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Author: BlueIceTea

Oct 15th 2012 at 2:29:47 AM

I don't think this is really a trope myself, to be honest.  But I thought maybe it could go under Trivia?  Just for Fun?  Useful Notes?

The [[TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Deep Thought]] pun is pretty obvious whatever your accent is, I think.  I mean, I'm Canadian, and I got it right away.  Or does it work better in Adams's accent?

I always thought that in R.P., wrath was pronounced "rahth".  To be fair, very few people actually speak R.P., but even if it only applies to one accent, it can still qualify.  Quick poll for non-North Americans: How do you pronounce the word?

Part of the reason I put "Uranus" under "Other" was because I wasn't sure how the pronunciation broke down geographically.  I gather it's "yuh-RAIN-us" in British English, but I learned it as "YOU-ran-us".  Does that mean it's the Canadian pronunciation?  North American?

I'm pretty sure people outside of England speak English too.  And it doesn't make sense to me to say "U.K. English", if that means lumping together the varieties spoken in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.