britishspouse

Unfortunately yes.... everyone back home tells me I have a strong twang/accent now.

Im from lincolnshire so didnt really have a strong accent anyway, but after spending 4 years in the US and being around only southerners I must of sub consciously picked it up.

No offense to Americans, but I wish i could have kept my british accent better, its kinda like one of the things I wanted to hold onto.

In my mind I still sound british, but everyone else tells me i dont

Xebedee

Its spelled Mary, but pronounced Dave.
They're all silent.

Craig1987

retzie

This. Especially for the dumb things like giving your name for a coffee order. A friend of mine is Iranian and has an easy, but foreign , name. He got sick of the blank stares, so now just tells them his name is Dwayne

anne55

people interpret my name as Ahhne when I say it, have also been called Annie or Anna instead of Anne I just answer to all three makes life easier

Mummy in the foothills

I remember having a bit of an argument about Graham. I had Graham crackers and Mums cousin is Graham, I say it UK way.
I didn't know what the heck I was being asked for, Gram crackers? I didn't know how much they weighted "do you want one?" It was like a bloody comedy I'm wondering what they are on about and they thought I was completely nuts.

robin1234

I wonder too. I've lived in America (and/or with an American) since the early 1970s and I never heard it pronounced "gram cracker" until recently. My wife, family, in-laws etc are from the north-east and I'm pretty sure they all say "graham" just like a British person would. Well.. not "grey-um" like I say it, but definitely two syllables..

meauxna

I'm concluding that ya'll's ears are not sensitive enough to appreciate the finer details of the varied American accents.

MadRad

LOL! in general, I think this is true. However, I was *on vacation* recently, though still in my own state, ( get me!) to a big ski resort. I could pick out loads of different American accents. I noticed too that all the badly behaved skiers and snowboarders (and sadly, there were too many of them) I saw getting pulled by the ski patrol did not seem to have a Colorado accent. Same was true of all the badly behaved kids I encountered in eateries and the like. Sadly, too many of them as well.

Lothianlad

My home city is Edinburgh, Scotland. I am used to hearing Americans singing the praises and admiring the loveliness of Edinburrow and how much of a nice time they are having here in Scatland.

We have huge numbers of visitors to this city, coming from all over the world, but to my knowledge it's only the Americans who pronounce my city's and country's names they way they do. The Canadians don't pronounce them the American way either which may be a wee bit surprising but maybe not - parts of Eastern Canada resemble Scotland in many ways anyway - and have Scottish sounding place names, eg Nova Scotia.

There is a possibility, but not very likely, that in the near future Scotland will be situated in a different time zone to that of England and Wales (one hour behind) if current proposals to keep UK time one hour ahead of current timings - ie two hours ahead of GMT. That would not be a good thing for Scotland, where dawn would not break until after 10am in mid winter here in Edinburgh and even later further north. I do not fancy that at all.

Sally Redux

I especially don't understand that one, it's not even spelt 'borough'.

The 'o' sound is pronounced 'a', but then the 'a' is pronounced 'o'. So it's 'Las Angeles' but "Los Vegas'.

Bob

A cousins husband does that...I never even realised till I think last year when someone was asking for M, which turned out to be his real name

Bob

Around here and with friends/family up in Maine, I've only heard it as "Gram".

It's a little weird how some names just feel mangled. Colin becoming Cooowlin is another odd one.

Kaffy Mintcake

I pronounce all three the same.

Kaffy Mintcake

Agree 100% that it's self seeking, self obsessed, false, fake and over glammed up.

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