Squeak 17 #1 September 16, 2011 ok you yank lot pronounce a lot of stuff differently to us english speakers (i.e. Aussies, Poms and Kiwis, and some Saffers) But please explain to me how you get SAW-DER from SOLD-ER and whilst we're at it Kansas becomes ARE-CAN-SAW if you place and AR in front WTF is up with that.You are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky) My Life ROCKS! How's yours doing? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
quade 4 #2 September 16, 2011 It's easy. You guys fucked up the idea of phonetic spelling so bad to begin with, we just got confused. Why are the first phonemes of "fuck" and "phonetic" written differently?quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
muff528 3 #3 September 16, 2011 Quote ok you yank lot pronounce a lot of stuff differently to us english speakers (i.e. Aussies, Poms and Kiwis, and some Saffers) But please explain to me how you get SAW-DER from SOLD-ER and whilst we're at it Kansas becomes ARE-CAN-SAW if you place and AR in front WTF is up with that. I dunno ...is the fish a salmon or a sammon?. In some parts the country "berry" and "bury" are homophones. In other parts they are not. Why does the Aussie chick on my GPS say "Flo-ree-der" for Florida? (BTW - I don't get the Kansas/Arkansas thing either) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Squeak 17 #4 September 16, 2011 QuoteIt's easy. You guys fucked up the idea of phonetic spelling so bad to begin with, we just got confused. Why are the first phonemes of "fuck" and "phonetic" written differently? Can I phone a Friend?You are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky) My Life ROCKS! How's yours doing? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
popsjumper 2 #5 September 16, 2011 QuoteWhy are the first phonemes of "fuck" and "phonetic" written differently? Because WTPH looks funny.My reality and yours are quite different. I think we're all Bozos on this bus. Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
popsjumper 2 #6 September 16, 2011 You're lookin' at everything upside down, dude.My reality and yours are quite different. I think we're all Bozos on this bus. Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Snowwhite 0 #7 September 16, 2011 u gi s R wa 2 phuny!skydiveTaylorville.org freefallbeth@yahoo.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
d_squared431 0 #8 September 16, 2011 You peeps over seas are all messed up. you cant spell a simple word like color correctly. You use the damn metric system just to fuck with us.. The cars are set up backwards and you drive on the wrong side of the road.Come on, who puts the lever for the blinkers where the lever for the wipers are supposed to be? i cant tell you how many times I tried to put the blinker on and my wipers went off...I can go on.... TPM Sister#130ONTIG#1 I love vodka.I love vodka cause it rhymes with Tuaca~LisaH You having a clean thought is like billyvance having a clean post.iluvtofly Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
champu 1 #9 September 16, 2011 QuoteBut please explain to me how you get SAW-DER from SOLD-ER I pronounce it more like SAH-DER, but that might just be a Chicago thing. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Squeak 17 #10 September 16, 2011 Quote You're lookin' at everything upside down, dude. Thaty's why I'm trying to learn Head-down flying so i can right my perspective You are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky) My Life ROCKS! How's yours doing? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnMitchell 16 #11 September 16, 2011 Quote But please explain to me how you get SAW-DER from SOLD-ER Oh, just SOLD off, mate!Everyone knows English pronunciations can be pretty random. Our language is such an amalgam of so many disparate tongues, it's amazing it ever makes any sense at all. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
oldwomanc6 52 #12 September 16, 2011 Quote Quote But please explain to me how you get SAW-DER from SOLD-ER Oh, just SOLD off, mate!Everyone knows English pronunciations can be pretty random. Our language is such an amalgam of so many disparate tongues, it's amazing it ever makes any sense at all. Yep! and only in English, can English to English get lost in the translation lisa WSCR 594 FB 1023 CBDB 9 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Trafficdiver 8 #13 September 16, 2011 Massachusetts is the worst. Wistah = Worcester Glostah= Gloucester BillRickAh = Billerica Peebedee=Peabody Mefah=Medford Veeveah=Revere Ahlingtin = Arlington Kahkis = Car Keys Mataheah = I'm leaving Gidadaheah = statement of shock Mybruthafucdyahsisdah = My brother had sex with your sister. BTW I don't get the Kansas/Arkansas thing either. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MikeJD 0 #14 September 16, 2011 QuoteMassachusetts is the worst. Wistah = Worcester Glostah= Gloucester Seems that to many Americans, Leicester = "Li-chest-er". I love that one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
