British and American English Pronunciation - Stop Saying
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Date: 2020-09-18
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Don
There you go ! that's American... Did you mean 'There you are' ! that's the English way to say it. Unless you are of retiring age you won't know that before about 1970 ish we spoke differently. I have been keeping notes on how our language has changed, mainly since the deregulation of television. Now that over 95% of our television programmes are American we (sorry, you) all use American terminology without realizing it, did you notice 'programme' not 'program' When someone says who is this when I answer the phone I say I don't know I don't recognize you voice because in this country we would say who is that speaking please There are dozens of words we never used in this country that we (you) now use. what offends me most is someone like a BBC announcer using Americanisms, today an announcer on BBC Radio 4 said from the get go instead of 'from the start'
So there you are, Listen up people, Have a fun day, still, I suppose it makes no never mind, its giving me goose bumps.
Go and have a cookie with your coffee and if your lights fuse get the flashlight out.
Bye for now ....Don.
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There you go ! that's American... Did you mean 'There you are' ! that's the English way to say it. Unless you are of retiring age you won't know that before about 1970 ish we spoke differently. I have been keeping notes on how our language has changed, mainly since the deregulation of television. Now that over 95% of our television programmes are American we (sorry, you) all use American terminology without realizing it, did you notice 'programme' not 'program' When someone says who is this when I answer the phone I say I don't know I don't recognize you voice because in this country we would say who is that speaking please There are dozens of words we never used in this country that we (you) now use. what offends me most is someone like a BBC announcer using Americanisms, today an announcer on BBC Radio 4 said from the get go instead of 'from the start'
So there you are, Listen up people, Have a fun day, still, I suppose it makes no never mind, its giving me goose bumps.
Go and have a cookie with your coffee and if your lights fuse get the flashlight out.
Bye for now ....Don.
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Selim
my school taught british english but i got influenced by american movies, series, music and my accent is horribly mixed of them. i say city center, holiday, biscuit, car park, anticlockwise, the letter zed but i write realize, behavior, flavor, i pronounce all the letter r's, for me cot-caught totally same. glass and bath have the same vowel as ''say'' and i think i speak very americanish. i say t-uesday (not cheusday), t-ube. also the word mobile is mou-bah-yl for me. i'm really confused about my english.
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my school taught british english but i got influenced by american movies, series, music and my accent is horribly mixed of them. i say city center, holiday, biscuit, car park, anticlockwise, the letter zed but i write realize, behavior, flavor, i pronounce all the letter r's, for me cot-caught totally same. glass and bath have the same vowel as ''say'' and i think i speak very americanish. i say t-uesday (not cheusday), t-ube. also the word mobile is mou-bah-yl for me. i'm really confused about my english.
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disoriented1
As a USAer, I admit that we speak our own incorrect brand of English; but consider..some of U.S. English usage is more 17th Century real English than current UK English..17th Century English was transplanted to New World shores..and developed differently than the natural evolution of English in the UK..
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As a USAer, I admit that we speak our own incorrect brand of English; but consider..some of U.S. English usage is more 17th Century real English than current UK English..17th Century English was transplanted to New World shores..and developed differently than the natural evolution of English in the UK..
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Ben
He is wrong with some of them. Such as glass, there is a North/South divide on that word due to Norse and French influences respectively. In the North we pronounce it how it's spelt in the South that add an R to it for no reason, same with bath, cast and many other word with and A as the second letter.
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He is wrong with some of them. Such as glass, there is a North/South divide on that word due to Norse and French influences respectively. In the North we pronounce it how it's spelt in the South that add an R to it for no reason, same with bath, cast and many other word with and A as the second letter.
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Ashley
There is also Hiberno-English, borrowings and syntax from Irish. And as we have media from both UK and US we use a mix of pronunciations, some more interchangable and some more fixed. Slightly more in favour of UK english terms, but we don't follow the rules when we don't feel like it :)
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There is also Hiberno-English, borrowings and syntax from Irish. And as we have media from both UK and US we use a mix of pronunciations, some more interchangable and some more fixed. Slightly more in favour of UK english terms, but we don't follow the rules when we don't feel like it :)
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Gary
In American English, the most common pronunciation ofadvertisement puts the main stress on the third syllable, with secondary stress on the first syllable. Many American speakers also use the pronunciation with the main stress on the second syllable. This video is misleading.
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In American English, the most common pronunciation ofadvertisement puts the main stress on the third syllable, with secondary stress on the first syllable. Many American speakers also use the pronunciation with the main stress on the second syllable. This video is misleading.
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Jonathan
learnt Brittish English in school, but American English is all over the internet, so i pronounce and spell words in either way.. I wish I could choose one and learn it from scratch, but I can't decide
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learnt Brittish English in school, but American English is all over the internet, so i pronounce and spell words in either way.. I wish I could choose one and learn it from scratch, but I can't decide
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kered13
lol, they forgot to transcribe the r in the American pronunciations of writer and water. That's pretty important if you don't want to sound British.
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lol, they forgot to transcribe the r in the American pronunciations of writer and water. That's pretty important if you don't want to sound British.
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Valentina
Very good! I'm italian and now I understand my some mistakes of pronunciation, for using American sounds/pronunciation instead of that of UK!
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Very good! I'm italian and now I understand my some mistakes of pronunciation, for using American sounds/pronunciation instead of that of UK!
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Carrie
And I'm Australian and we pronounce our English language I'd say about 75% the same as British and the rest being the American way
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And I'm Australian and we pronounce our English language I'd say about 75% the same as British and the rest being the American way
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