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For me it's always words that start with "Tu" that I particularly notice. Americans will usually say twos-day or two-nah, whereas as a Brit I am used to chews-d
by pekim 5y ago
For me it's always words that start with "Tu" that I particularly notice. Americans will usually say twos-day or two-nah, whereas as a Brit I am used to chews-day or chew-nah.
- HKH2 5y agoother words that may or may not have a 'y' sound: duty, new, computer
- jclulow 5y agoWho says "com-poo-ter"?!
- hardlianotion 5y agoSome old guy from the depths of rural Norfolk, I’d guess. But then the t might be replaced with a glottal stop.
- smcl 5y agoA friend's younger cousin from not far from there (Lowestoft iirc?) would say this - one memory I have is how he squished "can I play the computer?" to "ca' play compoota?" (which after discovering Monkey Island he said quite a lot). Might have been a kid thing rather than a regional thing though :)
- hardlianotion 5y agoAh, Monkey Island. Kid had taste.
- psyc 5y agoI’ve always wondered how Australians manage to turn two-letter, monosyllabic “no” into “nairyoo”.
- lebuffon 5y agoThis is just an observation but the Australian and some British pronunciations of "no" bear an interesting similarity to the sound of "nij" (no) in some Dutch dialects. Perhaps the have a common source? Old Saxon?
- CRConrad 5y agoOr Frisian, or perhaps even... Uh, "Anglic", or whatever the language of the Angles is called?
- danans 5y agoIt follows the general Australian pattern of stretching single vowel sounds into diphthongs, or breaking them up into 2 parts Consider for example the Australian pronunciations of 'late' and 'beer'.
- floren 5y agoOr New Zealanders: "noyy"
- timthorn 5y agoI'm rarely understood when I ask for a Mountain Dew in US restaurants, even when I try to adapt and say "Doo" instead of "D'you"