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intergirl-2 — 19 years ago(December 15, 2006 03:58 PM)
The "ah" sound which you're talking about equals the british "ar" seeing as we don't pronounce the r at the end of syllables.
However, we do pronounce the "r" when it links the end of one word to the start of another. So one example would be: "I went to the cinema and watched a movie." Seeing as the final "a" in cinema is pronounced "ah," or "ar/er" for us, we'd say: "I went to the cinema-r-and watched a movie." Hence the way that Cat Deeley pronounces America: AmericER (or AmericUH for Americans, I suppose.)
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British--Babe — 19 years ago(August 06, 2006 10:08 AM)
She b68only has a Northern accent to people from down London way. She's from the Midlands. Mancunian's and Liverpudlian's etc have Northern accents.
"I'm not from these parts. From a little place called England-we used to run the world before you." -
em200 — 19 years ago(September 21, 2006 11:17 AM)
I live in Birmingham which is where she's from and we all say americER around here for some reason. Its just the regional accent, it would be abnormal for someone from the midlands to say AmericA.
E m i l y Susan S and Megan M Fan
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British--Babe — 19 years ago(September 22, 2006 01:59 AM)
Sorry i dont agree with that. I'm also from Birmingham. I say AmericA, and i know others who do too. Perhaps it depends on whereabouts in Birmingham yo're from?!
"I'm not from these parts. From a little place called England-we used to run the world before you." -
em200 — 19 years ago(September 22, 2006 10:13 AM)
Ooo you're from Birmingham too? Cool! I think it depends which bit you're from yep too and how strong your accent is.
E m i l y Susan S and Megan M Fan
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superintelligentone — 18 years ago(June 27, 2007 11:20 PM)
I live in Canada. Back when I went to high school, we had a Chemistry teacher who immigrated from the UK. Mr. Cruikshanks would say Canad-er and Americ-er. He'd pronounce a girl named Bonita as Bonit-er. We'd accept that as the way that he spoke.
But we didn't like how he'd pronounce Aluminum, "A-lu-min-ium" whereas North Americans would say "A-lu-mi-num", or Vitamin as "Vi-ta-min" (short 'I' as in 'hit') where Canadians & Americans pronounce it as "Vite-ta-min" {long 'I' - Vital to have Vitamins).
Canadians and Americans have difficulties understanding British accents the farther north the region the speaker is from. When I first heard Liz McClarnon of Atomic Kitten speak, I couldn't understand some of the things that she was saying because of her accent. I thought that she was from Scotland. I've since learned that she speaks with a Scouse accent. Her fellow Liverpudlian, Natasha Hamilton's accent isn't as strong.
Back to the topic: I've read on other posts at IMDB that people think that Cat Deeley has changed her accent since spending time in America. I've seen clips of her interviewing AK on CD:UK from a few years ago - I don't think that she changed accents. She doesn't sound like an American at all these days.