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The language we're communicating in here is ENGLISH. We invented it. It's named after us. The necessary clues to correct pronunciation and spelling are contained therein.
In other words, we do it right, you do it wrong. America likes to remove vowels from words in order to simplify spellings. I suspect there is an unflattering reason for that.
We do try to make allowances for our cousins in the colonies. After all, they haven't had the benefit of our superior culture and esteemed educational institutions. Our rich history of subjugating Johnny Foreigner has spread our lyrical mother tongue across the globe. Sadly, it tends to become corrupted once in situ, due to the lack of class and breeding endemic in the populations of inevitably inferior nations than our own blissful, sceptred isle.
Now, my dear old thing, you must excuse me. There's cricket on the village green, and those cucumber sandwiches won't eat themselves.
That's not even to mention you spelling Color with a u as Colour!
Not saying I am mad or really upset, it just really upsets me when I hear those words pronounced that way!
The dreaded 'con-traugh-ve-see' you refer to is a British optional variant (far from everyone in Blighty pronounces it that way). On pronunciation bete noires, why the hell do Americans pronounce 'herbs' 'erbs'? They're not bloody French. Another cross-Atlantic irritant - UK newsreaders pronouncing Los Angeles - Los Angelees. All right if you're Arlo Guthrie, ridiculous if you're not. Re your 'vitamins' 'provocation' - it strikes me as no more or less logical than the alternative option. I wouldn't get your knickers in a twist over it.
what about how americans pronounce the word aluminium - aluminum ?
sounds entirely different
I hate to break it to you Bob, but the reason our American cousins pronounce it aloominnum, is because they spell it aluminum, not aluminium as we do, so I guess that they're saying it correctly when they say it that way in the U.S.A.
Last edited by Jean-Francois; 05-14-2016 at 10:51 AM..
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Don't blame US, blame Noah Webster and his dictionary. In the early 19th C he decided that spelling needed to be reformed. Silly, because it's only caused more confusion and anyway, English is not a phonetic language to begin with.
The dreaded 'con-traugh-ve-see' you refer to is a British optional variant (far from everyone in Blighty pronounces it that way). On pronunciation bete noires, why the hell do Americans pronounce 'herbs' 'erbs'? They're not bloody French. Another cross-Atlantic irritant - UK newsreaders pronouncing Los Angeles - Los Angelees. All right if you're Arlo Guthrie, ridiculous if you're not. Re your 'vitamins' 'provocation' - it strikes me as no more or less logical than the alternative option. I wouldn't get your knickers in a twist over it.
not forgetting SNUCK.....we say VITamins not VEETamins.. and colour with a U is correct like Tyre too....
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