How do YOU say it?........

[forge]

haha bollurks

agreed with Queef...

while the US was kicking the Brits out of the US colonies guys like Daniel Webster were actively changing the spelling and pronunciation of words to further separate the US from the Brits.

I'm just glad to be a native speaker, it's gotta be a fucked up language to learn as a second language.

+1 on apostrophes and basic spelling, I don't care how people say the words, most can't write them to begin with (hooray for Fire Fox spell checkers!)

check out Bill Bryson's excellent 'Made in America', which really does delve into the historiography of pronunciation... you may be shocked and amused
o.

OMG - I was reading his post and was about to give EXACTLY THE SAME ADVICE!!!

I'm reading it at the moment - great read!

[tech44]

how is lieutenant pronounced?

the correct way of course is lef-tenant

and aluminum

al-u-min-yum

try telling the crazy yanks that though

http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/ ... v=aluminum

You were saying?

[dru]

I've always spelt it Aluminium (with the 'i' between the 'n' and 'u').

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminum

[forge]

'ROUTE' - as in to route the signal.

To me, I say it 'root' or 'rute'.
The pronunciation of it 'rauuwwwrt' or 'rowt' or 'raeiout' etc really annoys me.

How do you say it? Ive just watched a video on a Native Instruments product and the guys said the word 4 different ways lol

well I would prefer to say root but as I live in Australia it's not possible. Here it means the same as "shag".

[hartsta]

[quote="last man on earth"]"Americans are usually wrong"?

That's what people who watch television more than they meet people would think, I imagine...

"We invented the language"?

You may have invented it, but we gave it a dialect that made it understandable, hence, that is why you can understand us, but we can't always understand you

:?[/quote]

Try connecting your brain when you hear a Uk accent then!

Truck = Lorry
Trash can = Bin
Trunk= Boot
Sneakers = Trainers
Flash light = Torch
Hose Clamp = Jubilee Clip
Broom = Brush
Baaag = Bag
Maaap = Map
Alooooooooominum = Alluminium

No I have never seen the queen or ever heard a bomb go off & I don't know your fecking relations in Scotland!

[Warminstrel]

Everyone's still fishing for yanks on this thread then?

Still using the good old 'Oxford Dictionary' as bait too I see?

Just make sure to play nice and throw back the tiddlers mkay?

You'd have thought they'd have 'gotten' the irony by now wouldnt you?

To our Americanesian cousins:

Just make sure not ro disrespect the Queen (as we all think she is fab over here) make no jokes about bombs (because we have to dodge the darn things on a daily basis) and please have respect fo our Scottish relatives as we all have them and on many, many occasisions have enterataining afternoons watching 'soccer' together cheering on each others team.