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How ****ing stupid do you have to be not to understand when someone with a different accent says the word water. The single celled amoeba taking orders at the drive thru McDonals was completely stumped when I tried to get a water with my daughters happy meal. I ended up basically screaming at the speaker and demanding someone takes over that actually understands English!!!! And he still effed up my order!!! I ended up telling him to cancel the order in not the most politest way. What is the matter with these people though? Water!!! W A T E R!!!!!!!!! I'm raging!!!

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I used to have this problem all the time until I started substituting d for t, ie wader

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Water, wader, there isn't a massive difference. These people are flipping idiots. Now I have pissed off kids cause I promised them a happy meal. I'm glad I don't own a gun!!!!!!

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A bit upset over a fairly small problem. No reason to call someone doing a job single celled or even become upset over it.

Accents can be hard for some people to understand. I fully admit I have trouble with some British accents, some may as well be speaking a foreign language they are so difficult to understand. Doesn't make them idiots, stupid, or whatever else people feel the need to call them.

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Yes it does!

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I've had the exact same thing happen. It does make me angry.

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I know it doesn't sound much different, but it obviously does to the servers that I have dealt with. The alternative is to try to imitate an american accent. The hard 't' is not used where I live.
As a kid , adults used to always complain about not pronouncing 't' properly, if only they had left me alone.

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Most of the time I just make my wife say the order from the passenger seat. I hate doing drive-thru orders.

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Me too, but I'm getting better at it.

Saying "warder" is just the cost of doing business.

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Was it a native speaker?
I have issue at fast food places when it is my accent and their learners English. Those two dont go well together.

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Just say "iced water" and they (may) get the context.

Fast food is not good for you, just sayin' :scarper:

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The US is a country of immigrants, not all will speak English as their first language, throw in an accent they don't hear often, and its good probability a mistake will happen.

Again doesn't make them stupid, or single celled, which is what hit a nerve.

If you moved to a country that didn't speak your language and you were learning, would you want to be called single celled or stupid because of it?

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Always ask for light ice too or you get a bucket of ice and a thimble-full of pop.

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I can't do it... gave up long ago. now I just order Coke.

...

And then get Pepsi.

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Isn't starbucks being sued over that right now? Their ice coffee being mostly ice and no coffee.

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Ever tried asking for tuna at the deli? That one can be fun ;)

I had the same problem asking for water on a trans-atlantic flight with Delta. Because clearly Brits asking for a drink of water is something that a trans-atlantic air stewardess doesn't often deal with...

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Yeeeeup.
My local taco place does amazing food but it's a total dive. Their drive thru speaker system is one level up from a yoghurt pot on a piece of string.
Chuck an accent on top of that and you're guaranteed to get 30% of something you didn't order in your bag.

Worth it though, their fish tacos kick arse.

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You have an accent that people don't hear all the time. You're speaking through a drive thru with noise going on everywhere. Just because your pronunciation of a word is different than someone else's it really shouldn't cause you so much anger.

I think you should a) Control your temper
b) Quit going to fast food drive thru's
c) Remember not everybody has the same abilities as you.
and always carry bottles of water with you in a cooler so you never have to utter the "w" word again..

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:goodpost:

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How are you pronoucing water? Waa aah or Wa tur?

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"Whiner"

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The water in Majorca don't taste like what it oughta

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Whoa, get a grip there. Should have

1. Asked for a bottle of the stuff fish swim in; or

2. Ordered apple juice or milk for the kiddies; or

3. Spelled the darn thing; or

4. Walked into the store and do a face to face ordering.

:cool:

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I'm lazy so first time it was wa'er. Then it was watur.
I agree with a previous post that fast food is bad for you so should be avoided, but it taste soooo good. It's my once a week treat.
Anyhoooo, I'm sat in a bar currently pissed. Luckily the bar tender understands my pronuoncition of the word beer!

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Never had a problem with the word beer, not sure McDonalds serves beer in the US, but could be a water substitute.

I did find it fun having beer in the Ikea restaurant when I went to Iceland, it was next to the coffee machines. They didn't have the obligatory soda machine.

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The first time me and the husband went through a drive through - Dunstable I believe, I didn't have my glasses so he was reading the list out. Dozy bint behind the microphone decided we wanted everything he said. She was mighty pissed off when he explained he wasn't actually ordering. :lol:

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Pretty sure the correct way to pronounce "water" is "large regular, 3 milk, two Splenda and a shot". :nod:

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And they save one cent on the item that has more than 1000% markup.

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Best cool down a bit before you try and buy a banana.

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:lol:

It happens every where here, from fast food to fancy places, makes not much difference if it's a Brazilian joint, Italian, pizza, burger place. Only place it generally isn't a issue is at Chinese places.

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Yeah, but it happens all the time. When you're standing face to face.

It's not a massive leap to figure out you're asking for water, when everyone else is also asking for water.

Also, everyone here has a accent.

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I don't.

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I'm afraid I lowered myself to a cross between water and wadder, I got sick of repeating myself! I say warter, it works, and saves the veins in my head exploding!!

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This has never, not once in 11 years, ever happened to me. It's to the point where I'm not sitting at my desk whispering the word 'water' to myself to see if those of us from Norn Irn say the 't' as a 'd' now, I can't hear it though. I know I've picked up a slight accent but even in the beginning I never had trouble. It's either my accent, the WI/IL accent or a combination of both.

Now, try reading a number with '8' in it, or spelling a word with 'h' in it over the phone with an NI accent and the fun really begins :lol:

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I think it's more of a Southern England accent problem

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Makes sense that us salt-of-the-earth Northerners can communicate more readily with the colonials :p

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Yes, you were further away from Buckingham Palace, it's an anti monarchy thing. Blame the King.

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I've nothing against 'Is or 'Er Maj, but to be honest being far away from London doesn't always strike me as a bad thing ...

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I was in the mob with 3 NI guys, there names were, Whittle, McConnell and Irwin, none of our training instructors could understand their names


I shall attempt to spell the way I heard..


Whuddle
M'Cuuuuunull
Urrrrrwun


Whuddle aka Frank (yeah original) was unintelligible when drunk!


I'm assuming 8 was in the region of eeeeyit, my favourite was always Dirty Tree