Dudes!!! I'm moving to England to be with the love of my life!!!!

I hate it when people on food network pronounce sum thing wrong....they sound like complete idiots when they do....

butchers 😛

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
Spell and pronounce.

The amount of Americans I've heard pronouncing filet as filay, purely because they're trying to sound cultured, is astounding. It's as though you butcher the language, then decide you will just use the silent letters idea, but in the wrong words. It's hilarious.

Not YOU as in YOU, Lana. You in general.

-AC

Yeah, and wtf is up with calling 'herbs' 'erbs' 😐 it has a freaking H at the begning.

whats so funny about butchers? Im just curiouse......

Americans don't do too well with silent letters and non-literal spellings though.

Just the way it is.

-AC

no... i'm jokingly calling the american's butchers.....
butchers of the english language?

Originally posted by lil bitchiness
Yeah, and wtf is up with calling 'herbs' 'erbs' 😐 it has a freaking H at the begning.

Originally posted by Jedi_KnightAlly
no... i'm jokingly calling the american's butchers.....
butchers of the english language?

Words and letters are pronounced differently in both cultures, neither is right or wrong, seeing as both cultures have different rules for the same language.

you get the whole accent arguments within england too though- me and my uni mates have long debates on how to pronounce the word bum (north and south)

Originally posted by lil bitchiness
Yeah, and wtf is up with calling 'herbs' 'erbs' 😐 it has a freaking H at the begning.

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
Americans don't do too well with silent letters and non-literal spellings though.

Just the way it is.

-AC

😛

Kinda random, but do you know how many times I was freaking out about driving on the left side of the road when I was in England?

Well yeah, seeing as the word 'Colour' is spelt that way.

Americans say spell it 'Color' because of how it sounds when you say it. Drive-THRU? DONUT?

Please.

-AC

lol, i'm only joking, its perfectly fine!
I think some parts of the american english is simplified, not in a bad way, just spellings are simplier, like they sound how they are spelt. Only occasional words though, and none come to mind.

It's not DONUT, it's DOUGHNUT.

Because it's not made of DO, it's made of DOUGH.

But no, we're Americans and we can't be bothered.

-AC

Originally posted by Jedi_KnightAlly
lol, i'm only joking, its perfectly fine!
I think some parts of the american english is simplified, not in a bad way, just spellings are simplier, like they sound how they are spelt. Only occasional words though, and none come to mind.

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
It's not DONUT, it's DOUGHNUT.

Because it's not made of DO, it's made of DOUGH.

But no, we're Americans and we can't be bothered.

-AC

I'm one of the rare few that usually uses "doughnut" and "drivethrough" 😛 I rarely spell it 'donut'.

Originally posted by Dreamer2222
in the english language the H is silent......IDK y.....

Erm, no its not. Who told you that?

In 'English' H is not silent, hence people in england pronounce it.

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
It's not DONUT, it's DOUGHNUT.

Because it's not made of DO, it's made of DOUGH.

Ahahahahaha!!!! laugh1

so mebbe i should lose the texas drawl 😮

wouldn't want to sound like an idiot....

I don't pronounce H as haytch. I pronounce it as aytch. Without the Hhh sound. Because that's how it's pronounced singularly as a letter.

The letter isn't called haytch. It's aytch. When used in a word, that's when the letter becomes sounded as it looks. Hhh-erb. Hhh-eroin. Hhh-ereditary hhh-air loss.

Not 'Erb.

-AC