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?

Differences in accents I can forgive but blatant failure to pronounce stuff correctly winds me up.
The number of people who get nuclear wrong is shocking.

In the spirit of balance I'm going to mention all the British people who say Pacific instead of specific.

That is in my top 5 'Getting it completely wrong' rage inducers.

Oh yes the Pacific/ specific problem.....
It's like bought and brought.
Nothing to do with accents.

And what is it with people pronouncing ask as 'acks'?

Worry-a is correct.

Really? There is an "r" at the end of the word. The vast majority of Americans are rhotic speakers. I don't put a Y sound in the word, but I do pronounce the final "r".

vase to rhyme with praise

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.

Except when it's not... Chaise Longue is also a French word. How do Americans mispronounce that Seneca?

Oh come on, Sadmother. Seneca wasn't saying that American pronunciation is more correct when it's closer to the source language. She's simply saying that neither pronunciation is any more or less correct than the other, despite some sneery posts on this thread that seem to think RP English has the monopoly on 'correct' pronunciation of English which is a depressingly 1950s attitude.

3BusyBabies it's always been "Mom" to DH. It seems to be fairly normal around Birmingham and the midlands to the point that you can get cards with it on.

None of these examples bother me at all - Americans and English people just say some things differently.

What does bother me is when people say pacific for specific, supposably for supposedly and liberry instead of library.

Used to work in a benefits office and had a lady who wanted to claim infidelity benefit! (Invalidity)

I am really appreciating SenecaFalls and her defense of American speaking styles right now!

I live in the US, and I was very involved in the anti-nuclear movement here for years, and I have never heard anyone say "nucular" in person.

It's sort of pathetic how Americans always fawn over lovely British accents and don't realize how much our own accents are derided by many of the owners of those lovely accents, apparently.

Has anyone mentioned 'constonant'? I'm on edge watching 'Countdown' .

There's also plenty of people that really like American accents PitilessYank. You sound way cooler than us repressed Brits, especially when swearing.

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I have never heard anyone say "nucular" in person.
Listen out for it. One president used to get it wrong. I think it was George Bush.

Yes, Pipbin, I know, but I have never been in his company. I have never heard it said by someone directly, just on tv.

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I'm Scottish and 'varz' is as wrong to me as 'vayse'! I say 'vaz', a short A sound like 'cat'

It was George W. Bush, and I used to wince every time he said it. But it is not a typical pronunciation here by any means.

H=AITCH. NOT haych, AITCH.
It's when I'm on the phone & have to spell my name & I say AITCH blah blah & the person on the other end of the line says, "You mean haych?" "Err, no, I said AITCH and I mean AITCH."
....and breathe

The only one of these that really bothers me is twat being pronounced 'twot,' especially as I've only ever come across it in relatively recent American movies. At first I thought it was an entirely different word!

H=AITCH. NOT haych, AITCH
But why?? Why does it matter. It's not like there's any ambiguity. It's obvious what is meant. And my brain always thinks, why wouldn't it start with an 'h' seeing as it's the very letter being described!!

doughnutslikefannys Exactly what I was going to say, wtf is varz? where did the R come from? It's vaz, but if you look at the spelling then the American way actually makes more sense.

I like learning about different accents but what really boils my piss is when people say their pronunciation is "right". I once had a French phrase book of which all the phonetic spelling was done for a non Rhotic accent. So "Je peux" was meant to be said, according to this book "zhe per". It was completely useless to me as a rhotic speaker.

why wouldn't it start with an 'h' seeing as it's the very letter being described!!

...Because there is no h in the word?

Drop it matters because that's how it is spelt, the same is it matters because someone called Someone called Anna would get a bit cheesed off ir everyone kept calling her Hannah and said 'Why does it matter? You know well all mean you.'

An N isn't called a Nen and an S isn't called a Ses is it?