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

[giddypig]

"Woryer" and "Aloominum"

Just wrong!

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

What joke???

Shorn

Dora The Explorer (kids cartoon watched by millions) says jag-waaah
I had to repeatedly tell DGS she meant jaguar.

Bee,bee. Shaun = Shorn. Homophone. Prob not in US.

Here's something that will blow your minds. Play the following two videos together and try and spot the difference. DD recently discovered that her friend across the street, who speaks American English, has a doll called Katie. DD thought the doll's name was Kadie. m.youtube.com/watch?v=2cZ1MFb9EqE m.youtube.com/watch?v=_YOZpgZ0A7s

But it's neither Ja-war or Jag-u-ar It's ya-guar. Americans Say Jalapeño with a y sound but not Jaguar that makes no sense. At least we Brits are consistent in being totally wrong!

Has anyone mentioned urb tea yet? Or cooking with urbs?

Yum yum.

Has vagina been mentioned?
Va j ina

That video makes no sense Norway - it uses the word 'to' as an example of how to pronounce the t in Katie and then says 'kaidie' anyway!

However, jalapeño is pronounced with a h sound at the start not y, due to it being a Spanish word, so no reason for them to call it a yaguar or even haguar as jaguar isn't a Spanish word. Although I think yaguar is the German pronounciation

We would have said erbs in the UK at one point, I think.

I'm pretty sure most of the UK dropped the h, from lots of words, as it would be in French. We then added them in fairly randomly at one point.

I you listen to those Katie vs Kadie videos, you can hear a distinct difference. The sound in Katie is not a "d", it's a flap.

Andylion I assume to native ears there must be a difference, but it's very very subtle. And yes, FeedMeAndTellMeImPretty I don't get how they use "to" as an example for the T and then D .

Interestingly the name Jaguar derives from the Tupi-Guaraní name ya'wara. Although in Brazil they have a different name. In Spanish speaking South America they are Jaguar or Jaguaretê in Paraguay (to distinguish them from dogs which were also called ya'wara when the Europeans bought them to South America). Ya'wara means beast.

Living people who speak their own Italian dialect? Of course.

But Tuscan is 'standard Italian' and the dialects (aka regional languages) will all go the way of the horse and cart. There are 31 endangered indigenous languages in Italy, with status varying from vulnerable to definitely endangered to severely endangered. Many are already extinct.

I have a distant in law relation called Karl - apparently it is said as two syllables but I still struggle with it!

At least orr-egg-an-o and o-re-garn-o are different pronunciations of the same word.

How did we end up with coriander / cilantro and courgette/ zucchini? And don't start me on gherkins / dill pickles ...

I thought cilantro was flat leaf parsley?

Because English isn't the only influence in the USA. They have many influences from other languages due to imigration from everywhere. But that works the other way for Aubergine/Egg Plant. And why DO they say
Tomayto. When other pronounciations use toMA sound? Is Tomato pronounced similar to the American way in another language?

Oh and I thought they were dill pickles because dill is always added to the pickle mixture. They are cucumbers if they are not pickled.

Ah, a pronunciation thread! I have good fun at work, playing the guess my accent game with customers. I've been from all over, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia... when little ol' Southern me has only lived in Gawja and the UK.

Sorry if anyone has posted this already, but this woman's videos are brilliant:

She's using a bit of a US Southern accent with her American version of tomato and potato. Most Americans pronounce the "o" sound as an "o" not an "uh." Southerners use the slightly lazy "uh".

The pickle/gherkin thing did confuse me for a time. Gherkins in the US are small sweet pickled cucumbers.

AcrossThePond - thank you for the 'tokko' video. That is definitely not a flat a as in tacko.

Seneca I had never heard the word 'gherkin' before I moved to the UK, so I don't know! DH asked me how I pronounced Plymouth when we first met. He said that all Americans he had met said Ply-mouth and was surprised when I said Pli-muth. I had not heard it said any other way.

That's the way I pronounce it too, Atlanta. I mean, after all, we do have our very own Plymouth. As in Rock. As in Mayflower. I have never heard anyone say Ply-mouth.

As in the car company!