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Watching a programme and they're calling Hitler, AY dolf. 
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Aluminum, newkiller
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I've heard several Americans pronounce Salvador Dali's surname as DAL-EYE, as if he were a llama....
Why do some Americans consistently pronounce 'ask' as "axe" ? It's only 3 letters, it can't be that hard to get it right surely? |
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It's to distinguish themselves from the British
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It's loo tenant ! that should be clear to even the most wooden of wooden heads
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I like lots of American pronunciations, LOOTENANT being a particular favourite.
Honorary mentions also to : ZEE LEEsure SKEDule MObill |
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Anything else is not English , possibly French
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I agree with MObill , very beautiful
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SKEdule is used in the aviation industry universally , maybe because the Americans wrote the rules
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It's a Test SKEdule they use on aircraft systems
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I've always liked the term 'REAL ESTATE".
Imagine my delight when some American horse race commentators incorporate it in the last furlong of a horse race, e.g, a fast-closing horse is often said to be "running out of real estate". |
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: ) superb
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Another American horse race favourite. When a horse leads from start to finish, at least one commentator describes this phenomenon as "Leading from Flag Fall to That's All".
Only the stoniest heart could possibly take exception. |
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Eyerack.
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One that grates with me is their pronunciation of van Gogh as van Go.
"Math" is also excruciating as in "Do the math". |
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very true alun , any sensitive person would agree All part of the great American songbook
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math is hideous
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It will always be Van Gogh for me
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I don't mind admitting that I was once asked at a Californian deli what I wanted as my sandwich filling. I unhesitating asked for Ham and TOE-MAY-TOE, as if I were a native born son of French Lick, Indiana.
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"Do the math" is surely only hideous when spoken by an impressionably young British person, ludicrously copying what they've seen in an American film or TV programme.
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Nucular
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Edinbro.
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How about Skatlin, Trilby?
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Lol, Foin knows!
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Burglarised..wtf.
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"Period" is yank for "Full Stop".
But you get people saying things like "I'm not doing that, period" as they've heard it on TV and don't understand where it comes from. This makes sense in ameriglish, not here, HERE "I'm not doing that, full stop" makes perfect sense. So *"^%ing say thay before I put my full stop up your ar*e! |
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Caribbean. I can't even say it the way the yanks do! 'Carab-e-yan' (say it very quickly!)
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[H]erbs
Oregano Skedule is the way I've always said it, so they are right there!  |
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Darta (data) Parsta (Pasta) Yowgurt (Yoghurt) Sectour (Sector)
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Zucchini (Courgette)
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Yuma
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Pre-sentation somehow when I lived in the US that crept in on tv as the way to say presentation
 cutter for Qatar too  What makes me laugh though is my wife has these words sounding the same - merry, Mary and marry |
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toob as opposed to tube..
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Talking of 'Aladdin Sane' let's give a big warm Southern welcome to Mr David Booey.
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Horrrrrr, mirrrrrr, terrrrr.
for Horror, mirror and terror |
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vee-hick-yew-lar
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Yeah cooperman it's annoying "Init" can't see the problem really a most American words are used in fxxking America
 you've peed me off now so I'm going to sing the American national anthem to remind me of how we kicked your English asses  |
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Darta instead of dayta is one I applaud. It shows awareness of the word's Latin origin.
Do, dare, dedi, datum. We have no trouble pronouncing that as "doe, daray, daydee, dartum" when we're learning Latin. So why change the participle to "daytum" or (plural) "dayta" when actually using the word? |
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Oh say can you see by the dawns early light.
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight saga last gleaming. Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight. O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming. And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air. Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh say does that star spangled banner yet wave. O'er the land of the free................ And the home of the brave. |
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UF
I will be down to sussex in the morning and chuck you in one of your fishing lakes. I am deeply upset and have taken a fence and gate. |