Mispronunciations

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Miri said:
Brits always seem to get cast as mad scientists or the baddies!
Maybe that says a lot. :D
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And, everyone knows, all the people in the time of Jesus spoke with a British accent.... it's in all the movies.. must be correct.
 
I think it was a Texan that got stopped by a cop, who said "You got any ID?" and the Texan said "about whut?"
 
BrokenSparrow said:
Yeah, this accent is so perfect the rest of the world can't understand what we're saying. When we go out of town we have to take an interpreter, and you can forget trying to pay a bill by phone because we might as well be speaking Greek:p
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I'm from Texas, meaning accents like that are no problem at all lol. But I see your point.
 
I always liked the quote from Sweet Home Alabama.... "just cause I talk slow, don't mean I'm stupid".....
 
mar09 said:
Yes, british and australian english both sound so different you need to go to a different school/class to learn to speak the same. There was a vid of a young lady w/ filipino parents, and she said u recognize filipinos when they say F-starting words with the sound P as in pebruary-). But somewhere i heard many mispronunciations was in french class, where it just (looked and) sounded so funny coz every student pronounced what was written differently.
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Thanks guys, for the posts. I am digging up from some memory banks, but look fwd to hearing again. Got to go, but

I meant to add we probably laughed more than we learned from the frenchman who taught.
 
For the longest time, I thought that the word "bistro" was pronounced "b-I-stro". But it's actually pronounced "b-EE-stro". :)
 
BrokenSparrow said:
Naw, coke is for the south. We like our mountain dew and call it a pop:p Not sure about the accident thing. Surely they wasn't talking about our accent seeing its perfect and all :p
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This is true, we say "coke" for everything, even Pepsi. My grandfather is 83 and will say "sodie water". We also say cold drinks. I'm in Alabama, and I understood the Tennessean just fine. :)
 
Galatea said:
This is true, we say "coke" for everything, even Pepsi. My grandfather is 83 and will say "sodie water". We also say cold drinks. I'm in Alabama, and I understood the Tennessean just fine. :)
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Pepsi is what you get when they don't have Coke.
 
Galatea said:
This is true, we say "coke" for everything, even Pepsi. My grandfather is 83 and will say "sodie water". We also say cold drinks. I'm in Alabama, and I understood the Tennessean just fine. :)
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Cool, I've got friends in Alabama. I like their southern draw. :)
 
BrokenSparrow said:
Cool, I've got friends in Alabama. I like their southern draw. :)
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You like their southern draw? I didn't know we were such great artists, Lol (jk). :)

I don't think our drawl is too much different from Tennesseans', but maybe so.

[video=youtube;yhLBXjwFuqo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhLBXjwFuqo[/video]
 
Sorry, and thanks, guys. I know the coke thing. There's the word pronunciation i suddenly remember. As mentioned in another thread, a children's story abt an amiable giant caught my attention in a sister's grade 4 reader. For quite a time i didnt know what the word amiable meant, and when i did check out its meaning, i did not bother abt how to pronounce either. In my mind it was always a-may-a-ble (short vowel). Good i was in grade 1 or 2 so the pronunciation didnt seem too bad then.
 
Galatea said:
You like their southern draw? I didn't know we were such great artists, Lol (jk). :)

I don't think our drawl is too much different from Tennesseans', but maybe so.

[video=youtube;yhLBXjwFuqo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhLBXjwFuqo[/video]
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Cool video. We differ on a few things not many. We say y'all but sometimes we say you'uns to refer to a group of people. We differ on coke and pop, too. When we've ate too much we say we're foundered or busting instead of about to pop probably because pop means coke to us...lol We say pack instead of tote or carry. The rest is pretty much the same though:)
 
When I was about 5 or 6, I had been reading for over a year, and had learned mostly phonetically... I came upon the name of a country in one of my stories... Peru.... I had never seen it before. As I read my story in front of my parents, I pronounced it "pee'-roo"..... I remember my mom just about lost it... she laughed for a while.... then she taught me the correct way to pronounce it....
 
BrokenSparrow said:
Cool video. We differ on a few things not many. We say y'all but sometimes we say you'uns to refer to a group of people. We differ on coke and pop, too. When we've ate too much we say we're foundered or busting instead of about to pop probably because pop means coke to us...lol We say pack instead of tote or carry. The rest is pretty much the same though:)
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You saying poke for bag?
 
I don't but I know some older people that still say poke for bag. I didn't know what they were talking about when I first heard it. It sounded strange some one saying give me a poke to but my things in. :p
 
Break time! How about this:
[video=youtube;biZlMd66MDY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biZlMd66MDY[/video]
 
My brother once asked his older sister how to spell a word. The word was Something and my sister squinted over it a long time and then said: "some-tinge". :D (she was probably only about 8 years old).
 
In the South, we pronounce some words the same. Like pen and pin. So to distinguish which one we are talking about, we say "ink pin" and "safety pin" or "straight pin". I think we often mispronounce the short "e" sound. We say peenguin with a long e. Saying penguin correctly actually sounds strange to me.
 
Galatea said:
In the South, we pronounce some words the same. Like pen and pin. So to distinguish which one we are talking about, we say "ink pin" and "safety pin" or "straight pin". I think we often mispronounce the short "e" sound. We say peenguin with a long e. Saying penguin correctly actually sounds strange to me.
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:D. A southern friend of mine once completely confused me by saying that she found this really fun pin set...but it was too expensive so she made her own. It had feathers and sequins and all sorts of bling. And I'm going...like, a brooch? a decorative pin for clothing? Girl, that sounds SO ugly :p. Then she says "They wrote really fun!" and the light went on, lol.
 
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