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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2020 14:32:33 GMT
Get a Glaswegian to try to say purple burglar alarm.
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Post by Humph on Jun 18, 2020 14:39:01 GMT
That might end up sounding like a jacuzzi with an air lock.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2020 14:47:19 GMT
Ask a Mackem to say Neesaan Sentra or an American for herbs.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2020 14:51:55 GMT
I've always found the biggest challenge is getting one of my Welsh mates to say "it's my round".
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Post by Humph on Jun 18, 2020 14:54:13 GMT
Yorkshiremen struggle with that one too.
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Post by Humph on Jun 18, 2020 14:58:57 GMT
Re shredding, I've just found an invitation from the local Jag garage to come and test drive the "new" S Type diesel "available from £14995" apparently. Why the heck have I kept and filed that I wonder...
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Post by EspadaIII on Jun 18, 2020 15:00:55 GMT
I've always found the biggest challenge is getting one of my Welsh mates to say "it's my round". Given my mother came from Holyhead and you are all aware of my religion, I will knock you off your perches by saying I did once buy a round..... The Americans have a really weird way of saying normal words... Especially words containing the letter O. There is a place near Jerusalem called Ramot; as in ra-mot. But they pronounce it 'ramote' like remote. And then the word Shalom. You know, sha-lom with the 'lom' as in slalom. But noooo.... Sha-Lome as in 'loam'. No wonder we all called Colin Powell, Coal-in Powell. |
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Post by Humph on Jun 18, 2020 15:05:53 GMT
A Scotsman, a Welshman, a Yorkshireman and an Israeli walk into a pub, and no one said anything...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2020 15:13:31 GMT
Yes but who got out of the taxi last?
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Post by EspadaIII on Jun 18, 2020 15:54:17 GMT
The Israeli - he was the driver....
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Post by WDB on Jun 18, 2020 16:02:33 GMT
Sadly, the US pronunciation of Nissan is much closer to the Japanese than the British pronunciation. Stopped-clock principle, I suspect. Americans tend to gratuitously elongate the vowels in any ‘foreign’ word: ‘pahsta’, ‘ri-zo-to’ and, lamentably, ‘lah-tay’. ‘Sri Lahnka’ too, lest you think I’m picking on Italy. |
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Post by tyrednexited on Jun 18, 2020 16:07:05 GMT
......I've just found an invitation from the local Jag garage to come and test drive the "new" S Type diesel "available from £14995" apparently. Why the heck have I kept and filed that I wonder... ...was it behind the one for the Ford Model T launch......? |
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Post by EspadaIII on Jun 18, 2020 16:07:26 GMT
The crazy thing is with the Amreicans in Israel, is that if they can speak Hebrew on a conversational way, they pronounce the words correctly. But speaking English, they mangle it.
I suppose vaguely similar to us speaking italian and saying we are going to visit Roma, whereas in English we would say Rome. But different context and reasons..
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Post by Rob on Jun 18, 2020 16:16:19 GMT
And what's wrong with the world coriander...
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Post by tyrednexited on Jun 18, 2020 16:49:56 GMT
...I know everyone's proving it's a slow/wet/whatever day today, but that takes the biscuit for mindless diversion....  You know how it is/was. Six hours in a financial reporting tool planing for next year you'd stick wasps up your bottom by way of a diversion. ...it's been so long BPG..... (and I don't miss the wasps). |
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