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over a year ago
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"The worst one is how they pronounce Aluminium... They seem to forget there is a second I in there.. It's so irritating to here them say it
I was just gonna put the same  "
It's so horrible lol.. It's like all Americans can't read |
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"The worst one is how they pronounce Aluminium... They seem to forget there is a second I in there.. It's so irritating to here them say it
I was just gonna put the same
It's so horrible lol.. It's like all Americans can't read"
Yes they can!!!! The pronoununation of words are just different.... |
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"The worst one is how they pronounce Aluminium... They seem to forget there is a second I in there.. It's so irritating to here them say it
I was just gonna put the same
It's so horrible lol.. It's like all Americans can't read"
we can read, however in the periodic table of elements is spelled aluminum. no second i. therefore, they're saying it correctly. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The way they pronounce some words is rather strange aswell, lever for example
English lee-ver
American leh-ver
English leh-verage
American lee-verage
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the region i come from, leverage is pronounced leh-vrage. the missing e isn't a typo. we didn't pronounce it. |
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"Dummy = pacifier  "
I think they have got this one ^^^^
right though, I hate the word dummy.
Sidewalk - Pavement
Trash can - Rubbish Bin
Cup of joe - cup of coffee
The head, the John - The toilet |
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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago
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"The worst one is how they pronounce Aluminium... They seem to forget there is a second I in there.. It's so irritating to here them say it
I was just gonna put the same
It's so horrible lol.. It's like all Americans can't read"
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It's bloody annoys me the generalisation that people have towards Americans...they have their ways and we have ours but to suggest they can't read because they pronounce words differently is complete utter bollocks |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The worst one is how they pronounce Aluminium... They seem to forget there is a second I in there.. It's so irritating to here them say it
I was just gonna put the same
It's so horrible lol.. It's like all Americans can't read"
So when we have words with a silent letter does that mean we can't read . They can say the same about our pronunciation of Leicester. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"It's bloody annoys me the generalisation that people have towards Americans...they have their ways and we have ours but to suggest they can't read because they pronounce words differently is complete utter bollocks "
We have loads of funny pronunciations for words. |
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By *aravancouple OP Man
over a year ago
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"It's bloody annoys me the generalisation that people have towards Americans...they have their ways and we have ours but to suggest they can't read because they pronounce words differently is complete utter bollocks "
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The worst one is how they pronounce Aluminium... They seem to forget there is a second I in there.. It's so irritating to here them say it
I was just gonna put the same
It's so horrible lol.. It's like all Americans can't read"
Yeah everyone from any country who don't say it exactly the same as us must be thick |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The worst one is how they pronounce Aluminium... They seem to forget there is a second I in there.. It's so irritating to here them say it
I was just gonna put the same
It's so horrible lol.. It's like all Americans can't read
So when we have words with a silent letter does that mean we can't read . They can say the same about our pronunciation of Leicester. "
there's no silent letter. see American chemical society website for aluminum.
http://www.chemeddl.org/resources/ptl/index.php
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"The worst one is how they pronounce Aluminium... They seem to forget there is a second I in there.. It's so irritating to here them say it
I was just gonna put the same
It's so horrible lol.. It's like all Americans can't read
So when we have words with a silent letter does that mean we can't read . They can say the same about our pronunciation of Leicester.
there's no silent letter. see American chemical society website for aluminum.
http://www.chemeddl.org/resources/ptl/index.php
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Thanks for clearing that up, I do remember being told this once. |
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as a youngster i once had a silly conversation with a gent when he told me he had leather pants! i was concentrating on being open minded and trying not to appear naive. it took me ages to realise he was a biker! |
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"as a youngster i once had a silly conversation with a gent when he told me he had leather pants! i was concentrating on being open minded and trying not to appear naive. it took me ages to realise he was a biker!"
it took me ages when i moved over here to get that! lol, i still call trousers pants. another oneis 'fit' which back home referred to someones physical fitness llevel, not attractiveness per se |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The worst one is how they pronounce Aluminium... They seem to forget there is a second I in there.. It's so irritating to here them say it
I was just gonna put the same
It's so horrible lol.. It's like all Americans can't read
Yes they can!!!! The pronoununation of words are just different...."
