To think you don't pronounce it Grem?

[NapQueen]

It's Grayum. Or Grayam. Or Graem.

Why pronounce Graham/Graeme as Grem?

The same person also says Restrawww instead of Restaurant.

And Ay-Mex. It's Amex. It's written on the bloody thing.

[CocktailQueen]

Germ could be a regional accent for Graham.

Restrawww - trying out the French pronunciation?

Amex - that's odd, I say it Ay-mex too!

[19lottie82]

Americans pronounce it "gram".

[AnchorDownDeepBreath]

Ay-mex is acceptable - they used to have a "how do you say Amex" bit on their website and it included both. I have no idea if it's still there.

The rest are strange.

[heateallthebuns]

I think it's Ay mex too. Ay as in letter A as it stands for American?

[LifeIsGoodish]

A-mex, because it's short for American Express.

Agree about Graym - two syllables.

[LifeIsGoodish]

Doh! Am-ex.

[NapQueen]

Am ex. Exactly! The country isn't called Ay-merica.

[MelanieCheeks]

Restraaaw sounds like the French pronunciation, which would be acceptable.

[MerchantofVenice]

Is it someone American pronouncing it Grem? I don't think they can help it! I think they also have trouble with 'Craig' (Crag?!). Their accent just can't cope with certain words... Have you heard certain American versions of 'squirrel'? Squirrrrrl.

[NapQueen]

Melanie - aye, if you're French.

[NapQueen]

Nope. English.

[MasterOfTheDIYBookcase]

Americans can't say mirror either. It's meeyer. Very odd. Never mind. I have a family member called Graeme. He doesn't have any interesting pronunciations but the spellings he gets are quite ridiculous.

[Expellibramus]

Yers for years gets me.

[20thCenturyGirl]

Americans can say all of these words. Their pronunciation is just different to yours.

[MasterOfTheDIYBookcase]

20th, you're absolutely right. My bad.

[Notmymonkeysnotmycircus]

Preemark or prymark?

[Pooka]

I dunno really - my grandpa was graham pronounced grey-m.

A minuscule stop between the 'e' sound and the 'm' sound. But barely perceptible depending on posh quotient. His mother was very clipped of accent and sounded prob a bit more 'grem' and as the poshness leaked away over the generations my lot said something more like grey-m. The gre bit had all the emphasis. Bit like a one and one third syllable word.

[GarlicMistake]

Prymark!

Ass-os, Ah-sos or Ay-sos?

[GarlicMistake]

I was thinking clipped accent, too, Pooka. Your annoying person might just be posh, Nap?

[19lottie82]

Pree Mark

[2kids2dogsnosense]

I haven't heard Americans pronouncing "Graham" as "Grem", but they do tend to say "Gram".

Both are wrong, obviously - it's "Gray'am". Get your linguistic act together, America!

[molyholy]

it is Gra-yam. North west if that makes a difference.

I cannot abide graaaaame, to rhyme with frame.

[NobodyInParticular]

Bit like a one and one third syllable word. < yes, like that for Graham.