Brand@feddit.de to Greentext@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 1 year agoAnon learns about foreign languagesfeddit.deimagemessage-square52fedilinkarrow-up1502
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minus-squareÐ Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up17·1 year agoMeanwhile the Americans have the British names but pronounce it completely different because of the fucking bostoners
minus-squaredroans@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up20·1 year agoDon’t place the blame on us. The British have changed their dialect like twelve times since we were their colony.
minus-squareEcho Dot@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up8·edit-21 year agoWell that’s because you unsubscribed from the language patches, made your own fork and then did nothing with it.
minus-squareferret@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoI assure you we have done plenty with that fork…
minus-squareTAG@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoAs an American who lived in Worcester, MA for a number of years: Wuster or Wustah
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafelinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 year agoAlso because the British have proven themselves incapable of taking care of the language, as proven every day by cockneys.
minus-squareEcho Dot@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoBurning, ham Yet they can pronounce Halifax just fine.
minus-squaremindbleach@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year 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!
Worcher
Also because the British have proven themselves incapable of taking care of the language, as proven every day by cockneys.
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.