AIBU to get in a stabby rage over mispronunciation?

[JenEric]

DH likes to watch tech videos on you tube. Since we set up our chromecast I now see them more frequently. I've noticed that all the Americans seem to say "soddering" instead of "soLdering"

It's SOLDERING. It has an L right there in the spelling as a clue! Gaah. Is it just me? It gives me stabby rage. Soddering sounds vaguely dangerous and slightly immoral

AIBU to get irrationally irritated by this? Anyone else the same?

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I wonder how OP pronounces 'palm'.

My main gripe with USians is their adherence to the wrong imperial system.

Mythbusters went through a season if using SI units (i.e. the correct ones). Not sure why they stopped.

I was in one episode to see a machine NASA used, calibrated in yards per second ! All of a sudden the urban legend about the mismatched docking systems (US imperial, Russia metric) seemed horribly possible.

I used to think Creg was a different name to Craig. Wondered why I had never heard it in the UK!

The Americans I can cope with but aks really winds me up. Pronounce the letters in the order they appear. And teachers who say skaawl.

Most of the time I really enjoy how differently US English is pronounced. Then someone says "Vayse" to refer to the thing you put the flowers in and I have to kill them. And dance on their graves. While chanting "Varz varz varz varz varz" over and over and over.

Lurking Husband - weirdly their beloved military is entirely metricated. You'd think it might have rubbed off on the country a bit more. Even more confusing is their liquid measurements - a pint in the US is actually (2 fluid oz) smaller than a pint here.

When we got our DeLonghi espresso machine (is that a stealth boast ?) I looked up "milk frothing" on YouTube and found a clip which had me mesmorised, It was an American guy, and he was describing how you frothed "melk". Almost every comment underneath was from other Americans ripping the piss out of "melk" - although a couple did comment that it was the standard pronunciation of "milk" wherever he came from (to my shame, I can't recall).

a pint in the US is actually (2 fluid oz) smaller than a pint here.

You know what I said about the US being UK frozen in time ? 16 fluid ounces used to be a British pint. And since the US was a British colony (well, colonies) it was theirs too. Then Queen Anne was super thirsty (or something, I've not done the research) and the British pint became 20 fluid ounces. For some reason, the colonies didn't get the memo, and the rest is - quite obviously - history.

NASA lost a Mars orbiter because of a mismatch of units, IIRC.

I like hearing differences between English language speakers. I don't get wound up by it. Could Couldn't care less about caramel/mirror/etc.

I had always assumed "herb" was pronounced to follow the French. I think "aluminum" was coined by Davy, the discoverer - it was later changed to "aluminium" to match the convention of naming elements.

Nucular is wrong though.

Best way to quash that stabby rage is to look into why things are said differently. It's quite interesting.

I'd like to know why another poster what's to know how them OP pronounces palm.

I think using the term "stabby rage" is a worse crime against language. Grow up.

My DH says vinyl and mattress very strangely and I have to bite my tongue.

Vinyl - vin-aisle
Mattress - mat-tress with the emphasis on the second syllable so it rhymes with dress .

It irks me ever so slightly hate with a bloody passion the amount of people who can't tell the difference between 'brought' and 'bought'! How is this even possible?

I dislike it when Twat is pronounced Twot or when Iraq is pronounced Eye-raq.

And I may get flamed for this; but the amount of British people who now say, and write, 'Mom'. IT'S MUM!!!!

The liberry behind the nuculer labratory.........

DH talks about 'corn rolls' in people's hair, 'comdoms' and wearing 'cumberbunds' with his tux.

I blame MIL. She serves peripherals for dessert & takes anti-flammables for her arthur-itis.

Bill Bryson's book The Mother Tongue is a really good read for people who want to know the background / history to the differences between UK and US spelling and pronunciation.

I spent this morning teasing my office mate because she can't roll her 'r's. It was very amusing. And yet she sticks a random 'r' in drawing. Which makes my skin crawl.

Americans saying 'errrrrbs' really annoys me, they claim it's like the French. Well I've never heard a French person say 'errrrrbs' like a Chicago person.

When I was in America the Americans thought it was hilarious Brits said 'zed' instead of 'zee' and one actually said 'well, how do you say 'zee-bra'? 'zeb-bra'?' and we said 'hmm, yes actually'.

And teachers who say skaawl.

Aargh I hate that. And swimming paul instead of pool. Or cawl instead of cool.

And maow and femaow. Yuk.

We're moving back to Canada after 20 years and I already know that about a million words are going to totally piss me the fuck off.

Toob.
Dooty.
BirmingHAM
MiliTERRY
LabraTORy
Wrath
Fillum

Not to mention having to unlearn all the English vocabulary that is now etched on my brain.

Trousers
Pavement
Rubbish
Garden (instead of backyard)
Side (instead of counter or countertop)
Wardrobe (instead of closet)
Side return (instead of alley)
Estate (station wagon)
Estate agent (realtor)

A Canadian also wouldn't know what a Reception room was if it came up and bit her on the arse, or why one might need more than one. selling our flat right now

Arse. There's another one.

imustbepatient that is a great book, I loved it.

And I may get flamed for this; but the amount of British people who now say, and write, 'Mom'. IT'S MUM!!!!

Er, not in the Midlands. It's a regional thing, not an American thing. (Apart from being where Americans got their spelling of it.)