A thread full of words Americans don't pronounce properly

[nwgull]

They say 'alternate' when they mean 'alternative'.

 

[Badger]

AluminIum

Iran

Iraq

 

[Garage_Doors]

they pronounce football as "Soccer"

 

[Curious Orange]

they pronounce football as "Soccer"

So do ITV...

 

[Percy Flage]

You say tomato.....

 

[Simster]

debris

It's DEY BREE, not D'Bree

 

[Simster]

And DERBY.

 

[Brighton till i die]

coffee - CWWWWOFFFEEE

 

[cardboard]

toikee

instead of turkey

boigerr

instead of burger

 

[Badger]

Duty - seems to be Doody

Leiutenant

Semi

most things that come out of George Dubya's mouth

 

[Nibble]

toikee

instead of turkey

boigerr

instead of burger

Only in certain areas.

They say Shedual instead of Schedule.

 

[Simster]

They say Shedual instead of Schedule.

SHEDULE is British. SKEDULE is American.

 

[The Spanish]

Moscow

 

[surrey jim]

E-din-Burough

and

Seven-acks

 

[JJ McClure]

toikee

instead of turkey

boigerr

instead of burger

New Yorkisms rather than the whole of America same as the cwoffee thing.

Leiutenant

To be fair I'm with the yanks on this one. they're just saying it how it's spelt. How the chuff we get leff-tenant out of that is a mystery.

 

[Nibble]

SHEDULE is British. SKEDULE is American.

Yes, I thought I'd done that wrong. Luckily a man in Reigate was their to help.

 

[Simster]

To be fair I'm with the yanks on this one. they're just saying it how it's spelt. How the chuff we get leff-tenant out of that is a mystery.

You don't appear to understand. It's OUR language and WE decide how things are spelt (that's SPELT, not SPELLED). So if we decide that lieutenant should be pronounced LEFFtenant then the reason for that is because we say so.

 

[Trufflehound]

They keep pronouncing Britain as England.

 

[The Spanish]

but then they generally call English people 'British' as a rule, too.

 

[Billy Mays]

Renasance instead of Renaissance , cross-ant and Point-setta are all favourites of mine. Not only do they ignore certain letters they occasionally randomly throw in ones that aren't there. I engage in this sort of banter at work every day and have yet to tire of it. My all time favourite moment was when I pronounced croissant correctly over breakfast one morning. After the guffaws subsided the memorable line was rolled out .... wait for it..... I kid you not. "The way you say it makes it sound French!".