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An American in Madeira referred to the EY-zores, which amused us no end.

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Maybe he was referring to British tourists - the eyesores

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Not if he was American, we are far uglier tourists than the Brits ;)

― Allida Warn, Friday, 20 January 2006 13:55 (eighteen years ago) link

pronunciation

The Pronunciation Thread

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 20 January 2006 14:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Is it pronounced PEDE-and or ped-ANT?

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Friday, 20 January 2006 14:22 (eighteen years ago) link

dah (to rhyme with cat)

? !??!???

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 20 January 2006 14:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Well maybe in British English this is a bad description. For me cat doesn't rhyme with caught, it rhymes with "Ack!" or back or flack or tack. It is the American short "a" rather than the British short "a."

― Allida Warn, Friday, 20 January 2006 14:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Previous discussion of data pronunciation

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 20 January 2006 14:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Data is 'dah-ta' if you learnt latin at school, so more likely to be British maybe.

Schedule is 'skedyool' cos that's what the H is for. Like scheme is 'skeem' not 'sheem'...

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 20 January 2006 14:55 (eighteen years ago) link

so cat in american is the same as "cack"??

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 20 January 2006 14:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Not cack... but Cat with the a from back

argh... It is difficult to describe the difference in pronouncing things in text.

― Allida Warn, Friday, 20 January 2006 15:00 (eighteen years ago) link

oh ok.. the "rhyme" bit was the bit that confused i think

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 20 January 2006 15:02 (eighteen years ago) link

yes

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 20 January 2006 15:03 (eighteen years ago) link

For me cat doesn't rhyme with caught

It does if you're from Belfast

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 20 January 2006 15:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Dorothy Parker wanted to have lunch with Herbert Marshall. She kept calling him to try and set up a lunch date and he kept saying he couldn't fit her into his 'shedyule'. She was later heard to remark that she thought he was full of 'skit'.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 20 January 2006 15:07 (eighteen years ago) link

wtf are you talking about? cat to rhyme with caught ? mentalism!

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 20 January 2006 16:18 (eighteen years ago) link

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