OT Supermarket Trolleys

[Bruce]

Destiny's Child?

[Dave Liquorice]

And don't ask for a coke in and "ordinary street side bar".

[damduck-egg]

Knew a bloke who purchased a load of items from a B+Q then wheeled the Trolley a couple of miles down to a harbour where he had arrived on a boat. Cheeky sod then rang the phone number that some carry for reporting lost and abandoned Trolleys and said that he had seen one left down by the Harbour.

G.Harman

[Jules]

Those two don't change, which is the weird thing (i.e. they're pronounced the same in both countries).

I think I read somewhere once that the US pronunciation of buoy matches the modern French term (more or less), whilst it's still "boy" in the rest of the world.

[S Viemeister]

Pronunciation can vary from one part of the US to another, and by educational level.

[Jules]

That is true - as per my post a few messages back, I'd always thought of words like 'vase' and 'route' as having distinct UK and US versions, but actually I've encountered both in widespread use in the US (we're reasonably close to the Canadian border here though, which might account for some of it).

I've only ever come across 'booey' this side of the pond, though.

cheers

J.

[Arfa Daily]

Is that a known, or a guess ?

Arfa

[Bob Martin]

If the shop operates a carry-out service he should have asked for his shopping to be taken out to his boat!

[S Viemeister]

It's what I hear when I'm in the NYC metro area.

[Bob Mannix]

Interesting - you can look it up on Google. The (US) Merriam Webster dictionary says "boo-eee" for buoy (with "boy" as an alternative) but prefers "boy-ancy" for buoyancy (although it offers "boo-yancy" as an alternative).

Well, not that interesting....

[Alang]

I have a copy of microsoft bookshelf (1994) which gives an example of how a word is pronounced in Americanese if you click on it and have sound turned on.

Buoy is pronounced booee Buoyancy is pronounced boyansee But buoyed is aparently pronounced booeed

[whisky-dave]

How do they pronounce them in Canada, I've noticed that in some cases words like about are pronounced in a scottich way 'aboot' the accent seems to have more in common with Scottish than English. (well th parts that don;t speak French)

I also remember something about the Bowie knife being pronounced boowie, not sure how David Bowie was pronounced.

[Man at B&Q]

Hillards supermarket (then Tesco, not sure of it's still there) in Huddersfield was built on top of the carpark and had one of these these 20+ years ago. You put the trolley on the trolley escalator and walked down the adjacent steps. Can't remember of theer was an escalator for humans.

MBQ

[Arfa Daily]

As they say, two nations separated by a common language ... !

Arfa

[Arfa Daily]

Hmmm. Mike Myers is Canadian I believe, and does a more than passable Scottish accent as Shrek. Likewise, James Doohan who played Scotty in Star Trek was also Canadian. There must be a connection between Canada and Scotland somewhere in the distant past, although I can't recall having been taught anything along those lines in Geography lessons, taken back when it was a 'proper' senior school subject ... :-)

Arfa

[Alang]

With the march of global television the english language will evolve into a hybrid amerenglese. And because it so readily steals from other languages it looks to become the de facto common world language.

[Alang]

ISTR Myers was raised in Liverpool.

Canada was well settled by jocks. See how many towns are named after them. Bloody Hamiltons are all over the place for a start

[geoff]

In message , Arfa Daily writes

Just go and look at any map of Canada

You can't move for Porridge wog names

[Arfa Daily]

I guess that accounts for it then. I probably wasn't listening in the lesson which covered it ... d;~}

Arfa

[John Rumm]

Stroller is still used in the UK, but often denotes a light weight fold up pushchair (sometimes also "umbrella stroller") rather than a more substantial one.