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Had no idea 'Sapiens' was pronounced differently between US and UK English. What are some of your pronunciation surprises?
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I say oregano the American way - in the most obnoxious accent I can muster - to annoy my partner when cooking.
US english is slowly taking over due to it's prevalence on the internet.
I find myself saying bay-ta instead of bee-ta sometimes, since I mostly hear it said by Americans.
I've heard homo sap-ee-ans and homo say-pee-ans. Both sound okay to me.
Route is the word I never expected.
Americans say rout, with an "out" like the word out. Unless it's a road name, so Route 66 is "root 66" - because that makes total sense.
British say root.
And then there's "rout" (like if you run away in a battle), which we pronounce like the American for route. I assume Americans say this the same way.
I find myself saying bay-ta instead of bee-ta sometimes, since I mostly hear it said by Americans.
I've heard homo sap-ee-ans and homo say-pee-ans. Both sound okay to me.
Route is the word I never expected.
Americans say rout, with an "out" like the word out. Unless it's a road name, so Route 66 is "root 66" - because that makes total sense.
British say root.
And then there's "rout" (like if you run away in a battle), which we pronounce like the American for route. I assume Americans say this the same way.
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I live here though and listen to people saying it, maybe it's a region thing
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Check the video too 😰
So do I, it's why I made the thread. Feel like I'm living in cloud cuckoo land because now every reference and most professional mentions of the word have it as sap.
characters pronouncing coupe as coop is like nails down a chalkboard when im watching american shows
also what the fuck is a booey supposed to be? fuck out of here
also what the fuck is a booey supposed to be? fuck out of here
I drop H at the beginning of most words and T in the middle becomes a glottal stop. Same can be said for OW. Occasionally I can't be arsed pronouncing R's and they end up as some other letter, H at the end of words. 'And' just became 'n' more often n not. As a kid, it was normal around my ends to replace TH with F and in places D or V. No G at the end of words unless hard.
Fanks for dat fell'uh norvernehs. Yuv med me accent sound reyt fuckin' pre'y n I ardly understan' mesel' these dez. Cunt be ahsed avin' t listen t me ankerin on bout owt to be hones wi ya. Like am chewin a stick'a bu'eh.
Nope. A syllable must have a vowel sound. "U" is not present in Charles, and the "e" is silent.
39 year old Brit here, and that's the first time I've ever heard it pronounced that way.
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This would indeed have the final say, have to try and find a clip.
This is definitely a regional thing in the US. I'm from NY and they are definitely pronounced differently.
The only thing that rustles my jimmies is how the US took the u out of Colour. It strips the colour from the word itself. Renders it a colourless word of nothing. That u is the texture of the word. It fits the meaning of the word perfectly. I also twitch abit when they say Math without the S but that U is the main one.
I listen to this Canadian podcast called Stop Podcasting Yourself, and one pronunciation that has come up a few times recently that was weird to me is the way they pronounce 'decal'. I pronounce it dee-kal, rhymes with pee pal. They pronounced it like deckle, rhymes with heckle. I don't know why it bothered me so much, but it just sounds weird.
I'm the opposite, and it really stands out to me when I hear it on a podcast or something because of how heavily rhotic a lot of American accents are.
Errrrrrrrrrb
I'm from the US and didn't realize I was from one of the few parts that differentiates these words (or at least merry from the others)
Related, the Pen/Pin merger drove me crazy when I was first introduced to it out of high school.
We're just going back to the original. ;)
Check the Latin word for 'color'.
Always amusing:
Lieutenant –
UK: Left-en-ant
US: Loo-ten-ent
Ironic:
Era -
UK: Eee-ra
US: Eh-ra
(You should have heard us in the office trying to pronounce Resetera when it first arrived. All over the shop.)
Mildly interesting:
In the UK, we pronounced Iraq "E-rak" – until 9/11 where we had US TV networks and correspondents on our screens at a daily rate (which was rare back then). At which point, you slowly saw UK newscasters and journalists start using "I-rak" instead.
Lieutenant –
UK: Left-en-ant
US: Loo-ten-ent
Ironic:
Era -
UK: Eee-ra
US: Eh-ra
(You should have heard us in the office trying to pronounce Resetera when it first arrived. All over the shop.)
Mildly interesting:
In the UK, we pronounced Iraq "E-rak" – until 9/11 where we had US TV networks and correspondents on our screens at a daily rate (which was rare back then). At which point, you slowly saw UK newscasters and journalists start using "I-rak" instead.
They do something similar with the word "pasta." A lot of Brits pronounce it like the word "past" with an "uh" on the end. I don't think I'll ever get used to hearing it that way.
I've heard that pretty much everyone in the U.K. mispronounces Nike. It should rhyme with spiky.
This. Never heard anyone in the UK say it how's it's mentioned in the OP
There's plenty of differentiation within the UK, let alone vs the US. There was a debate on another forum I'm on where those from Northern England genuinely struggled to believe that for Southerners, 'but' and 'put' don't rhyme.
I would pronounce sapiens differently if I were reading a Latin passage or phrase, but in common English speech I wouldn't make a point about "correct" pronunciation and might pronounce it either way. Similarly I'd make an effort to pronounce homo "correctly" in Latin, because it does make a difference to the meaning.
Does one say the name Mike as Mikey?
Or Hike as Hikey?
Like as Likey?
etc etc. You get the point. It makes logical sense for them to not have an 'ee' sound at the end of Nike, if one was just reading the word and going from there. However, Nike is a US company so the way they pronounce it is correct.
Also, I live in the UK and have never heard sap-iens too.
Never heard anyone pronounce it like sap.
But on topic, I always get confused when an American pronounces Aluminum rather than Aluminium.
Or when Americans say "I could care less." Which implies they they do care somewhat. It should be "I couldn't care less."
But on topic, I always get confused when an American pronounces Aluminum rather than Aluminium.
Or when Americans say "I could care less." Which implies they they do care somewhat. It should be "I couldn't care less."