I bet most southerners cringe when they pronounce Glastonbury.
You call Glastonbury “Glasto”You’d like to go there one dayWhen they’ve put up the gun towersTo keep the hippies away
Sang-wich
It doesn’t matter where you start. Just start.
New-car-sulGlars-goI bet most southerners cringe when they pronounce Glastonbury.
Quote from: De Sisti on 12 October, 2014, 12:45:20 pmNew-car-sulGlars-goI bet most southerners cringe when they pronounce Glastonbury. I hope you won't mind if I stick with"Paris"Instead of "Par-ee"(At least while I'm in the UK):-P
Ms Vecht accepts loads of Brits can't do a guttural 'ch'. Twas ever thus.I've lived with it for >50 years.What got me more at school was people calling Wolfgang Amadeus 'Mozart' with a buzzing z.Inability to do gutturals is understandable; unwillingness to do the easy ts instead of z is just wrong.
Someone who shall remain nameless, new to Devon, went into a shop and asked for a pasty. She rhymed it with tasty.
Us trying to explain to our French hosts that we were going to Rheims
USian influence?
Quote from: Pingu on 12 October, 2014, 06:46:07 pmUs trying to explain to our French hosts that we were going to Rheims Did they cringe or just look blank?
So- li - hull, or Solly 'ole
Kim, you are very bad!
Quote from: orienteer on 12 October, 2014, 04:11:05 pmSo- li - hull, or Solly 'oleBir-ming-ham
Oi, John Humphreys. Brian Redhead never told me that it was "huff past seven"Get a grip!
Quote from: Basil on 12 October, 2014, 08:38:25 pmOi, John Humphreys. Brian Redhead never told me that it was "huff past seven"Get a grip!Oi, Basil. That's Humphrys. No "e". Get a grip! (Insert yellow face thing of choice)
I thought that the BBC's change in pronunciation of Kabul, when it miraculously started rhyming with "marble", was quite amusing. This occurred just around the time that they became aware of Afghanistan's existence, when Russia invaded.