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06 Jun 2023, 6:36 pm

I should clarify, as to why I can't remember which words were spoken by a Scot or an Irish person, is that those 2 don't have nearly as many "weird" pronunciations as "British proper" (weird to me)

"Byzantine" I'm pretty sure was "biz AN tye-n"...

St. Bernard was "St. BURN-ard"

I just realized that it may have just been the specific speaker being pompous.

Lastly, if I may make a "note to self" here... when all the comments on a scone recipe say the "dough" comes out way too wet, it is true that the "dough" comes out way too wet lol


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06 Jun 2023, 8:31 pm

my fav is "COM-pawst", with "SHEDyule" a close 2nd. uh huh.


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06 Jun 2023, 11:06 pm

It was quite funny that you included the word 'hegemony' in your list, when at least 95% of Brits (and probably Americans too) don't even know what it means.

Time to put the boot on the other foot as well: how about the fact that Yanks say these words wrong?

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Defence (sorry, 'defense')
Oestrogen ('Estrogen')

etc, etc....

They also use ridiculous words like 'sidewalk' (pavement), 'drapes' (curtains), 'apparel' (clothing) 'faucet' (tap) and 'candy' (chocolate) :lol:

I've got to say as well that it irritates me when British people use American terms like 'the feds' for 'the police' (I wonder how long before we get 'precincts'?). A British WP member also used the phrase 'the john' for 'the toilet' in a recent post, which was as amusing as it was annoying. We've also imported American customs like 'Proms' in our school system, not to mention Hallowe'en.

Aaaaaarrrrrgh!


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07 Jun 2023, 1:22 am

Seems we "Yanks" as a whole have a really bad habit of making crap up, for whatever reasons.


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07 Jun 2023, 2:05 am

"Maths" looks and sounds odd to us Americans.

But Americans say ceramics, linguistics, electronics, ballistics, statistics, physics, to name a few fields of endeavor that dont have any obvious need to be plural. So both sides of the Atlantic are being a bit arbitrary in their choice on that.



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07 Jun 2023, 8:12 am

mrpieceofwork wrote:
I should make scones. There's some Bisquik in the pantry.


I should too, I've got a great recipe for them and the last time I made them they turned out really well. Most of the time when I've had them, they've been like super dry and that includes when I've bought them, either at the grocery store at a fair booth. I should also make another batch of soda bread. It's definitely not authentic, but grating a bunch of butter into it makes it a lot better.



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07 Jun 2023, 8:15 am

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"Maths" looks and sounds odd to us Americans.

But Americans say ceramics, linguistics, electronics, ballistics, statistics, physics, to name a few fields of endeavor that dont have any obvious need to be plural. So both sides of the Atlantic are being a bit arbitrary in their choice on that.

It does because it's not normally how abbreviations work, and it leaves you with a really weird combination of sounds at the end. th followed by s isn't something that we normally do. I don't think any of those things are abbreviations though. Mathematics is definitely a thing, but it makes little sense to me why you'd chop out the ematic to give a really awkward word when you can just stop at math and be done with it.



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07 Jun 2023, 8:22 am

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LOL j/k a list I've been keeping for a while now. Any time I hear a different pronunciation of a word by a Brit... just for the hell of it. (no shade intended... love y'all... well, most of... never mind...) Enjoy

controversy
schedule
compost
apparel
scones
quasi
glacier
beta
omega
status
urinal
lichen
gamut
contributor
pixels
repercussions
decade
plethora
volcanism
proletariat
partisan
inventory
hegemony
patent
Byzantine
medieval
against
produce
meted
twat
depot
frequented
Bachanal
St. Bernard
garage
methane
geysers
autopsy


At least we can spell correctly. You Americans and your ALUMINUM. What happened to the second I ?

:lol: :lol:

But seriously, what other ways are there to pronounce these:
contributor
pixels
repercussions
decade
plethora
Byzantine
medieval
against
geysers
autopsy


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07 Jun 2023, 8:25 am

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Time to put the boot on the other foot as well: how about the fact that Yanks say these words wrong?

I've got to say as well that it irritates me when British people use American terms like 'the feds' for 'the police' (I wonder how long before we get 'precincts'?). A British WP member also used the phrase 'the john' for 'the toilet' in a recent post, which was as amusing as it was annoying. We've also imported American customs like 'Proms' in our school system, not to mention Hallowe'en.

Aaaaaarrrrrgh!


Well said!

And Brits have started saying 'pants' instead of 'trousers' and 'mad' instead of 'angry' or 'cross.' That really annoys me!


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07 Jun 2023, 10:32 am

"But seriously, what other ways are there to pronounce these:"

US "English" pronunciations, to wit:
contributor - con TRIB you ter
pixels - PICKS oles (I think I heard someone say "pYk soles" but don't quote me on that lol)
repercussions - REE per cush uhns
decade - DECK aid
plethora - PLETH ora
Byzantine - BIZ an teen
medieval - mid Evil
against - UGH inst
geysers - GUY zers
autopsy - AU topsee (pretty sure I heard "au TOP see")


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07 Jun 2023, 10:57 am

I think spelling is much easier than pronunciation. I'm in South Africa and we usually say DECKade and PLETHora as well.


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07 Jun 2023, 10:58 am

And there's no other way to say schedule than SHEDule....


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07 Jun 2023, 11:26 am

Even on our small island there are so many variations in what we call different things and how we say things.

I'm English and my bf is Scottish. We have so many different ways of saying things.

Like he calls a Barmcake a roll.

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07 Jun 2023, 11:49 am

"I'm going to 'SKEDyule' a time to bake some BUNS for the BURGERS we'll have at the bar-b-que" lol


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07 Jun 2023, 11:51 am

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07 Jun 2023, 12:09 pm

mrpieceofwork wrote:
"But seriously, what other ways are there to pronounce these:"

US "English" pronunciations, to wit:
contributor - con TRIB you ter
pixels - PICKS oles (I think I heard someone say "pYk soles" but don't quote me on that lol)
repercussions - REE per cush uhns
decade - DECK aid
plethora - PLETH ora
Byzantine - BIZ an teen
medieval - mid Evil
against - UGH inst
geysers - GUY zers
autopsy - AU topsee (pretty sure I heard "au TOP see")


But that's how I pronounce all those, except Guy zers. I say Ghee zers. I might say Bye zan tyne. I don't say that word often enough to know!

What other way is there to pronounce Repercussions, I have no idea. re PER cussions. re per CUSS ions. re per cuss IONS. :lol:

In fact most of those words I don't say often enough to know how to pronounce: pixels, plethora, Byzantine, medieval, geysers, autopsy.


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