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Author: Xtifr

Oct 19th 2012 at 2:59:20 PM

norsicmusicnumber2nd, you keep asserting how I pronounce things, and your assertions are ''completely incorrect!''  You say ''court'' "is pronounced" as if there were only one pronunciation.  I assure you that many Americans (including me) pronounce it ''identically'' to ''cot''.  Attempting to "correct" it is pointless, because we ''are'' correct, ''for our accent!''

Your inability to understand how an 'r' is pronounced is also irritating.  We do ''not'' add an 'r' sound to the end of "Rita", so it does ''not'' rhyme with "skeeter" (or "meter", for a [[Music/TheBeatles better known example]]).  I assume you can distinguish "Rita" from "Ita"?  If so, try saying "Eeyore Rita", and then drop the "ita", and you will have an approximation of how a Yank says it (except you'll have the vowel sound wrong). I was over ''fifty'' before I realized that his name was supposed to be onomatopeia.  It does ''not'' sound like a donkey sound, and if you think it does in my accent, then you are ''incorrectly imagining'' my accent.

Give it up! You are simply wrong in your understanding of accents that aren't yours.