# Can't.... Supress.... Urge.... To.... Insult... Am.... ericans..! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 1, 2003, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-supress-urge-to-insult-am-ericans/152009 "2003-02-01T00:54:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-supress-urge-to-insult-am-ericans/152009/1 "2003-02-01T00:54:00Z")
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!)) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-supress-urge-to-insult-am-ericans/152009/2 "2003-02-01T00:55:08Z")
Thanks for the wide-screen! ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-supress-urge-to-insult-am-ericans/152009/3 "2003-02-01T00:56:16Z")
All those bloody previews and I still make a chuffin mistake! ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-supress-urge-to-insult-am-ericans/152009/4 "2003-02-01T00:57:56Z")
Wide-screen? I thought it next-lined’ it? (it does for me) ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-supress-urge-to-insult-am-ericans/152009/5 "2003-02-01T01:05:19Z")
And, **Mr. Blue Sky** , mine is far from the widest subject in this forum. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecccb3/32.png) [@Lord\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-supress-urge-to-insult-am-ericans/152009/6 "2003-02-01T01:10:05Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-supress-urge-to-insult-am-ericans/152009/7 "2003-02-01T01:19:31Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-supress-urge-to-insult-am-ericans/152009/8 "2003-02-01T01:26:40Z")
Yeah, well listen to how all 'yall pronounce “Jaguar”. “Jag-\*\*UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU\-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. Colo **u** r, favo **u** rite, hono **u** r. I mean, _really_. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-supress-urge-to-insult-am-ericans/152009/9 "2003-02-01T01:31:15Z")
**Giraffe** If only I knew the words. **Lord Jim** If only I knew. **Inky** If only. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-supress-urge-to-insult-am-ericans/152009/10 "2003-02-01T01:32:52Z")
(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) ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-supress-urge-to-insult-am-ericans/152009/11 "2003-02-01T01:39:12Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![raisinbread](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8491ac/32.png) [@raisinbread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raisinbread)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-supress-urge-to-insult-am-ericans/152009/12 "2003-02-01T01:54:17Z")
Let us not forget the baffling convention of “zed” over “zee” in the former empire. Do you also say “ped” instead of “pee”? ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-supress-urge-to-insult-am-ericans/152009/13 "2003-02-01T02:06:00Z")
No, I say Piss. ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-supress-urge-to-insult-am-ericans/152009/14 "2003-02-01T02:09:24Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-supress-urge-to-insult-am-ericans/152009/15 "2003-02-01T03:23:50Z")
“School schedule.” G’wan, pronounce _that_, ya limey! (I have taken the liberty of inserting some spaces into your thread title.) ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-supress-urge-to-insult-am-ericans/152009/16 "2003-02-01T03:31:38Z")
Appreciated **MEBuckner** (‘skool skedyooal’) ---
**Author:** ![Turbo\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@Turbo\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turbo_Dog)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-supress-urge-to-insult-am-ericans/152009/17 "2003-02-01T04:19:30Z")
A guy from Atlanta trying to teach a Brit how to talk. This alone could be a TV series for years:) ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-supress-urge-to-insult-am-ericans/152009/18 "2003-02-01T04:32:51Z")
Bloody Poms and Yanks going at it again… 😃 **cracks a coldie** ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-supress-urge-to-insult-am-ericans/152009/19 "2003-02-01T04:47:03Z")
So, when are we going to settle this whole thing about Al OOOM in UM? ---
**Author:** ![BadBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71c47a/32.png) [@BadBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BadBaby)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-supress-urge-to-insult-am-ericans/152009/20 "2003-02-01T04:52:58Z")
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? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-supress-urge-to-insult-am-ericans/152009.md?page=2)