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Annoying American Pronunciations
Annoying American Pronunciations
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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? |
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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. |
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From the get go......4 words to say start.
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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  |
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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 |
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Top body shot (header)
Chips (crisps) Jelly (jam) |
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One that is creeping in over here is 'snuck', what's wrong with sneaked?
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The car went into the water and, luckily, a guy 'dove' in to save her!
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That's another one that is annoying me, Lady FV.
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'That man's got no pants on' when he clearly is wearing pants (thank God)
Oh she means trousers. |
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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 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. |
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Anyone who utters the words 'super easy' deserves a slow death in my book.
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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. |
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Day-boo
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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 |
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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'. |
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Blackburn I mainly fish on the river Rother between Coultershaw and Fittleworth. Where's those lakes you mentioned ?
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Aluminiulluminum ... you know the one !
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It explains quite a bit about the US that they don't know what a fanny is
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Can I throw Savverners under the bus too here?
Ray Winstone in bet 3.65 work saying 'con der nants' for continents? |