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Author: norsicnumber2nd

Oct 20th 2012 at 8:50:52 AM

^^ When I say "it's pronounced", I mean the only way I hear it pronounced. Also, with the court thing, I mistook what you were saying over confusion of Brits saying 'court' and 'cot' as one word.

I did not say ''you'' pronounced 'Rita' ree-ter, I said some people with a rhotic accent. I have heard this, down South occasionally.

The eeyore thing - according to @TheNinth, Yanks include the 'y' when saying it. So I said this out loud, with emphasis on the first syllable and everything, it sounded more like a donkey to me than the way I would usually say eeyore (ee-aw) - and I listen to donkeys - though it can be a matter of opinion and I've been informed this with romanised text and I have no idea how you say it, but I have seen the American Pooh animations (yay! Disney!) and eeyore sounds pretty much like that.

No, I am not, thank you very much. Cheers for being oh so polite but it appears that some people aren't all that good at explaining themselves, are we? If I've upset or offended or aggravated (or, more likely, annoyed) you in any way, I'm sorry.

Also, because you added it I hope not for this purpose, you misspelt "metre" - and I must ask, why do all Yanks I've seen use quotation marks when we use (and it looks better to use, in my opinion at least) apostrophes (or 'inverted commas')?

^If that middle part's about me, you're wrong. But, sorry if it is. Though I do say "In Britain" or "The way I say it" or something along those lines. If you're not from Britain you should know that yes, there are a lot of different accents, but your accent doesn't affect your dialect, does it? Whichever accent most Brits have (and trust me, I've heard them all) many pronounce words the same (I know of few exceptions, and I have many friends with pretty much every Brit accent imaginable). I'm practically the only person at my school with my accent, and the amount of jokes that come from it as hey, look, words I pronounce differently from them! Also, Northern Irish maths jokes. I'll list some, as it's helpful.

Oh, however 'wrath' can be pronounced, ''at least where I live'', people pronounce it 'rath', probably from Yank influence as @tardigrade said.

*In Yorkshire, 1 is pronounced 'wun' (mid-long vowel sound), in Lancashire it's 'won' (short vowel sound). Jokes about winning ensue.
*Northern Irishfolk say 'power of four' as 'parafar', Tykes say it as "powa'o'fur". There's a joke about golf I can't remember with a Yorkshireman and a Northern Irishman.
*Knock-knock, Who's there?, Adam, Adam who?, Adam holds water. Meaning 'a dam'. The name usually pronounced 'Ad-am', some people from the West-Midlands pronounce it 'A-dam'.