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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. -
superintelligentone — 18 years ago(August 15, 2007 11:06 PM)
'Mom' rhymes with 'Bomb'.
'Mum' rhymes with 'Bum'.
Comment on the way people pronounce 'Girl' depending on their regional accent in the UK.
'Girl' rhymes with 'Earl' in Canada & America.
'Girl' rhymes with 'Barrel' in parts of the UK. -
Lolification — 18 years ago(April 02, 2008 01:06 PM)
barrel? wtf we must pronounced that differently aswel because it does not rhyme with barrel. you must pronounce it bur5b4rel. Anyway people in England speak differently like every 5-10 miles so everyone is different here.
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Talking_To_The_Bobs — 18 years ago(July 19, 2007 02:50 PM)
She also says "jidges" instead of "judges". I feel like I'm watching Eliza Doolittle.
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ThePoohBearon — 16 years ago(July 08, 2009 10:46 AM)
I am an American and I won't complain about how she says America (or AmericER) when people from the northeast of my country say ideaR instead of idea. Every country has its' own quirks of pronuciation. My main complaint about Cat is that I have no idea why she is even vaugely qualified to host "So You Think You Can Dance".