I'm imagining everyone in this sub-thread
Saying "chowder" like Mayor Quimby from the Simpsons.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 27 Jan 2010, 14:12, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

that's how I imagine it too :-D

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 27 Jan 2010, 14:12, Reply)

Is there any other way to say it?

(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Wed 27 Jan 2010, 14:17, Reply)

shh-ow*-dair

(*to rhyme with how)
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 27 Jan 2010, 14:32, Reply)

I say it like Paul Simon says it in 'Duncan'.

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 27 Jan 2010, 15:02, Reply)

What, like this:
'woooah ooga booga, I am African'?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 27 Jan 2010, 16:33, Reply)

what an irrelevant and cockish thing to say

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 27 Jan 2010, 16:41, Reply)

haha, merely fulfilling my destiny...

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 27 Jan 2010, 16:53, Reply)

search your feelings
you know it to be true
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 27 Jan 2010, 17:03, Reply)

I say it to rhyme with 'powder'
You know, the correct way.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 27 Jan 2010, 16:09, Reply)

so do most people
the above was a description of how a snooty french waiter says it in an episode of the simpsons

the Mayor Quimby thing was about the accent, not the pronunciation
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 27 Jan 2010, 16:16, Reply)

Good.
Sometimes you can pick up incorrect pronunciations and not know it: my father, bless him, insists on pronouncing 'nachos' like a fucking Greek island.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 27 Jan 2010, 16:51, Reply)

god, my dad prounces some things terribly
as do his parents. makes me want to slap them
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 27 Jan 2010, 17:00, Reply)

My father does it deliberately sometimes,
I am certain, to give the impression of ignorance about something he disapproves of, even though he knows perfectly well how it's said.

I'm struggling to think of an example - band names or popular culture stuff generally. Rather like the Fry & Laurie sketch where they go on about 'that ghastly Mervyn Briggs', meaning Melvyn Bragg.

As irrelevant posts go this is a corker.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 27 Jan 2010, 17:03, Reply)

that's the sort of thing my dad would do
he loves to describe things as 4th rate. The day I find myself doing that I will seriously think about ending it all.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 27 Jan 2010, 17:07, Reply)