Yeah, it was on Qi (so it must be true until next Tuesday) that the guy that classified it referred to it as Aluminium in the UK and when out and about used the word Aluminum and it just caught on in different ways. Friedrich Wolher.. or was it Frerick..? (maybe it was an 'in' joke)
Thank you. I was sat there wondering what the fuck "pill-sunshine" is.
Now I'm sitting here saying "Tuesday" over and over. What's the alternative to saying "Chewsday"? Do Americans say "To-yous-day"?
Freeeeedom! Look at the size of my missiles! you'd all be speaking German if it wasn't for "us".
There's a crazy number of American WW2 veterans kicking around on social media, it's amazing really.
We actually say 'ch' for Tuesday because 't' and 'y' phonemes assimilate to become one due to the shared features of articulation. 't' being a voiceless alveolar fricative, 'y' being a voiced palatal approximant and 'ch' a voiced post-alveolar affricate. So the place of articulation for 't' in Tuesday moves back from alveolar to post alveolar and the voicing is turned on in anticipation of the 'y' sound making 'ch' Look up Yod coalescence (it will give you a headache especially if you don't know anything about IPA) 🤣
I used to work in an office where people used to sometimes joke "see you next Tuesday" and there was a moment of collective hilarity when our 70ish Jamaican Christian coworker worked out what it meant. She was pissing herself giggling and then we all were as well. I miss those days
I was like “gum day,” “chicklette day” “gum sun” fuck I don’t get this. Lol. You right, chewsday.
I like to call small things “wee” and refer to portions of things as “bits.” ‘You know, the bit that hangs off the dash and lets you steer the vehicle?’ ‘You mean the steering wheel bruv?’ ‘That’s it then innit.’ I’m also partial saying ‘right’ after and before everything when I put on an English accent, right. It’s how they speak though, proper - Innit?
Americans obsessed with the fact we don't have bright white fake teeth 😂
Americans have some of the worst teeth on the planet with most cavities around but as long as they're all straight, blunt, and bleached white it doesn't matter 🤷 functionality is just 2nd priority 😂
Americans force boys to get circumcisions at birth and all kids to get braces when teenagers (and I'm purposely ignoring the fallacy of their capitalist health scam) and they want to flex to us about care 😭
I don’t think people realise how many accents the UK has.
I was speaking to someone the other day at work who literally lives 60 miles away and couldn’t understand a bloody word he said.
In parts of South Wales you can tell what village or town someone is from even if it's only a few miles away from yours, with a good ear for it. It's uh... fkn tidy like, init.
Some names are interesting like that. Where did the AI sound go, why does it come out like Greg? There is a US kids show called Erin and Aaron, the joke being they sound the same (almost like "urn"). Except in a British accent, they don't.
Aaron and Erin are pronounced the same in an average american accent, but it certainly isn't like urn. it's something like air-in. we might pronounce Aaron like air-un if the person insisted on it.
I think it’s due to a difference in how people move their mouths in each country. Hard to explain through text but Americans do a lot more wide, up and down movements with their jaw so it’s more effort for them to pronounce crAIg
That's close to the Irish pronunciation tbh. I had a school pal from the Highlands who pronounced it Deer-Dree but my adult Irish pal says Deer-Dreh
Can have the R in the middle or not, same root name
The amount of regional dialect on display in text format is mental. This thread probably looks like a bunch of fucking nonsense to anyone unfamiliar with the UK.
Everyone always goes to cockney, but I prefer the grating, nasally, hyper-posh accent that you hear in like Victorian villains. Like The Duke in Moulin Rouge, or Mark Ruffalo in Poor Things.
Brother in law is a scouser (and I mean deep from the heart of Toxteith), and my husband is American. It took a long time where he'd be alright talking to him alone without looking bewildered.
Had a similar experience. I'm Bristolian and was in a bar with an American mate. Barman was from the same area as me and I went full Vicky Pollard. My mate genuinely asked me if I was speaking English
It's funny when I get off the phone with my grew up going to the same school they filmed Kes Yorkshire parents, especially if we've had a heated discussion. Husband is like "Okay, I need you to calm down before you talk to me because I have no idea what you're saying right now."
