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

[giddypig]

"Woryer" and "Aloominum"

Just wrong!

My previous posts would have been quite profound... if I'd got the 'meer' and the 'mare' right 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I love their pronunciation of oregano, I'd say or-e-garn-o and they say oreg-a-no.

Horses for courses, no malice just really interesting how different people pronounce things differently. I say brek-fast and my Mum wrongly says break-fast which is to me.

DD informed me that the scientific community had agreed to ditch the ph in sulpher in return for aluminium being aluminium, not sure how true that is though.

I don't know if it was a trade-off, but it is certainly the case, as I've already mentioned, that the ultimate arbiters of chemical nomenclature, IUPAC, have standardised on aluminium and sulfur. Full table https://www.iupac.org/fileadmin/userupload/news/IUPACCPeriodicTable-1May13.pdf if anyone else has conflict over homework. My colleagues in the US adhere to aluminium when writing, whereas I had to adjust my spellchecker when I was writing a disulfide bond prediction application.

The most annoying one for me is "rowt" for route (root), I spent my whole life thinking it was "root 66", when in fact they say "rowt 66".

I always pick up on the pronunciation of "ow" in words, where we would pronounce it as "oh", like toe. "Moscow" is one.
And when Colin Powell was in the news, it was as if they have created a whole new first name; Coe-LIN. I quite liked it.

Do Americans say Glasgow with an "ow"? I've heard Moscow but not Glasgow...

Americans cannot seem to pronounce the letter U

Pooma - puma
Pootin - Putin

These 'light hearted' threads are only ever about Americans though aren't they?

You've got to be kidding? There a dozens of threads about regional UK dialect in the same vein. It's definitely just a bit of fun. You really need to stop looking for things to be offended about.

why are brits such pedantic twats?

See, the only people being nasty and offensive that I can see are the ones like this charmer ^ and you squoosh with your horrible insinuation that working class people are stupid (see my previous comment that you conveniently ignored ).

I love the fact that Americans don't get the joke in the title of "Shaun the Sheep"

I'm from the UK and I only discovered that that was a play on words when someone on mumsnet explained it to me about six months ago. In my accent 'shaun' and 'shorn' don't bear even a fleeting resemblance to each other.

For similar reasons, I could never understand why some Julia Donaldson books had these big clunky bits that didn't rhyme until the penny dropped reading a thread like this that in some accents they do rhyme.

I also can never get the 'Greg' and 'Craig' thing. Those words rhyme perfectly to me.

These 'light hearted' threads are only ever about Americans though aren't they?

My accent's been (bin ) taken the piss out of on this thread, and I'm neither British nor American.

Our accent is pretty shocking - no denying it. I still ❤️ it when I hear it overseas.

'Greg' and 'Craig'

treacle - are you Scottish?

TheDowager I'm not Scottish, but I'm from Co Antrim, so in terms of accent, I might as well be. Even Scottish people usually ask me what part of Scotland I am from

British people can't say yoghurt properly. Everywhere else says it one way, they say it the other. So wrong.

Ha!

I am convinced that our accent is way
more influenced by the Scottish accent than the English (generically speaking - I realise there is no 'Scottish' or 'English' accent),

Ask a Scottish person to say 'fish and chips', and you'll know what I mean.

Haven't RTFT, so apologies if this has been said, but one of my pet hates is when Americans say 'I COULD CARE LESS,' when they mean they don't care about something. WTF is THAT about?!

It's 'I COULDN'T CARE LESS!'

Dowager Are you a Kiwi?

Just thinking, their accent is a lot more Scottish in its vowel sounds than it is English.

My exP was from the US. He used to say 'n soot' for en suite. I heard other people from the US pronounce it that way too. They were all in Florida so don't know if that is regional.

Also, we had a ridiculous conversation on the phone once in which I said I had been watching one of those pawn shop programmes (or should that be programs? haha) and he could not understand me. He thought I was saying porn shop! So then he said pahn (pawn) is same as lahn (lawn) not pORn. I was saying pawn like prawn without the 'r'. The word porn to me sounds heavier and has a subtle but distinguishable difference between the or and aw as well as having more of a stress on the 'n'.

Yes, Super - and agree, definitely more Scottish in vowel sound!

To my shame,'I'd never heard of rhotic/non-rhotic accents, until hanging out on here.

DH is Irish, but they moved to England when he was about 14 or 15. He had the pissed ripped out of his accent, and so (sadly) lost it quite quickly and now has a generic BBC accent.

Except, that there's the odd word he still says, and there's a hint of an 'r' buried down there. 💚

Treacle my 3 year old (who sounds like she is being raised by a BBC broadcaster ever since starting nursery) corrects my pronunciation of Julia Donaldson rhymes. "No mammy, it's sc-aw-f!"

Yes, Super - and agree, definitely more Scottish in vowel sound!

I think it has a lot to do with immigration patterns. The majority of the first people in Aus came from the South of England, whereas NZ got more diversity in their first settlers, and they got more Scots than we did.

I have a little chuckle each time a U.S. cook uses Worcestershire sauce. It gets mangled each and every time.

and you squoosh with your horrible insinuation that working class people are stupid (see my previous comment that you conveniently ignored

What the actual fuck are you jabbering on about? WHERE exactly have I implied that working class people are stupid??

You can keep your Oreos , no matter HOW its said . Horrible American import .