Ee-thur vs. Eye-thur

[wakusei]

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[sahihen]

I say them both and it changes for the same sentance too. Lol.
This is one of the reasons I hate the english language and makes it hard for me [Even though I was born speaking it...]. It's all one big... something... I forgot what I was going to say...

@Bass- I know someone who says it something like Shpash-ghetii. It was funny when someone tried to correct her. They broke it down, then increased the speed. She said it but when she put it back together she said shpashgetii, lol.  

[Kalstolyn]

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Well generally, "ei" says "aye" so if you say it how it's spelled, it's "aye-thur" but I think this is a tomayto-tomahto kind of thing, it depends on where you're from mostly. It's like envelope vs. onvelope.

Words i get yelled at for saying how they're spelled:

gauge
schedule


sieve is spelled seev, I think it's that crazy Brit influence that makes us call it a siv. Seriously, if Chichester is pronounced "Chister" and Worchester is pronounced "Wooster" then of course you'd say "siv". At least they aren't calling rooms "rums" and roofs "ruffs" or saying "a boat" when they mean "about"...

Oh yeah, and the United Statesians get this one wrong allll the time. It's pronounced leftennant, not looo-ten-int. Lieutenant Colonel = leftenant kernel. Don't ask me where the F came from, it's probably from wherever the R was hiding.

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[Sanzoskitsune]

I always get confused with certain words in the English language. Honestly, people think that I've spoken it long enough that I should be able to get everything like a native speaker but.... hell reading this thread I've realized how I mispronounce the word sieve all the time! I think its why people have such a hard time learning the language, there are so many little inconsistencies.  

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Kalstolyn

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Oh yeah, and the United Statesians get this one wrong allll the time. It's pronounced leftennant, not looo-ten-int. Lieutenant Colonel = leftenant kernel. Don't ask me where the F came from, it's probably from wherever the R was hiding.

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[loo-ten-uhnt; in Brit. use, except in the navy, lef-ten-uhnt]

If lef of a partner, Kals had ******** herself. rolleyes  

[Kalstolyn]

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um.. what? you pretty much confirmed what i said, and then passively insulted me.

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[124-C]

No, I actively insulted you.  

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Bass20XX

SPA-GET-TI

Er, I used to have and aunt who said the same thing. And then one day, she was in a hurry and said pasghetti. We all had to stop to make fun of her.  

[Omochii]

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I was once told that I pronounce my NAME wrong. My bloody, ********, name. The other party claimed that with the second "A" in "Aaron" it should be pronounced awe-ron instead of air-ron.

I say "arr-on" (as in, like "arrow" minus the "ow", add an "on").

People are always telling me off for saying "bury" like "burrow" (minus the "ow", add an "ee"). Apparently, it's meant to be said like "berry", but surely this depends on your accent, and where you're from? People up north say "bury" like "burr-ee"...

It sure as hell isn't as bad as Bass' example of mispronunciation...>_>

Kals

sieve is spelled seev, I think it's that crazy Brit influence that makes us call it a siv. Seriously, if Chichester is pronounced "Chister" and Worchester is pronounced "Wooster" then of course you'd say "siv". At least they aren't calling rooms "rums" and roofs "ruffs" or saying "a boat" when they mean "about"...

Try Scotland or further up north for that. :3 I'm pretty sure they say "a boat" and "rums".  

[Taeryyn]

Kals: Where I'm from, about = "a boat". sweatdrop

People from parts of rural Nova Scotia (especially Cape Breton) are horrible for mashing words together or flat-out adding or removing letters from words as they see fit.
The town of North Sydney? Nrthidnee. New Waterford? N'wa'erferd. Cape Breton? C'bren.

"Did you eat yet?" becomes "jeet yet?"

Accrid = accurate
sundee = sunday
arn = iron
warsh = wash
Tronno = Toronto
patrin = pattern
pre shate = appreciate
napple = apple
pie sin = poison

._. No wonder the rest of the country thinks we're all retarded. (Although I'd like to note that aside from Tronno, jeet yet, and arn, I say things properly.)  

[Kalstolyn]

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Oh I know all about East Coast Canadian dialects...

Like the way that a short A ends up sounding like... something else all together.... Car, for instance ends up sounding like care, and bar like bear. Not quite care and bear, but something in between those and the normal A sound. Kind of... Scottish sounding, which makes sense considering which people actually immigrated to that part of the country the most. I've heard this particular accent from people who hail form Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, AND PEI.

The ones that drive be bonkers the most besides "ruff" and "rum" (and warsh yer hands in the crick after you bin on the ruff) are things like "lie-berry" for libraray, axe for ask, pronouncing "ing" like "een", "um-ur-kin" for American, and yes, tranna for Toronto. Also people out here in "alburda" tend to say "kal-gree" instead of Calgary. Oh, and they're kill-OHM-it-ers, not KILL-o-meat-ers.

That pricks me about as much as people who think that "irregardless" is an actual word, or who misuse apostrophes (it's not that hard to use an apostrophe in its appropriate place, and to leave it out where it's not needed!) or people who want me to "close the lights." Uhm, do you want me to... close the circuit, thus turning them on? No, you want me to turn them off. wtf.

Ciel: I'm pretty sure East Coasters are more likely to say "a-boot" than "a-boat". Your list of Nova Scotia words actually sound like Arkansas to me...

Did you know that Newfoundland English is so far from conventional English that it is considered an official dialect, like Ebonics? "where ya come to, bye?" means "where are you from?"

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[wakusei]

Saying 'axe' instead of 'ask'...makes me think of Futurama.

 

[Taeryyn]

Kals: biggrin I won't speak for PEI or Newfoundland, but in NS there's different accents depending on what part of the province you're from, even though it's a tiny province. People from Yarmouth sound nothing like people from Sydney, and neither of them sound like someone from Meteghan.

Based on my experience, I'd divide it up like this:
-Cape Breton (English) (how's she goan, by?), which is close to Newfoundland English. The "a-boot" you're thinking of is definitely said here.
-Cape Breton (Acadian), which is different from the other Acadian region....
-...which is South Shore/Par en Bas/Grand Pre, which has an entirely different Acadian accent
-Halifax and the surrounding area
-Annapolis Valley/Southern NS (Also use "a-boot")
-Cumberland/North Shore NS (Where I'm from. A-boat, not a-boot.)

And my list of words is more Cape Bretoner than any other part of the province. : ) It would sound like Arkansas if you drawled, perhaps, but none of it is drawled or stretched out at all.

But what do I know? Clearly I only lived there for 20 years. xd  

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One tends to be deaf to one's own accent, too.

Also, I like your hat.

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[Arcanas]

...for some reason I thought you were talking about the word Aether...