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Uh oh. Having a debate on my work's internal IRC about the pronunciation of water. This is not going to end well - for me!!

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Don't you mean Wadder ;):lol:

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You're talking about a dermatologist specializing in viral polyps, right? :confused:

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Sure.

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It quickly becomes a "I'll have what she's having" line, that's if the other half got water first :D

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Feel my pain then. I test drinking water for bacteria and everyday I have to say water, Water, WATER! It gets old after a while:o

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My daughter is continually asked to repeat that word at school, to the amusement of her teachers. It looks correct to me :)

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Do people actually have trouble understanding the word 'water' when pronounced in any of the regional variations of a UK accent (yes, even Welsh)?

I always thought that was an exaggerated thing but come on, you'd have to be thick as pigshit not to be able to recognise the word 'water' no matter how it is said. There is no other word it can be mistaken for. Even in the strongest West Country drawl, it is recognisable.

Maybe I'm saying it wrong :blink:

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Yes, there really is trouble over it. Mad but true.

Sometimes there is even trouble with "butter" (or "budder" as the cousins say in some parts).

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OK, the barmaids in all the pubs I play in around here then all deserve a raise because I ask for water all the time and always get what I ask for. Now I'm going to start varying my accent to see what happens ...

I've yet to eat in an establishment in which I require butter that doesn't provide butter at the tables, so that I can't test.

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Yes. I don't have a strong accent and have resorted to switching to diet coke before.

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Perhaps we are saying it wrong. I think water is pronounced 'Miller Lite' out here ...

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Dito I feel your pain too I sell it for a living :lol:

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I always say "iced water" - think it helps with the context.. have resorted saying water in French or Spanish before!

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I've given up even asking for water when we go to a restaurant now.

I just say "Coke" instead. And then get served a Pepsi anyway. :frown:

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Been there, done that! :lol:

I struggle with the thought process inside a human who, having asked "What would you like to drink?", and received a reply of "Water please" can think that some other word was used. Within the context of an answer to a simple question I would have thought a myriad versions of the word would get the message across. I am continually proved wrong.

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If you're with someone you don't like, ask for some H2O. Then they will ask for some H2O too, get served sulfuric acid and die ...

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It really is a hard one to get around here. But it is regional, I have much more trouble with it here in MA than I ever did where we lived in Maine, but where the grandmother lives up there, have issues there now and again.

Drive through places, I don't even bother with them anymore, it's just quicker to go inside and ask for the stuff. Also when in restaurants, I just point to the food on the menu, it's just much easier that way.

I think the accent just throws people.

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[tumbleweed]buh dum tish.....[/tumbleweed]

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Are these chemistry jokes too boron? Should we just barium?

I once told a joke about Helium and Argon walking into a bar. There was no reaction ...

:getcoat:

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So you ask for H2O2 and get sulphuric acid?

And you thought it was a problem asking for water?! :)

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Helium is my favourite element. I can't speak highly enough of it.

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Oh ****, hydrogen peroxide. I was thinking of something else, there.

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I can never make myself understood in Mexican restaurants so ask for 'agua'.

Mind you, most places bring water without being asked. Or is that a regional thing?

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Cobalt Carbon Potassium

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H2O2 is hydrogen peroxide, not sulphuric acid, which is H2SO4. :sneaky:

Edit: Not quick enough! :(

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Probably still not very good for you though. :)

(That's what they put in rockets, right?)

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My boss was visiting a couple of weeks ago and took his team for dinner one night. The waiter asked "What would you like to drink sir?" .... I replied "An Arrogant Bastard, please." He didn't understand (maybe not many people order that?) but I had to repeat it twice before he understood, by which time my boss, further down the table had noticed, and apparently was not aware of a beer called "Arrogant Bastard Ale". :rofl:

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Yeah, I doubt drinking it is a good idea, though it is commonly used in the home as an antiseptic and for bleaching hair .... H2O2 is the peroxide in "peroxide blonde". :)


Yes, it is used in some rockets.

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Maybe an alternative route for bleaching the chocolate starfish?

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You bleach yours? :unsure:

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I used to have problems ordering water, but I've noticed recently that it seems to be getting easier. That can only be down to one of 2 things....the locals are learning to listen properly, or more likely, and more disturbingly, I'm starting to talk like the locals:blink:

At the risk of merging threads, or dragging this one OT, a note for any waitstaff out there....if I sit down with my kids at your table, and I order iced water all round, then that, and only that, is what I want. There is nothing, repeat nothing guaranteed to reduce your tip quicker than you immediately looking at my kids and asking them what soda they would like:frown:.

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Read about it in one of the wife's magazines....that one found the recycling bin real quick:lol:

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I'm gonna guess your wife reads Cosmo? :sneaky:

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Only when she gets to the mailbox first. Work of the devil, that magazine.....

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http://www.cosmopolitan.com/advice/h...leaching-trend

:blink:

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Why do they do it? (On second thoughts, don't answer that)

Does it mean if you happen to meet a woman who bleaches her rusty sheriff's badge that there's a fair chance she'll let you give her one up the wrong 'un?

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I hope you clear your browsing history regularly.....;)

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Or Bleaching Monthly.

(That's the title, not a suggestion). :p

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The customer demand for it appears to be an unforeseen consequence of excessive waxing.
I'll be bu99ered if I know. :unsure: