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American of British English?

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by athemoe, Oct 6, 2010.

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  1. Arcwolf09

    Arcwolf09 Guest

    All European languages come from a colaberation of a multitude of languages. About 75% Of all English words are Latin base. The other 25% comes from other languages or is just made up by the newer generations.
     
    Arcwolf09, Oct 8, 2010
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  2. Cahos Rahne Veloza

    Cahos Rahne Veloza The Fart Awakens

    Fixed your post there 8)
     
    Cahos Rahne Veloza, Oct 8, 2010
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  3. dills2

    dills2 Well-Known Member

    british english as m living there and calling a rugby like game is stupid as well as calling crisps chips
     
    dills2, Oct 8, 2010
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  4. trimbletown

    trimbletown Well-Known Member

    British English. I don't even know how they came up with the American pronunciations.
     
    trimbletown, Oct 10, 2010
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  5. Arcwolf09

    Arcwolf09 Guest

    we pronounce words correctly but it has a different accent. also it depends on who you are talking to.
     
    Arcwolf09, Oct 10, 2010
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  6. Natewlie

    Natewlie A bag of tricks

    What about you Americans and the letter 'z'? It's 'zed' not 'zee'. I don't know how anyone screwed that up.
     
    Natewlie, Oct 10, 2010
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  7. nex26

    nex26 Well-Known Member

    i think it's because z then sounds more like cheese burger, which as we all know makes up 90% of all words spoken in america.
     
    nex26, Oct 10, 2010
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  8. Stanley Richards

    Stanley Richards Well-Known Member

    I thought it was Big Mac
     
    Stanley Richards, Oct 10, 2010
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  9. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    my favourite one actually comes from my industry. A router (root-er) is a device used for directing traffic around networks and the internet, and americans pronounce it as row-ter, which is a power tool for shaping wood. That gets amusing at times since patton and I are both network engineers and he uses the american pronounciation.

    see the difference?

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    this is what 90% of the world connects to the internet with.


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    This is what americans connect to the internet with.
     
    Loonylion, Oct 10, 2010
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  10. Arcwolf09

    Arcwolf09 Guest

    i pronounce it raot-er
     
    Arcwolf09, Oct 10, 2010
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  11. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    which is the woodworking implement shown above.
     
    Loonylion, Oct 10, 2010
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  12. tehuber1337

    tehuber1337 Well-Known Member

    This is fine since in Australia, "getting a root" means to get laid, which as we know is not something internet nerds do.

    Oh, but Americans are wrong about everything else ever.
     
    tehuber1337, Oct 10, 2010
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  13. Cahos Rahne Veloza

    Cahos Rahne Veloza The Fart Awakens

    OK, the internet has messed up my mind so much. This picture as well as this comment...

    ... is registering a lot of non PG-13 signals in my mind right now.
     
    Cahos Rahne Veloza, Oct 10, 2010
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  14. usernameladiesman217

    usernameladiesman217 Well-Known Member

    You called?
     
    usernameladiesman217, Oct 10, 2010
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  15. Arcwolf09

    Arcwolf09 Guest

    freak. Anyway I grew up thinking thats was the only pronunciation.
     
    Arcwolf09, Oct 10, 2010
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