popsjumper 2 #15 September 16, 2011 OK...now we're havin' fun! Brit to English to Aussie. Fuck all...I'm lost now. What were we saying? Something about somebody's sister?My reality and yours are quite different. I think we're all Bozos on this bus. Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shropshire 0 #16 September 16, 2011 QuoteQuoteMassachusetts is the worst. Wistah = Worcester Glostah= Gloucester Seems that to many Americans, Leicester = "Li-chest-er". I love that one. Them moaning about other septics getting Worcester wrong is just too funny .. It's W'ster folks not War-cess_ter (.)Y(.) Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
muff528 3 #17 September 16, 2011 Quote Quote Quote Massachusetts is the worst. Wistah = Worcester Glostah= Gloucester Seems that to many Americans, Leicester = "Li-chest-er". I love that one. Them moaning about other septics getting Worcester wrong is just too funny .. It's W'ster folks not War-cess_ter It's not "Wistershistershire Sauce" either, but I've heard that one down here. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
masterrig 1 #18 September 16, 2011 Quote You peeps over seas are all messed up. you cant spell a simple word like color correctly. You use the damn metric system just to fuck with us.. The cars are set up backwards and you drive on the wrong side of the road.Come on, who puts the lever for the blinkers where the lever for the wipers are supposed to be? i cant tell you how many times I tried to put the blinker on and my wipers went off...I can go on.... It's because God told them to! Chuck Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Baksteen 84 #19 September 16, 2011 Quote Everyone knows English pronunciations can be pretty random. Our language is such an amalgam of so many disparate tongues, it's amazing it ever makes any sense at all. I thought I was doing pretty well, until I read the following. Then I cried a little: The chaos A poem on English pronunciation Charivarius, (G.N. Trenite: 1870–1946). Dearest creature in creation, Studying English pronunciation, I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse. It will keep you, Susy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy; Tear in eye your dress you'll tear. So shall I! Oh hear my prayer: Pray console your loving poet, Make my coat look new, dear, sew it. Just compare heart, beard and heard, Dies and diet, Lord and word. Sword and sward, retain and Britain, (Mind the latter, how it's written). Made has not the sound of bade, Say–said, pay–paid, laid, but plaid. Now I surely will not plague you With such words as vague and ague, But be careful how you speak: Say break, steak, but bleak and streak, Previous, precious; fuschia, via; Pipe, shipe, recipe and choir; Cloven, oven; how and low; Script, receipt; shoe, poem, toe. Hear me say, devoid of trickery; Daughter, laughter and Terpsichore; Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles; Exiles, similes, reviles; Wholly, holly; signal, signing; Thames, examining, combining; Scholar, vicar and cigar, Solar, mica, war, and far. Desire–desirable, admirable–admire; Lumber, plumber; bier but brier; Chatham, brougham; renown but known, Knowledge; done, but gone and tone, One, anemone; Balmoral, Kitchen, lichen; laundry, laurel; Gertrude, German; wind and mind; Scene, Melpomene, mankind; Tortoise, turquoise, chamois-leather. This phonetic labyrinth Gives moss, gross; brook, brooch; ninth, plinth. Billet does not end like ballet; Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet; Blood and flood are not like food, Nor is mould like should and would. Banquet is not nearly parquet, Which is said to rime with darky. Viscous, viscount; load and broad; Toward, to forward, to reward. And your pronunciation's O.K. When you say correctly; croquet; Rounded, wounded; grieve and sieve; Friend and fiend, alive and live, Liberty, library; heave and heaven; Rachel, ache, moustache; eleven. We say hallowed, but allowed; People, leopard; towed, but vowed. Mark the difference moreover Between mover, plover, Dover; Leeches, breeches; wise, precise; Chalice, but police and lice. Camel, constable, unstable, Principle, discipline, label; Petal, penal and canal; Wait, surmise, plait, promise; pal. Suit, suite, ruin; circuit, conduit, Rime with: "shirk it" and "beyond it"; But it is not hard to tell