I've Been Saying It Wrong!

[barry1010]

Such a short word to mispronounce but I've just found out I've managed to.  How do you say it?

AGUE

 

 

 

[Prudie]

aig to rhyme with Hague

[barry1010]

That's how I say it, Prudie.

I'll see if I can find a spare dunce's cap so you can sit with me on the bottom stair

 

[royfromaus]

I don't say it.

Heard an Americam racing commentator pronounce Maestro as

'My estro' tonight, for some strange reason it annoyed me a tad.

[Moorea7]

Can't think of ever having used that word but probably you need to find another dunce's cap!  Maybe correct would be A-goo or A-gue?

[THECORBYLOON]

I dont use it myself but I would pronounce it, "aygyew".

[piggynose]

ay-gyoo apparently!

[ladybirder]

Moorea is correct.

 

[barry1010]

I watched Countryfile and the woman pronounced it ay-gyooo

I laughed, my wife checked - and laughed at me. 🥴

[Blubster]

Ay-gue

[Prudie]

Well wow. I'm with you Barry. I shall still say it aig I think, if it ever comes out of my mouth :-)

[Buenchico]

I knew how to say it but I have to admit to having had to google it in order to remind myself of its meaning!

[barry1010]

Thanks for joining in, nice to know I'm not the only one.

It's a word I've used since I was little.  If anyone had a cold they'd say, keep away from me, I've got the ague. 

[Atheist]

I always have mentally pronounced it to rhyme with plague. But I'm not really bothered, as I never need to say it out loud when chatting with fat bloke down the pub.

 

[barry1010]

Maybe it's more commonly used in Birmingham and the black country 

[barry1010]

Wrongly used, obviously.  We didn't have malaria not did we say it right 

  

[ladybirder]

It's not a word I use but if I did I would have said aig with a hard g.  So I would have been wrong.

Am I bovvered?

[pastafreak]

I'll be joining you Barry...who knew??? 🤔

[Peter Pedant]

I  pronounce it, "aygyew". - but not often.  - 

 

[Maydup]

I can't say I've been pronouncing it anyway at all. It's a new word on me, but I see from the dictionary it's archaic so I doubt I'll come across it often!

[jno]

these medieval diseases are coming back, Maydup, no sooner have you got over Alaskapox...