Vase or Vase

So basically the poll is "Are you North American?"

Seems that way. Lucky we know that they are always wrong, so it's okay that we're outnumbered.

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Originally Posted by Psychotic

So basically the poll is "Are you North American?"

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I see Mirage agreeing with us though! :p

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Originally Posted by Tifa's Boobs

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Originally Posted by Pike

I don't say it either of the ways in the poll

It rhymes with race

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This is what I meant when I put vays. If it ride with rays, I would've put vayz.

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Vays looks too much like lays, rays, bays, days, ways and so forth to me xD Something spelled like that is usually said with a "z" sound at the end, thus my confusion.

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Originally Posted by Pike

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Originally Posted by Psychotic

So basically the poll is "Are you North American?"

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I see Mirage agreeing with us though! :p

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Yeah. When I was five years old and *snip* I'd have said it wrong, too.

Daniel Towns! You should know better than this!

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Rase

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Originally Posted by Pike

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Originally Posted by Psychotic

So basically the poll is "Are you North American?"

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I see Mirage agreeing with us though! :p

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He's not a natural English speaker he doesn't bloody count :colbert:

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Originally Posted by The Man

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Originally Posted by Denmark

Every poll thread should just default to these two options:

• The correct way
• Daniel Towns' or Shorty's way (context-dependent)

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Lonny BoB voted for one and Shorty voted for the other. What do?

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(context-dependent)

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silly geese

I didn't read the OP but if this is about pronunciations then everyone who doesn't pronounce it my way is gay and lame.

"Vayze"

Like "Swayze"

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Originally Posted by Chris

"Vayze"

Like "Swayze"

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...with 2 syllables, like "Swayze" as in "Patrick Swayze"?

As in not "Vahz" or "Vays". O:

Well, NORMALLY American English has bastardized the pronunciation of words from their original British English form, but that's actually not the case here. The original British English pronunciation is the one that rhymes with 'race.' This is evident in the many rhymes by British poets using the word from hundreds of years ago, like your friend and mine, Lord Byron.

I don't understand how or why modern British English speakers say it differently than older British English speakers clearly did. They're forced, however, to concede that either a) all other American English language changes are valid and correct, or b) the way they say "vase" is wrong.

So, Euros, which is it?

Normally, when confronted with the problem of vase vs. vase, I just make loud grunting noises until the person understands that I do not have the intelligence to differentiate between vase and vase.

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Originally Posted by Spuuky

Well, NORMALLY American English has bastardized the pronunciation of words from their original British English form, but that's actually not the case here. The original British English pronunciation is the one that rhymes with 'race.' This is evident in the many rhymes by British poets using the word from hundreds of years ago, like your friend and mine, Lord Byron.

I don't understand how or why modern British English speakers say it differently than older British English speakers clearly did. They're forced, however, to concede that either a) all other American English language changes are valid and correct, or b) the way they say "vase" is wrong.

So, Euros, which is it?

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I don't think you understand. The way we say it is right, the way other say it is wrong. Keep up, Spuuky!