Annoying American Pronunciations

Aluminum,  newkiller 

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?

It's to distinguish themselves from the British

It's loo tenant ! that should be clear to even the most wooden of wooden heads

I like lots of American pronunciations, LOOTENANT being a particular favourite.

Honorary mentions also to :

ZEE
LEEsure
SKEDule
MObill

Anything else is not English , possibly French

I agree with MObill , very beautiful

SKEdule is used in the aviation industry universally , maybe because the Americans wrote the rules

It's a Test SKEdule they use on aircraft systems

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".

: ) superb

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.

Eyerack.

One that grates with me is their pronunciation of van Gogh as van Go.

"Math" is also excruciating as in "Do the math".

very true alun , any sensitive person would agree All part of the great American songbook

math is hideous

It will always be Van Gogh for me

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.

"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.

Nucular

Edinbro.

How about Skatlin, Trilby?

Lol, Foin knows!

Burglarised..wtf.

"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!

Caribbean. I can't even say it the way the yanks do!   'Carab-e-yan' (say it very quickly!)

[H]erbs
Oregano
Skedule is the way I've always said it, so they are right there!

Darta (data) Parsta (Pasta) Yowgurt (Yoghurt) Sectour (Sector)

Zucchini (Courgette)

Yuma

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

toob as opposed to tube..

Talking of 'Aladdin Sane' let's give a big warm Southern welcome to Mr David Booey.

Horrrrrr, mirrrrrr, terrrrr.
for Horror, mirror and terror

vee-hick-yew-lar

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

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?

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.

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.

Saga ??????? Where did that come from ???? Like most Yanks I make up the words !!!!

Don't give two hoots Limey

oooooooooooooooh!!!  that's it you have done it now.

I have never been so upset since they moved the embassy south of the river!!!

I mean  - everybody knows one never goes south of the river.

Funnily enough when I first joined my boat a lad asked me " Had the British forgiven them for beating them in the war of independence" I told him we'd won and lost many wars since and that it was funnily enough not of any consequence to the British. Went on to tell him it was mainly disgruntled English men doing the fighting

It peed me off moisok. Batteries power station would of been a great location for Chelsea's new ground but the yanks put a stop to it

I am somewhat interested in history particularly the  napoleonic era  and I have to laugh at how your lot didn't play fair and wouldn't stand still to be shot at ha ha!!!   The British were way behind. But, as usual, copied some of your ideas.

Yeah walking in a line wearing bright red coats didn't seem to be the brightest move !

Nothing grinds my gears more than an American saying 'oregano'.

Er reg er no consider yourself grinded

A lum min un

Some do sound better though-  bayzil better than bazil and skedule better than shedule imo

That's telling em Hank we'll keep our peckers up !

Hot diggity dawg ufcdan, indeed we will and amen to that. Have a nice day y'all.

they somehow pronounce nuteller as newteller, boggles the mind, aluminium is another classic which they say aloominum

Jan 16, 2018 -- 8:30PM, SlippyBlue wrote:

Nothing grinds my gears more than an American saying 'oregano'.

nutella, my mind is ravaged by aussie flue

flu!

You are not the only one  Grant - I am full of it

Glad you got that GRANTKCKING !

Moisok - re south of the river.   Only one Monopoly space south of the river, you can tell its an American game.

Where are you fishing in Sussex?. No need for absolute details, just interested!.  Three good big private lakes in idyllic surroundings next to me.  What's your pref.

Airplane.

It's Aeroplane!!!!!!

trump, when clearly it should be tw@t

As mentioned before, van Gogh.  I appreciate that the first G can be difficult for non-Dutch speakers but "Go", ignoring the gh, bears absolutely no resemblance to the original.  They've even changed the vowel sound.

Also, missile.  Which they pronounce as miss-all.

Obama, when clearly it should be tw@t.

Jan 16, 2018 -- 11:00PM, lybertyne wrote:

Obama, when clearly it should be tw@t.

I hate how they pronounce sh*thouse.

Mirror which sounds like [b]meee]. rrr[/b

I hate the way they say 'fillet' as in 'fillay steak'.

Everyone knows it is pronounced 'fillit'.

It must be particularly annoying to the French.

Is this the betting without the way they pronounce Moscow market?

johnny that is a beaut...the misdescription of toilet,wc as bathroom,aint no bath in there you arrr**

I doubt the french are too impressed with their use of Notre-Dame either.

Premiership as premeership always amuses me.

Nu York
Deepot
Coup instead of Coupay
Chassy instead of Shassy
Vays instead of Vars
Leezur instead of Lesure
Dook of Edinbro as in Duke of Edinburgh

and they don't even understand their own language,
where one guy wrote about a 'guarder belt'

In fairness there could be contra arguments, seeing as,
in our speak, New & Knew are pronounced the same!

