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Guy in work is annoying us all by pronouncing things differently.

Things that can be pronounced different ways (I think)

He's going against the flow man.

I'll take a poll -

Router: ROOTER or ROWTER?

Data: DAYTA or DAHTA?

Are the british and american pronunciations different?

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:09 (eighteen years ago) link

rumpy or rum pie?

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Sked-ule / shed-ule

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:11 (eighteen years ago) link

procounce them depending on how aristocratic you feel

― Latham Green (mike), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:12 (eighteen years ago) link

ROOTER/ DAHTA = British
ROWTER/ DAYTA = American

Any British person pronouncing "route" as "rowt" should be shot

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:12 (eighteen years ago) link

... but "data" is a bit less clear cut

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:12 (eighteen years ago) link

es kju el / sequel

(the solution )

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:17 (eighteen years ago) link

even people in britain call data DAY-TA i think. only person here who calls it DAH-TA is from new zealand.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes, that's true, it just sounds really American when you hear an American say it

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:18 (eighteen years ago) link

if you're american you'd pronounce router as "ROWT-TURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR"

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:19 (eighteen years ago) link

actually more like ROWDURRR

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:19 (eighteen years ago) link

dataismus

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Why when (some) Americans say "mirror" does it come out as "meeeeeeeuuuur"

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:21 (eighteen years ago) link

OK, how about RADD-iator vs. RAY-diator.

And, as Anna keeps taking the piss out of me for, EYE-ron vs Arn?

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Who says RADD-iator?!?!?!

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:26 (eighteen years ago) link

i have never heard a brit say dah-ta!

do you pronounce "roof" to rhyme with "woof" (like a dog does) or "proof"?

and "stove" to rhyme with "shove" or "grove"?

it's RAY-diator!

and EYE-uhn!

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Is it self-a-GRAND-ising or self-A-grandising?

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:27 (eighteen years ago) link

My housemate in Queens used to say RADD-iator, and I really liked it, so I kept it.

Iron hath only one syllable. It's pronounced somewhere between Ahrn and AIrn. You know, kinda like Irn Bru.

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:27 (eighteen years ago) link

This work guy says ROWTER and DAHTA.

Everybody else says ROOTER and DAYTA.

One of our customers has the word Data in their name and they pronounce it correctly when they call, or when they answer the phone and we speak to them daily.

He even pronounces their name wrong. GAHHHH.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:30 (eighteen years ago) link

i would only call a RAY-diator a RAD-iator if it were, like, the coolest radiator in the world.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Iron does have a "r" in it - aye-ern. But I recognise that "r" is a problematic letter in Standard English (we've been here before I think)

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:34 (eighteen years ago) link

BAH-F or BAFF or BEEEHHHHHHHHHHHF?
south vs north vs american

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:34 (eighteen years ago) link

But... but... RAD-iators are supposed to be HOTTTT!!! not cool.

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:34 (eighteen years ago) link

x-post, I have no problem with the R in Iron. I have a problem with pronouncing the O. I pronounce it similiarly to urn/earn, but with an Ah/Ay sound at the start.

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:35 (eighteen years ago) link

I got really riled watching an episode of friends where they went to Barbados, but insisted on calling it BARBAY-DOES. It's pronounced BARBAY-DOSS mother fucker!

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Well, Americans pronounce their r's, it's the English who don't (xpost)

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:36 (eighteen years ago) link

(ROWTER is correct if he's talking about power tools)

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:36 (eighteen years ago) link

I am American and I say:

data: dah (to rhyme with cat) tuh
router: Rau ter (with an "are" not an "ah" at the end)
mirror: mirror
schedule: skedule
zebra: zee-bra
roof: to rhyme with proof
stove: to rhyme with grove
agrandizing: a GRAND ize ing
radiator: ray dee ate or
iron: eye urn
controversy: CON tro ver sy (not con TRO ver sy)
tomato: toe may toe
potato: poe tay toe
(n)either: I interchange ee ther and eye ther and nee ther and neye ther at whim.

I've been teaching English in Spain, and our books are published by Oxford, so the language is all very English rather than American.

Just as a side note: A rubber may be something to erase pencil in the UK, but if you ask for a rubber in the US, you will get a condom. Our text books have the kids asking each other, "Can I have a rubber, please?" My first day in class I had to keep myself from laughing my head off, because it seemed so absurd.

― Allida Warn, Friday, 20 January 2006 13:43 (eighteen years ago) link

What is
Bahf baaaf behf suposed to be (spelled out correctly?)

― Allida Warn, Friday, 20 January 2006 13:45 (eighteen years ago) link

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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