I did it's 'it's like they can't' not that they can't lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The worst one is how they pronounce Aluminium... They seem to forget there is a second I in there.. It's so irritating to here them say it
I was just gonna put the same
It's so horrible lol.. It's like all Americans can't read
we can read, however in the periodic table of elements is spelled aluminum. no second i. therefore, they're saying it correctly. "
Wanna double check on that comment? Lol
http://www.radiochemistry.org/periodictable/periodic_table.jpg
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The worst one is how they pronounce Aluminium... They seem to forget there is a second I in there.. It's so irritating to here them say it
I was just gonna put the same
It's so horrible lol.. It's like all Americans can't read
Yes they can!!!! The pronoununation of words are just different....
I did it's 'it's like they can't' not that they can't lol"
Say it's* |
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"It's bloody annoys me the generalisation that people have towards Americans...they have their ways and we have ours but to suggest they can't read because they pronounce words differently is complete utter bollocks "
This thread was just meant to be fun.. No one is putting Americans down. It's just a bit of fun.. No one person has ever said they are thick. Just obviously a touchy subject for you. |
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"Hey, dude - get a load of the fag on the sidewalk"
English translation:-
"I say old chap, kindly observe that homosexual gentleman traversing the pavement" |
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"In America I believe ream is a lot of paper. In Essex it means cool or great. "
The definition of ream that I know is to make a hole the same size all the way through. From steel work. We have reamers lol |
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"It's bloody annoys me the generalisation that people have towards Americans...they have their ways and we have ours but to suggest they can't read because they pronounce words differently is complete utter bollocks
This thread was just meant to be fun.. No one is putting Americans down. It's just a bit of fun.. No one person has ever said they are thick. Just obviously a touchy subject for you."
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Lift - elevator.
Open sided raising platform - lift
Disembark - debark
I used to find debark irksome until I found out that the word embark came in to English from the French embarque, and the opposite debarque.
So the American debark is truer to the original than our adding of dis in front of embark.
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"It's bloody annoys me the generalisation that people have towards Americans...they have their ways and we have ours but to suggest they can't read because they pronounce words differently is complete utter bollocks
This thread was just meant to be fun.. No one is putting Americans down. It's just a bit of fun.. No one person has ever said they are thick. Just obviously a touchy subject for you.
Not really "
Well chill out then lol.. English people are always portrayed in American films as posh talking tea drinking cricket playing whatever's.. Doesn't bother us. Lol just chill |
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"It's bloody annoys me the generalisation that people have towards Americans...they have their ways and we have ours but to suggest they can't read because they pronounce words differently is complete utter bollocks
This thread was just meant to be fun.. No one is putting Americans down. It's just a bit of fun.. No one person has ever said they are thick. Just obviously a touchy subject for you.
Not really
Well chill out then lol.. English people are always portrayed in American films as posh talking tea drinking cricket playing whatever's.. Doesn't bother us. Lol just chill"
I'm very much chilled thanks for the concern into my chillness well being |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"It's bloody annoys me the generalisation that people have towards Americans...they have their ways and we have ours but to suggest they can't read because they pronounce words differently is complete utter bollocks
This thread was just meant to be fun.. No one is putting Americans down. It's just a bit of fun.. No one person has ever said they are thick. Just obviously a touchy subject for you.
