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What Pook said. He sounds to me like a Scot who got on the Received-English track real early, with the occasional throw-back slipping in.
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My favorite UKism is reh NAY sonce, followed by al you MIN ee um, which is actually spelt differently than its American counterpart, strangely enough. :0)
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My favorite UKism is reh NAY sonce, followed by al you MIN ee um, which is actually spelt differently than its American counterpart, strangely enough. :0) We also spell it the correct way - aluminium and pronounce it like that. It's not Al-OO-m'num. And how else would you pronounce renaissance? REN-ah-sonce? How come North Americans have this predilection for pronouncing anything with an 'e' in the first syllable with the stress on that syllable? You yanks just don't know how to talk proper! 
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What Pook said. He sounds to me like a Scot who got on the Received-English track real early, with the occasional throw-back slipping in. Actually the more I listen to him the less Scots he sounds, but yes there are the vestigial remnants such as the unvoiced 'wh' rather than a voiced 'wh' in words like 'what' and 'where' and the occasional rhotic rather than non-rhotic 'r' - definitely a Scots accent modified by the English Public School system. I have read somewhere, however, that even the British media have taken him to task for some of his idiosyncratic pronunciations, so maybe at least some of it is simply Brownspeak.
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We also spell it the correct way - aluminium and pronounce it like that. It's not Al-OO-m'num.
Which way is correct depends on whether you go by Davy's first, second, or third attempt at naming it. It started off as alumium.
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We also spell it the correct way - aluminium and pronounce it like that. It's not Al-OO-m'num.
Which way is correct depends on whether you go by Davy's first, second, or third attempt at naming it. It started off as alumium. No no no, it's quite clear, historical facts have nothing to do with it, whatever way we do it must be the right way, mustn't it?
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That's nothing--I found out from Bingley that Britspeakers think a waterspout is an old man (they pronounce geyser as geezer) and that a big ice floe is more slippery (a glacier is glassier).
Oh, hey, olly--I saw a bit on the Travel Channel about the Franz Joseph glacier last week.
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That's nothing--I found out from Bingley that Britspeakers think a waterspout is an old man (they pronounce geyser as geezer) and that a big ice floe is more slippery (a glacier is glassier).
Oh, hey, olly--I saw a bit on the Travel Channel about the Franz Joseph glacier last week. I think that's Franz Josef.
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That's nothing--I found out from Bingley that Britspeakers think a waterspout is an old man (they pronounce geyser as geezer) and that a big ice floe is more slippery (a glacier is glassier).
Oh, hey, olly--I saw a bit on the Travel Channel about the Franz Joseph glacier last week. I think that's Franz Josef. Yes it is, been there done that  And that's not a waterspout, Jackie, this is a waterspout: Waterspout off Sydney
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Beautiful as long as it sticks to the water.
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