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Author: norsicnumber2nd

Oct 14th 2012 at 12:49:12 PM

''There's a Veggie Tales episode entitled "The Grapes of Wrath" about a family of very angry grapes. At the end of the episode, they decide to forswear their choleric ways and turn to academic pursuits, renaming themselves the Grapes of Math. The rhyme is a stretch in R.P. and many other varieties of English.''

How? 'wrath' and 'math' rhyme in pretty much every version of English I've heard. Maybe when someone evil yells "FEEL MY WRATH!" it sounds like raaah-th, but not usually. Possibly confused as generally, Brits says 'Maths', not 'Math'.

''To a British person, it's not obvious that the name of the game Bananagrams is a pun on "anagrams".''

Pretty sure we invented that game, and yes, it's obvious that it's ''meant'' to be a pun, even if we don't pronounce either banana bah-nah-nah or anagram ar-nah-gram.

''Most "Uranus" jokes don't make much sense if you're used to pronouncing the word "YOU-ran-us".''

In Britain it does, as our syllabic sounds when coming out of our lovely o/e/u sound are much quicker. Also, several Brits pronounce your as 'yuhr', anyway.

Also, it shouldn't say 'English English', it should be just 'English' or, if you insist on your Yankee ways, 'UK English'.