Subject: Talk Like an Englishman
Posted by: romeomikegolf
Date: Oct 30 11
In response to the other thread how do we Brits pronounce different words? Do you take a bath, or a barth?
Posted by: romeomikegolf
Date: Oct 30 11
In response to the other thread how do we Brits pronounce different words? Do you take a bath, or a barth?
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Aussiedrongo 
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I say ONvelope as well but this has just got me thinking. Envelop Envelope Without looking it up, I would say these two words would be related etymologicaly. But would anybody ever pronounce the first as ONvelop? I doubt it. Reply #21. Oct 31 11, 6:19 PM |
C30
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Must be minority..........it's ENVYlope to be.......and En-VEL-op for "surrounding" Reply #22. Nov 01 11, 1:31 AM |
| C30
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grrrrrr "me" Reply #23. Nov 01 11, 1:31 AM |
AlexxSchneider
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I rhyme 'scone' with 'on', and pronounce envelope as 'onvelope', though in French the last syllable would be 'opp' rather than rhyming with 'soap'! Reply #24. Nov 01 11, 9:51 AM |
| C30
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again differ........."scone" like "stone" Reply #25. Nov 01 11, 3:00 PM |
surdoux
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As long as it has fresh cream and jam on it, I'm not too bothered! Reply #26. Nov 01 11, 3:24 PM |
MotherGoose
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"how do we Brits pronounce different words?" Having started out as a British colony, most Australians use and pronounce words with a tendency to the British version of English, but television has, of course, blurred those lines considerably with American programming. On reading these posts, I must admit that I never gave that much thought to it before, but I now realise that I pronounce a lot of these words both ways, depending upon who I am speaking with and automatically adjust my speech accordingly. There are a few words, however, that seem to get a fiery debate going between Australians. One is the word 'kilometre'. One of the most furious arguments I ever heard was a debate about KEELO-meter or KILLO-meter, vesus kil-LOM-eter. Reply #27. Nov 02 11, 5:33 PM |
| C30
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MG.........personally I'd go for kil-LOM-eter! Reply #28. Nov 03 11, 2:27 AM |
Carti
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millimetre....centimetre....metre. Why 'ki-LOMM-ita'? It has an ugly sound. Reply #29. Nov 03 11, 4:46 AM |
Muspratt
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better than ky low me ter which I heard the other day Reply #30. Nov 03 11, 5:01 AM |
romeomikegolf
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As far as I'm concerned it's kilOMeters. But I much prefer miles. Reply #31. Nov 03 11, 10:24 AM |
| lesley153
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Perhaps we adopted the kil-LOM-eter variation to make it sound as different as possible from KEEL-o-mett'r or anything that might sound a bit shock horror French. The way I prefer to pronounce it is indeed five eighths of a mile. Reply #32. Nov 03 11, 10:41 AM |
| romeomikegolf
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Or Furlongs. Reply #33. Nov 03 11, 2:03 PM |
| surdoux
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I would advocate the use of poles and perches, and get back to our English heritage. Reply #34. Nov 03 11, 3:08 PM |
martin_cube
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I agree. How else are we to teach people their 14 and 16 times tables? Reply #35. Nov 06 11, 6:55 PM |
REDVIKING57
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Surely,the 13 times table is much more relevant? Well,it is for bakers,anyway. :)) Reply #36. Nov 07 11, 6:53 AM |
| Aussiedrongo
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Does the baker's dozen still exist in England in the sense of asking for a dozen of any product in a bakery and receiving thirteen? It seems to be a thing of the past here, you ask for a dozen, you get a regular dozen of 12. To get back to the main topic I offer the meat and vegie mix encased in pastry, the humble pastie. I pronounce this with an R between the A and S; Parstie. Reply #37. Nov 07 11, 10:19 PM |
Cymruambyth
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Here's me being pedantic again, but the bath/bahth difference is that the first version is pronounced with a short 'a' (and that's used from the Midlands on up the island and also in Wales), and the second is the rounded 'a'. Bathe, on the other hand, is pronounced with a long 'a'. The town of Bath is pronounced with a short 'a'. I'd park my car in the garazh, if I had a car or a garage, and I put my letters into envelopes. If I lived in Boston, I'd probably pahk my cah in Hahv'd Yahd. Here in Canada (every 'a' in Canada is short), all the baths are short 'a' baths. You'd get some mighty strange looks if you said bahth in the Great White North. Reply #38. Nov 11 11, 5:33 PM |
baldricksmum
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I would always use Ba-r-th for the town. Reply #39. Nov 11 11, 6:22 PM |
ITSOUNO11
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response to #38: In Boston, crows are often on the road dining on 'roadkill'. For some reason, you never see a dead crow on the road. Do you know why? It's because his friends perch on the wires above and warn when a car is approaching. They scream out "CAH CAH". Reply #40. Nov 11 11, 8:15 PM |
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