies's 'Kenneth Williams Unseen', HarperCollins, 2008 (which isn't as interesting as it ought to be) and it cla

[nq:1]El Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:57:37 +0100, Frederick Williams escribió:[/nq]
[nq:2]Just that: how should one pronounce 'portrait'? I've always pronounced it like 'port rate' but I think some pronounce it like 'port rit'.[/nq]
[nq:1]The majority of normal bods say "porch-rate".[/nq]
You surprise me...
[nq:1]Well, in the UK anyway.[/nq]
... still.
[nq:1]This tendency hinders

El Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:34:22 +0100, Frederick Williams escribió:

That they pronounce 't' as 'ch'. People that are expecting a 't' and hear a 'ch' therefore don't understand. Of course, in this particular situation, many also pronounce 'tu' as 'tyu' - equally confusing for Johnny Foreigner.

Pablo

[nq:1]El Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:57:37 +0100, Frederick Williams escribi=F3:[/nq]
[nq:2]Just that: how should one pronounce 'portrait'? I've always pronounced it like 'port rate' but I think some pronounce i=t like 'port rit'.[/nq]
[nq:1]The majority of normal bods say "porch-rate". Well, in the UK anyway.[/nq]
I think 'the majority' is stretching things a bit, but perhaps it depends on wh

[nq:2]I'm not a native speaker but I guess it might be a pondian thing. The second one sounds slightly American-ish to me.[/nq]
[nq:1]I'm reading Wes Butler and Russell Davies's 'Kenneth Williams Unseen', HarperCollins, 2008 (which isn't as interesting as it ought to be) and it claims that Williams insisted on 'portrit'. I had not come across this before, but the Shorter agrees with Williams.[

[nq:2]I'm reading Wes Butler and Russell Davies's 'Kenneth Williams Unseen', ... come across this before, but the Shorter agrees with Williams.[/nq]
[nq:1]Kenneth Williams - wonderfully amusing as he was - was no authority on pronunciation. He was essentially a working class Cockney who affected a comically exaggerated upper-class accent, and in the process mispronounced many things. 'Port rit