Paid Members chokeout Posted March 11, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted March 11, 2021 On American names I still don't understand how they got to pronouncing Craig as Creg and Graham as Gram Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted March 11, 2021 Moderators Share Posted March 11, 2021 2 minutes ago, chokeout said: On American names I still don't understand how they got to pronouncing Craig as Creg and Graham as Gram Colon powell trumps those and confused me for a long time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted March 11, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted March 11, 2021 18 minutes ago, chokeout said: On American names I still don't understand how they got to pronouncing Craig as Creg and Graham as Gram The one that I find interesting, and not sure which I prefer, is how we pronounce "Bernard" as "BURR-nud", and they pronounce it more like the French, "bur-NAARD". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Justice Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 If we're talking American pronounciations, it always amuses me that they pronounce Iraq, Iran etc. as if they're some kind of Apple device. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Your Fight Site Posted March 11, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted March 11, 2021 Don’t get me started on American pronunciation of names. Craig? Nah, it’s “Creg”. And to this day I still don’t know if Americans are saying “Graham crackers” or “gram crackers”. Like, I’ve seen it written down as “Graham crackers” but when I hear it, I just question everything again. Also, my name (Martin) in American just gets abbreviated to some single syllable “Mrtn” noise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted March 11, 2021 Moderators Share Posted March 11, 2021 2 minutes ago, Your Fight Site said: I just question everything again. Likewise, I am now questioning everything again since I questioned it an hour ago when chokeout said the same thing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathrey Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 The American pronunciation of mirror always annoys me, they turn it in to a noise 'mrrrr'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted March 11, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted March 11, 2021 Their worst one is not being able to pronounce Anna properly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Justice Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 Ahnah. Stupid Murica. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathrey Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 And why can't they pronounce the names of herbs correctly? It's not difficult. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted March 11, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted March 11, 2021 29 minutes ago, deathrey said: And why can't they pronounce the names of herbs correctly? It's not difficult. ‘Erbs. Also how they pronounce Robin Hood goes through me like a dentists drill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted March 11, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted March 11, 2021 29 minutes ago, deathrey said: And why can't they pronounce the names of herbs correctly? It's not difficult. The way they say "erb" is the one that mystifies: a lot of American spelling and pronunciation seems to follow a trend of being based more directly on Latin and Classical Greek, rather than on the French like British English. But they decide to go with French pronunciation for that one word? I will say I think we pronounce "oregano" wrong, as the Americans pronounce it just like the Italians do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thevestofdeanambrose Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 Birmingham as BirmingHAM and all the other hams. Grinds my gears. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathrey Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 To be fair, lots of people from Birmingham pronounce it 'Birminum' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted March 11, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted March 11, 2021 (edited) Edinburgh as "Edinburo", but Glasgow as "GlasGAU". One thing I find intriguing about American pronunciation is the difference in stresses, largely because these tend to fly under the radar. I've only recently noticed some of them because my sister has been watching LOADS of US TV recently, and the differences in stress have creeped into her own speech. First one that comes to mind is the word "adult" - we say "A-dult", but they say "a-DULT". She's also been pronouncing "tuna" as "toona" rather than "tyoona". Then there's also that general pattern in American speech of de-stressing the final "-ile" in certain words, saying "docile" as "dossle", "missile" as "missle", and "sterile/fertile" as "sterrel/fertel". EDIT: Just remembered that, until recently when American TV figures started pronouncing it properly, the only time I'd ever heard an American pronounce "Glasgow" the way the British do was Sean Mooney. Edited March 11, 2021 by Carbomb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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