Jack Knight wrote: > Jim Kissel wrote: >> Chris Aitken wrote: >> >>>>> Sean, >>>>> Whats with this "my bad". We are NOT AMERICANS... >>>>> >>>>> >>>> I've been living in the USA for a year or so. This example is way down on >>>> the >>>> list of annoyingizations of the language :) >>>> >>>> The one that gets me is Herbs, pronounced Erbs, and yet the ability to >>>> >>>> >>> pronounce the letter H as Haitch. >>> >> As a "Connecticut Yankee in King Arther's Court", well actually an ex, >> as I've just moved back to the USA, it's "Hews-ton Texas, not "Whos-ton" >> > ... unless of course you happen to be in SoHo New York, which means > "South of Houston", but is pronounced HOWS-TON. Calling it Hews-ton is > to a New Yorker like an American calling Leicester Square "Lie-Sester" > Square to us. ;^)= > > On the subject of Haitch, my Dublin born Irish wife will gladly inform > you that Irish kids are taught to say it that way in school, as well as > pronouncing R as "ORR". > > jfk (Also in the USA at the moment) > > My two-penn'orth: the pronunciation of "nuclear" as if it were spelled "nucular" <grate>
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