to think that Americans don't pronounce "Warrior" or "Aluminium" properly?

[giddypig]

"Woryer" and "Aloominum"

Just wrong!

[giddypig]

No idea why there's a semicolon in there. ;

[AfunaMbatata]

Have you heard them say 'mirror'?

[Zoflorabore]

How about the names "Graham" and "Craig"

Pronounced Gram and Creg!

[AfunaMbatata]

Also I can't see the semicolon

[cardibach]

Two nations divided by a common language.

[Asmoto]

I might be wrong, but I'm sure I read somewhere that it's the British who are 'wrong' with aluminium and it should technically be 'aluminum' c.f. platinum. Happy to be corrected if I'm spouting bollocks, though.

In either case, it's just a difference in linguistic evolution, so YABU.

[giddypig]

Oh god yes, Graham = Gram. Yuck! Wong!

[giddypig]

How is "Warrior" ever "Woryer" though?

How do they pronounce "Mirror"?

[Zoflorabore]

Afuna- yes that makes me cringe

Dd is 6 and watches a lot of crap videos on YouTube and the things she comes out with now are so American, she said that she was going to "take a bath in the tub"

I correct her on anything she says like the above words as they irritate the life out of me ( sorry for going off on a tangent )

[KenAdams]

It's War-ier and Orrrrnge with our American family

[BigChocFrenzy]

I've noticed Aloominum often, years of working on projects with the USA.

"woryor" hasn't come up so far, but thanks to your warning, I won't need an English-American dictionary if it does.

One American I just couldn't understand, until I realised "sharp" was actually shop

[PenelopeFlintstone]

I read that alOOminum and aluminium are both right with different roots or something, but YY to mirror being one syllable instead of two!!

[umizoomi]

Aluminium and platinum are totally different though.

Al - u - min - I -um

Plat - I - num

It's not difficult. Or would that be diff - cult to the yanks?!

[Gingernaut]

I spent a summer in an American summer camp.

A colleague and I were mortified when a well brought up entitled young girl from a very privileged family asked us to spell "whore" for her weekly letter home.

It took a few repetitions, including an example of the word in a sentence, before we worked out she meant horror . 😂

[PenelopeFlintstone]

www.quora.com/Who-says-aluminum-outside-of-the-U-S-A-and-who-says-aluminium-outside-of-the-UK-and-Australia-Which-word-is-the-original-and-which-is-the-derivative-form

[80sMum]

I remember DS's homework one time, when he was in 2nd grade in a US elementary school, was about rhyming words and the task was finding the "odd" word in a list. One of the lists was something like:
Lean
Been
Green
Sheen
Mean

We were confused, so DS wrote that there was no odd word. He was wrong! The odd word is "been" because it's pronounced differently from the others. All the words have an "ee" sound except for "been" which is pronounced "bin", apparently!

[Asmoto]

According to Professor Google, Humphry Davy, who first isolated aluminium, originally called it 'alumium' then changed it to 'aluminum'. Another scientist proposed the change to 'aluminium' because it sounded more classical and was aligned with other elements such as potassium, sodium, magnesium, calcium, and strontium.

[wildcoffeeandbeans]

umizoomi Aluminum doesn't have the last i in the US.

[ErrolTheDragon]

Aluminium is the correct IUPAC spelling, so definitively correct.

The one that gets me is forn for foreign.

[SenecaFalls]

There are many different accents in the US. There is no "y" in my (Southern US) pronunciation of warrior.

[Ratatatouille]

How do they pronounce "Mirror"?

Mee-er. It's grotesque.

I was totally flabbergasted the first time I saw Graham Cracker written down.

[user1490142285]

They have had their own country and culture for almost 250yrs, they're going to speak differently, but all native English speakers have some sort of accent.

[wildcoffeeandbeans]

I don't understand why the British can't pronounce "taco". FFS

[Plunkette]

This thread is mean.

I'm British living in the US and the Americans are always very kind about my accent even when the way I pronounce things sounds "wrong" to them.

It's such a lazy target.

[squoosh]

Should I mention all the words pronounced in a non rhotic English accent that sound weird to me?

Hmmm. Maybe it's easier if I just say 'every word ending in R'.