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How do you say this term?
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 8:42 pm
by Panth8080
Does anyone have a professor who says "Pear-roll" instead of "Pah-roll" Evidence? Yes, I know it's a stupid topic, but I need a study break.
Does anyone else have a professor with different way of pronouncing a key legal concept?
PS - sorry for wasting 20 seconds of your life lol
Re: How do you say this term?
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 8:57 pm
by NotMyRealName09
I had a professor who said "lien" as "lee-en," two sylabuls, instead of "lean."
Re: How do you say this term?
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 9:01 pm
by BarbellDreams
In my class "limine" was the word that had the most variations...
Re: How do you say this term?
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 9:06 pm
by minnbills
I always thought prima facie
was pree ma fasce (pree ma as in prima donna and fasce as in fascist)
but one of my profs pronounces it:
pry mah fach ah
Re: How do you say this term?
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 9:09 pm
by worldwithoutend
Panth8080 wrote:Does anyone have a professor who says "Pear-roll" instead of "Pah-roll" Evidence? Yes, I know it's a stupid topic, but I need a study break.
Does anyone else have a professor with different way of pronouncing a key legal concept?
PS - sorry for wasting 20 seconds of your life lol
FYI, you're the one with a different way of pronouncing a key legal concept.
Re: How do you say this term?
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 10:50 pm
by Gorki
Some dude kept saying statute like statuette.
Parole Evidence Rule, always heard it pronounced pah-roll.
My crim law prof would pronounce the Latin terms closer to how they would sound in Latin. So 'c' was pronounced 'k', etc.
Re: How do you say this term?
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 10:57 pm
by minnbills
yeah, parol is french (like every other legal term that isn't latin.) It is properly pronounced pah roll. Or if you speak french, pah rohle
Re: How do you say this term?
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 11:02 pm
by target
I have only heard two different ways to say voir dire. One is "vor deer," and the other is "vor dire."
Have always heard people say "pah roll."
Re: How do you say this term?
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 11:10 pm
by Gorki
target wrote:I have only heard two different ways to say voir dire. One is "vor deer," and the other is "vor dire."
Have always heard people say "pah roll."
Huh. I have heard "vuh-wah deer" quite a bit but never "vor dire"
Re: How do you say this term?
Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2012 3:53 am
by echooo23
How do you say res ipsa loquitur? Cause my prof says rayz ipsa lockquitour - like a fancy Englishman saying mature. Except she's a Midwestern lady.
Re: How do you say this term?
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2012 3:23 pm
by Dr. Dingleberry, PHD
In my classes we've been saying:
RIL - almost phonetically. Rez ipsuh loh-quit-er.
Prima facie - primuh faysh-uh.
Re: How do you say this term?
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2012 11:04 pm
by CanadianWolf
"vwa deer" "pah roll"
Re: How do you say this term?
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2012 11:31 pm
by dextermorgan
One of my professors is British.
Need I say more?
Re: How do you say this term?
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2012 11:34 pm
by piccolittle
De jure
- De zhoor?
- De yuhray?
- De zhooray?
How?
Re: How do you say this term?
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 3:53 am
by kingofdara
Someone in my 1L section would say "legislation" whenever he meant to say "legislature." As in, "the legislation considered this to be the best solution." That's not a term you have to go to law school to learn.
Re: How do you say this term?
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 8:14 am
by buddingjd
Professor discussing Alcoa case kept adding an "i" in aluminum - "Aluminium" - Couldn't take it.
Re: How do you say this term?
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 8:51 am
by hurldes
This is one of the more interesting threads on this site.
Re: How do you say this term?
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 9:14 am
by piccolittle
buddingjd wrote:Professor discussing Alcoa case kept adding an "i" in aluminum - "Aluminium" - Couldn't take it.
That's actually the British pronunciation/spelling - so not technically wrong (though I can imagine it would sound awfully pretentious if he has an American accent).
Re: How do you say this term?
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 11:57 am
by DocHawkeye
My Con Law professor pronounced "mine" as "mayan" and "idea" as "i-deer."
Re: How do you say this term?
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 4:07 pm
by cinephile
piccolittle wrote:De jure
- De zhoor?
- De yuhray?
- De zhooray?
How?
Re: How do you say this term?
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 9:58 am
by Dr. Dingleberry, PHD
cinephile wrote:piccolittle wrote:De jure
- De zhoor?
- De yuhray?
- De zhooray?
How?
So like "soup du jour"?
Re: How do you say this term?
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 10:24 am
by somewhatwayward
I hear it pronounced de zhooray not like 'du jour' in soup du jour
One that annoys me is when people confuse symbolism and symbology....something has symbolism when is stands for something....symbology is a field that very well may have been made up by Dan Brown and, if not only that, it means the study of symbols
Re: How do you say this term?
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 11:34 am
by vulpixie
minnbills wrote:I always thought prima facie
was pree ma fasce (pree ma as in prima donna and fasce as in fascist)
but one of my profs pronounces it:
pry mah fach ah
Latin terms have a lot of variability in pronunciation because there is no "soft C" in Latin. In my experience professors who have taken latin as a language pronounce phrases like "principia" and "prima facie" and "ceteris paribus" with hard C's (like they were originally pronounced) and everyone else pronounces them with soft Cs. I think both ways are acceptable now a days.
Re: How do you say this term?
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 3:03 am
by pauwelsd
My Legislative Procedure prof pronounced legislation leg-islation. As in "you've got to be pulling my leg-islation."
We're still not sure if he was serious or if he was pulling one of the most successful long trolls of law school.
Re: How do you say this term?
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 3:58 pm
by arae13
echooo23 wrote:How do you say res ipsa loquitur? Cause my prof says rayz ipsa lockquitour - like a fancy Englishman saying mature. Except she's a Midwestern lady.
I read this and immediately knew who you were referring to. The Midwestern lady thing gave it away
