You are really only hearing one way that we pronounce words. Different regions in the country will pronounce things differently as well as each region will have sayings or take words and mash them together. Its probably the same here as over there in regards to that. Clearly we do not all sound like a bunch of actors that live in LA.
Actually, that Eyerack thing really gets on my nerves too, it's not hard to correctly pronounce a four letter word, particularly when it's the name of a country. From this forth, I shall refer to America as Eyemerika.
Line up for Saturday's match against Meyellwall: Starkdale, Brady, Hobbs, Faye, Chester, Roseyenior, Queyenn, Meelur, Cowren, Seyempson, Prowschwitz. Hopefully our forwards can score a few netstrikes before we go into overtime. Maybe at the halftime I'll have a root beer and eat moon pie.
erm Centre isn't English proper though , as its spelling (and many words of its type) was "Frenched-up" by the English to sound more fancy . American spelling for the words we get the hump about uses a much more ancient ruling - one that our own English used before it was fashionable to speak in a Frenchy way. its hard to accept Center is spelt wrong TBH
Just listening to the Bristol City-Watford game. Some Cockney commentator on the Watford feed said their defence looked brittle...What does he expect, it's Brittle City the daft twat !! Hope the score remains the same 1-0 Brittle....
I used to work with an American lady - each person had a profile where you listed skills / foreign languages. Under the section foreign languages - she'd typed English.. that sums up Americans for me.
Harold was **** in our defense, he should never have let that effing William the Conqueror in in the first place
Nah, it may have French in its background as well as many other languages, but what we have as a whole is without a doubt English. Some words used in America, such as gotten, have their root in archaic English, but the base language has evolved. Other words spelt (or is it spelled?) in American English really were as a consequence of lexicon cock ups. Saying all that, I was only being tongue in cheek with this. I wasn't trying to start a thread kicking our less enlightened cousins over the pond...unless it's Canadia we have a dig at, they're fair game. Let's face it, all they know is that, even though they're in North America they're not American. They could be French, Eskimo, English etc. Any or all of which makes you Canadian.
Aye, and that Norman that came with him was a twat as well. No body could understand him, so he made French the language of the court and said the German words the rest of us used for ladies bits were taboo slang. We've still got a filter on here because of it. It says a lot about the French that they saw nothing wrong with 'sod' and 'bugger'.
i was specifically talking about the words that in the UK ,we on the whole baulk at when we see the American spelling . The Yanks made a conscious decision to "correct" a lot of English words that were altered to sound French . Im not even starting with the thousands of actual French words we borrow , just those that in our history we altered to be fashionable Best not get onto Canada and its linguistic sword fights as it could start a civil war
All those people with Ff names, like Fforbes, were effectively typos that only had one F, but got transcribed wrongly because the F was fancy. Shakespeare made up loads of words too. Surely that's cheating?
I refuse to say anything correctly until you all stop calling us Yanks. A yankee is a specific person here and is considered an insult to most of us.
I know what you meant, but as i keep saying, the Yank spelling is wrong because they thought the words had French roots, but they didn't. That's why the words in question can't meet basic grammar rules.
