Pronunciations

People need to start pronuncing things properperly.

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Originally Posted by Quin

"Pronuncations"?

ARE YOU DOING THIS ON PURPOSE? :love:

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:stare:

I blame Shiny for double misspelling the word.

British people are ruining the English language. #IWantMyLanguageBack

Shanuna.

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Originally Posted by Quin

ah jus kinae git wah ya bastuhds dannar oonderstahnd uhs

I would like to draw attention to "pronucations" and ridicule you endlessly for it. Har har har, "pronucations", har.

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I knew someone like you would completely miss the point of that. If this thread is about pronouncing things strangely why would you think I would put "pronunciations"? ;)

I know someone who pronounces that wrong even. I have a few others: I use to say "upstairs" with a southern accent. I have no idea why this one word suddenly turned me suttern.

It's completely not related to my accent but I say 'birthday' as 'buthday' or rather just 'bfffday'

I make a strong point of doing so.

A lot of people ask me where I'm from, because they can't quite put their finger on my accent. I was born in the North East and had a strong north east accent, and when I moved to the south east nobody could understand me. So I adapted how I talked so people would, and it stuck... But I don't sound like I'm from the south east, either!

I always say daiquiri wrong. People say "dak-irry" but I always say "dah-keery" :jess:

I have a relatively neutral British accent and you can't tell where I'm from. The only regional accent features I have aren't even necessarily typical to my region. They are the short a on grass, bath (rather than the long a graaaass) and the glottal stop on the end of certain words - in that I drop the "t" on words like "what" or "that" probably 70% of the time (though in words like "bottle" and "water" with a middle "t" I always pronounce it.) The former is a northern thing whereas the latter is a southern thing, so :shobon:

I definitely don't have the regional accents from my area. People from this area typically say "dunt" instead of "don't", for example, and "twalve" instead of "twelve" - I definitely don't do either and think they sound abhorrent. Likewise I don't have the Leicester accent or the general West Midlands (Brummie) accent though I am exposed to both.

I am pretty happy with it really!

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Originally Posted by Psychotic

I have a relatively neutral British accent and you can't tell where I'm from. The only regional accent features I have aren't even necessarily typical to my region. They are the short a on grass, bath (rather than the long a graaaass) and the glottal stop on the end of certain words - in that I drop the "t" on words like "what" or "that" probably 70% of the time (though in words like "bottle" and "water" with a middle "t" I always pronounce it.) The former is a northern thing whereas the latter is a southern thing, so :shobon:

I definitely don't have the regional accents from my area. People from this area typically say "dunt" instead of "don't", for example, and "twalve" instead of "twelve" - I definitely don't do either and think they sound abhorrent. Likewise I don't have the Leicester accent or the general West Midlands (Brummie) accent though I am exposed to both.

I am pretty happy with it really!

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You have a beautiful voice.