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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 think what Johnny Foreigner needs to realise is that us Britishers don't all sound like we have stepped off the set of a Richard Fucking Curtis film.
I've never heard Rover pronounced the way one of the posters above described.
Regional dialects are very much a thing in the UK, even within the space of a few miles.
I've never heard Rover pronounced the way one of the posters above described.
Regional dialects are very much a thing in the UK, even within the space of a few miles.
I've only heard their way a couple of times, so I wasn't sure if I got it right.
The fun is in not allowing people to use language to propagate or reinforce classist or otherwise divisive cultural narratives! Whee!
It varies in Canada. Where I live on the West coast, "pra-gress" probably outnumbers "pro-gress". I tend to assume people pronouncing it the second way grew up in Eastern Canada.
Off topic, but does anyone else have the ability to distinguish a lot of british and american people based on the positioning of their mouth? "Resting brit face", lol. But its not really when its resting, it seems that british people often use their lower jaw more when speaking or something. I was watching Shawn of the Dead the other day and noticed that Shawn's girlfriend was basically talking with her neck muscles.
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For the longest time I pronounced SCYTHE as "SKYTH" (like "sky" with a soft "th"). It's pronounced SIGH-TH with a hard "th." :)
I've heard it said like "sith," as in Revenge of the Sith.
I was also told that scone, pronounced as rhyming with "stone" in the US is pronounced more like "scon", rhyming with, "on."
I just looked at a shitload of Nike ads related to football on YouTube. The name of the brand is never pronounced as far as I can tell. You just see the famous swoosh, the word and the slogan "Just do it."
Do you guys study Statistic, Genetic and Physic too?
No, you study Statistics, Genetics, Physics and Mathematics.
Maths is the correct abbreviation, much as Stats is the correct abbreviation.
You should be familiar with Stats from your beloved Baseball.
It's a good thing 'one', 'two' and 'who' are so logical really
this thread bothers me. it's like a bunch of people, likely mostly from one country, discovering that other accents exist and making fun of them, without realising that they themselves speak in an accent that sounds foreign and funny to a lot of people. it feels ignorant or swaggering. also, there are way more native english accents than just the us/uk/aus. you should all listen to people from bermuda or liberia and realise the diversity inherent to the language
okay sorry I'll take the stick out my ass
Because it's also correctly called & spelled aluminum, and not just by americans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium#Etymology
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Sounds like you're missing out on the always hilarious 'no eye deer' joke then
You'd think with the popularity of films like Hot Fuzz and shows like Game of Thrones over there that we'd get some more recognition of this sort of thing and less "every Brit sounds like David Attenborough." Do they think those accents were just put on for show or something?
Theres no D in potato or auto, but you crazy yanks keep throwing them in there.
Australia pronounces it like the US, Vite-a-mins. Triggers me every time as a Brit living in Australia.
Put aluminum into the wiki search and it redirects to aluminium, both may be right, but aluminum is slightly less right than aluminium.
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That's not a d, it's a fast t.
Also, when I went to the UK and ordered a bottle of water, the cashier said "Did you mean to say wa'er?" (glottal t) so I think we win this one.
It's not. D is a completely different sound, the T you are talking is closer to a rolling R (in terms of tongue position) than a D.
It really isn't. It is literally not in any way, shape or form, a T.
It's like saying we put an "r" at the end of idea, we don't but American's always say we do.
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Yeah it was in that bodyguard show I first noticed it.
What is the term you guys use for the same thing for saying thank you to a women typically when your younger?
What the fuck? And Google is promoting "conk" as the primary pronunciation. I don't care about most differences in pronunciation, but this is fucking unacceptable.
If I had to guess, the usage of math in America without an s may be due to the fact that school was usually about "reading, writing and arithmetic." (The 3 Rs)
Your example here those is a little off because you can't easily shorten physics or genetics. They're always used with an s. Stats is used as a way to shorten the subject because stat is a word in and of itself outside learning whereas math has only one use.
As someone from Florida where conch shells and the Conch Republic are a thing...it's conk. I didn't realize people regularly said it how it's spelled elsewhere. I figured the accurate pronunciation would have spread.
I actually don't think I used one. When I was younger, I'd either call adult women Mrs. Surname if they were in a position of authority, or by their first name if they were parents of really close friends.
Technically, I guess the answer is probably madam or ma'am, but I don't think they get used like they do in, say, France, where kids routinely call adults monsieur and madame. I've only ever said madam or sir in a really professional letter.
By the same token, I don't think anyone really calls little girls miss or missy in the UK, whereas mademoiselle gets used a lot in France.
I know you guys in the US use missy to refer to clothing sizes for young girls.