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From YouTube with all those Brit narrators.
* All my 75 years, I only knew: TY-gris (Euphrates). Now YouTube Brit says: TIGG-ris.
* Right now, Cyrano de Bergerac, I only knew SIRR-a-no: The Brit just said, sirr-RA-no.
********* Huh?!1
hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)RainCaster
(10,884 posts)Brits pronounce "cigarette" as "fag". They march to a different drum.
GenThePerservering
(1,824 posts)just march to a different drum.
czarjak
(11,278 posts)CentralMass
(15,265 posts)Skittles
(153,169 posts)I'M speaking English....YOU have an accent
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,855 posts)... entirely because I'll never understand the people.
Jeremy Clarkson is from the UK, and he struggled with it:
Edit: Reminds me of some people that I've encountered in the Southern USA, but that kind of "mumbling" is very unusual there too.
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Wounded Bear
(58,666 posts)wnylib
(21,486 posts)Harker
(14,024 posts)Mun-AG-yu-ah Nick-a-RAG-yu-ah.
Doc_Technical
(3,526 posts)Poiuyt
(18,125 posts)Wicked Blue
(5,834 posts)Norwegians learn Norwegian, the Greeks are taught their Greek
In France every Frenchman knows his language from A to Zed
Oh why can't the English? (Why can't the English?)
set a good example for people whose English is murder to the ears
The Scotch and the Irish leave one close to tears.
-- My Fair Lady
Mr.Bill
(24,303 posts)If we hadn't, we'd all be speaking English right now.
wnylib
(21,486 posts)Cleaned up the spelling a bit by getting rid of the unnecessary "u" in several words. Established more consistent pronunciation patterns regarding which syllable gets accented. And we pronounce whole words instead of dropping syllables. Got rid of certain titles by eliminating the positions, like "duke," "duchess," "king," "queen," etc.
Mr.Bill
(24,303 posts)into names for our dogs.
wnylib
(21,486 posts)People don't.
LudwigPastorius
(9,155 posts)They won't get me, though. I've got my alyoo-MIHN-eey-um foil hat on.