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?

Its mom in this house (Wolverhampton) mum sounds incredibly posh to my ears

Hearts it is isn't it?! I'm re-reading it again at the moment and hugely enjoying it.

No I don't really care. YABU

I have friends who say mam. Most different pronunciations and regional variances really don't bother me. Just this one really does for reasons I can't explain.

Oh and I say P-arm because I'm a Lancashire lass.

This is such an uncommonly used word that I feel your rage might be misplaced.

I like/hate how Americans say Meeeeeeeer instead of mirror.

Just as in the UK, you'll find Americans who can't speak properly. This is not the 'American' version of 'mirror'.

Turtles!

what gets my goat is people talking very fast in an accent then telling me I should understand them, well no, I don't. Slow the fuck down then I might.

Whatever you do don't go to Barnsley op. I couldn't understand half of what dh said when I first met him even though I'm from Yorkshire too. When he first asked me if I'd like toist for breakfast I had no idea what it was.

I get the rage when I hear ve-HIC-le in American programmes. Or when they say YorkSHIRE or GloucesterSHIRE.

Americans don't say the L in altitude either. You notice it in bad movies with planes falling out the of sky.."we've lost attitude control" is what it sounds like!

tinyterrors I have one of them.

I do like it though.

Does yours say 'Coil oil' for coal hole?

My American grandma used to say "in back of" missing out "the" so she would say "there's a draft in back of kitchen". Also "I could care less". But different accents and different pronunciations make up the rich tapestry of life. I love the way dr Phil says veehickle for vehicle.

"I could care less" does bother me. It doesn't make sense in the context it is used! It makes it sound as though the person saying it cares a lot. Took me ages to work out it was intended to mean the same thing as 'I couldn't care less' does when watching American programmes when I was younger.

Sorry biggles not having a go about your Nan, you just reminded me!

My American former step mother once explained that they say 'erb for herb because "Herb is a name"

English dies not have a standard spoken form. One accent (and yes RP is just an accent) has as much linguistical validity as another.

So American English isn't wrong any more than Scottish English or Irish English is 'wrong'.

It's just simply a different version developed in a particular location with a different set of historical inputs.

the whole subject area is really quite interesting. Language doesn't stand still it is continually evolving (it's called systemic regulation)

Probably worth reading up about it rather than getting all overexcited unnecessarily.

"Attitude control" is not the American term for altitude control. Attitude and altitude are two different things. Altitude is how high up the plane is, attitude is the orientation relative to the horizon.

On the topic of mispronounciations, my husband says cattle when he means kettle. He also says plaaaaaastic instead of plastic. And pompadom instead of poppadom. I've spent years trying to teach him how to say these words properly but it's not working.

Language doesn't stand still it is continually evolving

"lolz" for example. I count it as a new word - I certainly can't think of a word we used in it's place before ... "just for laughs" (to me) conveys a different dynamic than "for the lolz".

Lurking

Technological advances/changes always bring great shifts in language.

We Americans do pronounce herb with a silent "h" because it is a French word. We also say fil-lay and not fil-et. So what? Our pronunciation is just as correct as yours.

It has been a while since we've had one of these linguistic xenophobia threads so I suppose the OP felt the time was right to start one.

'Wor-ces-ter' instead of 'Wuster' & 'War-wick' instead of 'Warick'. It might be because I live in Warwickshire close to the Worcestershire border that I find it odd to hear though.

Americans don't say the L in altitude either.

You are wrong. In most American accents, the "l" is pronounced. It certainly is in mine.

I live near Worcester, Massachusetts. It is pronounced Woosta her. We know someone is foreign when they attempt to pronounce Worcester, Warsester.

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

Probably somewhere in the midwest. I think that pronunciation may have Scandinavian antecedents.

Americans can't say "Warrior" either. Worry-a is correct. Not Worr-yer.

what gets my goat is people talking very fast in an accent then telling me I should understand them, well no, I don't. Slow the fuck down then I might.

at 'an accent'.