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Post by Rob Allen on May 7, 2024 20:39:19 GMT -5
I'm surprised you didn't know that, Rob Allen. Don't you live in Or-e-GON? No, I live in ORygun.
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Post by Prince Hal on May 7, 2024 21:46:27 GMT -5
I guess I’ll stick to sarcasm instead of Dad jokes.
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Post by EdoBosnar on May 8, 2024 3:23:11 GMT -5
I'm surprised you didn't know that, Rob Allen . Don't you live in Or-e-GON? No, I live in ORygun. Nope. It's Orgoreyn.
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Post by impulse on May 8, 2024 8:14:30 GMT -5
O'Reiiiiilllyyyyyy - Auto PARTS!
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Post by driver1980 on May 8, 2024 8:25:33 GMT -5
Here in the UK, there’s that eternal debate about how to pronounce Shrewsbury, a market town in Shropshire…
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Post by impulse on May 8, 2024 8:40:33 GMT -5
Ok, you guys are just making up words now. Though I have to concede, Shropshire is a perfect cromulent word.
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Post by driver1980 on May 8, 2024 9:02:04 GMT -5
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Post by Icctrombone on May 8, 2024 9:31:29 GMT -5
Ok, you guys are just making up words now. Though I have to concede, Shropshire is a perfect cromulent word. They’re all made up.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 8, 2024 12:00:53 GMT -5
Home of the infamous Shropshire Slasher......
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Post by codystarbuck on May 8, 2024 12:01:26 GMT -5
A question for our British members - My wife and I watched a movie that took place in Yorkshire. In one scene, two teenagers were arrested for smoking a joint but were released when the joint turned out to contain oregano instead of pot. The question - everybody in the movie pronounced "oregano" as "or-eh-GAH-no". Is that standard UK pronunciation or just Yorkshire? I know they have a distinct dialect. Over here we would say "uh-REG-uh-no". The internet tells me that in Italian it's "oh-REEG-ah-no", so apparently we're both wrong. Calendar Girls?
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Post by codystarbuck on May 8, 2024 12:24:32 GMT -5
After years of watching British tv comedy and drama, I have gotten used to the differences and sometimes chuckle when they mispronounce American place names, just as we butcher UK place names or some of the more elaborate family names....which always seemed to be favorites of PG Wodehouse. I have also adopted many phrases I have heard repeatedly, like things "going pear-shaped," or rhyming slang, like "me old China" to my cat, Derek.
I have also had a few chuckles at Canadian mispronunciations. Actor Shane Rimmer, who appeared in a couple of Bond films, Rollerball, and voiced characters on Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds could never pronounce Houston properly. It was always Hooston, which got comical, in Rollerball, as that was the team he was coaching, with James Caan as the star, Jonathan E. I have heard it from a couple of other Canadian actors and comedians and from British performers.
Also, as much as I have heard British commenters complain about Dick Van Dyke, in Mary Poppins and his accent, I have heard worse attempts at American accents from some British actors. A Southern dialect seems a bit more achievable, but I have yet to hear anyone come close on a midwestern or New England accent, or a passable Southwestern. I have seen several that can at least deliver something that could pass for an American anchorman (like an American received pronunciation). Australian and New Zealand actors seem a bit more talented in capturing it, in my estimation. Melanie Lynsky, who co-starred in Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures does a flawless American accent in Two and a Half Men, to the point I didn't realize it was her, but knew there was something familiar about the actress, until I looked her up on IMDB. Russell Crowe does a decent job and Guy Pierce did a great one, in LA Confidential. I didn't even realize he had been Adam, in Priscilla Queen of the Desert, until I saw the LA Confidential featurette and heard his audition, in his native accent and realized who he was (we don't get Neighbors, in most of the US, so never knew him from that).
I've gotten to where I can pretty well identify UK accents and at least be correct for the region, if not exactly cities, like Manchester vs Liverpool, or Leeds. I can tell North from South, a Cornish or a West Country, identify a Geordie or a Cockney or a chav. I can also distinguish, most of the time, between a Glaswegian, a Highland and an Edinburgh Scottish accent, and an Ulster vs Dublin accent, but not necessarily some of the other variations. Now, catching everything that is being said, in some of them, is another story.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 8, 2024 12:32:20 GMT -5
ps The best fun for a Yorkshire accent is still Ripping Yarns....
Aye, great fun on telly!
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Post by Mormel on May 8, 2024 13:47:43 GMT -5
I was watching The Imitation Game the other day, and came to realize I never knew how to pronounce the Scottish surname Menzies. It's 'Mingis'.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 8, 2024 16:51:52 GMT -5
I was watching The Imitation Game the other day, and came to realize I never knew how to pronounce the Scottish surname Menzies. It's 'Mingis'. Just remember that Luxury Yacht is pronounced "Throat-wobbler mangrove."
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Post by codystarbuck on May 8, 2024 18:39:38 GMT -5
ps A bit more Northern fun, with the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain and Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights."
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