i have a tutor who calls the local rag the Queue-rier mail..... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BLOODY WRONG!!!! AAARRGGGHHHH!!!!


it does ma heed in!! hehehe


no seriously though. I'm only 24 and I find myself cringing with the way that the people in my classes speak and write. Infact there's a chinese girl in one of my classes who has a better understanding of grammer than most of the first-language-english people.


we've just done rhyming poerty in my literature class and I got into an argument with a couple of people as they said that one of the poems we had to read, didn't rhyme. The poem was written by a scot and according to them MY pronounciation of the SCOTTISH poets words was wrong.... err no!

i live in hope!! hehehe

I also say sore and saw and they sound no different.I had this problem once with a spanish teacher she did exactly the same to my daughter.I told her the 2 words did sound the same and she replied "not how i say them" to which i replied yes but you are saying it with a spanish accent and as you are now in england you should respect that my daughter has been taught to say them this way and if she wanted them sound how she said them then she should go back and teach in spain.So i think if you are english living in oz you have to respect that they do say things differently to us.Maybe it would have been nice for her to have said she understood you said the word that way but in oz it was incorrect.I would have thought about what i had said to that spanish teacher that day and thought if i want my daughter to say it the english way then perhaps i should go back there.i an not having a dig at you because at the end of the day you are just defending your own child but this is just an opinion from someone living in south london that comes across things like this every day!

Or, to put it another way, we have a different accent.

According to the Cambridge English Dictionary, they are pronounced in exactly the same way.

...and while the generalisations are flying, I invite you to join me in the West Midlands, where you will hear this exact same error repeated on a daily basis.

Move further up (into the Black Country) and confusion abounds: "am we" instead of "are we", "am you" instead of "are you", "he's" instead of "his", and a host of other regional bastardisations which are widely accepted as perfectly legitimate speech.

Looking around this forum, I have lost count of the number of times I've seen "of" appearing where correct English demands "have." ("We would of gone to the Gold Coast, but I'd heard it was too touristy...")

Don't even get me started on the British abuse of apostrophes.

Agreed.

Well, they were English, after all...

I've noticed that the Scots say "yous."

That's a cracking good post Benny, and I agree with it in principle.

However, when it comes to basic words like "saw" and "soar", the phonetic construction demands a strict pronunciation.

Some Yorkshire people do too.

Of course I don't cos I know how to spoke proper

Good on yous!

What the hell? Sore and saw do not sound the same! Especially if they are pronounced properly. And in the UK we had to put up with plummy English types on the news talking about "Lawr & Order", "dRawring" for sketching a picture, secetery for secretary and "plice and amblance". And someone says Aussies can't talk! Hah!

personally i would say that some ppl just cant spoke properly

You do pronounce the T in Moet, as its someones name

Jeez I have'nt posted in ages!

G.

ny son came home from school one day in tears because he had got all his spelling words wrong......I asked to see his book...and he wasnt amused when I was pissin meself laffin.......he had spelt all the words exactly how he had heard them with the aussie twang. I went to the teacher and explained that he was having hassles understanding her accent and could she perhaps speak a little slower...after she did this is is getting better. The pet hate of mine is....and folk did it in the UK too so I am not judging here lol

is MEMO of course short for MEMORANDUM which is always pronounced ME MO what the **** is a ME MO Randum

my neighbour creases me up when she says come and have a cuppa we will sit on the PAYTIO

I think it all stemmed from the regional areas in the UK. Londoners use wrong plurals, in the North they miss out on definite articles etc.

Apparently, Americans use certain words and grammar that were correct in England several hundred years ago - its the English that have changed.

You think Poms can?

I kind of agree - a homophone - is only a homophone dependant upon your accent/dialect.

She should have stuck with the common homophones - see and sea!

Soar and saw sound the same to me too.