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Pronunciation Guide: extremely funny videos on how to pronounce things

Xeni Jardin at 6:05 pm Wed, Feb 22, 2012

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[Video Link], via Sean Bonner. I LOL'd, then cried, then hit play again and LOL'd some more. CONTAINS HELVETICA.

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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  • gauch0

    Who does this channel? It sounds like Todd Barry to me.

    • wibbled_pig

       SomethingAwful FYAD poster Wayne Gretzky does it..

  • Schizno

    Just stupid. That is all.

  • derek prowse

    i would watch this in long-form 24 hour cable format.

  • Labbit

    Horse doovers!

  • skeptacally

    definitely canuckistanian in origin. george stroumboulopoulos? michael ondaatje?  fairly recognizable canadians. magnus pääjärvi? he’s a hopeful for the edmonton oilers hockey team. so either our translator has a canadian fetish, or he’s from the great white north. plus, it is total hoser humour.

    oh, and i did indeed lol.

    • wibbled_pig

       Yup, he’s canadian.. the videos have been shown on Ellen.. and I think wired or Huffpo did an interview with him.

  • danimagoo

    My favorite was pooper macho.

  • Donald Petersen

    I cracked a crooked grin at first, but at Guinness I really came apart.

  • anondrea

    I feel the need to point out that this is Pronunciation Manual, which is a parody channel of Pronunciation Guide. I was subscribed to both for a while, pathetically. 

  • haineux

    Just gonna leave this here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdYlmamudFo

  • sean

    Huh? If you LOLed and then cried, please send me some of whatever you are smoking or ingesting to reach the mental state necessary for this to appear humorous.

  • chgoliz

    My favorite has got to be the absolute stunned silence for “caipirinha”, with a total Hail Mary attempt in the last few seconds.

  • tedrock

    I am REALLY surprised you are just now seeing this …. It’s been making the rounds for some time now.
    but it is very funny stuff. This one might be my favorite:
    Haute Couture
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-3RZl3YyJw

  • http://dreadpiraterobert.blogspot.com dreadpiraterobert

    I’ll never pronounce Bjork’s name incorrectly again.

  • pjcamp

    What’s the opposite of a silent letter? You know, it isn’t there but you say it anyway?

    Apparently, we have a lot of that kind of O’s.

  • Anon_Mahna

    I’ll stick with Primiti Too Taa

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcrTzPAUqic