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post #101 of 122
6/10/05 at 10:39am
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Originally Posted by Fett
Nuclear Wessels.
Sabotaaaaahhhhhj.
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post #102 of 122
6/10/05 at 3:25pm
People who (mainly British, though I see the trend IS creeping into the States) replace the 'g' in the ending '-ing' with a 'k'.

Thus words like:
"SOMETHING"
"ANYTHING"
"NOTHING"

Become
"SomeTHINK"
"AnyTHINK"
"NoTHINK"

...I want to claw their eyes out!!!

Also can't stand the American " 'erb"; though I realise it's cultural, and can consequently live with it...
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post #103 of 122
6/10/05 at 4:04pm
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Originally Posted by Graham
People who (mainly British, though I see the trend IS creeping into the States) replace the 'g' in the ending '-ing' with a 'k'.

Thus words like:
"SOMETHING"
"ANYTHING"
"NOTHING"

Become
"SomeTHINK"
"AnyTHINK"
"NoTHINK"

...I want to claw their eyes out!!!
I second this, it makes people sound as common as hell, and extremely stupid to boot.
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post #104 of 122
6/10/05 at 8:34pm
People who put the emphasis on the first sllyable in umbrella.

UM-brella
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post #105 of 122
6/10/05 at 8:44pm
I hate it when the emphasis is on the brella.
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post #106 of 122
6/10/05 at 8:50pm
If you come to New Zealand, and visit a place called Whakatane, its pronounced FUCKA-TARN-AY not wokatain. So there. Same with Whakamaru, Whakapapa and Whakarewarewa. Yes, we have some rude placenames.

And I hate the way Richard Taylor form WETA says "yurs" instead of "years". And "wunted" instead of "wanted".
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post #107 of 122
6/10/05 at 9:09pm
It bothers me to no end when people pronounce "guitar" as "ge-tar" with a long 'e.'
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post #108 of 122
6/13/05 at 11:09am
this i've heard from a few people, but especially in the LOTR dvd interviews: people saying "saw-r it", or "saw-r him". what's with that extra "R"? peter jackson says it all the time: "we shot it, but when we saw-r it later on, we discovered that...". is it so hard to phonetically break between saw and what comes after it?
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post #109 of 122
6/13/05 at 4:07pm
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Originally Posted by Suttytx
Here's one for the crazy Brits out there:

Why do some pronounce their "th" as an "f"? For example, I heard some guy say "fink" instead of "think" and "wiff" instead of "with".
I've always had that problem, although only with words beginning with "th" not ending in it. For me it's simply an inability to do it right, a speech impediment or something. I've always hated it.
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post #110 of 122
6/14/05 at 7:46am
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Originally Posted by slowpulse
this i've heard from a few people, but especially in the LOTR dvd interviews: people saying "saw-r it", or "saw-r him". what's with that extra "R"? peter jackson says it all the time: "we shot it, but when we saw-r it later on, we discovered that...". is it so hard to phonetically break between saw and what comes after it?
Ah, the New Zealand accent, its a wondrous thing!

"Howzit, bro? Sweet as!"
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post #111 of 122
6/14/05 at 8:34am
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Originally Posted by DoYouLikeOwls?
Herb with a 'h' is the English way of saying it, at least it is how I say it.

Us Britons find American butchering of British place names particularily abhorent. A Quick lesson:

It is not Bucking-HAM Palace, but Bucking-um
It is not Birming-HAM, but Birming-um.
(This 'Ham' ending really grates on peoples nerves)

It is not Edin-boro, but Edin-bruh

Another suppossedly difficult name is Leicester which is simply said 'Lester', not Lie-cester or some other attempt.

And for Worcestershire, its Wuss-ter-sheer.

Lastly it also annoys me, and others, when people say London, England and Paris, France. Really irritating. Like I actually think you mean Paris, Texas when you say you're going to Paris.

Agreed, and as a fellow Britt may i add.

BERKELEY - Its pronouced BARKLEY its a family name! The town and the castle are named after the famliey. (Who i met a couple of times in my old job.) Mr Berkley (no longer a lord used to have to restrain himself when Americans misprinouced his name.) Its not the same as the American one.

READING - ok this is an odd one, its actully pronouced RED-ING athough i have had to stop myself laughing a couple of times when ive been asked on a London train if the next stop is READ-ing


Oh and a side note but please try and learn something about a place before you go there.

