This fracas that Clarkson had

[Lord Bracknell]

Just about every person I speak to who is under 30 says Haitch, including a couple of teachers they can't all be ****wits can they?

An Old Git replies ...

Of course they can.

 

[Icy Gull]

TOOsday for Tuesday
TOOna for Tuna

Erbs is a doozy though. I can't get me noggin round that one.

I actually prefer aluminum to aluminium I must confess.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

As in ba-zil not bay-zil and ory-gano not oh-reg-ah-no. Even worse, since when did route (as in Route 66) become rout?

Do you not remember Glenda Jackson mispronouncing the 'erb as ORREG-ERNO in Sunday Bloody Sunday?

 

[pasty]

Let's move the debate up a notch..........

Scones.

There is no debate. Scone rhymes with gone. Anyone that says otherwise is simply wrong.

 

[symyjym]

So allegedly it was all caused by a Cold Meat Platter? Witness Claims ‘Top Gear' Presenter ‘Got Angry' Over Missing Steak Meal.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/03/12/jeremy-clarkson-fracas-top-gear-meal_n_6853832.html

 

[AZ Gull]

Pronounced fracar

But then I was shocked when I learned that some people pronounce herbs as erbs. As in erbs and spices. Sounds so wrong. I think its an american thing.

I was just as shocked to find [MENTION=70]Easy 10[/MENTION] not using an initial capital letter for a proper noun.

As strange as the "erbs" thing is their pronounciation of Graham (which is "Gram"), and caramel (which is "car-mel").

 

[Blackadder]

There is no debate. Scone rhymes with gone. Anyone that says otherwise is simply wrong.

I concur. I was outnumbered at school by the "OWNS".

 

[Easy 10]

I was just as shocked to find [MENTION=70]Easy 10[/MENTION] not using an initial capital letter for a proper noun.

As strange as the "erbs" thing is their pronounciation of Graham (which is "Gram"), and caramel (which is "car-mel").

That was poor on my part. I have no defence (or DEE-fence, as our colonial cousins would say).

I had a debate with an American over the pronunciation of kebab once. I say kebab (as in Phil Babb), they insisted it was pronounced kebaaab (like a sheep saying baah-b). I pointed out that we invented the bloody language, but that cut no ice.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

That was poor on my part. I have no defence (or DEE-fence, as our colonial cousins would say).

I had a debate with an American over the pronunciation of kebab once. I say kebab (as in Phil Babb), they insisted it was pronounced kebaaab (like a sheep saying baah-b). I pointed out that we invented the bloody language, but that cut no ice.

I hate to tell you this, but kebab is a Turkish word.

 

[Easy 10]

I hate to tell you this, but kebab is a Turkish word.

That doesn't mean Americans should be allowed to deviate from how the ENGLISH pronounce things. They should be following our lead, not making it up as they go along.

I'm not having it.

 

[Nibble]

The English language is a mash up of Nordic and Latin. We FAR from invented the language.

 

[Wrong-Direction]

Frac arse

 

[Westdene Seagull]

As in ba-zil not bay-zil and ory-gano not oh-reg-ah-no. Even worse, since when did route (as in Route 66) become rout?

Rout ..... don't even get me started on DMZee !!!

 

[Lord Bracknell]

I was just as shocked to find [MENTION=70]Easy 10[/MENTION] not using an initial capital letter for a proper noun.

As strange as the "erbs" thing is their pronounciation of Graham (which is "Gram"), and caramel (which is "car-mel").

I knew an American called Gerald, pronounced with a hard G (as in "gubbins"). He wrote children's books, so was obviously engaged in some sort of conspiracy to undermine young people's understanding of English.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

And it's "fraarrrcus"

 

[Questions]

Schedule..... Now you tell me.

Sced or shed ?

Get it right or I'll go off on one I'm warning you.

 

[Dick Head]

I blame it all on Noah Webster, the ****!

 

[Seagull58]

That was poor on my part. I have no defence (or DEE-fence, as our colonial cousins would say).

I had a debate with an American over the pronunciation of kebab once. I say kebab (as in Phil Babb), they insisted it was pronounced kebaaab (like a sheep saying baah-b). I pointed out that we invented the bloody language, but that cut no ice.

SImilar to their insistence that Bernhard Langer's surname is pronounced Laaaanger. They just don't use short vowels. I well remember how they used to pronounce Milosovitch as Milowsowvitch (as in "oh").

 

[Norman Potting]

Sounds like a good name for an unsuccessful indie band.