It's VAHZ, Laurel (in this country anyway).
(xpost, JBR, my teachers insisted on PO-YIM! Or POME!)
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 6 February 2006 22:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 6 February 2006 22:41 (eighteen years ago) link
XP: Robyn, do you do the flat "a" in drama and pasta? See, now that gives me a real shudder, but I think all the Canadians I knew (and loved) in college used both of them!
― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 6 February 2006 22:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 6 February 2006 22:55 (eighteen years ago) link
but she sure as hell does say DRAHH-ma.
― Thea (Thea), Monday, 6 February 2006 22:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― youn, Monday, 6 February 2006 23:00 (eighteen years ago) link
(Markelby to thread about pasta, obviously)
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 6 February 2006 23:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Thea (Thea), Monday, 6 February 2006 23:01 (eighteen years ago) link
Please no.
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 6 February 2006 23:02 (eighteen years ago) link
I say drama/pasta in a way that I'm finding hard to write out phonetically. Yes, but I'm sure it's that flat a way b/c I know americans say it slightly differently. (This has kinda come up lately b/c I was watching online videos (from that roxy thread) and trying to figure out if the guys were Cdn, which I was sure they were - and was right! But in a lot of American tv, actors are trained to have a more neutral accent, so I don't get to hear it too much. haha, and then sometimes I watch Dr. Phil and THERE YA GO all over the place. Neat.)
One day, when I have a foyer, I'm going to become sooo snoooty about it.
― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 6 February 2006 23:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 6 February 2006 23:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 6 February 2006 23:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Thea (Thea), Monday, 6 February 2006 23:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 6 February 2006 23:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Thea (Thea), Monday, 6 February 2006 23:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 6 February 2006 23:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 6 February 2006 23:32 (eighteen years ago) link
Do these words sound the same when you say them - marry, merry, and Mary?
― Tehrannosaurus HoBB (the pirate king), Monday, 6 February 2006 23:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 6 February 2006 23:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 6 February 2006 23:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 6 February 2006 23:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tehrannosaurus HoBB (the pirate king), Monday, 6 February 2006 23:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Monday, 6 February 2006 23:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 6 February 2006 23:51 (eighteen years ago) link
Er...Jim Carrey is Carrey, not Carey, and it's pronounced carry.
― JimD (JimD), Monday, 6 February 2006 23:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 6 February 2006 23:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 6 February 2006 23:58 (eighteen years ago) link
Isn't this kind of weird? I only picked up when I worked with some Americans a few years ago. Presumably, Americans differentiate between 'bag' and 'beg', and 'bad' and 'bed', and 'man' and 'men' etc., but once you add 'rry' to an 'a' or an 'e' they end up sounding the same.
― Tehrannosaurus HoBB (the pirate king), Monday, 6 February 2006 23:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 00:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 00:03 (eighteen years ago) link
Drandma?
― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 00:04 (eighteen years ago) link
As opposed to what (seeing as the whole of America just told me that marry/merry/Mary sound identical in Teh USA)?
― Tehrannosaurus HoBB (the pirate king), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 00:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 00:06 (eighteen years ago) link
The funniest pronunciation story I heard lately was that the much-mocked "Coe-lin Powell" thing is all a misunderstanding that can be traced back to George Bush Snr's incompetence.
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 00:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 00:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 00:09 (eighteen years ago) link
Well, I'm not american, I talk proper(*), so carrey rhymes with marry and carey would rhyme with hairy.
recently whenever I've heard anyone talking about him it's always been pronounced Carey
Really? Hmm, maybe I'm wrong then, I'm not sure now.
(*) I don't really, I'm from manchester. :-)
― JimD (JimD), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 00:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 00:09 (eighteen years ago) link
Wtf, these are all pronounced the same. We need more sound clips.
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 00:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tehrannosaurus HoBB (the pirate king), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 00:12 (eighteen years ago) link
-- jaymc (jmcunnin...), February 6th, 2006 11:02 PM. (jaymc) (later)
Oi.
― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 00:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 00:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 00:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 00:14 (eighteen years ago) link
Thea wd be Thay-a if she had Greek relatives.
― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 00:15 (eighteen years ago) link
Ha, I'm too embarrassed to sit talking into my computer, my flatmates will hear me and think I'm mental.
Oh, and while I'm here, can somebody tell me how to pronounce Faure (the composer)? I think knew, once, and I seem to remember it sounding like it had a 'v' in there or something. But I've forgotten and now it confuses me.
― JimD (JimD), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 00:16 (eighteen years ago) link
Yeah, I'm realizing that the Thea I know is of Greek extraction, so maybe that's why she pronounces it as such, but it never occurred to me that other pronunciations were viable.
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 00:18 (eighteen years ago) link
carey = like care-ee (same as in america)
but carry = like cat-tree but w/o any ts in it (lady bracknell also pronounces carry and kerry the same, like kedgeree w/o the dge)
― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 00:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 00:21 (eighteen years ago) link