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Tortus, obvs.
The simple rule in English is words are seldom pronounced how they're spelt, so if there is ever a doubt, the way that looks wrong is right. (Pronounced 'rate')
I'd not only bet a pind, but I'd stake my hice on it
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"Tort-us
or
Tort-toise
Obviously all the posh people say the later  "
The latter. Not coz I'm posh but it's the way Ade Edmondson says it at the beginning of bottom live 2.
'have you seen my tort-oise?' and it always makes me laugh |
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"Tort-us
or
Tort-toise
Obviously all the posh people say the later
The latter. Not coz I'm posh but it's the way Ade Edmondson says it at the beginning of bottom live 2.
'have you seen my tort-oise?' and it always makes me laugh "
well there you go then if are Edmondson says it it must be posh |
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"Tort-us
or
Tort-toise
Obviously all the posh people say the later "
No it's "Tortus"...
Which is how " posh" ( or educated) people say it.....
Only people who aren't posh,( or aren't educated) but try to pretend they are , say "tort-toise" ..... |
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"Tort-us
or
Tort-toise
Obviously all the posh people say the later
No it's "Tortus"...
Which is how " posh" ( or educated) people say it.....
Only people who aren't posh,( or aren't educated) but try to pretend they are , say "tort-toise" ....."
and all this posh person has to say to that is bollocks |
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over a year ago
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"Torrtuss. And you have to properly 'orr' on the first syllable.but youd end up walking round with a trout pout if you was saying like that
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We have magic or and ar sounds in this neck of the woods. Don't need a weird mouth shape to do them, I promise! |
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"Torrtuss. And you have to properly 'orr' on the first syllable.but youd end up walking round with a trout pout if you was saying like that
We have magic or and ar sounds in this neck of the woods. Don't need a weird mouth shape to do them, I promise!"
I just tried to say it like that and my lips stuck out ten inches from my face
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"I'm a posh Geordie if there's such a thing And it's tort-is in the country
Porp-is too
But then one does waaaak the durg !! "
what the fuck is a tort-is that wasn't even an option
stop!making it complicated |
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"Torrtuss. And you have to properly 'orr' on the first syllable.but youd end up walking round with a trout pout if you was saying like that
We have magic or and ar sounds in this neck of the woods. Don't need a weird mouth shape to do them, I promise!"
Those or and ar sounds are very difficult for a native Essex girl....it outs me as a not true Wiltshire girl Everytime!! |
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"I'm not sure it has much to do with being posh or not... it's just how I was taught to say it. 
Tortoise. "
stop!sitting on the fence its cause your posh although I'm not sure with a dodgy Scottish accent |
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"I'm a posh Geordie if there's such a thing And it's tort-is in the country
Porp-is too
But then one does waaaak the durg !! what the fuck is a tort-is that wasn't even an option
stop!making it complicated "
I like to throw something into the mix oops |
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