Why can't people pronounce "nuclear"?

[pasty]

To be fair to Americans

Why be fair to them? They pronounce pavement as sidewalk for goodness sake.

 

[Robot Chicken]

The words tomato and potato. Why do we in the UK pronounce them so differently? Where is the "r" in tomato?

 

[Robot Chicken]

Why be fair to them? They pronounce pavement as sidewalk for goodness sake.

They're a literal people. It's a walk along the side of the road. Thus, sidewalk.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

AND they pronounce "arse" as "fanny"

 

[Yorkie]

I had a mate who'd ask you to itch her back for her.

"Scratch", I'd say, "You scratch an itch".

"No, I need to itch it"

A lot of people in Yorkshire get lend and borrow mixed up.

Let's have a lend of that book when you've finished it?
I lend it, you borrow it.

 

[Spunk Bubble]

Re: Re: Re: Why can't people pronounce "nuclear"?

Nu-clee-ar.

I have a colleague who cannot say the word 'specific'. Every time he says it, it comes out 'pacific'. "Well, I've looked through your report, and I can't see any pacific problems"

SPECIFIC you f***ing Scottish retard.

tomorrow at work kick him and kick him hard

 

[Deano's Right Foot]

I don't know why Edna - let me go and aks my mate.

 

[SussexHoop]

The one that really gets me is burglary often prononounced burgelry.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

A lot of people in Yorkshire get lend and borrow mixed up.

Let's have a lend of that book when you've finished it?
I lend it, you borrow it.

As the good Doctor Johnson once said:-

"I smell. You stink".

 

[AZ Gull]

I'm amazed by the number of people who say "brought" when they mean "bought", as in "I brought it at Tesco's". I used to think it was a Black Country thing, but have since noticed it said by people from other areas too.

 

[Rangdo]

People who say aks instead of ask grrrrrrr

 

[Cian]

People who say aks instead of ask grrrrrrr

According to a Nigerian manager in BT, that has something to do with some of the african native languages - and that anyone who's not actually from Africa is faking it. Like Tim Westwood