To think you don't pronounce it Grem?

[NapQueen]

It's Grayum. Or Grayam. Or Graem.

Why pronounce Graham/Graeme as Grem?

The same person also says Restrawww instead of Restaurant.

And Ay-Mex. It's Amex. It's written on the bloody thing.

Germ could be a regional accent for Graham.

Restrawww - trying out the French pronunciation?

Amex - that's odd, I say it Ay-mex too!

Americans pronounce it "gram".

Ay-mex is acceptable - they used to have a "how do you say Amex" bit on their website and it included both. I have no idea if it's still there.

The rest are strange.

I think it's Ay mex too. Ay as in letter A as it stands for American?

A-mex, because it's short for American Express.

Agree about Graym - two syllables.

Doh! Am-ex.

Am ex. Exactly! The country isn't called Ay-merica.

Restraaaw sounds like the French pronunciation, which would be acceptable.

Is it someone American pronouncing it Grem? I don't think they can help it! I think they also have trouble with 'Craig' (Crag?!). Their accent just can't cope with certain words... Have you heard certain American versions of 'squirrel'? Squirrrrrl.

Melanie - aye, if you're French.

Nope. English.

Americans can't say mirror either. It's meeyer. Very odd. Never mind. I have a family member called Graeme. He doesn't have any interesting pronunciations but the spellings he gets are quite ridiculous.

Yers for years gets me.

Americans can say all of these words. Their pronunciation is just different to yours.

20th, you're absolutely right. My bad.

Preemark or prymark?

I dunno really - my grandpa was graham pronounced grey-m.

A minuscule stop between the 'e' sound and the 'm' sound. But barely perceptible depending on posh quotient. His mother was very clipped of accent and sounded prob a bit more 'grem' and as the poshness leaked away over the generations my lot said something more like grey-m. The gre bit had all the emphasis. Bit like a one and one third syllable word.

Prymark!

Ass-os, Ah-sos or Ay-sos?

I was thinking clipped accent, too, Pooka. Your annoying person might just be posh, Nap?

Pree Mark

I haven't heard Americans pronouncing "Graham" as "Grem", but they do tend to say "Gram".

Both are wrong, obviously - it's "Gray'am". Get your linguistic act together, America!

it is Gra-yam. North west if that makes a difference.

I cannot abide graaaaame, to rhyme with frame.

Bit like a one and one third syllable word. < yes, like that for Graham.