@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 2 years agoAnon learns about foreign languagesfeddit.deimagemessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up1505
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minus-squareÐ Greıt Þu̇mpkinlinkfedilink17•2 years agoMeanwhile the Americans have the British names but pronounce it completely different because of the fucking bostoners
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink8•2 years agoAlso because the British have proven themselves incapable of taking care of the language, as proven every day by cockneys.
minus-squareXIIIesqlinkfedilink2•2 years agoThe whole point of cockney is that you can tell who is and isn’t a local.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink20•2 years agoDon’t place the blame on us. The British have changed their dialect like twelve times since we were their colony.
minus-squareEcho Dotlinkfedilink8•edit-22 years agoWell that’s because you unsubscribed from the language patches, made your own fork and then did nothing with it.
minus-squareTAGlinkfedilink2•2 years agoAs an American who lived in Worcester, MA for a number of years: Wuster or Wustah
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•2 years agoAnd still closer to how it’s spelled than seven centuries of people mumbling it impatiently. You wanna know why every English town name has special arbitrary pronunciation? Amogus.
Meanwhile the Americans have the British names but pronounce it completely different because of the fucking bostoners
Also because the British have proven themselves incapable of taking care of the language, as proven every day by cockneys.
The whole point of cockney is that you can tell who is and isn’t a local.
And by local they mean on the street by street level.
Don’t place the blame on us. The British have changed their dialect like twelve times since we were their colony.
Well that’s because you unsubscribed from the language patches, made your own fork and then did nothing with it.
I assure you we have done plenty with that fork…
How do you pronounce Worcester?
Worcher
Woster for short
As an American who lived in Worcester, MA for a number of years: Wuster or Wustah
Askin’ the REAL questions!
Burning, ham
Yet they can pronounce Halifax just fine.
And still closer to how it’s spelled than seven centuries of people mumbling it impatiently.
You wanna know why every English town name has special arbitrary pronunciation? Amogus.