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The English Language
moezychan:
--- Quote from: Becster on February 25 2006, 07:26 am ---Yeah, American's say 'Zee' don't they...that makes me think of a happy expression...like 'WHEEEEEEEEE'
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...'ZEEEEEEEEEEEEE!'
Haha.
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I've honestly never heard that word before.
--- Quote from: Time-Machine on February 25 2006, 06:56 am ---The southern accent is my fav accent in the entire World, For me it is anyway.
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My favorite too. I love all kinds of accents, but it suprises me to no end that a person that lives in the same country as me can speak a completely different way. I love it.
Becster:
Ahhh...zeeee.
It's the American Z.
I said Zed. XD
monkey:
--- Quote from: Strawberry on February 25 2006, 06:49 am ---Another interesting fact is that the word "snogging" is a british word, also "pear-shaped" and "bangers & mash" and I guess "eggit" is kinda british too lol
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what the hell is Eggit?
Most americans I've talked to don't seem to know what Lush and Posh mean either.
--- Quote from: Becster on February 25 2006, 06:58 am ---...And American's spell it aluminum. ...Aluminium...they like leaving out vowels, don't they? XD
I personally pronounce scone with the hard 'o' too, and I think putting emphasis on the 'sc' bit (sck-on) sounds 'posher'...
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I actually prefer the American way of spelling Aluminum. I just think it sounds better than Aluminium (plus I love the song called Aluminum by BNL, lol!)
uh.. the posh way always tended to be Sc-own around these parts.
--- Quote from: Time-Machine on February 25 2006, 07:13 am ---We also pronounce it Al-oom-in-um, and I guess it can also be pronounced Al-oom-in-ee-um. (I didn't learn that until I met a guy from Canada a few years ago who pronounced it like that...I was way confused, thinking he was talking about some mythical element...)
And I lot of people from Europe and Canada seem to pronounce Z "zed"...that's probably the only one that left me the most confused when I first heard it. It sounded like a bad sci-fi movie villain. I was like "What's a Zed???"
lol
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uhm, I've never heard anybody say Al-oom-in-ee-um. In these parts we say it more like Ally - u - mini - um.
and yeah we say Zed, I kept getting getting confused when people kect saying Zee, I just figured they were retarded.
--- Quote from: moezy-chan on February 25 2006, 07:40 am ---I've honestly never heard that word before.
My favorite too. I love all kinds of accents, but it suprises me to no end that a person that lives in the same country as me can speak a completely different way. I love it.
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They are talking about the Letter "Z"
and it looks like you quoted the wrong person (Time-Machine instead of me)
moezychan:
--- Quote from: VexNet on February 25 2006, 07:54 am ---They are talking about the Letter "Z"
and it looks like you quoted the wrong person (Time-Machine instead of me)
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I understand. Thank you.
Time-Machine:
--- Quote from: VexNet on February 25 2006, 07:54 am ---I actually prefer the American way of spelling Aluminum. I just think it sounds better than Aluminium (plus I love the song called Aluminum by BNL, lol!)
uhm, I've never heard anybody say Al-oom-in-ee-um. In these parts we say it more like Ally - u - mini - um.
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Another way to pronounce it...geeze...what is it with Aluminum? Canada vs. US vs. UK XD
Canada's accent always really interested me. The word choice seems to lean more towards the English way of saying things, but the way words are pronounced seems closer to the American way (harder r's and not as round of o's and such...) and then you add in the whole French influence o.0
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