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My two year old corrected my pronunciation of 'water'...He said 'Mummy it's not 'warterrr', it's 'wadda'.....

Sigh....next thing he'll be doing weird things with his fork and saying stuff like 'I'm going to lay down'.....

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Squirrel and Orange really piss me off.

Squarl

Oararnge

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In some parts of DC, they say 'arrah' meaning the letter 'r'...Drives me NUTS!

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I asked my stepdaughter to spell water for me....

of course, it was spelt W A D E R

I wanted to cry. She's 11.

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You're pissed off about most things these days - Micky D's burgers, fast food, Amazon gift vouchers and the rest of it. You should lighten up matey.............or start drinking like the rest of us.

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Wait for "alum-min-um" and "are you done yet?" to come ;)

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Swede I have HUGE issues with Swede, not enough that its called Rutabaga or whatever, when you get to the till they have no idea what it is, and of course I cant remember rutabaga, so we go through root vegetable, like a turnip, no not a carrot OBVIOUSLY God I hate swede shopping!

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try danish shopping instead.

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Swedes taste like soap. :(

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and caramel....."carmul" :frown:

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I actually really love the way Yanks say squirrel :)

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Out of curiosity - how do you pronounce it? :)

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erm....trying to think how to type it phonetically....

skwirrel

when Mr J says it, it;s more like

squirl

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I read those as the same. I'd probably have to hear you say it. :lol:

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me too. :confused:

I don't say wadder or wadda, never have.

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I don't think I do either ... but the "t" the Brits say must be more pronounced.

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I guess, but as we've mentioned many times, it can depend on where in the US you are, or are from. I've noticed differences on pronunciations in the UK too.

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Very true. I recently discovered that I have an appreciation for a Liverpool accent. Who knew? :tounge_smile:

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I picked that up on the guy Steve McMananananahan or whatever his name is during the England/Germany match this weekend. DH scoffed and said, that was easy, and I said maybe for those of us who remembered the Beatles in the old days, but now, not so much.

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That's who I was thoroughly enjoying listening to ... I did not pick up on where he was from. I thought he was perhaps Scottish. :o I'd better stop talking on this subject or I'm going to entertain/annoy many a Brit.

Sorry for taking it so off topic, OP.

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lol.

When I say it, it's a definate 2 consanants.
When he says it, it's 1.

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well if nothing else it shows it goes both ways, ;)

Back to you OP. :)

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Ah, I say it with two syllables as well. Another regional difference. :)

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As well as the T sound its also the way we say the a in water. when the brits say it , it rhymes with daughter. The yanks say wadder like the a rhymes with 'what'.

so its really whadder as opposed to wauter.

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Today I tried to buy apricots at Walmart.
The checkout girl said "What are these??"
"Apricots"
"Never seen these before... are they a vegetable???!!":ohmy::ohmy::ohmy:

But... she did actually look as if she's never had a piece of fresh fruit in her life!!

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I've only been here three and a bit weeks and I've started drinking already...... Does that mean I have automatic club membership? I can play a mean blues guitar if you're a real drummer by the way..... only if beer's included though..........

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One difference I've noticed is that in Britian if politicians don't like another country they are polite and say so in parliament in a constructive manner (unless it is Germany or France, and then everyone is just rude and bizarre).

However the US just bombs it to **** and back.

Is it just me who has noticed this? :confused:

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Hello You! How are things going? Are you 'appreciating' the weather, or hibernating like me? :lol:

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No, I noticed this also but it is a very subtle difference.

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I've got some decent chops.

Odd you should mention the Blues. I was just listening to some tracks Chris Layton laid down with Pinetop Perkins.

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My 2 (nearly 3) year old says things differently depending on whether she's talking to me or my wife. I'm very proud that she's been asking to watch the football every day for the last few weeks.

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Hiya Kim.... It's bloody hot isn't it! I made the mistake of laying around the pool all day saturday, and just about got my face burnt off. I'm keeping out of it as much as possible now. It's a bit warmer than Newcastle sun :eek:

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I think that's more of an East Coast dialect. ;):)

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Got it cleared up by DH this am as I drove him to work. I said, " say w-a-t-e-r."' Wiseass sez W-a-t-e-r. :frown: Wisely noticing my frown, he said it as if it indeed rhymes with daughter in 2 syllables. So I said it the way I do. He said it sounds like how he says it, but I only use 1 syllable.

The world can now keep on turning.

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:D

When we lived in the UK, we used to watch This Old House and really noticed when a few of the guys would say water,power and shower. I suppose I never thought much about the distinctly different dialects in this country until you hear them in a different context. :D

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They sound somewhat like me. :lol:

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OUCH!! yeah, way too hot for laying by water! What are you up too for the Holiday weekend? going to Patriots Point? I think we will probably just stay home, it looks like it's going to be too hot to be outside!:rolleyes:

Missing the 'ale' yet?

Sorry for the OT post;)

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I had the fortune to go through officer training in the Royal Air Force back in the early-mid 1990s. We had an exchange officer from the US air force who taught us about military doctrine. On his first lecture he bounded in to the room and by way of introduction told us he was an ex B-52 navigator with the USAF and asked us what 'USAF' stood for.

Some bright spark answered right away with "United States Air Force, sir..." to which our US air force lecturer responded with "No, it stands for Usually Shoot At Friendlies!!"

That definitely got a thumbs up from us:thumbup:

Who says Yanks don't have a sense of humour... (spelt with a 'U'!)

Cheers

Harry

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Just curious....

Do Americans spell 'Squirrel' with a 'U' or without...?
:D

Cheers

Harry

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Depends. Sometimes it's spelled with a k.