Bay-sil or Baaa-sil??

Filet and baton are French.  Americans pronounce them the French way.  The British pronounce them their own way.

What what?  I don't know that I've heard "through zed".  Definitely don't know what 'jai' is.

My photo orders are stored in alphabetical order,  aka, "a thru zed".

Jai is Scottish for j. My name is John. You spell it "jai o h n".

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Bill Bryson wrote a whole book about this kind of thing.  Outlines exactly how the American accent diverged from British and why.

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When I hear British English it just makes me feel like I need to enunciate more. And the soft T (water pronounced wadder) versus the hard T cracks my husband up. I am teased frequently about that as well. But then he puts an R at the end of my name. My name is Nykia - sounds like papaya. He says "Nick-eye-urr." My name is not negotiable!! Pronounce it correctly!! LOL!

confession time : I'm not very good at pronouncing my wife's name.  You really have to put on an over the top French accent and I just can't do it.

A through zed... who the hell says a through zed? And wtf is jai?

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That's how I say my username, Jimbo see zed

Tonight my British speaking kid was complaining that we didn't buy a rubber for her.  I  dad joked that although I thought she was a bit young for this conversation, if she needs to talk about contraception we can arrange a visit with the GP.  Much 14 Year old embarrassment followed!

Nope, all American way! It would feel odd to say baaa-sil lol. We use a mix of UK and USA terminology at home. However, if I'm out in public and/or talking with people I don't know I use UK terminology, like holiday instead of vacation, etc. This is mainly to not confuse people. However, pronunciation remains the same.


Let's not forget "haitch" for the letter "aitch." What on earth is haitch? I've heard it pronounced both ways in the UK, but to my understanding "aitch" is still the correct form there. Me on the phone spelling out my postcode, that has an H in it:

Me: "Aitch"
Customer service rep: "Sorry, can you repeat that?"
Me: "Aitch"
Rep: Pause.... "Oh do you mean haitch?"
Me: ..........

The thing that gets my colleagues every time is how I say merry, marry, and Mary.  I'm not sure if it's a widespread American thing or a regional American thing, but I pronounce those three words exactly the same.

I feel like I definitely say merry, marry, and Mary very similarly. I don't think I've noticed the difference with how British folk say it. I'll have to test it out on my husband.

Filet and baton are French.  Americans pronounce them the French way.  The British pronounce them their own way.

Thank you!! I flat out refuse to say FILL-lett steak!!

It took me 2 years to finally ask my husband what he was calling the highway. For the life of me, I didn't understand why he was calling it the Joel carriage road.

I am dying at Joel carriage road!!!

Nope, all American way! It would feel odd to say baaa-sil lol. We use a mix of UK and USA terminology at home. However, if I'm out in public and/or talking with people I don't know I use UK terminology, like holiday instead of vacation, etc. This is mainly to not confuse people. However, pronunciation remains the same.


Let's not forget "haitch" for the letter "aitch." What on earth is haitch? I've heard it pronounced both ways in the UK, but to my understanding "aitch" is still the correct form there. Me on the phone spelling out my postcode, that has an H in it:

Me: "Aitch"
Customer service rep: "Sorry, can you repeat that?"
Me: "Aitch"
Rep: Pause.... "Oh do you mean haitch?"
Me: ..........

Yep, I'm not changing to haitch either. I can't. It's just wrong. 

Nope, all American way! It would feel odd to say baaa-sil lol. We use a mix of UK and USA terminology at home. However, if I'm out in public and/or talking with people I don't know I use UK terminology, like holiday instead of vacation, etc. This is mainly to not confuse people. However, pronunciation remains the same.


Let's not forget "haitch" for the letter "aitch." What on earth is haitch? I've heard it pronounced both ways in the UK, but to my understanding "aitch" is still the correct form there. Me on the phone spelling out my postcode, that has an H in it:

Me: "Aitch"
Customer service rep: "Sorry, can you repeat that?"
Me: "Aitch"
Rep: Pause.... "Oh do you mean haitch?"
Me: ..........

I don't understand any of this aitch, haitch business. Do you mean for the letter h?

If I were to pronounce anything like the Scots, it would be with a ridiculous accent that makes me sound like Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Get down, get to the choppa!

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confession time : I'm not very good at pronouncing my wife's name.  You really have to put on an over the top French accent and I just can't do it.

Ha! What's her name? My name is just very different to begin with and in my husband's defense, no one else gets it right either.

Yep, I'm not changing to haitch either. I can't. It's just wrong. 

It is wrong!   

Bahz-il only in front of the last name Rathbone. 
Bay-sil is the herb. And a very useful one, at that!

Speaking of which:

Herb pronounced without the H = 'erb, is what grows in your garden and you add to food.
Herb pronounced = Her-b is a man's name.

I don't speak English. I speak American. With a sort of a freakish Texas twist on it. There were two Tommy Lee Jones movies on in the last week (Volcano, which is a hoot, and Men In Black) and the damned Texas accent came slamming back. Went to a shop the day after MIB and was browsing the jeans section when they started playing Hank Williams, Senior, on their music system.

I didn't dare open my mouth the entire walk home, because when I did I sounded like "home folks." (AKA, Tommy Lee Jones is from my old stomping grounds.)

I think it's gone again now, thankfully!

Ha! What's her name? My name is just very different to begin with and in my husband's defense, no one else gets it right either.

Marion

Marion

Not pronounced "Marry on" then? Lol

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Not pronounced "Marry on" then? Lol

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Not by me.  I go for Murrion.  I didn't say I was proud of it.