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"Pass the pasta" is a nice shibboleth phrase. British: Pars the pahs-ta American: Pahs the pars-ta Australian: Pahs the pahs-ta South African: Pars the pars
by llimos 5y ago
"Pass the pasta" is a nice shibboleth phrase.
British: Pars the pahs-ta
American: Pahs the pars-ta
Australian: Pahs the pahs-ta
South African: Pars the pars-ta
- kingcharles 5y agoAs a Brit in America, no American can ever understand me when I say the word PASTA. I always have to say it several times, and then break down and just describe the stuff. In Subway I often have trouble asking for tomato on my sandwich. "Tomatoes please. Tomatoes. TOMATOES. The round red things? Thank you."
- Bud 5y agoThis would work much better if you used the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).
- Tagbert 5y agoBut would restrict understanding to those few who understand IPA. I prefer when you use both IPA and a more colloquial representation.
- Bud 5y agoTrue, although it takes 5 seconds to access a simple IPA index and not much longer than that to look up a given sound. And once you do, you have a clear and (reasonably) exact specified sound, not an easily misinterpreted and inexact thing like "ah" or "ar" or whatever.
- TulliusCicero 5y ago> American: Pahs the pars-ta As an American, I’m confused about who pronounces pasta that way. I don’t think that fits General American.
- dkdbejwi383 5y agoIn my experience Australians tend to say “parsta” Also anywhere above the trap/bath split in the UK is going to give a different result.