er, slower and more clearly would have been better, not volume.

i have only just got the hang od not saying rota, and diary. I'll work on how to say them next!

I have a friend who sees it as her life's mission to constantly correct both my pronunciation and the words I use. That friendship is starting to fade.................

I would rebel.
Get Novo to teach you some Geordie. That'll fettle 'em

Does anybody else have trouble when they have to spell something out:
I need to spell both my first and last name, constantly BUT the vowel sound are different, so I still have trouble. I have taken to giving my drivers licence, save my embarrassment.

You closet Canadian you!

Don't start me on vowel sounds ..... in Barbershop singing all vowel sounds have to match as well as notes to tune and make a "unit sound"

Quite amusing in a chorus of some 50 voices, including South African, French, "British" (me), Irish, and Japanese. ...... not to mention "Newfies"!

I get bewildered looks when I spell stuff with the alpha, bravo, charlie, delta alphabet thingy...what's it called? It's more trouble using that, than just having the words misspelled

PHONETIC Alphabet.... (Papa Hotel Oscar November Echo Tango India Charlie)

Tango alpha

P 4/5 as in P-45

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari_P4/5

Phonetic alphabet.

Used it daily for thirty years.

Edit: There I go a day late and a dollar short, AX already answered.

November Oscar Papa Romoe Oscar Bravo Lima Echo Mike Sierra Tango Echo Victor Echo

It just slipped out, I didnt mean to.

When telling new Canadian friends last night about an appointment time of my OH's, we said it was at half three and she laughed delightedly and said "Oh I am going to start speaking British like you, it's so quaint ", when I asked what could possibly have been sooo amusing she said I should have said - three thirty