Differences in Pronunciation

[Fierlin1182]

One of the residents where I work is from Australia. I love his accent, but sometimes he talks to me and I just don't understand what the heck he is trying to say! I feel so bad asking "What?" a million times! LOL

One of my favorite things he says is Trah-Kia for "Trachea" (Tray-kia).

Hehe, I say it like that.
I have this ridiculous hybrid accent, because I live in Australia but I grew up in Yorkshire. I don't know which accent would be more unintelligible to the rest of the world, lol.
My parents were always harping on about me as a child dropping my Ts and saying "summat" because they couldn't understand what I was going on about half the time

I say d-aye-ta for data. Australians say "darta", and long I's in "vitamin" and "italics".
Despite all the differences, at least we seem to agree on how the Americans are always saying things wrongly

 

[Peaches Lee]

I've always wondered why Americans lost their accent--were there just too many cultures that a single accent was impossible?

 

[Chickerdoodle13]

I'm from New Jersey, and going to school in New York. People often say they can hear my accent. I'm from a part of NJ which isn't really known for having an accent, but seems I have one anyway!

 

[conny63malies]

Its not just the accent in the US , its different words for the same thing. Soda, soda pop, fountain drink , cola. soft drink, pop... for us its soda.

 

[oldrooster]

Its not just the accent in the US , its different words for the same thing. Soda, soda pop, fountain drink , cola. soft drink, pop... for us its soda.

In my area we use coke as a generic word for soda. also what is the heck wrong with calling a line a line for a check stand? note I did not say cheque stand (I think that's how they spell check like a written form of payment). Also I ask for police or a cop not a "bobbie"

 

[3goodeggs]

Urbs. that's where the city slickers live. Herbs are grown in my garden.
It has always sounded cockney to me when people drop the 'H', and isn't cockney slang?
I'm 'K' with slang.
I think we all started using 'urbs for herbs with the herbal essence shampoo commercial. They said 'erbal'.
It drove me nuts.
But, to each their own.
I also always put an 'u' in color. Colour My teachers had to all but beat it out of me, and the 'r'r before the 'e' in meter. metre
Maybe I was English in a previous life.

 

[aprille218]

Ok I live in northern Minnesota and up here Herb is a person if it's a plant you don't pronounce the "h". We have pop, dAta, and go to the zoo and see zeebras

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Its not just the accent in the US , its different words for the same thing. Soda, soda pop, fountain drink , cola. soft drink, pop... for us its soda.

Cousins kid came in one time an asked for soda, I handed him the box of arm&hammer an walked off leaving him puzzled. Asking for pop would have gotten him hit. Its all coke here...

 

[oldrooster]

Quote: I want to ask a question of you Rebel, does the local diner or gas station have RC cola on tap in the fountain machines? It is impossible to find here to my knowledge in Indiana but in KY it is apparently common.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

I want to ask a question of you Rebel, does the local diner or gas station have RC cola on tap in the fountain machines? It is impossible to find here to my knowledge in Indiana but in KY it is apparently common.

Dont think I have seen a RC cola in years. I remember RC cola in bottle machines back in the 80s but I dont think I have ever seen them on tap. We are just outside Chattanooga though so everything seems to be coke brand.