Not really
Well chill out then lol.. English people are always portrayed in American films as posh talking tea drinking cricket playing whatever's.. Doesn't bother us. Lol just chill
I'm very much chilled thanks for the concern into my chillness well being "
You are welcome
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Isn't it true that a lot if the American and Australian pronunciations and spellings are a truer form of English than ours? As people left our shores to colonise these countries they brought the English language with them, then as we had a great influx from Europe and beyond our language became diluted. So the yanks and Aussies can claim to speak a purer English than us where ours is a more European English hybrid. |
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"Lift - elevator.
Open sided raising platform - lift
Disembark - debark
I used to find debark irksome until I found out that the word embark came in to English from the French embarque, and the opposite debarque.
So the American debark is truer to the original than our adding of dis in front of embark.
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Conversely the whilst we in the uk use the French word for vegetable courgette, the Americans use the Latin/Italian word zucchini.
Pavement - sidewalk
Road - pavement.
So mind where you walk! It also makes more sense as it is a walk way at the side of a paved road.
My favourite however is
Sickbag - barfbag.
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"It's bloody annoys me the generalisation that people have towards Americans...they have their ways and we have ours but to suggest they can't read because they pronounce words differently is complete utter bollocks "
Bollocks = nuts |
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"It's bloody annoys me the generalisation that people have towards Americans...they have their ways and we have ours but to suggest they can't read because they pronounce words differently is complete utter bollocks
This thread was just meant to be fun.. No one is putting Americans down. It's just a bit of fun.. No one person has ever said they are thick. Just obviously a touchy subject for you.
Not really
Well chill out then lol.. English people are always portrayed in American films as posh talking tea drinking cricket playing whatever's.. Doesn't bother us. Lol just chill
I'm very much chilled thanks for the concern into my chillness well being
You are welcome
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Thank you |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The worst one is how they pronounce Aluminium... They seem to forget there is a second I in there.. It's so irritating to here them say it
I was just gonna put the same
It's so horrible lol.. It's like all Americans can't read
we can read, however in the periodic table of elements is spelled aluminum. no second i. therefore, they're saying it correctly.
Wanna double check on that comment? Lol
http://www.radiochemistry.org/periodictable/periodic_table.jpg
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if you had continued to read down, in a further comment i stated that in America, on the periodic table and elsewhere, it's spelled aluminum. the spelling is different. we Americans are actually pronouncing it like its spelled to us. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"It's bloody annoys me the generalisation that people have towards Americans...they have their ways and we have ours but to suggest they can't read because they pronounce words differently is complete utter bollocks
This thread was just meant to be fun.. No one is putting Americans down. It's just a bit of fun.. No one person has ever said they are thick. Just obviously a touchy subject for you.
Not really
Well chill out then lol.. English people are always portrayed in American films as posh talking tea drinking cricket playing whatever's.. Doesn't bother us. Lol just chill
I'm very much chilled thanks for the concern into my chillness well being
You are welcome
Thank you "
No worries |
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By *LCoupleCouple
over a year ago
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"Isn't it true that a lot if the American and Australian pronunciations and spellings are a truer form of English than ours? As people left our shores to colonise these countries they brought the English language with them, then as we had a great influx from Europe and beyond our language became diluted. So the yanks and Aussies can claim to speak a purer English than us where ours is a more European English hybrid. "
That's what I've been led to believe. A good example of this is:
fall = autumn
We used to use the word fall but it fell out of fashion in the Victorian period.
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By *LCoupleCouple
over a year ago
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From Wikipedia:
The alternative word fall for the season traces its origins to old Germanic languages. The exact derivation is unclear, with the Old English fiæll or feallan and the Old Norse fall all being possible candidates. However, these words all have the meaning "to fall from a height" and are clearly derived either from a common root or from each other. The term came to denote the season in 16th century England, a contraction of Middle English _xpressions like "fall of the leaf" and "fall of the year".[12]
During the 17th century, English emigration to the British colonies in North America was at its peak, and the new settlers took the English language with them. While the term fall gradually became obsolete in Britain, it became the more common term in North America.[ |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Try explaining why bollocks means something is bad, yet the dog's bollocks is something very good!
