I say oregano the American way - in the most obnoxious accent I can muster - to annoy my partner when cooking.haha, i do actually like the english pronunciations of these, and when i'm fucking around in the kitchen i try to use them in my bad british accent.
boy-yantUS pronunciation of buoy always seems off to me. How do they pronounce buoyant?
Check the video too 😰I live here though and listen to people saying it, maybe it's a region thing
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.
This would indeed have the final say, have to try and find a clip.
One that really blew my mind was when I realized that Brits pronounce Mary, marry, and merry differently, something most of us Americans don't do (all use the same vowel sound in "air").
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.When I first heard someone pronounce herb with an H....my mind was blown. But I can't say it. I won't do it.
One that really blew my mind was when I realized that Brits pronounce Mary, marry, and merry differently, something most of us Americans don't do (all use the same vowel sound in "air").
We're just going back to the original. ;)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.
UK: Sap-iens like tree sap.
US: Sape-iens like vape.
Homo vapiens.
What are some pronunciation surprises you've come across Era?
brit here. never heard anyone say it sah-pee-uhns. always say-pee-uhns.
Does one say the name Mike as Mikey?I've heard that pretty much everyone in the U.K. mispronounces Nike. It should rhyme with spiky.