SultanOfSwing

I have yet to hear that one. That's almost certainly the product of poor education over geography - right?

Oh, to be able to sit down in the pub with your dad

helwardman

Not sure about that, I've heard it from more than one well-educated person over here, but never heard it in England.

SultanOfSwing

I've never heard it anywhere so it must be some kind of regional pronounciation down your way.

JSL8610

One that came up with my wife (and I'm not sure why this came up in conversation!) was peh-dophile. I asked her what she called a doctor that specializes in children. Pee-diatrician she said. Given the same root word, I couldn't understand why they were pronounced differently.

She told me that we both pronounce other words the first way. I asked her for an example and she came up with 'pedometer'.

Missed the point, I think...

Sally Redux

I would say 'chaize lounge' and 'coop' for coupé are wrong.

Some of the others are just words we have difficulty getting to grips with, so don't take it personally. We are just finding our way. We're kind of talking amongst ourselves.

Captain Cheesestick

I spend HOURS on this site just putting in words and then getting angry. And this is the specific word I use to illustrate how maddening some words are. By wife says she genuinely cannot hear any difference between the two words.

http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionar...ctionary/fox_1

Of course - it's much more fun (and infinitely childish) to just put swearwords in and hear English and American pronunciation.

Uncle Ebenezer

It's true though, from experience - Americans don't hear the difference. People call (and spell, FFS!!) me "Berry" and insist, when I say "Barry" that it's exactly the same.

Rete

LOL I'm not luv. That's why I used all the similies

kimilseung

The Scream was sold, the news guy said it was painted by 'Edvard Munch' (and not Monk) was that American pronunciation, or a one off ignorant?

Sally Redux

I would say it with a 'ch' as in 'loch', not sure if that's correct.

cindyabs

I don't know, I booked a guest on a riverboat cruise, asking him to spell his surname which was German. I pronounced it the German way and he corrected me because it had been anglicized (or americanized, ), once his family had settled here.

Then again that opens up a whole other can of worms about spelling not equaling the way it should be said..... I remember my Dad teaching me the correct way to pronounce Mao's name, not because he was more intelligent (although he was a pretty smart cookie), but because he was stationed in China during WWII.

Primula

Thanks for the good laugh. I love that phrase numpty nuts. I don't think I have ever actually said the word kudos to anyone, but, of course, I would pronounce it the way you do.

I would say it's both ways and I probably use both ways. Cadillac Coupe de Ville, for example, sounds much better without the accent on the "e".

Interesting comment. As I mentioned before, I detest rowte for route with a passion, but I always say rowter for router. When I come across a word for the first time, such as router when I set up our house for wi-fi, I would always pronounce it the American way because that is all I know.

I was standing in a daze at the supermarket this morning and a couple of guys asked me what I needed. I said a cold bottle of water and they immediately jumped to it. Never had a problem with that word.

But this is a British chat forum and we're here to chat about British things. If it really is the 9,843rd such post in BE history, people still seem interested in the topic. The language changes all the time anyway so new words come up for discussion. BTW, I'm not in a foreign country and I would never refer to myself as a foreigner.

Forgot about that one. Which is the American pronunciation?

I enjoy using the bold icon for emphasis. You, on the other hand, enjoy cursing and an excessive use of acronyms.

It's hard being a newbie because we are not sure what has been discussed before. Nobody has time to troll through hundreds of pages of thread topics. I was glad that nobody had started a youtube favorite piece of music thread, but some of us are reluctant to start a thread in case it's been done to death before. None of us wishes to be predictable so bear with us if we are boring you. After all you aren't obliged to open a new thread.

Haven't come across that, but it is ridiculous.

See comment above; I believe coupé and coupe are interchangeable.

Chaize lounge is hideous and I believe entirely due to laziness. Nobody would pronounce ballet without a silent "t" so it's not that hard to pronounce a French word.

Ignorance. What did it sell for, do you know?

Uncle Ebenezer

Not if you're French, it doesn't.

Primula

I'm not French.

lansbury

Dead right Rete, don't know what's worse. Newbies keep posting about moving to Florida or the continual they don't do it here like we do in the UK threads.

Who bloody cares. When in Rome etc. I await the next inane thread with trepidation, move on people get with the program.