American vs Australian pronunciation

[aardvarkash10]

Originally Posted by Moondog55

Don't you mean across the duutch.

Beached as bro! Wanna chup?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdVHZwI8pcA&feature=fvst

Lol - we cun laaf it owselves un Nuzuland...

[unclejed613]

so can anybody tell me why we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway?????

on a side note (ref: appalachian english being closest to 18th century usage and sound) i have noticed that english spelling of words prior to about 1900 had a bit of flexibility to it. if you read documents from that era, you will see that a lot of words had alternate spellings and that those alternates were perfectly acceptable, even in legal documents. some modern surnames retain these forms (i.e. reade for read). the flexibility of spelling and rules for capitalization were loose enough to form the basis of the Baconian Cipher, where words were used with alternate spelling and loose capitalization as part of the cipher.

[TheSeekerr]

Originally Posted by Key

My grandma calls Home Depot "Home Deh Poh" and Basil is pronounced "Bahsihl".

In Australia, both of those pronunciations would be entirely correct. How the heck do YOU say depot?

[Moondog55]

Depp Oh

[aardvarkash10]

dee-fense and oa-ffense... Grrr. Ugly mispronounciation creeping south to New Zillind via 'straaalia.

Chur bro. Or as my quasi-articulate, expensively educated 16yo daughter would say "'s'up? Guts for the big badz dad..."

[GK]

I like the way you guys say Subaru. NZ Highway Patrol was on the telly a while back; I couldn't figure out WTH the host was talking about until they actually showed the WRX.

[unclejed613]

Originally Posted by TheSeekerr

In Australia, both of those pronunciations would be entirely correct. How the heck do YOU say depot?

in the US dee-poe is the most common with dep-o used, but rarely. it seems that the words that have the most variations in pronunciation are not of english origin. for example, a common street name in the eastern US is Lafayette. in the northeast, it's pronounced laf-ee-yet or lafay-et, while in the deep south it's pronounced lah-fayet (with the fayet as one syllable, which is an oddity because the southern drawl can make 2 syllables from 1 syllable words with care pronounced cay-er)

[Key]

Originally Posted by TheSeekerr

In Australia, both of those pronunciations would be entirely correct. How the heck do YOU say depot?

Most people in America say Deepoh.

I get into an argument with a friend all the time about the word "cache". I say "cashay" he says it's pronounced "cash" and points to dictionary.com or some crap. I don't care what some dictionary says it's "cashay".

[DigitalJunkie]

"cache" is a word that has always annoyed me.. I started out saying "cashay"...now I just say "cash"..

[Key]

You gave in to the masses. Haha I had a french roomate for a short time and he would look at me really funny if I said the word "ambience" instead of "ambiance" (with a french acent). Now that is where I draw the line.