At primary school we had trousers made of cotton drill.
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mispronounced DIY terminology
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The US spelling of "Vise" for Vice always seems wrong to me ;-)
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Except for some reason "Root" 66!
Pete
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What I can't understand is the Americans wanting to call a road a "rowt". "Route 66" is a famous 'classic' song, and I would have thought that, even if there were many who used the ugly "rowt" pronunciation, the "root" form would have supplanted it.
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Well a rooter roots, a router routes, and a router routs!
simples!
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Do they row across the river? And are there cows on the other side?
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more space problems. Anyone got any other good DIY pronouncation clangers ?
I've heard "architrive" for "architrave" so many times that I've even caught myself doing it at the builders' merchant.
Cheers Richard
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And do the cows low?
Mind you, when I were a lad, Surrey rural dialect rhymed cow with loo. And its still prevalent in rural east Anglia.
My (Norfolk) grandfather put his car in a 'garridge'
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Don't we all?
Pete
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more space problems. Anyone got any other good DIY pronouncation clangers ?
that's standard essex speak.
to turn the 'a' sound into 'ai'...
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Oh no. toffs put em in garrarges
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no more space problems. Anyone got any other good DIY pronouncation clangers ?
It may well be. However, this is occurring in the East Riding ;-)
Cheers Richard
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I heard a news bod mention The Holy Shoe the other morning, which gave me a Life of Brian moment.
It was the whole issue.
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That, and 'clique'. Damn those Yanks and their clicks.
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In message , Grimly Curmudgeon writes
I just got it in time :o) (before I read the last line).
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It's 'Strine', innit?
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Not all strictly DIY, but
Marsh Mallows. It is not pronounced "Marsh Mellow". It comes from the Marshmallow plant that was used to produce the stuff originally.
Liquorice. Usually pronounced -ish these days but I was brought up with "iss". Does it come from a different language ?
Americans say "I could care less" for "I couldn't care less". Seems to be catching on over here. The fact that they can say that makes me think they have no logic in their heads.
Also, lots of people say "sea anenome" and it still sounds correct to me, although it is of course "sea anemone"
Simon.
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One drunken uneducated bum tends to talk the same as any other drunken uneducated bum.
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West Midlands too (What's the difference between a buffalo and a basin?)
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My (Sheffield) Dad parks his outside his grijj, and his wife is called Krll.
JGH