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cynicalninja Forum-Blogger© Original500© Member  Happy Heretic
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Word American pronunciation Mirror Meeeerrrrr Squirrel Skwurl Laboratory Labratory Iraq Eye-rack Two thousand and seven Two thousand seven Basil Bay-sil Soccer Sarrrker Herb Erb Jaguar Jagwaarrr Paedophile Pedophile Oregano Oh-reg-no Route Rowt Semi Sem-eye I'm trying to think of some more that sound somewhat strange to the British ear. N.B - I am not taking the piss out of the way Americans speak before certain members come stomping into this thread like a bull in a china shop waving the stars and stripes. The thread is intended as a little cultural comparision, how the little differences set us apart.
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Lady Cop Pioneer100© Member 
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you're making me laugh ....my Englishman has spent 2 years trying to change my speech patterns, even though i speak the Queen's English perfectly well! two examples come to mind, al-Uminium for aluminum, and fileT for fillet. sorry, i can't seem to type out the phonetics. i'm sure i'll think of some more when i have had my tea!  ...we are two countries separated by a common language!
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Lady Cop Pioneer100© Member
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oh, and since i once owned an XJ6, i know how to pronounce Jaguar! 
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theia Original500© Member 
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In the UK we say few-tile (futile) In America, it seems to be pronounced fewtul (LC, I'm no good at writing phonetically either!)
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HARGIS Original500© Member 
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I watch EPL "football" all the time [Go Fulham] and I love listening to the announcers (even though it seems like they are speaking a whole other language sometimes). I use this website on occasion to figure out what they mean.
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mgk11103 Original500© Member 
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I think that Ninja's pronunciations depend on regional dialects. We are much more cultivated than that in New Hamshaa. Besides, since a squirrel is just a glorified, bushy-tailed rat, how many syllables do Brits think that rodent warrants?
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theia Original500© Member
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This isn't actually pronunciation but I've noticed that Americans say, "I could care less" whereas in the UK we say, "I couldn't care less." Ours seems a little more unpleasant.
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Amy Original500© Member  ...going with the flow...
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July 30, 2007, 8:35PM In contest, it pays to butcher the English language Associated Press A Wisconsin man whose blend of awkward syntax, imminent disaster and bathroom humor offends both good taste and the English language won an annual contest Monday that salutes bad writing.... http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/bizarre/5012828.html
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Lady Cop Pioneer100© Member
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let me try this phonetics thing again ....dynasty. Brits say dinasty...yanks say dienasty.
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AussiePam Original500© Member  Wild Child
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How language changes with geography and time always fascinates me. English settlers brought to America their own versions of their language, as spoken in their local area at the time they left, grammar, syntax, pronunciation. Back in the mother country English evolved and with unified communications systems became standardised, as it did eventually also in geographically separated areas. Of course language in the New World was also influenced by non-English settlers, who brought their own thought patterns etc. Lots has of course been written on all this. .... I love the old Germanic strong verb traces or variants which have remained in American but vanished from English English. Think, thank, thunk Dive, dove And forms like gotten.. English English says I have forgotten, begotten, but I have got, not gotten Then there's spelling changes.. colour color, centre center etc And compound words... sailing boat / sail boat, aeroplane / air plane. Central European inspired sentence contruction on the East Coast. Eubonics riches. ------ Australian English has elements of Cockney rhyming slang, and Cockney and Irish influences may have twanged our accent too. In my own country, I can pick Melbourne speak from Sydney speak from Brisbane speak from New Zealand - easily - both in accent and vocabulary. I remember a protestant relative telling me once that kids who called the letter h (aitch) haitch, were uneducated. I believed this until I learnt that haitch is the correct Irish pronunciation, and was brought to Australia by Irish teachers who taught mainly in Catholic schools - a good example of language-caused discrimination. Grin. -------------- Struth!!! (God's truth - probably Elizabethan in origin) - Aren't we lucky to be able to enjoy such diversity, Cobber (Prob from Suffolk - cob - take a liking to)!!!! 
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shirohniichan Original500© Member  Obscurius per obscurum
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My math teacher taught me that saying "two thousand and seven" to express 2007 was incorrect. He said "and" signifies a decimal point, thus "two thousand and seven" meant 2000.7 while "two thousand seven" meant 2007. I don't know if Canadian mimicks British, but certain words stood out when I traveled up there. Word= Canadian pronunciation Film= FILL-em Decal= DEH-kul Municipal= mew-ni-SIP-pul
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Brian Grand Poobah of Moderation 
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cynicalninja wrote: Word American pronunciation Some of this is definitely regional in the US. Out here in the Northeast (where a lot of Italians live) no self-respecting person would be caught dead pronouncing oregano "oh-reg-no". The correct pronunciation is O-REG-a-no. (Notice the stressed syllable and the extra syllable.) Of course, it should also be noted that "pedophile" is spelled "pedophile" in the US, so the difference in pronunciation is intentional. I've never heard "sarrker" as a pronunciation. I suspect that's also regional. "Route" seems to vary by personal preference. I have heard "Rowt" as well as "Root". To be honest, I'm still not sure what the "standard" pronunciation is in American English.  As for "Iraq": I don't think anyone in the US is precisely sure how to spell that. Newscasters can't seem to make up their minds.  I'm fairly certain that the Iraqis themselves pronounce it iROK, and that's good enough for me! 
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Brian wrote: cynicalninja wrote:Word American pronunciation The dictionary says either pronunciation is ok for route. 
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