A thread full of words Americans don't pronounce properly

[Badger]

It's a slow day at work so i thought I'd put my brain to better use!


Thorough

Schedule

 

[Box of Frogs]

Caribbean

MRSA (they call it 'mersa')

 

[Perry Milkins]

Caribbean

MRSA (they call it 'mersa')

Leisure - Leesher
Route - Rowt

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Herbs = Urbs.

 

[Perry Milkins]

Oregano - Oreganno

 

[Curious Orange]

buoy - how they manage to change that into boo-ee I have no idea!

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

anything ending with "Ham", they put a pause in ie Berming-Ham, Totten-Ham

 

[Cian]

Quarter

 

[footychick]

Congradulations

 

[Perry Milkins]

In sport they rarely say nil but usually say 'oh' or zero.

 

[Garage_Doors]

Al-loo min numb

instead of aluminum.

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

In sport they rarely say nil but usually say 'oh' or zero.

or "Zip"

 

[backson]

Lever - Levver
Aluminium - there's a SECOND I for gods sake
Any county in England ending in -shire

 

[Garage_Doors]

co-lin

Instead of Colin, as in Colin Powell

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Al-loo min numb

instead of aluminum.

That is odd! I was listening to the radio this morning and the Aloo-min-um thing was discussed, turns out on that one they are using the correct pronunciation the metal was named Aluminum by the geologist that first identified it and the Brits, for some reason, added an "I"

 

[JJ McClure]

Aluminium - there's a SECOND I for gods sake

Not in America there isn't.

 

[Garage_Doors]

When taliing carpentry, they use "rabbit" instead of rebate.

 

[Curious Orange]

That is odd! I was listening to the radio this morning and the Aloo-min-um thing was discussed, turns out on that one they are using the correct pronunciation the metal was named Aluminum by the geologist that first identified it and the Brits, for some reason, added an "I"

The 'i' was added for consistency with other stuff, apparently.

 

[Buzzer]

Anthony

Colin

And the one that really gets me is: harrassment. It comes from the verb to harry and should be pronounced as in harrisment NOT ha-rass-ment.

 

[gullshark]

Mirror.

They say 'meeer'