Pronouncing Moscow as Mos-cow (rather than Mos-coe) makes sense in the States, because that's how the German word for Moscow is pronounced (Moskau). And more Americans trace their ancestry to Germans than any other group.

Jan 17, 2018 -- 9:39AM, Jack Hacksaw wrote:

I hate the way they say 'fillet' as in 'fillay steak'.Everyone knows it is pronounced 'fillit'.It must be particularly annoying to the French.

OMFG this one does my head in aswell

They pronounce 'aubergine' as 'eggplant', that is just wrong on every level.

I like how they mispronounce our placenames.

'Wor-sester-shyer' and 'Lye-sester-shyer' being the good examples

But also Wor-Wick, and my personal favourite - 'Nodding haam'

there are some vowels they just refuse to pronounce properly - "A" being the most common,
I dare anyone to visit the States and go to a cafe and order (in your loudest, proudest, British accent) "a basil and tomato soup"


the most grating has to be meeeeer

New Yorkers esp have some gems - kwahfee is my personal fav.

Some of my silent screaming moments-
Spending time in hospital is always spending time in "the" hospital - as if there was only one.
Restroom. (aaarghh!)
Gasoline for petrol
Soccer for football
Soccer Mum (wtf?)
Military for army
Line for queue
Yard for garden
Pants for trousers

and all of the previous examples.
etc etc etc
And while we're on the subject - chat show hosts who sit behind a desk three feet above their guests - can't watch it sorry.

How does that work if Danny DeVito's a guest?

And deviating slightly away from pronunciation, my absolute favourite expression commonly heard in New York is "I don't got" instead of "I haven't got".

Mind-blowingly ugly.

Yes, 'Kwahfee' is a good one.

Candy for sweets
Bathroom for toilet
Highway for road
Sidewalk for pavement
Movie for film
Railroad for railway

They drive on the right, we drive on the left.

They have to be different don't they?

Two-time for double
Normalcy for normality
Levver for lever
Druggist for chemist
Gotten
Oftentimes
Medal as a verb
I could care less (actually the opposite of what they mean)
Season for TV series (I even find myself using that one ffs)
Semester
Soda for pop
Biscuit for bread roll

Enough already!! I'm through with this.

From the get go......4 words to say start.

I drove across America when I was twenty delivering a car, in the mid west I would often have to write down my food order as they could not understand me mind while traveling with some French Canadians travelling to France from Greece they although spoke French couldn't make themselves understood. I got on better not speaking the lingo

steerforth - the soda/pop one depends where in the country you are.

ufc when I lived there getting a water was torture-  but being stubborn I refused to say wader

Top body shot (header)
Chips (crisps)
Jelly (jam)

One that is creeping in over here is 'snuck', what's wrong with sneaked?

The car went into the water and, luckily, a guy 'dove' in to save her!

That's another one that is annoying me, Lady FV.

'That man's got no pants on' when he clearly is wearing pants (thank God)

Oh she means trousers.

Yeah cooperman it's annoying "Init" can't see the problem really a most American words are used in fxxking America Mischief 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 Cool

Actually all America 'won' was their freedom on an away leg, they certainly didn't defeat us.
The British are the only ones ever to burn out the White House and take everything in it.

Anyone who utters the words 'super easy' deserves a slow death in my book.

Not a pronunciation, but the most irritating of all and it's been adopted by British advertisers (who should be sacked and deported, imo)

'ALL-NEW'

Invariably it isn't, but the 'all' is completely superfluous in any case.

Day-boo

Blackbarn  - it was a jibe at UFc  in conversation -sorry to have misled you   - I  used to fish out of sussex but only in a boat


all the best

Day-boo sounds good to me. Closer to the original word in French.

'Speciality' (GB) and 'specialty' (US) is another one like aluminium/aluminum. Caused me no end of bother when I used to have a job translating patents, and the documents were being filed in the New York Patent Office. Time and again someone in the dispatch dept would spot the missing 'i', re-insert it and send it out that way, 'cos it's obviously a spelling mistake, innit?

Another favourite in the post room was carefully Tipp-exing out the first 's' in 'Johns Hopkins University'.

Blackburn I mainly fish on the river Rother between Coultershaw and Fittleworth. Where's those lakes you mentioned ?

Aluminiulluminum ... you know the one !

It explains quite a bit about the US that they don't know what a fanny is

Can I throw Savverners under the bus too here?

Ray Winstone in bet 3.65 work saying 'con der nants' for continents?