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Aluminum / aluminium and pronouncing herbal as "errbal". Also "cracking" windows.

• rbg246 6y ago
  I do however admire the American spelling of aluminium it does a great job of making alluminum sound more exotic.
• pacaro 6y ago
  I've noticed that American and British pronunciation of French loan words tend to be inverted, wherever one is using approximate french pronounciation, the other has anglicized In the kitchen, the American standard favors the French: herb (herb vs urb) and filet (fill-it vs fill-eh) In a car, it is reversed: chassis (shassy vs chassy) and coupe (coop-eh vs coop) Others that differ include (all where Brits favour a francophone pronounciation) papier maché, en route, double entendre
  • kevin_thibedeau 6y ago
    What drives me nuts is RP speakers that aspirate leading H's but insist on using the wrong article before them anyway. And the Americans that foolishly imitate them.
    • pacaro 6y ago
      The whole "an hotel" nonsense?