Irritating pronounciation

[percheron67]

I have just seen the Tesco steak ad and wish that the woman talking would not use a glottal stop in the middle of words. Perhaps this is regional but it sounds very lazy.

"It's their accent" Yes, that one homogenous accent the UK has.

And yes, they do sound the same apart from emphasising the "L" which tbh sounds a bit stupid.

No, they sound nothing even remotely alike. You don't get it. POLE rhymes with bowl. Where as the way the UK say pole is like hoe-low. POLE'oh sounds absolutely and completely different from HOE-low.

Short oh sound as opposed to a long poooo type sound, is what I am getting at.

"the people from the UK do indeed say fun-cy."

Last I checked, Merseyside was in the UK. Most people from there, including myself, say "fancy" with a short, distinct 'a' sound, same as in "cat", "chance", "back" etc.

Nope.

Bowl - o
Pole - o
Hoe - lo
Polo

Nope, all sound identical when I say them out loud.

Incredible how you know how we all sound through our screens, Salem.

"Nope."

Nope to what?

'Nope" at Salem telling me how I say pole and bowl.

@liz70 I think it is incredulous that you think bowl sounds like hoe. You can't be serious.

With all due respect, Salem, in my accent, yer tawkin owt yer arss.

Fancy. Rhymes with Nancy. Whereas funcy rhymes with nothing whatsoever that I can think of.

lol @ an Aussie telling us how we all speak...

Here, this is what I am trying to say. Note the emphasis on POH-LOW (po rhyming with low) as opposed to the POLE-oh sound. dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/polo

"arss"
ahss (I'm non rhotic.)

As you can see (hear), the English polo sounds nothing at all like American one.

My accent is nothing like either of those

yes I have noted it, as I said, if I say POLE-oh I just sound like an irritating Aussie.
Its like me going to Australia and mocking the way they pronounce words...
wouldn't happen.

@FourFriedChickensDryWhiteToast The thread is about pronunciations. Hence my comments.

oh lol, so it is..irritating pronunciations...

But you are making sweeping statements about how all Brits speak, which cant possibly be true, can it? what with the wide variety of regional accents in these islands.

Nobody says 'funcy', that is for sure.

Like I said, I have no doubt how Aussies pronounce things would be annoying, too. So, have at it. You seem to be overly-defensive, as if you feel I am 'picking on' the UK or something. I did concede that we all have our accents, and some may be irritated by ours. I did admit that. No need to take it so personally - and it's obvious that people on here that are in the UK are taking my comments personally. I never meant them as a personal attacks. On the whole I like English accents. It's really just those 2 words. That's all. Everyone else on here has said pronunciations they hate. Why can't it?

I have never heard anyone say funcy.

I can't tell the difference between poh-lo and pole - oh. It sounds the same in my south coast accent.

Short oh sound as opposed to a long poooo type sound, is what I am getting at. Do you mean Australians say Poooo - loh? That sounds weird

@FourFriedChickensDryWhiteToast Perhaps to your ears it doesn't sound like funcy (just as, to your ears, bowl-oh and hoe-loh sound nothing alike ), but to not Brits, it DOES. That is what it sounds like, to us. Is that okay with you? Sigh.

I said nothing of the sort, Salem.

What annoys me most? is the way? that Aussies? make everything? into a question?

The last sentence of my second last post above should read Why can't I? Not it. Sorry.

anyway Saleme you are being silly? because there is a huge variety ? of regional accents? in Britain?