British English vs American English

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daan
We use aluminium because thats its name.
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:lol: Yeah, I know. I guess when it comes to Alumin, we Americans are Aluminumb.
 
Omnis
Matt, they call them French fries because half the belgique speak french. There's a dutch side of Belgium and a french side.
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I tought that americans call it French Fries because the potatoes are frenched. My old man says that 'to french' means slicing into pieces.

Don't know if that is true.
 
No. What "to french" means is to run away from something, ususally a war.


























Joke, guys. I've really no idea.
 
den brakke
I tought that americans call it French Fries because the potatoes are frenched. My old man says that 'to french' means slicing into pieces.

Don't know if that is true.
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No, americans are far too ignorant for that. Plus, I think frenching is only cutting things into slices, not "fries". Like, potatoes au gratin are usually frenched.
 
Roo
You're a member of an American website, using American software, owned and run by an American. Why should English spellings be used?
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i figured that:rolleyes:
 
Yeah, I always butt heads with my chemistry teacher when he says cesium. Also, I've heard homage with the H, but I say 'o.
 
It's clearly caesium (pronounced "seez-ee-um") because it comes from the Latin "caesius" (pronounced "seez-ee-us") meaning "sky blue".

Though the spelling "cesium" is fine because you don't like ligated letters on your side of the Atlantic.
 
Do people in the UK mispronounce "Porsche" just as much as the idiots do here in America?

...I always have to yell at my family to pronounce it right. Sometimes Jaguar even becomes a problem, lol...
 
Porsche - Poor-sh. Not poor-sha.
Jaguar - Jag-u-are.

Isn't that correct?

How does your family pronounce Jaguar YSSMAN?
 
When I was at the Jaguar area at the LA Auto Show, some guy was asking one of the Jaguar reps how to pronounce “Jaguar”. I think maybe it was an excuse to flirt with her though. :lol:
 
I just say Jagwar. After all, Guam is not Gyu-ahm.
 
If we're going down the pronunciation of car names route, then how about 'Hyundai'?
I personally call it a 'Hy-un-die'. Hearing it pronounced 'H-yyyunday' just annoys me.

And then there's the whole sports brand name thing. If it were meant to be pronounced 'Nik-eeh' then it'd be spelled 'Nikey', surely?
 
Freddy
Porsche - Poor-sh. Not poor-sha.
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No, no, no, no, no.

Go work for Porsche and see how long you last, it's a family name and as a company they do insist that it is pronounced the right way.

Do you know the correct pronunciation of Porsche? While the “proper” way to pronounce some German terms in English may be debatable, this isn't one of them. Porsche is a family name, and the family members pronounce their surname PORSH-uh, not PORSH!
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Source - http://german.about.com/library/weekly/aa020401b.htm


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Scaff
 
It doesn't, matter what you reckon, the way Scaff has shown is the correct way, anything else is simply wrong. As for Jaugar "Jagwar" as Ominis calls it, that is pronounced Jag-yoo-ar. As for Hyundai, I always pronounced it Hyun-dai.
 
Doesnt matter how its spelt, its how you want to pronounce it. Thats why its great having different dialect.

I mean, we dont say Yacht like Yah-Ch-T, everyone knows its Yot, well, i do anyway
 
My siblings still refer to "Porsche" simply as "Por-shhh." I have always corrected them in that it is "Por-sha," as the Germans do not have silent letters as we do in English.

...As for "Jaguar," they always draw out the "a". You know, "Jaaaaguar." I normally do the "Jag-yoo-ar" version, but apparently, that is "too British" according to my cousins.
 
And what about Audi? People always pronounce it Ah-dee, but it’s supposed to be pronounced Ow-dee.
 
Audi - Ow-dee
Jaguar - Jag-oo-ar
Por-shuh sounds odd to me, so does Caesium.

Oh, and I say Hi-un-day.
 
Wikipedia
"Hyundai" means "modernity" in Korean. It is often pronounced incorrectly as 'hun-day' in the U.S. and as 'hie-oon-die' in UK and 'Hee-yun-day' in Australia. It is often mispronounced "Hyun-dai", with the "dai" pronounced phonetically, instead of "dae" (its correct pronunciation). The former was promoted as the company's official pronunciation: early U.S. advertising for the Hyundai Excel car told readers "It rhymes with Sunday". The correct Korean pronunciation has 2 syllables and sounds like 'hyun-deh' where 'hyun' rhymes with 'shun'. The exact transliteration into English from Korean (under the current system, revisions take place from time to time) should be "Hyeondae" rather than "Hyundai".
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Hyun-deh. Hmm.
 
I was playing Typing of the Dead on my friend's computer today, which apparently came with a British English dictionary.

I chuckled when one of the zombies popped up with the words, "Fagged-out." :)

British blokes probably wouldn't find it quite as funny.
 
Hun-day baby.

Ow-Dee

Jag-war (The commercials are retarded. :D)

Thats how I roll. You say Tomato, I say Tonmatermorts.
 
Hee-Yun-day
Jag-you-are
Ow-Dee

:)
 
live4speed
It doesn't ,atter what you reckon, the way Scaff has shown is the correct way, anything else is simply wrong.
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dont get your nickers in a knot
have a cold one...or in your case a warm one :lol:
 
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