( nicely portrayed in the film 51st state)"
Well, from QI, apparently packaged goods used to come as "box standard" or "box deluxe", which is where we get the corrupted forms " bog standard" and "dog's bollocks".
I like the fact that in the UK we can pay the bill with a cheque, whereas in the US they can pay the check with a bill. |
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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago
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What about what we call a tap (on a sink or bath) they call faucet.
On a car, we have bonnet whilst they call it a hood; what we call the boot, they say trunk.
Pick up is Truck to them.
But best of all was years ago when I ran a hotel Reception desk in Edinburgh; their, a tour group of Americans came in, on night 1 of a Scottish tour. They were quite amazed at the size of our country, having been taught at school, that Scotland was a small village in the North of England!  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"hood of car is bonnet
boot is a trunk
wing mirrors are side view mirrors
wings are fenders
windscreen is windshield
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Aren't they called door mirrors over here now as they no longer sit on the wing ? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Ha, reminds me of a Limmy (scottish comedian) sketch, where he talks about "Americanisms" and how his poor granny can't find the chemist, BECAUSE IT'S NOW CALLED A FKN "PHARMACY", poor auld granny......  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The worst one is how they pronounce Aluminium... They seem to forget there is a second I in there.. It's so irritating to here them say it
I was just gonna put the same
It's so horrible lol.. It's like all Americans can't read"
They're possibly able to use the right version of 'hear' though!  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"hood of car is bonnet
boot is a trunk
wing mirrors are side view mirrors
wings are fenders
windscreen is windshield
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A fender is the bumper not the wing, hence an accident is a fender-bender.
Actually, fender bender = accident! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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You bits forgot how to spell and keep destroying the "english" language.
For me the first time I heard brits, I was thinking are they speaking english.
Few words
Kip
Pram
Best UK saying
The dogs Bollocks |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"hood of car is bonnet
boot is a trunk
wing mirrors are side view mirrors
wings are fenders
windscreen is windshield
A fender is the bumper not the wing, hence an accident is a fender-bender.
Actually, fender bender = accident! "
down south the bumper and the fender are seperate. fender bender is just a small accident. somerhing that woukd dent the fender, or wheel well, but didnt cause much damage |
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By (user no longer on site)
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American cop - "freeze, or I'll blow your freakin' head off"
British Policeman - "pardon me sir, I know it's your human right, but I'd greatly appreciate it if you stop stabbing me lest I thump you with my stick and allow you to claim compensation for your injuries".
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By (user no longer on site)
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My favourite is americans wording for having a drink in each hand = double fisting. ..was mighty disappointed when I ran across the club on hearing that!!! Lol  |
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By *B9 QueenWoman
over a year ago
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"Isn't it true that a lot if the American and Australian pronunciations and spellings are a truer form of English than ours? As people left our shores to colonise these countries they brought the English language with them, then as we had a great influx from Europe and beyond our language became diluted. So the yanks and Aussies can claim to speak a purer English than us where ours is a more European English hybrid. "
None are 'truer'. It's simply the result of language evolving thousands of miles apart. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The whole way they call 'herbs' 'erbs'
Despite that they are still lovely folk!"
Ahem .... herbs is a french word ..... you aren't supposed to pronounce the h ... it actually IS supposed to be Erbs! ! But dont get me started on nu clear, faucet, biscuit (a scone) .... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The whole way they call 'herbs' 'erbs'
Despite that they are still lovely folk!
Ahem .... herbs is a french word ..... you aren't supposed to pronounce the h ... it actually IS supposed to be Erbs! ! But dont get me started on nu clear, faucet, biscuit (a scone) .... "
Herb is from the Latin "herba"  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Baseball for Rounders'
Different game soxy 
p.s. can I bum a fag of you  "
Pah..... the only difference between baseball and rounders' is baseball players don't wear skirts..
PS....your welcome to bum as many fags as you like... |
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