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

[giddypig]

"Woryer" and "Aloominum"

Just wrong!

So is taco errol

I know it's a bit childish to laugh at other people's pronunciation/ accents but I did find it funny watching some American teens trying our snack foods when one of them pronounced it "Jarrfa cakes"!

Errol really?? I've never heard a Brit not say "tack-o"!

SenecaFalls ooh, this is a source of contention even among US folks. How do you say it? I say "puh-kahn".

I also say puh-kahn, accent on second syllable. And yes, it took me a moment of two to figure out that the Farmer's Llama was meant to rhyme.

Brits are getting slightly better with the whole tah-ko instead of tack-o, but still say ha-la-pen-yo instead of hah-la-pen-yo

drigon I haven't seen the video, but I've noticed that because the British R is so soft, people often think I'm adding an R where to me I clearly didn't!

Or sometime even worse ha-la-pee-no (looking at you SIL)

SenecaFalls the one true way

My Yankee husband says pee-can, equal stress on syllables. So wrong. But he also says aluminium in the British fashion because he can't pronounce aluminum.

Pecan is an American word. Native American.

It's Eye-rack for Iraq that annoys me. It just seems totally illogical when everyone else pronounces it with a reasonable approximation of the native pronunciation.

I listened to a Canadian teacher reading out words for a spelling test recently. I was a bit ambivalent about it - I felt the children had an advantage when he pronounce the "r" sound in "charm", but he then spoiled it by reading out "idennidy".

You're all wrong FFS.

The worst one by a MILE is 'erb' or 'erbs' - which part of the 'h' at eh beginning og herb/herbs can they cannot see??

Thread is giving me brain itch and it thyme I was in bed anyway

There's a female British journalist in Washington who pronounces Putin as Poo tun rather than Pew tin, drives me mad!

cariBEEyun is pronounced caRIBeeyan

Some posters on this thread are breathtakingly ignorant.

America is very large. There are many accents, some of which are regional. Even within regions, there are multiple accents that reflect a person's level of education, etc. Many of the examples posters are giving of how they think (presumably all/most) Americans pronounce words are, in fact, the way SOME Americans pronounce certain words in SOME regions. The way working class people in the Midwest pronounce "orange" is markedly different from the way university educated New Englanders pronounce it....and working class New Englanders pronounce many words much differently from working class Southerners, or Midwesterners, etc.

I am not British, but I understand that it isn't possible or intelligent to issue blanket assertions about the way British people pronounce specific words because...there are so many different accents and variations of speech patterns within the UK. Wouldn't I sound absurd and ignorant if I listed some examples of the way, for example, working class Northerners pronounce a list of words, and then conclude that this is the way British people (all!) speak? Or if I listed some examples of the way Oxford educated Southerners pronounce certain words, and then conclude this is the way British people (all!) speak? What if I used my list of examples to assert that "British people", all/most of whom I seemed to believe have the same accent, pronounce the words on my list "wrong"? The OP's original post is just as ill-informed and ludicrous. OP, you need to travel more.

And you need to ask yourself, before making such a statement/post, if you were to substitute "Indian" or "Pakistani" for "American", would what you are saying be crass and offensive?

I'm American.

We have deBREE!!!!!!!!!! No we have debris.

ceto I'm British. I pronounce the "r" in charm.

CaRIBBean and ChilEan.....I love saying these as they make my brother twitch for some reason...

Peppermint speaks sense, there must be a huge variety of accents over there.

where are you from Plunkette? You would not hear the R with most British accents, just the lengthened A sound

We don't pronounce the "h" in herb because it's a French word.

Thank you Peppermint.

Antigone millions of British people pronounce the "r".

(continuing my rant)

For example:

Nobody in my family or friend group in America says "EYE rack" or "cariBEEyen." Actually, I don't think anybody in my state pronounces these words this way, even though there are multiple accents in my region of the US. We DO hear these words pronounced this way on certain TV shows? (ie, the Simpsons or Family Guy). And my region of America is bigger than England. See how that works?

The stereotypical accent one sees in connection to my state features dropped letter r's and an an "ah" sound instead of "a." People from other countries probably think we all speak this way in this state, but really it is the accent of only one socioeconomic group in the state: not everyone speaks with that accent. Actually, not even MOST people in the state speak with that accent. Again, see how that works?

Yes if you are from the other side of the Danelaw, or Scotland, or NI.
No need to get annoyed, I was just curious.

ha-la-pen-yo instead of hah-la-pen-yo

But the Spanish pronunciation would be ha-la-pen-yo? Unless I'm just not understanding the way you're transcribing these sounds.

OP I'm also not sure what the problem is with "woryer". How do you pronounce warrior then?