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LunarOne said:
Jagwar is one thing I can't b
h about. It's primarily an American (mostly South American) cat after all and they're free to pronounce it "Jagticklemebutt" if they so wish! We're the ones b
dizing it.
Also - Zeds in words where there should be an Ess.
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Also - Zeds in words where there should be an Ess.
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Doofus said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
French singers....the way they make the first word of the line last for 95% of the time it takes to sing the whole line, and cram all the remaining words into the last 5%. As in:
Sssssshheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee mayhavethefaceIcan'tforget.
You do know that was Elvis Costello, don't you? He was born in London, and his parents were Scousers.Sssssshheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee mayhavethefaceIcan'tforget.
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Youngsters eh...
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Charles Asnavour, son.
LunarOne said:
juice said:
LunarOne said:
The way Americans pronounce "risotto"
The way Americans pronounce "cosmos"
The way Americans pronounce "herb"
The way most Americans pronounce "route"
The way Americans pronounce anything at all.
Jagwar The way Americans pronounce "cosmos"
The way Americans pronounce "herb"
The way most Americans pronounce "route"
The way Americans pronounce anything at all.
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Also - Zeds in words where there should be an Ess.
It was a pre-colombian word translated by a Portuguese in the early 1600s... The Americans bastardised it.
If anything we've chopped of a syllable ourselves as it's pronounces Jaguarete in Guyana where the word is from.
BTW, other pre-colombian cultures has different words for it, notably the north American tribes so the American pronunciation would be a different word altogether if it were derived from tribes where the Jaguar used to live in what is now the southern US (or Mexico). The Spanish just called it a "tigre" (tiger).
captain_cynic said:
Key part in there is south America where Spanish and Portuguese are the language and in both languages you pronounce every single letter... So the British pronunciation is actually closer.
Google's idea of the Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation sounds closer to the American pronunciation to me?https://www.google.com/search?q=jaguar+portuguese+...
(with a bit of Austin Powers thrown in)
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