My Father was RN and the American pronunciation irked him, so must've been RAN.Quote:
Originally Posted by p38arover
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My Father was RN and the American pronunciation irked him, so must've been RAN.Quote:
Originally Posted by p38arover
I did a search and found this in Wikipedia:
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In Royal Naval tradition—and other English-speaking navies outside the United States—a reduced pronunciation /ləˈtɛnənt/ (https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...017/08/844.jpg listen) is used. This is not recognised as current by recent editions of the OED (although the RN pronunciation was included in editions of OED up until the 1970s).
I'm told that looking at Naval expressions for extended periods can make a Buddhist out of you. [bigwhistle]
Another one that irked me (and yes, I'm American) is the way we/they pronounce "jewelry' as "joolery". 🤔
Why some Americans persist with the MM/DD/YYYY thing, in spite of the problems it causes and the rest of the wold refusing to follow suit has got me stuffed. It isn't even a logical progression.
Calling a 10th Anniversary a 10 year Anniversary is just plain infantile and it's creeping in here as well.
It's not all their fault though. There was a period in the 80s and 90s when Teachers here, considered gramma an option.
Not an expression or pronunciation , but always amused by the weather reports. Seems that all weather patterns end at the borders where Asian or European reports cover the continent?
My teaching was , August 25 2017 , thereby not to be confused by different systems of using just numbers to define the date. This is something I will not change.Quote:
Originally Posted by cuppabillytea
Hi,
From My Fair Lady....
The Scotch and the Irish leave you close to tears.
There even are places where English completely
disappears.
Well, in America, they haven't used it for years!
Cheers
And you spell it differently to us, too - "jewellery" in British English.Quote:
Originally Posted by Railey
UK weather ends at the Ulster/Ireland border.
To their credit, Americans have retained a lot of the Elizabethan words taken there by the early settlers.
For example: They still use 'gotten' where the rest of the English speaking world has abreviated it to 'got'.