# Your Pronunciation

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**Created:** [August 23, 2021, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pronunciation/949375 "2021-08-23T15:27:55Z")\
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Britain is renowned for taking foreign words and twisting their pronunciations so that they sound like they were originally English words. Hence abominations like tack-o for taco; Jag-you-er for jaguar, pass-ta for pasta etc. When Americans absorb a foreign word they attempt to hold onto the native pronunciation as closely as the English phonemes will allow them to.

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