Why it's pall, mall, but PallMall. Muscle, muscular; goal and iron; Timber, climber; bullion and lion; Worm and storm; chaise, chaos, chair; Senator, spectator, mayor. Ivy, privy; famous; clamour, And enamour rime with "hammer". Pussy, hussy and possess, Desert, but dessert, address. Golf, wolf; countenants; lieutenants Hoist, in lieu of flags, left pennants. River, rival; tomb, bomb, comb; Doll and roll, and some and home. Stranger does not rime with anger, Neither does devour with clangour. Soul, but foul; and gaunt, but aunt; Font, front, won't; want, grand and grant; Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger, And then; singer, ginger, linger. Real, zeal; mauve, gauze and gauge; Marriage, foliage, mirage, age. Query does not rime with very, Nor does fury sound like bury. Dost, lost, post; and doth, cloth, loth; Job, Job; blossom, bosom, oath. Though the difference seems little We say actual, but victual; Seat, sweat; chaste, caste; Leigh, eight, height; Put, nut; granite but unite. Reefer does not rime with deafer, Feoffer does, and zephyr, heifer. Dull, bull; Geoffrey, George; ate, late; Hint, pint; senate, but sedate. Scenic, Arabic, Pacific; Science, conscience, scientific. Tour, but our, and succour, four; Gas, alas and Arkansas! Sea, idea, guinea, area, Psalm, Maria, but malaria. Youth, south, southern; cleanse and clean; Doctrine, turpentine, marine. Compare alien with Italian. Dandelion with battalion, Sally with ally, Yea, Ye, Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, key, quay. Say aver, but ever, fever, Neither, leisure, skein, receiver. Never guess–it is not safe; We say calves, valves; half, but Ralf. Heron, granary, canary; Crevice and device and eyrie; Face, preface, but efface, Phlegm, phlegmatic; ass, glass, bass; Large, but target, gin, give, verging; Ought, out, joust and scour, but scourging; Ear, but earn; and wear and tear Do not rime with "here" but "ere". Seven is right, but so is even; Hyphen, roughen, nephew, Stephen; Monkey, donkey; clerk and jerk; Asp, grasp, wasp; and cork and work. Pronunciation–think of psyche– Is a paling, stout and spikey; Won't it make you lose your wits, writing groats and saying "groats"? It's a dark abyss or tunnel, Strewn with stones, like rowlock, gunwale, Islington and Isle of Wight, Housewife, verdict and indict. Don't you think so, reader, rather Saying lather, bather, father? Finally: which rimes with "enough", Though, through, plough, cough, hough or tough? Hiccough has the sound of "cup", My advice is ... give it up!"That formation-stuff in freefall is just fun and games but with an open parachute it's starting to sound like, you know, an extreme sport." ~mom Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shropshire 0 #20 September 16, 2011 Quote It's because God told them to! Chuck Hi Chuck, You have 'gotten' that right - After all god is an English lass. p.s 'gotten' in in quotes because that there is funny to our Brit ears too :-) (.)Y(.) Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shropshire 0 #21 September 16, 2011 BUT how on Earth did we get to pronounce lieutenant as Lef-ten-ant? (.)Y(.) Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
masterrig 1 #22 September 16, 2011 Quote Quote It's because God told them to! Chuck Hi Chuck, You have 'gotten' that right - After all god is an English lass. p.s 'gotten' in in quotes because that there is funny to our Brit ears too :-) My wife tells me that! I'll tell her (jokingly) 'God will get you for that!' Her response... "No She won't!" That there is funny... I don't care who you are! Chuck Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MikeJD 0 #23 September 16, 2011 Wow, that was an impressive poem - although it was tough to plough through... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
eeneR 3 #24 September 16, 2011 Quote Quote Quote Quote Massachusetts is the worst. Wistah = Worcester Glostah= Gloucester Seems that to many Americans, Leicester = "Li-chest-er". I love that one. Them moaning about other septics getting Worcester wrong is just too funny .. It's W'ster folks not War-cess_ter It's not "Wistershistershire Sauce" either, but I've heard that one down here. You mean it is not "whatsthishear sauce"? She is not a "Dumb Blonde" - She is a "Light-Haired Detour Off The Information Superhighway." eeneR TF#72, FB#4130, Incauto Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
masterrig 1 #25 September 16, 2011 Quote BUT how on Earth did we get to pronounce lieutenant as Lef-ten-ant? You just gotta be different... that's all it is! Shouldn't the next step-up in rank be 'lieut-elevenant'? Chuck Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
