Bloody 'ell mate! This thread 's gonna be a bugger!
[QUOTE=Uberman77883;28244843]We pronounce things in the correct way that the letters were meant to be pronounced.
For example, t makes a tuh sound, not a chew sound.
Therefore toosday, not chewsday, because we are pronouncing the t correctly not in the strange mangled series of mumbles you call "British English"[/QUOTE]
We say it that way because of the ue in tuesday. No o's in tuesday
[QUOTE=Uberman77883;28244843]We pronounce things in the correct way that the letters were meant to be pronounced.
For example, t makes a tuh sound, not a chew sound.
Therefore toosday, not chewsday, because we are pronouncing the t correctly not in the strange mangled series of mumbles you call "British English"[/QUOTE]
You don't spell The as Du, yet you spell it as The.
[QUOTE=The Vman;28244728]I always thought the northwest accent was the most correct form.
Have you ever head of a Washingtonian accent? No. That's because we don't have one.[/QUOTE]
You sound like Canadians.
[QUOTE=T-Bag-T;28245036]We say it that way because of the ue in tuesday. No o's in tuesday[/QUOTE]
Chewsday?
Tewsday?
[QUOTE=Explosions;28245422]You sound like Canadians.[/QUOTE]
We're Southwest Canada
I say harassment like "hair-uhs-ment"
I have no idea why :saddowns:
I hate when people act like southern American accents are the most common.
I was in England recently on an exchange trip. One day, after school, I came back to my partner's house. The family and I either had to go somewhere or we were just going to watch TV, and I was still in my uncomfortable khakis, so I said "I'll be right down. I just have to go change my pants."
Cue an awkward, embarrassing minute of everyone staring at me as I realized my error.
England was fun.
Also, fun fact:
According to the dictionary, if you are American, you should pronounce "often" as "offen." Weird.
[QUOTE=mysteryman;28243996]I will agree to that if and only if you can find in my post where i said american's are lazy.[/QUOTE]
if you're calling someone's speech lazy, which you're actually really wrong on, then you're basically saying that they are lazy
Well the American dictionary did come after and fucked up a lot of words and pronunciation.
Garidge - Guhraj (Garage)
ITT: People find stupid excuses to make Americans look stupid because we speak differently.
Americans say it how it's spelled. English people don't.
[QUOTE=kaine123;28247093]ITT: People find stupid excuses to make Americans look stupid because we speak differently.[/QUOTE]
Americans are a smart and productive people who suffer from the fact that their stupidest people happen to also be the loudest. The smart sit back and watch their reputation die while the stupid run amok, screaming like children.
Such is life on planet earth.
On average American English more consistently portrays letter combinations.
Examples:
Zee better fits with the rest of the alphebet (ee, pee, tee, etc.) No other letter ends with anything like "zed."
'Centre' and 'her' both contain the same sound, but are spelled inconsistently. Where as the "er" sound is always spelled with 'er' in American English. (center, theater,etc.)
I like Canadian English.
New York has like, 5 accents in it alone.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hrA9-6o4tI[/media]
more english accents
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UgpfSp2t6k[/media]
[QUOTE=Bombardier.;28242488]We didn't lose.
We left. :911:
[editline]23rd February 2011[/editline]
Also elevator/lift.[/QUOTE]
Akin to a rage quit on a game.
I've always wondered why British people pronounce the letter Z as "Zed" while Americans pronounce it as "Zee."
[QUOTE=Badballer;28246968]Well the American dictionary did come after and fucked up a lot of words and pronunciation.[/QUOTE]
How is it better to say centre instead of center if you don't pronounce it that way?
This thread was totally a good idea.
The accent varies with the age of the person, too. My grandma, who grew up in Oklahoma, says shit really weird, partly because she's sort of a redneck. Like "baeg" for bag, "warshing machine" for washing machine, "Hawaiuh" for Hawaii, "putayduhs" for potatoes, and "Deja veww" for deja vu. The last one really bothers me.
[QUOTE=Xenoyia v2;28233535]Americans stole british english and ruined some pronunciations.[/QUOTE]
no we made it more manly
real men dont drink tea with crumpets
there has always been a heated debate with my mates as to the american spelling of through, I say they spell it thru, but not when being official (i.e; in the credits of rocky 3, its spelled thru)
zzzzzzzzzzzzz
sssssssssssss
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[QUOTE=aolflash2;28233593]Well you can still see some differences in words that mean the same:
Truck-Lorry
Garbage-Rubbish[/QUOTE]
Oh god that reminds me of last summer. I was refereeing with some British refs and he asked where the 'bin' was. There were seven of us Americans in the tent, and not one of us knew what he wanted. It wasn't until another referee stepped in and understood that bin=trash that we finally got it.
I swear, sometimes it's like another language.
[QUOTE=WastedJamacan;28249328]Oh god that reminds me of last summer. I was refereeing with some British refs and he asked where the 'bin' was. There were seven of us Americans in the tent, and not one of us knew what he wanted. It wasn't until another referee stepped in and understood that bin=trash that we finally got it.
I swear, sometimes it's like another language.[/QUOTE]
You're supposed to throw trash in the bin! Not trash in the trash.
[QUOTE=Greyson;28249478]You're supposed to throw trash in the bin! Not trash in the trash.[/QUOTE]
The word 'bin' barely exists in American dialect. Seriously, if someone says that, I don't know if anyone else would understand them.
In fact, the only use I have used it for is as in a storage container.
[QUOTE=gamefreek76;28235932]English is a shitty language anyways.[/QUOTE]
To be honest it is in some ways. It can be far too ambiguous at times. Take the word "free" for example, this could either mean a free meal (as in gratis) or being free (libre).
At least English doesn't have that gender thing a lot of other languages have, it confuses me quite a bit. (Although maybe that is because I am a native English speaker and my ability to speak other languages is very limited)
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