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To demand that my son does not say "candy"?

255 replies

Heqet · 02/01/2010 11:12

I rather suspect I am. He says "cayndy" in a very american accent. I HATE it. I snap that he is not american and the word is SWEETS, or CHOCOLATE

erm, depending on whether he is talking about sweets or chocolate

It drives me up the wall, this fake american accent.

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Kaloki · 04/01/2010 15:17

How do you pronounce schedule anamerican?

Maleeka · 04/01/2010 15:23

So do you say "skedyool" or "shedyool"?

CupOChristmasCheerfulYank · 04/01/2010 15:55

I say sked-yool. And druthers comes from "if I had what I'd rather" with rather changed to "ruther" into "I'd ruther" into "druthers." So now it's "If I had my druthers" but I don't know anyone under the age of 60 or so who says that.

grenadine · 04/01/2010 16:23

I used to get wound up when arranging business meetings and people would say they would like to meet with me. Meet me surely?

anamerican · 04/01/2010 16:23

I say sked-yool also. It just always cracks me up when I hear shedyool...and I have been here for 10 years

Don't even get my father in law started on the english pronunciation of schedule...it is a never ending source of amusement for this "good ole boy" yank when he comes here.

CupOChristmasCheerfulYank · 04/01/2010 16:33

I didn't realize until I started mumsnetting so much (and getting Brit TV from netflix ) how many differences there actually are. The company DH works for employs a group of UK salesmen and we all went out to dinner together. By the time it was done they were all calling me "The Translator."

tadjennyp · 04/01/2010 16:52

We've been in the States for 19 months now and my dd's (3.10) accent is just beginning to change. Now she says charcolate and pahsta thanks to her time in pre-school! I still find 'erbs grates on my nerves and using 'I'm done' for 'I've finished!' My ds is always with me though so he still sounds British!

Strix · 04/01/2010 17:34

I hate when DD says "I'm done", which she got from Canadian nanny. I say "No, the turkey is done. You are finished."

They can't "meet you" because they already know you (presumably). So they meet with you.

clam · 04/01/2010 17:37

"I've quit" annoys me.

fernie3 · 04/01/2010 19:21

YANBU my daughter says "oh mannnnn" in a really american accent and it drives me mad. I am refusing to comment because if I know her at all I know that trying to get her to stop saying it will make it even more desirable and if I ignore it hopefully it will be replaced with something else.

mathanxiety · 04/01/2010 20:33

I grew up in Ireland and always use the long O in yogurt, so does everyone Irish that I know. Scone always has a short O for me, but I know people who pronounce it with the long O. Scones are biscuits in the US anyway.

mathanxiety · 04/01/2010 20:37

Watching BBC tv in Ireland as a child, I was always struck by the funny pronunciations adding an R to the end of names ending in a vowel Amander, etc., 'yoggurt', many others. The British do it too, ya know; it's not just those dratted Americans contaminating the linguistic world.

expatinscotland · 04/01/2010 20:38

My children watch this show on CBBC called 'Roy' and it's made in Ireland.

But they don't even hear that accent difference.

In fact, I giggled when a little girl on the show called a 'cartoon' a 'caretoon', that's how it came out.

Then I realised, oh, shit, I know people around here from Glasgow who pronounce it that way .

ThumbleBells · 04/01/2010 22:22

Can I add another one in? The one that is the most appalling grammar and I hate more than anything is "my bad". WTF? Where did that come from and WHY is it perpetuated? It cropped up in Ice Age 3 and I was spitting with mad frustration - I really don't want that one to turn up in DS's vocabulary.

I always thought of the terminal inflection as being more Antipodean than American, certainly when I was young (many many years ago) it was always the Aussies or NZers who had it.

Strix · 04/01/2010 22:24

I believe it is ghetto speak for "my fault". To be fair if you are going to call that American we should be comparing it to Hackney Rhyming slang which I will never comprehend.

ThumbleBells · 04/01/2010 22:28

I don't believe I specifically called it American other than placing it in this thread, I thought we had moved on and around a bit. I didn't know where it originated.

Cockney rhyming slang is a language in its own right! Some of it is incomprehensible to most other UK English speakers as well.

BananaPudding · 04/01/2010 22:41

Anamerican, I don't think Ive ever heard anyone from th two main areas of the US that I've lived in (Seattle WA and Austin TX) say "skedyule". It's always more of "sked-juhl". Not sure where the juh part comes from, but there you have it!

While we are at it, I am genuinly interested in this. How do Brits pronounce Puma? Is it like "pew-ma"?

Strix · 04/01/2010 22:43

Sorry Thumbells. Perhaps I got a little defensive.

ThumbleBells · 04/01/2010 22:46

Banana, it is pewma, yes.

No worries Strix

therednosedcariboo · 04/01/2010 23:57

My mum got so narked at someone saying "Are y'all done?" in a restaurant in the US that she replied in a gorgeous plummy voice, "Done? I didn't realise we were cooking."

said · 05/01/2010 00:08

How do Americans pronounce 'niche'?

WonderBundlesMommy · 05/01/2010 00:28

In the reverse - DH and I are from two different parts of Canada, (but were only about 30 hours apart so not all that far) and have entirely different words than each other for some things. The rare TV we watch is UK-based though, and we were just discussing how DS (just starting to talk) has switched to calling me Mum, and for some of his words has a definite hint of an English accent!

mathanxiety · 05/01/2010 00:52

Niche is Neesh

tadjennyp · 05/01/2010 01:30

lol at 30 hours not that far apart!

CupOChristmasCheerfulYank · 05/01/2010 02:29

How do you pronounce niche? And we do have scones. We pronounce it as in, rhymes with moan. What the aitch is cockney rhyming slang?