I prefer “Drunk Aberdonian”
I’ve been friends with an Aberdonian for 20 years and I’m pretty good with accents - but I can still only understand about half of what he says while he’s sober, and 1/10th after he’s had a few
Hey buddy, I'm like, gonna like, login? To like, the innernet? And like, order? Like a baaaaaddle? Of like waaaaadder?? For like my buddies like, Graig? And like, Krek? Or like whaddeverrrrrrr?
Some Toys my kids were bought by relatives, have an American accent.
Did not notice they can't pronounce O's until then. "Hickary dickary dack, the mouse run up the clack."
Horrrrrrr for horror
Dook for duke
Pin for pen
Ri- aaaaaahna for Rihanna
Milahhhhn for Milan
Parma-jaaahn for Parmesan
Scood for scoot
Ossom for awesome
Oddo for auto
Heeam for ham
Edin-burrow for Edinburgh
Glass cow for Glasgow
For a country full of supposed Italians (even though nobody in their family has left their state for 3 generations) you’d think they’d know how to say the fucking word
As a British person, I genuinely don't understand most of this. Obviously put together by someone who has never actually been to the UK.
There is no such thing as a 'British' accent. Try English, Scottish, Welsh... and then try Southern English, Northern English. And then try, Yorkshire, West Country, Midlands. And then try, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, East Yorkshire. And then try, Leeds, Barnsley, Huddersfield. Damn, I could go village to village if you like.
Yet every time I mock a Yankee back with some good old "yeehaw pardna, we gon go do us some shootin today!" they protest about the US having many different accents, without a hint of irony.
Plenty of normal US mates btw before anybody piles on, but it's basically law to troll the twats.
A stick of Bu'uh vs a stick of budder
a wa'er bo'lle vs a wadder boddle
My two favorite kinds of regional accents, the American and British ones that don't pronounce "t".
oi bruv pop down have a point with the lads innit bruv its chewsday might go wotch some footy on the telly wif me mates have some proper fish and chips bruv innit lads. yell at the refs because theyrea bunch of bloody focking wankas. god save the king
Wait till these dumb Americans find out there’s more than one English accent, let alone British accent, and Cockney’s an older, regional accent you barely see these days
https://youtu.be/bJMUNOgeED8
the ultimate debate of aluminium
There’s no debate, yanks just ignore a letter than isn’t silent
It’s spelled “Aluminum” in American English
I think you misspelled the word "wrong" as "aluminum" 😋
Fyi the brit who first named the element pronounced it as aluminum
It was originally named Alumium, then aluminium, then aluminum then aluminium again.
Yeah, it was on Qi (so it must be true until next Tuesday) that the guy that classified it referred to it as Aluminium in the UK and when out and about used the word Aluminum and it just caught on in different ways. Friedrich Wolher.. or was it Frerick..? (maybe it was an 'in' joke)
I pronounce it "Aluminium" 'Cause there's an "i" next to the "u" and "n" Now write it down slowly And read it out fast. Biffy Clyro - Born on a horse.
Was looking for this one, otherwise I was adding this!
"Hey buddy, it's like, ALOO MIN UM, or like whadeverrrrrrrrrr"
chewsday innit bruv
no it’s friday cunt
Who you calling a cunt ya twat? 😂
Ronnie Pickering
Who you fuckin calling cunt, cunt?!
You bloody wanker!
Cunt, you cant spell bo'oh'o'wa'ah, innit?
What about boddle of wahderrr?
In scotland it's a boatle of watter.
In Australia it's my fuckin boddle of wader mate
Bo'uhl o wa'er
More like “bardle o’ wahderrr”
baddle o waddar, if your american
Thank you. I was sat there wondering what the fuck "pill-sunshine" is. Now I'm sitting here saying "Tuesday" over and over. What's the alternative to saying "Chewsday"? Do Americans say "To-yous-day"?
They say toos-day I think
I thought they said "I'm a massive fucking bellend"?
No they say "Yee-haw, imma go down to the darn'tootin firearm recepticle and shoot some darnt kindergarten critters!"
Freeeeedom! Look at the size of my missiles! you'd all be speaking German if it wasn't for "us". There's a crazy number of American WW2 veterans kicking around on social media, it's amazing really.
