@Brand@feddit.de to Greentext@sh.itjust.worksEnglish • 8 months agoAnon learns about foreign languagesfeddit.deimagemessage-square53fedilinkarrow-up1501arrow-down123
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minus-square@PhlubbaDubba@lemm.eelinkfedilink16•8 months agoMeanwhile the Americans have the British names but pronounce it completely different because of the fucking bostoners
minus-square@droans@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink20•8 months agoDon’t place the blame on us. The British have changed their dialect like twelve times since we were their colony.
minus-squareEcho Dotlinkfedilink7•edit-28 months agoWell that’s because you unsubscribed from the language patches, made your own fork and then did nothing with it.
minus-squareTAGlinkfedilink2•8 months agoAs an American who lived in Worcester, MA for a number of years: Wuster or Wustah
minus-square@DragonTypeWyvernlink8•8 months agoAlso because the British have proven themselves incapable of taking care of the language, as proven every day by cockneys.
minus-squareXIIIesqlinkfedilink2•8 months agoThe whole point of cockney is that you can tell who is and isn’t a local.
minus-square@mindbleach@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink1•8 months agoAnd still closer to how it’s spelled than seven centuries of people mumbling it impatiently. You wanna know why every English town name has special arbitrary pronunciation? Amogus.
Meanwhile the Americans have the British names but pronounce it completely different because of the fucking bostoners
Don’t place the blame on us. The British have changed their dialect like twelve times since we were their colony.
Well that’s because you unsubscribed from the language patches, made your own fork and then did nothing with it.
I assure you we have done plenty with that fork…
How do you pronounce Worcester?
Woster for short
As an American who lived in Worcester, MA for a number of years: Wuster or Wustah
Askin’ the REAL questions!
Also because the British have proven themselves incapable of taking care of the language, as proven every day by cockneys.
The whole point of cockney is that you can tell who is and isn’t a local.
And by local they mean on the street by street level.
Burning, ham
Yet they can pronounce Halifax just fine.
And still closer to how it’s spelled than seven centuries of people mumbling it impatiently.
You wanna know why every English town name has special arbitrary pronunciation? Amogus.