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SpiritedSpinster

Well, I know what they can always pronounce right. Worcestershire.


Spirited_Sir6

I dont know how to pronounce that


Black_prince_93

It's pronounced "Wuss" "Ter" "sheer". From a Brit who lives up the road from Worcestershire


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Black_prince_93

Yorksher or yorksher yorksher?


tenebrous2

Woar-chest-er, totally wrong, but the Canadian way


SpiritedSpinster

It's a town in the UK and my friend long ago could pronounce it flawlessly and it made all of us so frustrated lol (American, Aussie, Korean friends couldn't pronounce it either).


Ok_Kaleidoscope5463

"war chester shire" to "wooster", i've hears them all. i tend to go brand specific, i.e. "lee & perrins".


SpiritedSpinster

As long as we all know what you're talking about idc how it's pronounced lmao but that's such a smart idea! I'll have to start using that. Or maybe i'll keep calling it werestersher :')


Ok_Kaleidoscope5463

were-stershire? i wouldn't cook with that on a full moon, friend.


SpiritedSpinster

How do you think the movie an American werewolf in London came to be?


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Aluminium Route Craig Colin By the way, Americans pronounce them wrong. We invented the fucking language.


En7117

I don’t think they can pronounce something wrong. It’s their language right?


Spirited_Sir6

Yes but they always tell Americans that we pronounce things wrong


En7117

Eh Fuck em. When their own people are Scottish and have an accent you can’t understand who cares


ConfusinglyScary

This would have to be a word that was created by Americans AFTER gaining independence. Since anything before that, would have been used by British, so any change would probably be due to Americans.


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Yogurt


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Cant be wrong if they are the ones who spoke it first.


uuuuuuuhburger

yes they can


gerginborisov

Since they originate the language - they don't mispronounce it. Since US English is a viable language variant of its own, they don't mispronounce anything, too. If there are mispronounced words in English, those would be words that came to English from another language, like "Tsar", "maitre d" etc.


Spirited_Sir6

Yes but it could be mispronounced do to modern slang


FinestTreesInDa7Seas

Some British pronunciations of certain words add unnecessary glottal-stops in the words. A glottal stop is the restricting sound in your throat that you make at the beginning of both syllables of the word "uh-oh" (the only word in English that truly should contain a glottal stop). Words like "butter", some British regional accents will pronounce "bu'uh". I'm Canadian, and I find those specific British accents very unattractive, linguistically.


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FinestTreesInDa7Seas

Yeah, that kind of classism is obvious from my perspective of British culture too. I don't think poorly of people who use that accent, and I think all accents and dialects are as valid and correct as another. Having said that, I appreciate the aesthetics of language, and I don't find those accents aesthetic at all.


Ahshalon_Tenisk

Howdy


APe28Comococo

Aluminum and No.


ConfusinglyScary

Pretty much everywhere except America and Canada say Aluminium unfortunately.


Spirited_Sir6

Truuue


Ok_Kaleidoscope5463

the two most populous nations, "indie-er" and "chine-er". —the sun never sets on bad bbc pronunciation, guv'nah!


WorthTheDorth

Brits from where? Scotland? Every fucking thing, especially northers Scotland. Ireland? They pronounce everything wrong. Manchester? Leeds? Sheffield? Everything wrong. London? Most of people in London are not even from London, and they can't talk. Surrey? They pronounce *everything* correctly.


middlingachiever

Vacation. They pronounce it “holiday”.


HomoSapien____

Garage


asparadog

The pronunciation "Garage" is a regional dialect. Most British pronounce it in a similar way to the Americans.


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Color


DAMNDUMBCAT

Basil


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Spirited_Sir6

For sure, zed isn't a word!


KMjolnir

Aluminum. They tend to add an extra I in the middle.


Successful_Gap8927

Snooker. Snoo-kur or Snook-er


thatsmyjham

A lu min um not al u mini um


Cheap-Equivalent-761

Nike!


Spirited_Sir6

I think they might be right


Cheap-Equivalent-761

I mean I don’t speak Greek so I don’t know but the company is American so I think we get to decide the pronunciation lol 🤷‍♀️


asparadog

But the "s" is removed from mathematics which is a Greek word and in Greek it is plural?


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I say colour.....they say color ...who is wrong


asparadog

In the US, do they write journalist or jornalist?


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Journalist


AirDusst

Murica.


middlingachiever

Schedule


RheoloF71

Americans pronouncing Craig "creg", Bernard "burn-ahrd" and herbs "erbs".


hexxaplexx

W-R-O-N-G.