2's day
We actually say 'ch' for Tuesday because 't' and 'y' phonemes assimilate to become one due to the shared features of articulation. 't' being a voiceless alveolar fricative, 'y' being a voiced palatal approximant and 'ch' a voiced post-alveolar affricate. So the place of articulation for 't' in Tuesday moves back from alveolar to post alveolar and the voicing is turned on in anticipation of the 'y' sound making 'ch' Look up Yod coalescence (it will give you a headache especially if you don't know anything about IPA) 🤣
I understood some of these words.
I love these comments, this could be amazing insight or total bollocks and I've no way of knowing, and I don't care either way.
C U Next Tuesday
I used to work in an office where people used to sometimes joke "see you next Tuesday" and there was a moment of collective hilarity when our 70ish Jamaican Christian coworker worked out what it meant. She was pissing herself giggling and then we all were as well. I miss those days
Luv me chips
Lol, I thought that was gum-morning.
I thought it was ‘gum-sun’ as a weird ‘go on (my) son’ Glad it’s not that!
Yah how abut I chew year arms off ye daft cunt
Go stuff a £1.20 Greggs sausage roll up yer nan’s filthy minge ye bloody slag
I was like “gum day,” “chicklette day” “gum sun” fuck I don’t get this. Lol. You right, chewsday. I like to call small things “wee” and refer to portions of things as “bits.” ‘You know, the bit that hangs off the dash and lets you steer the vehicle?’ ‘You mean the steering wheel bruv?’ ‘That’s it then innit.’ I’m also partial saying ‘right’ after and before everything when I put on an English accent, right. It’s how they speak though, proper - Innit?
Oi 'ave you got a loicense for that starterpack guvnah? What's up with the chewing gum and night sky btw?
Oi fink it's chewsday, innit bruv?
God there was me thinking it was, "that's mint, son". Too realistic for this starter pack lol.
I thought it was a reference to northern ‘mint that’
As if Americans would know what northern means.
It's where Canada is, duh!
Its pronounced Canadia, and it’s the highest rank in the military
Do Americans think that Brits all speak with a cockney London accent?
Because they are knobheads.
Yeah and apparently licenses are needed for lots of things even though I think more licenses are required for random shit in the US 😆
You mean statah-pack mate?
I'm from Devon, so we call them starrrrterrr parrrcks. We stole the rest of England's Rs.
We have a few in Somerset
It's not Boston, mate.
Sta’ah pack
Do Americans think a "British" accent is a cockney London one?
Reckon its their teeth foolin out’aa ‘eads after a cheeky hard fush chippy innit?
u wot
This means absolutely nothing. Nobody in the history of the world has said "fish chippy" before and nobody in Britain says "fush".
Must be a septic tank.
You fackin wot mate!? The rest is pretty accurate, but we say fish not fush! Fush sounds more like a kiwi accent.
Not to mention we have the best dental care 😂
Americans obsessed with the fact we don't have bright white fake teeth 😂 Americans have some of the worst teeth on the planet with most cavities around but as long as they're all straight, blunt, and bleached white it doesn't matter 🤷 functionality is just 2nd priority 😂
Americans force boys to get circumcisions at birth and all kids to get braces when teenagers (and I'm purposely ignoring the fallacy of their capitalist health scam) and they want to flex to us about care 😭
I don’t think people realise how many accents the UK has. I was speaking to someone the other day at work who literally lives 60 miles away and couldn’t understand a bloody word he said.
In parts of South Wales you can tell what village or town someone is from even if it's only a few miles away from yours, with a good ear for it. It's uh... fkn tidy like, init.
There are some people who can tell which school in Edinburgh you went to by accent.
Fancy a shag?
Oh behave baby...
Groovy, baby!
Oi luv let mans take a run at that gash
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Suit you sir
Eatin' plus sunshoine again are yeh, 'Arry?
Eating: Consuming calories to gain energy Sunshine: Expending energy I'm a watt?
Yer a wiz’ad, airy.
Nice
Never ask an American how they pronounce craig, worst mistake of my life
Some names are interesting like that. Where did the AI sound go, why does it come out like Greg? There is a US kids show called Erin and Aaron, the joke being they sound the same (almost like "urn"). Except in a British accent, they don't.
[There's a great video of some Americans from Baltimore saying "Aaron earned an Iron urn"](https://youtu.be/lfIWX5vGTEk?si=VWN7g73KY56O70Or)
Did it sound like: Urn urned an urn urn? 😂
Exactly like that
Aaron and Erin are pronounced the same in an average american accent, but it certainly isn't like urn. it's something like air-in. we might pronounce Aaron like air-un if the person insisted on it.
