to think that Americans don't pronounce "Warrior" or "Aluminium" properly?

[giddypig]

"Woryer" and "Aloominum"

Just wrong!

Also the main difference being valets are not officially from France.

Where are they from? Is it not a French word originally? I've never had a man servant so I wouldn't know 😅

Tokko is a reasonable facsimile of the Spanich 'taco'. The American O is 'ah'. It's not 'drawn out'. It is a reproduction, and a very close one, of the Mexican Spanish A sound, which is closer to O. As in Las Vegas ('lahss', not 'lass')

British people often mispronounce New Orleans too. It's New OR-lins. And you can stick a "y" in it if you are a native.

It is drawn out, Math. Maybe some people try not to, bit every one I've beard it is. Abs the Spanish 'a' is nothing like a short 'o'. As I said it's closer to a short 'u'.

Luss Vegas would be better than Lahss.

the Spanish 'a' is nothing like a short 'o'.

It's not a short "a" sound, either, as in tack-o. The short "o" sound is close to how taco is pronounced in Mexican Spanish.

If say tacko and tocko are equally bad, but tahko is worse

Have a burrito and avoid this minefield.

Also, and this is why I'm more hung up on this word. If you're going to import something from your neighbour abs then export it around the world, it would be nice not to insist your incorrect pronunciation is correct, and just let each country get oh with what that want to call it.this whole debate came about because Americabs think their tahco pronunciation is somehow better or closer than tacko. They are both wrong. Respectfully, we should try abs say it the Spanish way but if that's not possible I don't think the whole world should go with American pronunciation.

Lol squoosh. Burritos are from Northern Mexico, I never ate one when I was there! (I was near Mexico City)

When dh says erb I flip out.

The WORST is when he calls pasta 'noodles'. Or, 'a pasta noodle'.

Just a couple of days ago I ended up storming off from the table because he said "eat your noodles" to ds (who was eating fucking penne.)

The fact that my Gran's boyfriend is called Graham causes no end of confusion and stress.

However, I love the way ds adds r's to words and drops r's from others. (Mainer/Mainah).

So car is cah, mirror is mirrah, idea is idear, yoga is yoger, pasta is pahster.

Mexican food has only recently become fashionable and widespread in the UK. I've just about worked out the difference between a taco, burrito, and enchilada. It will take me a lot longer to work out the geographical origin of each delicious Mexican delicacy! 🌮🌯

Here ya go.

squoosh SenecaFalls is correct, there is no pronunciation in any dialect of Spanish or Portuguese that includes a "t" sound in the word chorizo (or chourico in Portuguese).

It's like Brits know the word pizza (which is Italian!) and figured all foreign foods with a "z" must work the same

Hey at least us Brits know how to spell and pronounce the game where you kick a round ball with your feet..... it's football not soccer. 😜

I've lived in England my whole life and have never heard anyone say "cho-ritz-o" instead of "cho-ree-so" and have also never heard anyone put a T on the end of valet.
Seriously, I had no idea that some people in this country pronounce those words like that Do people speaking the queens English pronounce them that way? I must have heard it on the tv at some point but have never noticed.

Robinhumphries you could be opening a whole new can of worms here. I was once quite set on the opinion you gave about football but someone told me the actual origin of the name. Apparently here were two games Soccer football and rugby football. Or something like that. We adopted rugby for rugby and the football part of the name for soccer (or just plain old football as we know it).

I could be totally wrong with the above but I'm sure that that's what I've been told/I read on google when I didn't like being told I was wrong

thank you acrossthepond.

I think soccer is short for 'association' as in 'association rules football'.

um. we certainly are lucky to have an expert who seems to know everything about everything, but about this one thing, she's talking bollox.

the Tuscan dialect may be official Italian (?)

but I assure you people in regions of Italy very much still speak their own dialect, which did not vanish after unification. I know living people who do.

I am sure all of the expert's many other assertions are totally correct so she won't mind an amendment here

How do you pronounce advertisement? AdVERtizment or adverTIZEment? I was brought up with the first but I think the second is US, and seems to be becoming popular in U.K.

The second is also an Irish pronunciation, Didyou.

SoMuchWaiting Guardian article about chorizo's mispronuciation www.google.com.hk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2014/feb/13/mispronounced-food-words-chorizo-restaurateur-cardamom

For those in light hearted moods, I love the fact that Americans don't get the joke in the title of "Shaun the Sheep"

Jumping pages and pages of this thread to say I cannot believe I never realised this! hangs head in shame