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.

[DeepBlueLake]

Feesh and cheeps from Australians really annoys me.

Mind you as a kiwi I can't say much as I say fush and chips as our 'i' becomes 'u'.

[EchoOfADistantTide]

Eliza she was screwing with you

[StoorieHoose]

i like when Scottish actors are doing an American accent but when they swear it does tend to come out Scottish

[StoorieHoose]

deepblue you would fit right into my wee Central Scotland town - we change an I to a u and manage to Us into words they are never meant to be in - fush un chups, bowtul uh gingur (fish and chip with a bottle of Irn bru)

[DeepBlueLake]

Thats very interesting Stoorie because in the deep south of New Zealand (where I am from) we have a dialect known as the 'southland burr' which is a Scottish influenced dialect (we also roll our 'r'). This is from when most of the Scottish settlers settled in the lower South Island.

[CheerfulYank]

Oooh, Lego brings me to another one.

I say "Legos". As in "my son left his Legos all over and I stepped on one and screamed the house down". I get the impression you just say Lego there?

[futureme]

Oh yes. Legos sounds all kind of wrong to our ears! They must market it differently in the different countries.

Its definitely just Lego here.

[Rinceoir]

I can't get laugh and scarf to rhyme either. It's not just words, it's the alphabet too. I often have to use the phonetic alphabet at work if spelling names over the phone, as otherwise my English colleagues get irritated with my use of haitch and flummoxed with orr, and it's difficult to train yourself to say them another way (I do keep saying arrh like a pirate to myself).

[muddymary]

Yeah I'm another one who thought that line in the smartest giant about the scarf and giraffe was just a bit crap! It makes a bit more sense now.

Also spellbook to my shame, I only realised very recently that "Arkansaw" was Arkansas. I love the US & I've been a few times; it just hadn't occurred to me at all!!

[muddymary]

Oh and many years ago I lived with a guy from Maine who really couldn't stand the band nickleback. His reason was "only a Canadian would think that sorry rhymes with story."

[accendo]

Laugh and scarf rhyme when I say them in my Aussie accent. We live near a New Zealander with her fush and chups, chully bun (chilly bin we say esky), jandles and screp booking

[ISaySteadyOn]

Perhaps might be appropriate to post.

[MitzyLeFrouf]

'I get the impression you just say Lego there?'

Yep. Lego is a collective noun here so legos sounds as wrong to me as 'rices' or 'sheeps'.

[SenecaFalls]

Kerry and Carrie are the same in America so it matters not.

Not in my accent. I think it's more a midwestern thing to sound these the same.

[CheerfulYank]

I am solidly Midwestern so that may be. :o

Same with berry, Barry, and bury. All the same.

[BertieBotts]

Yep I only learned recently about Arkansaw/Arkansas.

But to be fair, every time we drove to Wales when I was a child I was convinced that I always missed us driving through Lempster. It turns out I hadn't. I'd just read the sign phonetically - Leominster.

To be fair, Nickelback made some terrible, terrible rhymes, including an entire song where they mangled grammar for no apparent reason because it would have fit exactly the same with the right words (Believe it or not, everyone have things that they hide//Believe it or not, everyone keep most things inside//Believe it or not, everyone believe in something above//Believe it or not, everyone need to feel loved)

Lego is an uncountable noun. The noun for the singular is a lego brick, or of course you can talk about bits/pieces of lego.

[CheerfulYank]

Kansas is Kan-ziss but Arkansas is Arkin-saw, yup :)

[CheerfulYank]

Another one that's the same in my accent: are and our.

I remember a thread on here saying door and jaw rhymed. I still can't figure that one out!

[BertieBotts]

are/our and door/jaw both rhyme for me.

Common misspelling by 5-8 year olds "Welcome to are school play"

[MaidOfStars]

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

[CheerfulYank]

Jour?! I don't geddit!

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

[MaidOfStars]

I agree, Yank.

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

[MaidOfStars]

Clarity: all of those six words rhyme for me.

[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?

[Rinceoir]

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