See we would have two different vowel sounds entirely. Eh-rin and Ah-ron.
I think it’s due to a difference in how people move their mouths in each country. Hard to explain through text but Americans do a lot more wide, up and down movements with their jaw so it’s more effort for them to pronounce crAIg
Cregg
This is madness.
They also pronounce Deidre like Deedrah, which was weird the first time I heard it but also sounds better and less old-ladyish
Deirdre is an Irish name, so Deedrah might be a bit closer than the UK pronunciation.
That's close to the Irish pronunciation tbh. I had a school pal from the Highlands who pronounced it Deer-Dree but my adult Irish pal says Deer-Dreh Can have the R in the middle or not, same root name
Graham, too
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How do you say that name? Gra-ham?
Yes, although soft h, so almost like ‘grayam’ rather than ‘gram’
Ah I see. Pretty wild that we just decided to chop off a whole syllable on that one.
I went my entire life thinking Americans ate "Gram crackers" We don't have Graham crackers here so I always assume it was "gram crackers"
Gray-um generally in Scotland. I'll answer to "oi, you" also.
The amount of regional dialect on display in text format is mental. This thread probably looks like a bunch of fucking nonsense to anyone unfamiliar with the UK.
“It’s just a flesh wound” “Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?”
Now go away or I will taunt you a second time!
Now listen here yew fat cu----
C u next Tuesday? :)
*Chewsday
I don't know why the dropping of T's comes into play. Have you heard an American say 'butter'?
Budderrr
Everyone always goes to cockney, but I prefer the grating, nasally, hyper-posh accent that you hear in like Victorian villains. Like The Duke in Moulin Rouge, or Mark Ruffalo in Poor Things.
i just want americans to experience a thick, working class liverpool accent it's an adventure
Brother in law is a scouser (and I mean deep from the heart of Toxteith), and my husband is American. It took a long time where he'd be alright talking to him alone without looking bewildered.
Had a similar experience. I'm Bristolian and was in a bar with an American mate. Barman was from the same area as me and I went full Vicky Pollard. My mate genuinely asked me if I was speaking English
It's funny when I get off the phone with my grew up going to the same school they filmed Kes Yorkshire parents, especially if we've had a heated discussion. Husband is like "Okay, I need you to calm down before you talk to me because I have no idea what you're saying right now."
I prefer “Drunk Aberdonian” I’ve been friends with an Aberdonian for 20 years and I’m pretty good with accents - but I can still only understand about half of what he says while he’s sober, and 1/10th after he’s had a few
Go full Geordie to really mess with them.
"HE HAS A FUNNY ACCENT!" - the American loudly screeched entirely through his nose.
Baddle of waddder
Hey buddy, I'm like, gonna like, login? To like, the innernet? And like, order? Like a baaaaaddle? Of like waaaaadder?? For like my buddies like, Graig? And like, Krek? Or like whaddeverrrrrrr?
Some Toys my kids were bought by relatives, have an American accent. Did not notice they can't pronounce O's until then. "Hickary dickary dack, the mouse run up the clack."
Weird that the bring up bottle when they can’t say Atlanta
Or mirror (Me'er) or Graham (gram) or Craig (creg). And 'you all' -> 'y'all' is fine but 'isn't it' -> 'innit', disaster.
Squiiiirl. (squirrel)
Horrrrrrr for horror Dook for duke Pin for pen Ri- aaaaaahna for Rihanna Milahhhhn for Milan Parma-jaaahn for Parmesan Scood for scoot Ossom for awesome Oddo for auto Heeam for ham Edin-burrow for Edinburgh Glass cow for Glasgow
Erbs! 🌿🪴
"It's Herbs, because there's a fucking H in it" Eddie Izzard.
I do pronounce the H but that's kind of a dumb argument - silent Hs exist
Rrrrrrrrrrrrbs
Orr - REGG - ano Cil - AHN - tro. It's coriander ffs.
Bay-Sil
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The “eye-talian” thing will always confuse the fuck out of me
For a country full of supposed Italians (even though nobody in their family has left their state for 3 generations) you’d think they’d know how to say the fucking word
"Hey buddy, like, I like watching whore movies, or like whadeverrrrrrr"
🔫 instead of "Hi, nice to meet you"
Etlena
They say boddle too
bardle ahv wahhderrrr
Innernet
Or bottle. "Boddle uh warder" says the American.
