You're pronouncing Everest Wrong.
By AmberLynn
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
United States
November 24, 2019 5:57pm CST
Mount Ev-Uh-Rest was originally meant to be pronounced as Eve-rest. The mountain obtained it's English name in 1885 by a British Geographical Surveyor by the name of Andrew Waugh who chose the name of his predecessor.
Mr. George Everest objected to this because his name could not be written in the Hindi language nor pronounced by the natives. Despite his protestations, the name stuck and has been the same ever since.
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
25 Nov 19
Thanks for te post. Although, as a Spanish speaker, I pronounce it as a Spanish person would.
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
25 Nov 19
@ScribbledAdNauseum The accent is in the first E
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
25 Nov 19
How would a spanish speaker pronounce it? With more emphasis on the E and V?
Eh Vuh Rest?
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
25 Nov 19
@marguicha Oh okay. The way the Southern parts of the US pronounce it there is more emphasis on the 'st" at the end of Everest.
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@Nakitakona (59987)
• Philippines
25 Nov 19
I am right for I stress the first syllable when I read it.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
25 Nov 19
The actual pronunciation would only have two syllables as that is how the man's name was pronounced.
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@Nakitakona (59987)
• Philippines
25 Nov 19
@ScribbledAdNauseum Thanks for pointing it out.
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@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
25 Nov 19
Oh I had no idea about this fact Amber thank you. Fancy that.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
25 Nov 19
I think I would have just kept my mouth shut and let them use my surname, but I guess he wanted to make sure it was a name the people of the area could pronounce.
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@Alexandoy (65302)
• Cainta, Philippines
25 Nov 19
I may be pronouncing Everest wrongly but there's also something wrong with the title of this discussion.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
25 Nov 19
Whoops! Thanks for pointing that out. I'll fix it now.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
25 Nov 19
@Alexandoy I get in a hurry sometimes and don't think about it. It happens with my Their, They're, and There's too.
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@Alexandoy (65302)
• Cainta, Philippines
25 Nov 19
@ScribbledAdNauseum okay, no problem.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
25 Nov 19
@amitkokiladitya It wasn't George that couldn't be written, but Everest, his last name.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
25 Nov 19
Don't you think it was nice of the surveyor to use his predecessor's name?
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@amitkokiladitya (171988)
• Agra, India
25 Nov 19
@ScribbledAdNauseum yes..true. and I never knew George couldn't be written in Hindi
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@sharonelton (30756)
• Lichfield, England
24 Nov 19
That's very interesting, I didn't know that.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
25 Nov 19
We don't often think about how things got their name, we just accept that it's what we've always known them by. I think it was nice that the surveyor used the name of his predecessor.
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@sharonelton (30756)
• Lichfield, England
25 Nov 19
@ScribbledAdNauseum Absolutely. We should think about these things more. It's very interesting to know how things got their name.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
25 Nov 19
@sharonelton I agree. I am sure there are some pretty interesting stories behind some of the name origin stories.
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I didn't know actually it came from a person's surname.@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
25 Nov 19
I didn't either, isn't that cool? I've not heard that surname at all.
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@RasmaSandra (97957)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
25 Nov 19
That is very interesting and thanks for sharing
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
25 Nov 19
I thought it was as well. I thought it was really nice of the surveyor to use his predecessor's name instead of his own.
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@franxav (14588)
• India
25 Nov 19
Thanks for the information. All this time I was wondering who must have named the highest peak in the world. I visited the Himalayan Museum at Darjeeling thrice but never found it was Andrew Waugh.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
25 Nov 19
That's odd that they didn't have that piece of information there.
@thislittlepennyearns (68246)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
25 Nov 19
That's pretty cool. I pronounce it. Ev rest . So yeah lol
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
25 Nov 19
I kind of pronounce it Ev-UH-risssT.
I don't know why I put emphasis on the T.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
25 Nov 19
@thislittlepennyearns Probably so. It's funny, I was just thinking that I have never met anyone with the last name of Everest, or have I heard of anyone with that last name.
@thislittlepennyearns (68246)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
25 Nov 19
@ScribbledAdNauseum maybe because it's the end of the word. I dont know. I know theres some names or words that I put emphasis on the end or last letter
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@Butterfingers (66603)
• India
25 Nov 19
That's an interesting one like all ur other posts
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
25 Nov 19
Thank You! Heh. I think I'll do these types of discussions a little more often. I used to do them all the time. I had a theme for every day, different subject but mostly historically based.
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