Can't.... Supress.... Urge.... To.... Insult... Am.... ericans..!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I was watching scrapheap challenge today, and had to cringe several times when I heard the way the Americans were pronouncing the word ‘Centrifugal’.

I am sure I do not need to explain it to most dopers as most dopers are Americans (I am a suicidal idiot), but for the sake of completeness and the UK dopers - they pronounced the ‘i’ part instead of the ‘u’ part (as is meant to be the way!)

sen-tri FYOOO-gul!!

not sen -TRI-fy-gul.
now please have mercy. I love you guys really

Lobsang (guy who has always expressed inner-affection using outward-contempt. Even when it came to courting (damn that curse!))

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Thanks for the wide-screen!

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All those bloody previews and I still make a chuffin mistake!

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Wide-screen? I thought it next-lined’ it? (it does for me)

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And, Mr. Blue Sky, mine is far from the widest subject in this forum.

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Do you suppose that from now on you could put some spaces in the title so that is doesn’t mess up the screen so much.

I really don’t care what this thread is about.

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Speaking as a centrifuge, I can fully understand your agitation at this egregious mispronunciation. Now, why don’t you go have a nice cup of tea and a biscuit and lie down? Later you can go for a lorry ride down to the pub and get some toad-in-the-hole. Maybe throw some darts, sing “God Save the Queen”, all that rot.

Bloody hell.

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Yeah, well listen to how all 'yall pronounce “Jaguar”.

“Jag-**UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU</b>-ire”

WRONG!

Jag-wire. Period.

Just because you can’t pronounce the letter “H” doesn’t mean you have to overcompensate by adding unnessasary “U”'s willy-nilly. Colour, favourite, honour. I mean, really.

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Giraffe If only I knew the words.

Lord Jim If only I knew.

Inky If only.

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(I will not post space-less subjects in future. Had I known this would fuck about with people’s browsers I would not have done it ITFP)

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The only thing I can say to Inky- is there is an H in herb, ugdammmit. So don’t you get 'ot with us not pronouncing our atches.
Cheers, Bippy t

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Let us not forget the baffling convention of “zed” over “zee” in the former empire. Do you also say “ped” instead of “pee”?

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No, I say Piss.

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Well, that is true. And we do pronounce things differently than you do. For instance, you say caterpillar, and we say caterpillar. You say al-U-minum, we say al-u-mINium, you say cen-TRI-fugal we say centri-FUGAL, you say 'erbs and we say herbs, because there’s a fucking H in it.

[/eddie izzard]

Sorry, couldn’t help it.
-foxy

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“School schedule.” G’wan, pronounce that, ya limey!

(I have taken the liberty of inserting some spaces into your thread title.)

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Appreciated MEBuckner

(‘skool skedyooal’)

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A guy from Atlanta trying to teach a Brit how to talk.

This alone could be a TV series for years:)

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Bloody Poms and Yanks going at it again… :smiley:

cracks a coldie

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So, when are we going to settle this whole thing about

Al OOOM in UM?

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And how about Thames? Proper name, schnoper name, it’s messed up. When the pronunciation was explained to me, I was sure my dad was joking. I do concede you have a point with Houston, though.
Now, can we get someone in here to explain what went wrong with chamois?