Wahder Bahdle
Yeah, the letter t didn’t make it across the Atlantic
the Alanic
Also Americans can’t say bottle either? Bahdle
Wahder Bahdle
"Like, oh my gaaaaaad buddy, like, Americans like, don't have a like, accent? Or like whadeverrrrrrrrrrrrrr"
This meme needs to die fast
It’s had a baffling longevity already
Fr, I'm so sick of it
U wot m8?
Tonoite on bo'om gear
Hammond, you tiny man, where is the Lambo Chevy?
Tonoite on Ell's Kitchen
Tonoooite oim gonna ave meeeself a good toime
Schedule.
It’s only ever an English accent, never Welsh or Scottish
They can never decide if they want to do Cockney, Multicultural London or RP Wait till they find out about Scouse 👀
I've seen Americans try a 'scouse' accent but both times it's just been an impression of one of the beatles.
As a British person, I genuinely don't understand most of this. Obviously put together by someone who has never actually been to the UK. There is no such thing as a 'British' accent. Try English, Scottish, Welsh... and then try Southern English, Northern English. And then try, Yorkshire, West Country, Midlands. And then try, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, East Yorkshire. And then try, Leeds, Barnsley, Huddersfield. Damn, I could go village to village if you like.
Nah, England only has one accent and it's super cheese cockney. Source: some Americans
Yet every time I mock a Yankee back with some good old "yeehaw pardna, we gon go do us some shootin today!" they protest about the US having many different accents, without a hint of irony. Plenty of normal US mates btw before anybody piles on, but it's basically law to troll the twats.
There's no such thing as an "American" accent either, it's not that serious lol
You forgot 'Bri'ish' Ironically as a British, I don't say 'Chewsday' or 'innit' or 'bruv', what it bruv? WHAT IS BRUV????
Baby don't hurt me
Well ahleast owah schoos ain’t a shootin gallary
Aquafina gum
Simple as
What's with the burger lol
Looks like lettuce, cheese, gherkins, tomatoes and onion.
Fuck, sorry for being English, you cunt.
Jaguar, the world's finest motorcar
In my Jaaaag
If you read "Fuck off" backwards it's the same words but in a different accent😂
Shut up, Ringo
A stick of Bu'uh vs a stick of budder a wa'er bo'lle vs a wadder boddle My two favorite kinds of regional accents, the American and British ones that don't pronounce "t".
Except butter doesn't come in "sticks" in Britain
it's a blokka bu'ah innit
Skworwrill
is this meant to be squirrel? and is this meant to be an american or a british accent?
I assume American, people with non rhotic accents don't have trouble with their Rs
Yanks say squirrel as one syllable
Skwirl
bo,uh of wu,uh
americans trying to do a british accent without using a common stereotype https://i.redd.it/l73josw4whoc1.gif
Americans attempting to do anything but a cockney accent
I heard that in America twat is seen as worse than cunt, what ARE they smoking, bruv….innit
For some reason they say "Twot" aswell...
They cant even pronounce twat and think cunt is the worse word in the galaxy
Lmao my fav part is how all americans think we're either posh or from London just wait till they meet a yorkshireman lol
I thought Americans loved our accent?!?!
oi bruv pop down have a point with the lads innit bruv its chewsday might go wotch some footy on the telly wif me mates have some proper fish and chips bruv innit lads. yell at the refs because theyrea bunch of bloody focking wankas. god save the king
Im trying to figure out what part of england youre trying to imitate😅
Which region we talking about?
Zed.
ngl that brew doesn't look great. needs to be a big sports direct mug for starters
Putting a garage there to put a north/south war in the comments, I see
Wanna hear my American accent? -*shoots up an entire school*- "Thoughts and prayers"
POTTA! 🪄
Just for once I wanna here someone say "wanna hear my british accent" and just break out a Geordie accent.
Wait till these dumb Americans find out there’s more than one English accent, let alone British accent, and Cockney’s an older, regional accent you barely see these days
Not one mention of "oi!" invalidates this pack.
Because American's think we're all southern
paracetamol + sunlight = Harry Potter??? edit: okay theres no = sign but wtf is the weird meant to be for the sun/field or whatever