Strange Proununciations

[Brinestone]

Man, now I wish donzerly was a word and that it meant that.

[pooka]

I had to google it before I realized what you were referring to.  It's hard to tell if the urban dictionary definition is being ironic (the zkueger entry, below the fold.)
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=donzerly

[Jonathon]

My money's on ironic.

[rivka]

So is mine. (And I had to Google it as well, and found the same entry.)

[pooka]

Doing my training module on Powered Air Purifying Respirator and how everyone pronounces it to rhyme with dapper.

[Tante Shvester]

There's the Papper and the Capper.

[Tante Shvester]

Lately it's been bothering me that slaughter and laughter are not anywhere close in pronunciation.

[Ela]

So I saw a meme asking why we pronounce the "g" in "longevity" twice. Pretty sure I don't.

So what's the correct pronounciation?

[Jonathon]

Merriam-Webster says "län-ˈje-və-tē" (so a regular "n" sound followed by a soft "g"), but I guess I pronounce it like "long-gevity" (with an "ng" sound followed by a soft "g"). I'm not really pronouncing the "g" twice, because there isn't actually a "g" in the "ng" sound—it's just a nasal sound pronounced in the same place as a hard "g". But it makes sense why someone would think of that as pronouncing the "g" twice, since most people think of pronunciation in terms of spelling (which is why people also talk about "'g' dropping" in words like "singin'").

[Ela]

I pronounce it the way Merriam-Webster says. So does my spouse.

Maybe the pronounciation differences are regional?

[Jonathon]

It doesn't strike me as the kind of variation that's typically regional. And if it were regional, there's a fair chance it'd be in listed in the dictionary. I think it's more likely just an idiosyncratic thing, but I'm really not sure.

[Ela]

Thanks for your thoughts on it.

[Jonathon]

No problem! I didn't even realize before now that there was variation in how some people said it or that my pronunciation didn't match the standard dictionary pronunciation.

[Ela]

I didn't realize it either till I saw the meme about it.

[pooka]

I do the "prounounce it twice" way.  Which I guess makes sense because I learned it from my father, who learned English in the Western US. 

[pooka]

What about the sh in fiduciary?  And does it depend in if you're pronouncing the second i?