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Do you find it amusing when people pronounce "clerk" to rhyme with "work"?

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Posted - August 2, 2016

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  • 739
    Personally, yes I do.
      August 2, 2016 1:19 PM MDT
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  • 17583

    Yes

      August 2, 2016 1:35 PM MDT
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  • 165

      August 2, 2016 1:38 PM MDT
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  • 165

    I thought you said it was supposed to be pronounced like that. Lol:)

      August 2, 2016 1:38 PM MDT
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  • 3934

    About as amusing as people who add extra letters to the name of a certain metal and pronounce it "Al-you-min-ee-um"...;-D...

    http://blog.dictionary.com/aluminum-or-aluminium/

      August 2, 2016 1:43 PM MDT
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  • 34176

    What are you talking about?

    Work and Clerk do  rhyme....

      August 2, 2016 1:44 PM MDT
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  • 165

    That's how I say it. I think it's funny when people say "a-loom-inum". Lol:)

      August 2, 2016 1:45 PM MDT
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  • This is another one of those things I'm supposed to "get" but I don't and never will, even after it's explained; right?

      August 2, 2016 1:45 PM MDT
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  • 165

    What do you mean, Tammy?

      August 2, 2016 1:47 PM MDT
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  • 165

    "Clerk" is pronounced like "Clark". It doesn't really rhyme with "work".

      August 2, 2016 1:47 PM MDT
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  • 46117

    No one does. 

    Who sais cork?    That is what rhymes with work. 

      August 2, 2016 1:58 PM MDT
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  • The reason I don't find it amusing, so I'm missing something obvious.

      August 2, 2016 2:05 PM MDT
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  • What? lol

    You're a Brit or something aren't you? 

    I pronounce Clerk and Work,.  Have you ever heard an American from the northeast speak? LOL

    You'd be tearing me a new orafice. 

      August 2, 2016 2:45 PM MDT
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  • KC

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    I used to when I was a kid, until I realised that's the American way of pronouncing it.

      August 2, 2016 2:49 PM MDT
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  • 34176

    Not were I live.  

    klurk...wurk

    You pronounce clerk like Clark Kent from Superman???

      August 2, 2016 3:04 PM MDT
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  • 34176

    No the question is wrong....both clerk and work rhyme. (at least in American English they do)

    You are not missing anything.

      August 2, 2016 3:06 PM MDT
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  • Not in the United States, no. Maybe it should be pronounced the way it's spelled. The Brits on the wrong side of logic here. 

      August 2, 2016 3:50 PM MDT
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  • 1113

    That's how we say it here, so it's just normal, not particularly amusing.

      August 4, 2016 12:20 PM MDT
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