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Some jokes never get old.
Side note, I drank a lot of it in the UAE, it cost the same as every other beer that came in smaller cans,$1 right on the pier. It never occurred to me to check the alcohol content. Didn't really matter, the other beer available also sucked. |
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A lot of the Irish guys I knew in London found it impossible to say, 'film' or 'Euston', substituting 'filim' or 'Houston'.
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A good friend of mine in high school had a speech impediment. He had problems with n's in combination with certain other letters. We teased him mercilessly over his pronunciation of aluminum. We lost touch after high school, and many years later we re-acquainted. He was IT manager at Kaiser Aluminum.
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I worked on a project once that involved the term insolation (the amount of solar radiation reaching a given area). Every time a document passed through me I first had to run a find/replace for "insulation", because either through spell check or some well meaning secretary that word would end up all over the damn place.
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Kaffeeklatsch. That word has always interested me. I have heard the last part, the 'klatsch', pronounced different ways.
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Does anyone really know how to pronounce "pshaw"?
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What the heck is coffee-clutch?
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Gossip calypso -pouring out the coffee and taking it back.
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I'm sick of seeing Craigslist real estate ads announcing "house for sell". Do people really think that's the word?
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Anyone been to Kauii?
The locals pronounce it about seventeen different ways, I have no clue how it's supposed to be pronounced. |
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I'm far more sick of the Realtor(TM) industry always saying "home" instead of "house". It's not home until you live there, and sometimes not even then.
More on topic, there's Alec Douglas-Home, former PM of the UK. Whose last syallable was pronounced "Hyoom". Or some such. |
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I wonder if they do that in the UK? For a long time "house" vs "home" was one of the "U/non U" class indicator shibboleths. "Home" was lower class. A peasant would use a looking-glass and serviettes in their home while an aristocrat would use a mirror and napkins in their house. (Funny to American perspective: the fancier-looking terms are usually the lower class ones.)
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One term that rankles me is the pet adoption center always stating an adoptee has found their "forever home". To me it sounds like a euphemism for "The animal died" instead of "It got adopted!"
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Finnish kids learn to read and write quicker than English speaking children as the language is written near phonetically - and we don't even try to teach them that eagerly as kindergartens are basically just for play and even the pre-school year at 6 is not very academically focused.
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Worse is reviewers who don't know the differences in accents. When I was still acting, I got a bad review for my accent in a production of "Night Must Fall". The reviewer didn't realize there was more than one sort of English accent, and that a maid would sound quite different than the upper-class ladies she worked for. They sounded quite toffee-nosed, and I was more Bow bells
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I always trip over regurgitalith when talking too fast.
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It just occurred to me that "lisp" and "stutter" are difficult words to say for people who have those conditions.
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Although it's usually not a problem, I have at times had a little bit of trouble getting "encephalopathy" out without a pause to concentrate.
It's definitely one of those words that can be kind of tough to say fives times fast. Not that there is often a need to. |
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