Stonehenge was not built by the Romans!
William Wallace did not conqour London
The English did not invent Tea


Just some fun facts I have heard American tourists tell there kids.
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post #112 of 122
6/14/05 at 12:29pm
Lot of stupid pronounciations on Halo 2, worst one has got to be Snipper rifle............for no good reason. I always make sure I kill the person and mock them right after hearing that.
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post #113 of 122
6/14/05 at 1:12pm
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Originally Posted by Ken Savage
Just some fun facts I have heard American tourists tell there kids.
Well over here in America, the correct grammatical spelling is their. :P
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post #114 of 122
6/14/05 at 1:35pm
I hate the way Richard Taylor says everything, but I think it has more to do with his plodding pace than with his pronunciation specifically.

As for the Japanese, you were almost right DoYouLikeOwls?, but it's the reverse, hence the catchy jingle for McDonalds where the restaurant is called "Mac Ewe Dough Nah Rude Oh". Figuring out what Japanese people are saying phonetically is a passtime into itself because a vast number of words in Japanese are just phonetic equivalents, but in a language without L and things like TH.

I was on a jury a couple months ago and the lawyers in the case referred to themselves as LOY-yers. Seemed annoying, although I guess it's common practice.
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post #115 of 122
6/15/05 at 1:38am
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Originally Posted by DoYouLikeOwls?
Oh and another thing, the word 'wellness' really gets on my nerves. There's no such word, the correct word is 'health'. People are simply butchering the English language.
Main Entry: well·ness
Pronunciation: 'wel-n&s
Function: noun
: the quality or state of being in good health especially as an actively sought goal <wellness clinics> <lifestyles that promote wellness>

As in, going to the pediatrician for a wellness exam on your two year old child.



Also, no one pronounces veterinary or veterinarian correctly. It's not "vetternary" and it's not "vetrinarry." But the dictionary lists vetrinary and vetinary as common pronounciations.
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post #116 of 122
6/15/05 at 4:58am
^ Sorry, my tongue gets clumsy sometimes and the "in" syllable in veter"in"arian trips me up and I am forced to bastardize the word in order to carry on with my sentance.

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Originally Posted by aine_grrr
I hate it when the emphasis is on the brella.
I prefer bumbershoot.
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post #117 of 122
6/15/05 at 5:04am
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Originally Posted by Diva
Well over here in America, the correct grammatical spelling is their. :P

How does that saying go? "People in glass houses....." That will teach me for not checking my post.
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post #118 of 122
6/16/05 at 11:24am
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Originally Posted by Belethedheliel
Main Entry: well·ness
Pronunciation: 'wel-n&s
Function: noun
: the quality or state of being in good health especially as an actively sought goal <wellness clinics> <lifestyles that promote wellness>

As in, going to the pediatrician for a wellness exam on your two year old child.
I know that it's a real word in America (I've seen too many TV commercials for 'Wellness centres' in Buffalo to know otherwise), but it really shouldn't be. It just sound wrong. Why can't Americans simply say 'health' like everybody else in the world? I'm sorry, but coming from Britain, where saying such a word would leave everybody thinking that you were an imbecile, I find this particular word extremely grating.

Truly evidence for the claim that the Americans are butchering the English language.
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post #119 of 122
6/16/05 at 11:34am
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Originally Posted by Ken Savage

Oh and a side note but please try and learn something about a place before you go there.

Stonehenge was not built by the Romans!
William Wallace did not conquer London
The English did not invent Tea


Just some fun facts I have heard American tourists tell their kids.
People's ignorance know no bounds, it seems.

I know what you mean about Reading. Every year at the Reading music festival, an American (usually, although also remember the guy from Silverchair doing it) musician always make the joke about Reading and reading, like they're the first to do it. It get timesome very quickly.
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post #120 of 122
6/17/05 at 12:14am
Lastly, may I add the some American pronounciations of Adolf, with the overpronounciation of the A. Like Ay-dolf.
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post #121 of 122
6/17/05 at 6:52am
On a simmilar theme while in New York a couple of years ago i found a brouchure advertising holidays in the Costwolds (which is the area i live). The brochure was advertising staying in a hotel in Uley which is a little town just outside my home town of Dusley. It proudly anouced that Uley was ten minutes drive from London.

Uley is in fact well over 100 miles from London so unless yuor driving a Rocket car you are not going to do it in 10 minutes.
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post #122 of 122
6/20/05 at 4:04am
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Originally Posted by Jubei
No, no, no. Much worse is "ideal" in place of idea. There's a guy in my office that does that. I want to punch him everytime I hear that.

"I had this ideal to hook up my DVD player to the blah blah blah..."

Fuck.

hahaha, spike lee did that on the 25th Hour dvd commentary.

annoyed the hell out of me
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