Stop saying "Demond" !!!
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227bhp said:
I do tend to pronounce it like the YouTube clip but with a softer t and obviously no American accent.Edited by FRA53R on Monday 4th January 19:51
Impasse said:
FRA53R said:
Hugo a Gogo said:
how do you pronounce croissant?
Good question, I pronounce it cruh-sant with a silent t. It's quite difficult to explain without saying it. There's certainly no w anywhere near it.When In Rome....
It's a good point though, if you're in an airport in much of Europe it won't be written as 'London' or England on the destination boards, it's 'Londres' and 'Angleterre' in France, 'Londra' and Inghilterra in Italy.
Yet Manchester is er, Manchester.....
Cliftonite said:
Impasse said:
How do you pronounce Paris?
How do you pronounce Rioja?What about Merlot? The woman in my local wine outlet calls it Mer lot as a council dweller or 5yr old would.
Mind you, I asked her to describe a wine for me and the best she could come up with was 'Nice'. Which is a place in France or a biscuit and not an adjective for describing wine.
227bhp said:
Cliftonite said:
Impasse said:
How do you pronounce Paris?
How do you pronounce Rioja?What about Merlot? The woman in my local wine outlet calls it Mer lot as a council dweller or 5yr old would.
Mind you, I asked her to describe a wine for me and the best she could come up with was 'Nice'. Which is a place in France or a biscuit and not an adjective for describing wine.
227bhp said:
SpeckledJim said:
Krwasson
Nope:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcW1mO2xJPw
I bet you're one of those who goes to 'lee Man's'
Here you go, OED...click the little speaker next to "pronunciation".
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/engli...
mybrainhurts said:
No, that's Americanese...
Here you go, OED...click the little speaker next to "pronunciation".
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/engli...
Bugger Here you go, OED...click the little speaker next to "pronunciation".
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/engli...
Oh well, I'll just have to change how I say it. Can't really argue with the OED. 227bhp said:
Impasse said:
FRA53R said:
Hugo a Gogo said:
how do you pronounce croissant?
Good question, I pronounce it cruh-sant with a silent t. It's quite difficult to explain without saying it. There's certainly no w anywhere near it.When In Rome....
Goaty Bill 2 said:
227bhp said:
I can't think of any area that pronounces 'ouse with an H in front, the only people who would say it like this would be reet posh n that and what particular area do they reside in?
Yorkshire: 'ouse
Manchester/Liverpool: 'ouse
Birmingham: 'ouse
Essex/Landan: 'arse
err...Yorkshire: 'ouse
Manchester/Liverpool: 'ouse
Birmingham: 'ouse
Essex/Landan: 'arse
Are you suggesting that pronouncing house with the 'h' is "reet posh"?
Or am I being a bit slow?
I am very familiar with the demise of the leading haitch in regional English pronunciations of many words, though not at all practised personally in the implementation.
Coming from me it would most certainly be interpreted as stealing the urine so to speak.
It is simply that for most people I have the acquaintance of who may be inclined to pronounce house as 'ouse', when saying 'a house' the 'h' seems to magically reappear, and is pronounced as 'a house' rather than 'an ouse'.
227bhp said:
Is your post serious? Surely not, you are really suggesting that after a trip to the cinema or watching TV that a local dialect will be lost and you start to speak perfect Queen's English with no regional accent?
I'm assuming there is some of that there tongue-in-cheek s
t going down here, no-one can be so daft!
No more or less serious than the average post in this thread I am sure I'm assuming there is some of that there tongue-in-cheek s
t going down here, no-one can be so daft!
For my own part, I doubt I will ever manage perfect Queen's English, but with practise one moves forward.
My accent has been described (as best I can) in a previous post.
There would be little point in these types of threads without some tongue-in-cheek would there?
My tongue was indeed in my cheek a little, but you haven't answered my question; "In what area of the UK is House pronounced with the H still attached?" It would be somewhere with no Council estates, lots of Range Rovers, private schools, earnings of £250k+ PA or maybe people with Tartan skirts and ginger hair, but then that lot add 'H' where it hwas never intended.
I'm sure I could have carried on with my list of areas that don't pronounce the H too, but I feel you are incorrect above, you see, some would say 'A 'ouse', never 'a house', but more often 'an 'ouse'.
Just when you think you've got a handle on this lingo malarky someone throws in a curveball. I went out with a girl from the North East for instance, brought up there, parents were from there, studied there till leaving when she'd graduated before moving away.
She had no regional accent. Nada, nothing, none whatsoever. What had happened to it I have no idea (neither did she, or wasn't admitting it) both her parents spoke like Sanddancers, but she didn't, not even when she was pissed which is when most of us revert back to type.
And what about those white Brits who wake up speaking in a Chinese accent? Google it, it's 'sadly funny'.
https://www.google.com.eg/webhp?sourceid=chrome-in...
mybrainhurts said:
227bhp said:
SpeckledJim said:
Krwasson
Nope:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcW1mO2xJPw
I bet you're one of those who goes to 'lee Man's'
Here you go, OED...click the little speaker next to "pronunciation".
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/engli...
MarshPhantom said:
227bhp said:
Impasse said:
FRA53R said:
Hugo a Gogo said:
how do you pronounce croissant?
Good question, I pronounce it cruh-sant with a silent t. It's quite difficult to explain without saying it. There's certainly no w anywhere near it.When In Rome....
Correct in whose eyes (ears!) though? The French or us? 'Le mon' or 'Lee Man's'?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F77nKsfuGQ
There doesn't seem to be a right or a wrong.
227bhp said:
mybrainhurts said:
227bhp said:
SpeckledJim said:
Krwasson
Nope:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcW1mO2xJPw
I bet you're one of those who goes to 'lee Man's'
Here you go, OED...click the little speaker next to "pronunciation".
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/engli...
mybrainhurts said:
227bhp said:
mybrainhurts said:
227bhp said:
SpeckledJim said:
Krwasson
Nope:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcW1mO2xJPw
I bet you're one of those who goes to 'lee Man's'
Here you go, OED...click the little speaker next to "pronunciation".
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/engli...
227bhp said:
MarshPhantom said:
227bhp said:
Impasse said:
FRA53R said:
Hugo a Gogo said:
how do you pronounce croissant?
Good question, I pronounce it cruh-sant with a silent t. It's quite difficult to explain without saying it. There's certainly no w anywhere near it.When In Rome....
Correct in whose eyes (ears!) though? The French or us? 'Le mon' or 'Lee Man's'?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F77nKsfuGQ
There doesn't seem to be a right or a wrong.
MarshPhantom said:
227bhp said:
MarshPhantom said:
227bhp said:
Impasse said:
FRA53R said:
Hugo a Gogo said:
how do you pronounce croissant?
Good question, I pronounce it cruh-sant with a silent t. It's quite difficult to explain without saying it. There's certainly no w anywhere near it.When In Rome....
Correct in whose eyes (ears!) though? The French or us? 'Le mon' or 'Lee Man's'?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F77nKsfuGQ
There doesn't seem to be a right or a wrong.
Glesga, now that's closer to the mark
227bhp said:
mybrainhurts said:
227bhp said:
mybrainhurts said:
227bhp said:
SpeckledJim said:
Krwasson
Nope:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcW1mO2xJPw
I bet you're one of those who goes to 'lee Man's'
Here you go, OED...click the little speaker next to "pronunciation".
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/engli...
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