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Ask your nearest British person to pronounce "Altered", as in Altered Carbon. This is really something else.
by eps 5y ago
Ask your nearest British person to pronounce "Altered", as in Altered Carbon.
This is really something else.
- smcl 5y agoScot here. I'd just say it pretty much as you'd expect -like "awl turd". Maybe I'd drop the "t" and use a glottal stop if I'd been drinking. But I know plenty of people from the south of England who would pronounce this like "ooltered". Update: I have been flipping back and forth between article and comments, and just discovered this is mentioned: """ So you hear the two different ts in “water” again, but more prominently you hear the British use “ooo” where the Americans use a sound that’s closer to an “aaa”. W/ooo/ter. W/aaa/ter. This one is also quite easy to learn because it’s a general thing. Somewhat more difficult is the next one. Again pay attention to the vowels. """ I think it's a slight mistake to describe this one as a "British" general pronunciation. While there are things we'd all pronounce similarly the "a" in "altered" and "water" would be pronounced "aw" in Scotland and Northern Ireland and possibly some of England.
- eps 5y agoOoltered is the one I was referring to. It was twice as jarring, because they won't even recognize all-tered as a proper word at all. Had to literally spell it out.
- smcl 5y agoOh that must have been quite funny :)
- imbnwa 5y agoI've always been of the suspicion that Scottish and Irish English remained rhotic cause they derived from English as it was spoken when they first heard it, namely, when it was fully rhotic. Likewise, America/Canada of course since English was rhotic when the colonies were first founded.
- bitwize 5y agoOoltud.