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One Americanism I've noticed a lot is "sure" replacing "yes". It happens all the time in interviews and stuff on podcasts, TV, etc. Where did that come from? No
by CannisterFlux 5y ago
One Americanism I've noticed a lot is "sure" replacing "yes". It happens all the time in interviews and stuff on podcasts, TV, etc. Where did that come from? Now some British people podcasts have started doing it. It sounds fake, like marketing-speak, to my ears.
Also I really dislike British exaggerated r sounds added to eg pass staff mask so they become parse starf marsk. And also American A in pasta or Mario (more ree oh) or words like mango becoming almost mongo.
Speaking is weird. We need an English academy that officially standardises (or is that with a z? Zed or zee? ) all this and fixes the silly spelling while they're at it.
- TulliusCicero 5y ago> And also American A in pasta or Mario (more ree oh) My experience as an American is that most Americans pronounce these with ‘ah’ sounds, not with the American A sound. Someone using the American A for those words would come across as very…regional, it would really stick out. Well, to me anyway.
- canjobear 5y ago[pæstə] is pretty much Canadian. You do hear [mæɹioʊ] in northeastern American dialects. I think it's also more common in older speakers.
- dkdbejwi383 5y agoOn the typical American “A” sound, I was always confused as a bairn when people on telly would say “holloween” instead of “halloween” Also took me a long while to realise “Wall-E” is a pun in American English.