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

[bigmouthstrikesagain]

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.

[iklboo]

If you ever need cheering up, drive round Wales with your sat nav on. It hysterically & utterly mangles the place names.

[GreatFuckability]

I pronounce it alu-min-i-um, because there is an i next to the u and m.....
Most random song lyric ever

My children speak welsh with a decidedly London accent as their dad is cockney. I find it highly amusing.

[WMittens]

I have an easy solution to all of this teeth clenching you Brits are doing ...

That way, you can go on thinking your way is the only way.

I don't mean to get political, but the irony's palpable here.

[Rinceoir]

My 19month old has started picking up some words from nursery which she pronounces in an English accent (oh dee-ah) and other pure hiberno-English words from home in an Irish accent (bold, mammy etc). It's strange listening to it! We are trying to introduce her to the Irish language early, as if we go home in a few years having learned to speak in a non-rhotic accent will make it more difficult.

[milaforni]

I have an easy solution to all of this teeth clenching you Brits are doing over the way we pronounce certain words. Quit watching our movies, TV programs and U-tube videos. 😁
That way, you can go on thinking your way is the only way.
The rest of us English speakers will just snigger when we think of you.

[derxa]

Grrrrr!

[SenecaFalls]

Again, the lore-law difference has a lot to do with rhotic/non-rhotic. I pronounce the r in lore, so it does not rhyme with law which has no r.

[pinotblush]

We come from different countries. Why on earth would you think they would say things the same.

[FireCrotch]

Bumbley the actor who played the English guy with the the shorter hair (Devon) is actually a Manchester lad. He was in my brothers year at school. The other bloke (Liam) is terrible. (And not British). :o

[MaidOfStars]

I can see how Lore and Law sound different with an Irish accent.

Law - Straightforward, no particular stress or weirdness. Quite short though, no stretching of the sound.
Lore - Almost a diphthong. Lo-ruh.

[MaidOfStars]

My mother's Irish and Door sounds like Jaw when she says it!

[bumbleymummy]

Just remembered that Friends episode with the rugby. Emily's two friends were apparently English. Worst. English. Accents. Ever.

[HairyLittleCarrot]

DH is French with an American accent.
He randomly adds aitches to the beginnings of words that don't require it, and shaves them off words where they belong. It's quite charming.
We rub along just fine as long as we mime the words basil, oregano, aluminium (danger zone), tomato.

His pronunciation of fillet, valet and garage are more correct than mine.

He pronounces Cholmondeley correctly. Which is more than my satnav does.

[Rinceoir]

Not where I come from Edith!

[SwedishEdith]

But lore and law sound the same

[SwedishEdith]

Door and jaw rhyme for me. I'm saying jaw in an "American" accent here and it's more like jar, I think?

Our can sound like are or hour to me - depends one what I'm saying.

[Rinceoir]

I'm Irish so jaw sounds nothing like door, even though to my ear both are single syllable (door rhymes with lore; jaw rhymes with law). I did give my daughter an Irish name with an r in the middle and now I fear she won't be able to pronounce it herself! Need to step up the Gaeilge lessons!

[MaidOfStars]

(I am of indistinct accent, BTW)

[MaidOfStars]

Rince Door and Jaw rhyme, and the rhyme is with Jaw (least controversial of the pair, I can only think of a single pronunciation of it). So replace the J with a D, and that's how I say Door.

My husband says Doo-er. Two syllables, almost.

[Rinceoir]

How can door and jaw rhyme? In what part of the UK? I find these pronunciations fascinating!

[orangeyellowgreen]

I've noticed (screamed at the TV) people saying Crate and Crating when they mean Cre-ate or Cre-a-ting. Is that from the US?

[MaidOfStars]

Clarity: all of those six words rhyme for me.

[MaidOfStars]

I agree, Yank.

Just realised some people husband say Doo-er/Foo-er/etc. Wasn't a great example.

[CheerfulYank]

Jour?! I don't geddit!

Door, four, more. Jaw, law, saw.

[MaidOfStars]

Are = car. Our = power.
Door = four. Jaw = four. Yeah, they rhyme.