If Americans want to say Twat they should say it properly.

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There is a very irritating trend in US TV where an actor will use "twat" as an insult, but pronounce it "twot" ... it is painful and I need it to stop.

Isn't 'twot' a different word entirely?

I've noticed 'twot' too. They also pronounce kebab as 'kebob'.

I know! I actually feel ill when I hear it pronounced that way. And I'm not even British...

My ds has a habit of using American pronouncuations. He says "hollelujoh"for example
Not that we're at all religious, but it does seem to be something he says quite often for some reason

And schnapps is 'schnopps'.

I remember Emma Stone said it in 'Easy A' and I didn't get why the teachers and her parents were so shocked as 'twot' isn't a word.
It took me ages to realise what she was meant to have said.
To me twot is the same as twit but twat is the insult (although I also use it to mean 'to hit'...)

I wonder why it is, their 'a' sound is normally quite flat.

Isn't 'twot' a different word entirely?

I thought so too, catfordbetty.

Oh maybe it is. I have no idea. But it's still such an ugly sounding word, it just sounds wrong!

Their a sound is more like aya to a British ear. It's their o sound which is flat. Sounds like u/a to a British ear. Hence all childrens toys which talk about a "fox" encourage toddlers to accidentally swear

So it should be tw-aya-t.

And they eat posta.

Yanbu.

The creg / craig thing drives me insane too.

and saying may-gun instead of megan.

And 'erbs instead of herbs.

Just talk tidy ffs!

Urbz instead of herbs grates on me. Just sounds really pretentious and twotty err twatty.

I spent weeks of The Mentalist convinced the character was called Greg

Gram instead of Graham.

Gram. Ffs.

I suppose the 'erb thing is a French pronunciation. They also pronounce fillet steak the French way too.

Google says that the American spelling is 'twot' - so it would be weird if they pronounced it with an 'a'.

I don't think it is spelt 'twot' though. Google seems confused.

It's oregano and aluminium that get me. The American pronunciation of these are so far away from the spellings

They also pronounce kebab as 'kebob'.

What fresh hell is this?!?

Parsta instead of pasta fucks me off too.

Oh for fucks sake.

Vowel pronunciation is down to accent. There's no "proper" way to say these things.

And whenever someone starts moaning about something that should be done "properly" I envision a pursed-lipped provincial little old lady.

Yes the Craig thing really irritates me! Especially as the kids like watching Sanjay and Craig, I have been known to shout at the tv it's Craig not creg

All well and good but in this case of 'twat' the twot pronunciation goes against the American accent.