One word you can not pronounce correctly
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No American can pronounce aluminium properly, or spell it correctly either!
Both spellings and pronunciations are accepted as correct.
The only incorrect way around aluminum is to spell it differently than you pronounce it.
Now....
How do you pronounce Jaguar?
the Brits say - JAG-U-ARE, and us Yanks JAG-WAAR
Wannabe hi rollers describe their worn out cheap cars as Jaaaaaaaggs.
Mole-IB-din-um
Nu'-erk, New Jersey
Nuu-ark', Delaware
Be-GO ta, New Jersey
BO-get-ah', Columbia
A Jeopardy contestant's response needed to be the corporate name spawning the portmanteau, "ALCOA".
He answered, "Aluminium Company of America. He was incorrect. It's, "Aluminum Company of America".
Nu'-erk, New Jersey
Nuu-ark', Delaware
Be-GO ta, New Jersey
BO-get-ah', Columbia
A Jeopardy contestant's response needed to be the corporate name spawning the portmanteau, "ALCOA".
He answered, "Aluminium Company of America. He was incorrect. It's, "Aluminum Company of America".
My wife always says "fustrated" and "condenscending."
I also hear Jag-wire here in the midwest.
It's not an English language word, but gnocchi.
Nee-YO--Key!
Our Primie minister and energy minister while slagging it pronounce it nucular...after what appear to be coaching, they get it right, but when they get riled, and back into slagging mode, they revert...great for credibility.
Bit like the health guy who says Ambludance...
My Grandad's generation, many people pronounce film as fillum...
If you run into anyone from Pontiac Michigan they will pronounce the name with the T being silent. If you hear the T and they say they are from Pontiac they are lying. Its pronounced Ponny-ack. There are people that call it Yack town for this reason.
I was made awoke recently that aluminum was the original, and it was anglicised to Aluminium....
Australia has changed sulhur to sulfur now (well 20 years ago when I built a sulfur trioxide plant...)
I've heard this!
My American cousins say that my Canadian family all say "aboot" but I can't say that I sense that when I'm talking to my relatives or my own family. Getting up on the RUFF has always seemed just crazy for Americans.
If you are from Philly or Wilmington…thirsty?, you drink a glass of wooder.
Well, if da ruff of da cah is duddy, ya beddah warsh it.
- Conservation of the letter R
Did you mean to put s " P" in that or was it really Sulhur?
Sorr.,,,, Sa..,,, I'm Sor.,,, (Having trouble even typing it.) You know. That word.
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