Let's consolidate English and American

dronefromsector7G said:
English people seem to be terrible at learning their own language. A girl on TV just said she worked in HR and doesn’t know how to pronounce H correctly ffs
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It’s a common error. Even my Mrs mispronounces H. For any lurkers, it’s spelt ‘aitch’ and you pronounce it as it’s written - aitch!
 
Barcon said:
I had to change how I pronounced my last name because nobody had a clue what I was saying.

And even we don't say courgette. What's next? petit pois instead of pea?
Oh, and, it's a fucking eggplant.
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Eggplant !!! I mean just wtf. I've kept chickens and there is no way an egg is going to sprout anything no matter how long its in the ground.
 
buckshot said:
It's a motherfucking WALKway on the SIDE of the road, sidewalk makes perfect sense. Pavement could be the road itself, a patio, basketball court or a sidewalk. Think about it this way, you tell your friend you'll meet him on the pavement at 5:00pm. The poor sonofabitch thinks you mean the middle of the road and gets run over by a car and killed. Now you have a dead friend, how does that make you feel?

Lives will be saved by saying sidewalk.
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Roads shall henceforth be known as Middledrives.
 
Stuuuuuu said:
Roads shall henceforth be known as Middledrives.
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buckshot said:
It's a motherfucking WALKway on the SIDE of the road, sidewalk makes perfect sense. Pavement could be the road itself, a patio, basketball court or a sidewalk. Think about it this way, you tell your friend you'll meet him on the pavement at 5:00pm. The poor sonofabitch thinks you mean the middle of the road and gets run over by a car and killed. Now you have a dead friend, how does that make you feel?

Lives will be saved by saying sidewalk.
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What do you call the pedestrian friendly flat concrete down the middle of a road, with one lane of traffic going one way and the other lane of traffic going the other - a middlewalk?
 
buckshot said:
This will end a lot of confusion going forward and we will do it fair. Here's how it will work: You come up with something that you'd be willing to switch and then something that you want us to switch. We can debate a little but there shouldn't be a need because we're going to be mature and not take advantage of the system. I'll go first:

From now on we Americans will say "schedule" w/o the hard "K" sound.

In return you Brits will heretofore refer to the fruit that is used to make ketchup as "tomatoes" with the "a" being a long "a".

Another one, Americans will call flashlights "torches" (I always thought torch sounded better than flashlight anyway)

But you'll have to agree to casually refer to "pounds" as "bucks". Bucks sounds cooler and it is actually something. If you want to fight I think we can all agree on "clams" since it's cool to sound like a gangster from the 1930s.
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NO.

NO.

NO.

NO.

NO.
 
One thing that makes m smile.

We say progress and process, with a long 'o' sound, whereas Americans pronounce them with a short 'o'.

However, we say produce with a short 'o'', and yet Americans use a long 'o'.

It’s as if they are deliberately being contrary.
 
Vienna_70 said:
One thing that makes m smile.

We say progress and process, with a long 'o' sound, whereas Americans pronounce them with a short 'o'.

However, we say produce with a short 'o'', and yet Americans use a long 'o'.

It’s as if they are deliberately being contrary.
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I'm glad that it makes the fictional Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service from the James Bond films smile ;) :)
 
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