[BlinkBrian]

Hello All,

I'm on Season 6 of Dallas today and it seems I'm watching a season per day. I find it really annoying how they all pronounce why and emphasis the h or something I've noticed it on a few other american television programs. Same with While and some other words. Is it me or do you notice? and why?

[sjp07]

I think it's just you tbh. The only time I hear an over pronunciation of the h is in the wheat thins commercial, but it's done on purpose.

[Eater Sundae]

I can't post a link at present but there's a Stewie/Brian routine in an episode of Family Guy on sounding the "h" in a "wh..." word.

[Captainblonde]

'Cool whhhhhhip'!!

[OpEd]

Christ.

I'm mean Key Fukkin Rhyst.

Wha du sum peepul sereusly think thay no how too pronouns thingz rat?

****ing fools they is. That's the only thing that can be said to be right.

(IOW? It's fantastic that you are bothered by this. Let it continue to bother you.)

[walterwhite]

Originally Posted by BlinkBrian

Hello All,

I'm on Season 6 of Dallas today and it seems I'm watching a season per day. I find it really annoying how they all pronounce why and emphasis the h or something I've noticed it on a few other american television programs. Same with While and some other words. Is it me or do you notice? and why?

Ever heard of accents and dialects?

[ironjade]

You should hear what they do to solder, primer, herbs, Edinburgh and Wimbledon: sorder, primmer, 'erbs, Edinburrow and Wimbleton.

[OpEd]

Originally Posted by walterwhite

Ever heard of accents and dialects?

The Indians are almost as fierce warrior-wise as the Africans -- they go chitty chitty bang bang.

[777Eilidh]

Originally Posted by ironjade

You should hear what they do to solder, primer, herbs, Edinburgh and Wimbledon: sorder, primmer, 'erbs, Edinburrow and Wimbleton.

and vehicle = veHicle jewellery = julry Tune = toon

[sjp07]

Originally Posted by Eater Sundae

I can't post a link at present but there's a Stewie/Brian routine in an episode of Family Guy on sounding the "h" in a "wh..." word.

That's the wheat thins commercial

[sjp07]

Originally Posted by ironjade

You should hear what they do to solder, primer, herbs, Edinburgh and Wimbledon: sorder, primmer, 'erbs, Edinburrow and Wimbleton.

What Americans are you talking to? I have never heard someone say primmer and I have lived here my entire life. Also, why would anyone say Edinburrow when we say Pittsburgh and anything else with a burgh just fine? Wimbledon with a t? What? The only of these pronunciations I've heard is the herb one. The h is silent, just like in hour, heir, honest, and honor. The only time we use the hard h on herb is if it's short for Herbert. Maybe it is because I'm from California, though and we have what is typically referred to as the California "non accent"

[LCDMAN]

Originally Posted by 777Eilidh

and vehicle = veHicle jewellery = julry Tune = toon

Don't forget route = rOWt...

[OpEd]

Thames = Thames! Hah hah hee...

Huh heh. Huh Huh Ha.

Stupid wrongspeak Americans!

[ironjade]

Originally Posted by sjp07

What Americans are you talking to? I have never heard someone say primmer and I have lived here my entire life. Also, why would anyone say Edinburrow when we say Pittsburgh and anything else with a burgh just fine? Wimbledon with a t? What? The only of these pronunciations I've heard is the herb one. The h is silent, just like in hour, heir, honest, and honor. The only time we use the hard h on herb is if it's short for Herbert. Maybe it is because I'm from California, though and we have what is typically referred to as the California "non accent"

Adam Savage (among others) on Mythbusters always says sorder for solder, Jodie Foster (and other cast members) in "Contact" pronounces primer as primmer (some respondents on the movie's IMDb forum tell me she's correct, some disagree), Edinburrow I hear quite often (also thurrow for thorough), Wimbleton not so much and it may be the US accent pronouncing T as D which causes it.

[MoreTears]

Why do Brits pronounce "secretary" as "secre-tree?" There's an "a" in between the "t" and the "r," people. And don't get me started on Brits pronouncing "lieutenant" as if there is an "f" or a "ph" in there somewhere.

[Joe_Zel]

Originally Posted by MoreTears

Why do Brits pronounce "secretary" as "secre-tree?" There's an "a" in between the "t" and the "r," people.

Different accents pronounce it differently, so it's not a case of "Brits" saying "secure-tree". I for one don't pronounce it that way.

Do all Canadians say "a-boot"? Tut, tut.

[MoreTears]

Originally Posted by Joe_Zel

Do all Canadians say "a-boot"? Tut, tut.

No Canadians at all pronounce the word that way. That is a Scottish pronunciation. The South Park movie has a lot to answer for.

[Jerrica09]

Originally Posted by 777Eilidh

and vehicle = veHicle jewellery = julry Tune = toon

I mentioned veHicle in a Judge Judy YT video comment, and the uploader sent me several abusive messages in the vein of 'Can you say SCOUSER?! CAN YOU SAY COCKNEY?!'

I wasn't even being mildly abusive, I only said I liked the pronounciation

[Aerick]

some of you need to go back in time and slap your mamma for not teaching you there are different dialects and accents and ways of doing things differenty from what you are used to in this big world.

Now what's up with you Brts pronouncing everything ending with an -a as "-er"? Indi-er, bana-er, diplom-er, nebul-er,

[Lucidia2011]

Originally Posted by LCDMAN

Don't forget route = rOWt...

......and George 'Dubya' Bush

[jackbell]

Originally Posted by MoreTears

Why do Brits pronounce "secretary" as "secre-tree?" There's an "a" in between the "t" and the "r," people. And don't get me started on Brits pronouncing "lieutenant" as if there is an "f" or a "ph" in there somewhere.

I know. Anybody would have thought they invented the language.

[MoreTears]

Originally Posted by jackbell

I know. Anybody would have thought they invented the language.

The Brits alive today didn't invent the language, and most of their ancestors would be appalled to hear them speak. And "lieutenant" is a word of French origin. Americans pronounce it much the way the French would, which is consistent with the way it is spelled.

[Bungitin]

Gawd dammit.

Whats with Bush junior saying merka and merkin?

[sjp07]

Originally Posted by Lucidia2011

......and George 'Dubya' Bush

We only say dubya to make fun of Texas, where dubya is from.

[Digital Sid]

Originally Posted by MoreTears

No Canadians at all pronounce the word that way. That is a Scottish pronunciation. The South Park movie has a lot to answer for.

Didn't Canada have a disproportionately high amount of Scottish settlers? I've always assumed from the pronunciations and Nova Scotia that the Scottish went north west and colonised Canada and the English went south west and colonised the US.