Word morph.

[perrykneeham]

A new occasional thread for examples of where the use and pronunciation of words it being heard to change.

The classic might be: chili - mexicanan chili - jallapeeno - hallapeeno - hallapennyo - hallaPENNyo.

Another example might be Chile itself. You often hear Cheelay now, and Cheelayan. Fair enough.

Huritho is quite jarring, but less so that churitzio, as a friend will insist on saying.

[perrykneeham]

Mrs.B has just said the word Kayenn several times, just to wind me up. She is buying a le Creuset pot as a housewarming present for the son.

[mids]

When I was a kid, everyone pronounced nougat like nuggit. I haven't heard that for years though, it's all nooooogaaaah these days. Coincidentally, I ordered a pizza from Dominos yesterday with, as I say it, hallapeenos (also red and green peppers and pork meatballs). I had to repeat everything I said 2 or 3 times since the lad behind the counter was from the Subcontinent and seemed to struggle a bit with my accent. As a First Nations Brit, I could have got annoyed with this but since he was such a pleasant and friendly lad, I didn't.

[perrykneeham]

I think your pronunciation is where we're at. It nods to the Spanish without being pretentious.

There was a spate of anglos in America referring to LA with a hard G. That's coming with demographics, but it's trying a bit hard for the moment.

[perrykneeham]

CAPree for Capri.

[flatandy]

I do a lot of these the second most pretentious way possible. Using the basic foreign pronunciation but without going the full accent. So, Hallapaynyo, choreezo, noogahh, etc.

I struggle with people who de-anglicise Los Angeles. I don't know why it bothers me, but it feels like someone's trying too hard to show how down they are with understanding that places like Beverly Hills or Hollywood or Watts or Compton are good latin words.

[moggyonspeed]

When people say kiLOMeter, with the emphasis on that second syllable.

Just plan wrong, as any baboon can tell you that the roots of the word are 'kilo' and 'metre'. Ffs, you morons - wtaf could be simpler than that? Grrrrrr ...

I am now going for a lie down ...

[perrykneeham]

Nougat is a good one. I'd have felt like a fool saying noogah back when I was a kid, but I was aware that nugget was only acceptable in the context of kids' sweets. Of course, you could buy "Golden Nugget" sweets back then, and they were made of nougat. I wonder if the words have the same roots.

Which reminds me. Route. It's only a matter of time before some wiggah uses root on TV.

[perrykneeham]

Worse still, "I am enn rowt".

[flatandy]

Ugh. I have to use "rowt" rather than route with the locals here to not look like a pretentious dick, but then when I'm talking to people in the civilised world I forget and use the American and sound like a f**k**g moron.

[voice]

you could write a whole book on strange US pronunciations of English.

I still find myself pronouncing sports brands and food brands the way we did back in the 70's and early 80's before they got changed to Adeedas and NikE and Neslay and so on.

[mids]

Nessuls.

[marechal]

You lot using the short A sound (as in cat) whenever uttering a foreign word that has the AH sound (Shinkansan, Nissan, etc.)

What's up with that weirdness?

[mids]

Vietnom.

[marechal]

Apr 8, 2024 15:57:10 GMT voice said:

you could write a whole book on strange US pronunciations of English.

I still find myself pronouncing sports brands and food brands the way we did back in the 70's and early 80's before they got changed to Adeedas and NikE and Neslay and so on.

But being that Americans invented English, we are correct of course.

[marechal]

Apr 8, 2024 16:47:01 GMT mids said:

Vietnom.

This is mainly how it's pronounced here, back in the day it was very often VietnAm.

[voice]

Eyeraq is my fave mispronounced Americanization.

Not sure I ever mentioned this, back in early 90's I lived briefly in Lubbock Texas and some girl I was chatting up in a bar asked what language we spoke where I was from, I said, well the same as you, she was astonished and declared how odd it was we spoke American. Hence to say I found someone less idiotic to spend the rest of the night with.

[mids]

Home of Buddy Holly.

[mids]

Biden was talking about Kudr a while back. Qatar, of course. Which I say like Catter, not Catarrh.