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  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,583
    edited December 1969

    Vaskania said:
    wendy♥catz said:
    prolly coz I say whooshtersheer sauce

    I pronounce that as, "the sauce with the name I can't say". ;)
    It usually comes out as Worsteshire, which by looking at the spelling cannot be right.

    There's your problem.

    In Massachusetts it's Wustah.. But then, in Massachusetts Peabody is pronounced PEEbdee.

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634
    edited December 1969

    chohole said:
    Worcester is the city Worcestershire is the County, and also the sauce.
    nice on sausages and steak...the sauce that is.
  • Miss BMiss B Posts: 3,071
    edited May 2014

    chohole said:
    alexhcowley said:
    Szark said:
    dumorian said:
    Szark said:
    dumorian said:
    Membership does require a bit of insanity mixed with a lot of zany positive humor.
    Insanity...no one told me...and humor is spelt wrong. :P

    It was pretty obvious that you passed on that front so you didn't need to be 'told'. :bug: Spelling? :snake:
    Oh that explains it then, I am so glad that part of me is so apparent. :) Spelling yes what we English invented...well the word anyways. :P
    Pete,

    The difference between English and American spelling is quite simple: Americans spell words sensibly, we English spell them properly.

    Cheers,

    Alex
    I don't know that is sensible as much as they spell how they think it sounds . . .
    Yes we spell things "phonetically", or how it "sounds" to us.

    Post edited by Miss B on
  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634
    edited December 1969

    Miss B said:
    chohole said:
    alexhcowley said:
    Szark said:
    dumorian said:
    Szark said:
    dumorian said:
    Membership does require a bit of insanity mixed with a lot of zany positive humor.
    Insanity...no one told me...and humor is spelt wrong. :P

    It was pretty obvious that you passed on that front so you didn't need to be 'told'. :bug: Spelling? :snake:
    Oh that explains it then, I am so glad that part of me is so apparent. :) Spelling yes what we English invented...well the word anyways. :P

    Pete,

    The difference between English and American spelling is quite simple: Americans spell words sensibly, we English spell them properly.

    Cheers,

    Alex
    I don't know that is sensible as much as they spell how they think it sounds . . .
    Yes we spell things "phonetically", or how it "sounds" to us.I know but I am not going to let the facts get in the way of having a good humoured dig at our cousins. What is family for. :P

  • Lissa_xyzLissa_xyz Posts: 6,116
    edited December 1969

    fixmypcmike said:
    Vaskania said:
    wendy♥catz said:
    prolly coz I say whooshtersheer sauce

    I pronounce that as, "the sauce with the name I can't say". ;)
    It usually comes out as Worsteshire, which by looking at the spelling cannot be right.

    There's your problem.

    In Massachusetts it's Wustah.. But then, in Massachusetts Peabody is pronounced PEEbdee.
    Peabody isn't supposed to be peebody? I've said 'peebody' my entire life. I'm from Arizona.

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,202
    edited December 1969

    Maryborough on Queensland's sunshine coast got me corrected a lot.

  • Lissa_xyzLissa_xyz Posts: 6,116
    edited May 2014

    I used to live in Puyallup. Tripped me up for a while because it's pronounced "pyou-all-up", I'll still call it poo-yallup just for giggles though. This state is full of Native American names (Tahuya, Clickitat, Duckabush..etc). Then there's Sequim, which is pronounced "skwim".

    Post edited by Lissa_xyz on
  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 5,980
    edited December 1969

    Miss B said:

    Yes we spell things "phonetically", or how it "sounds" to us.

    Phounetically, surely ... ;)

    Not just place names: try Featherstone-Shaw or Beauchamp on for size.

  • JaderailJaderail Posts: 0
    edited May 2014

    What Club? There is a club? I just like taking my wig off once in awhile... 8-/
    I'm a Deep south American, here we mangle even the American versions of words. I'm lucky if I spell one right, you can forget me ever saying it right. No matter what the word is.

    Post edited by Jaderail on
  • riftwitchriftwitch Posts: 1,405
    edited December 1969

    Vaskania said:
    fixmypcmike said:
    Vaskania said:
    wendy♥catz said:
    prolly coz I say whooshtersheer sauce

    I pronounce that as, "the sauce with the name I can't say". ;)
    It usually comes out as Worsteshire, which by looking at the spelling cannot be right.

    There's your problem.

    In Massachusetts it's Wustah.. But then, in Massachusetts Peabody is pronounced PEEbdee.
    Peabody isn't supposed to be peebody? I've said 'peebody' my entire life. I'm from Arizona.

    I had a friend from Peabody when we were both attending Berklee, and he always referred to his home town as Peebdy. And our college was in Bahston. That was back when I still had some hair. I lost the rest when I turnd ee-ville.

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,202
    edited December 1969

    I am odd but when I first head of the "bald wizards club" I thought it was a culling exercise with a large object like Chohole wields

  • alexhcowleyalexhcowley Posts: 2,386
    edited December 1969

    chohole said:
    alexhcowley said:
    Szark said:
    dumorian said:
    Szark said:
    dumorian said:
    Membership does require a bit of insanity mixed with a lot of zany positive humor.
    Insanity...no one told me...and humor is spelt wrong. :P

    It was pretty obvious that you passed on that front so you didn't need to be 'told'. :bug: Spelling? :snake:

    Oh that explains it then, I am so glad that part of me is so apparent. :) Spelling yes what we English invented...well the word anyways. :P

    Pete,

    The difference between English and American spelling is quite simple: Americans spell words sensibly, we English spell them properly.

    Cheers,

    Alex

    I don't know that is sensible as much as they spell how they think it sounds, in the same way as they try to pronounce some of the place names and words the way they read them. Have you ever heard an American trying to find his way in the UK, when he wants to go to places like Leicester, Plymouth,Wrotham or Worcester. (to name just a few)

    Chohole,

    In a simmilar vein, did you know that the English pronunciation of the word route is an obscenity in American?

    Cheers,

    Alex.

  • nobody1954nobody1954 Posts: 933
    edited December 1969

    I used to live in a city called Poughkeepsie. (Generally pronounced Po-kip-see). The name is an English mispronunciation of a Dutch mispronunciation of a native name. I do not know if the natives pronounced it correctly.

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634
    edited December 1969

    Oh I started something here.....I feel so much better today.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited May 2014

    Szark said:
    Oh I started something here.....I feel so much better today.

    Glad to hear that


    I am still trying to work out when I have ever heard "root" (UK pronunciation of route) used as a obscenity

    my mind is boggled. :coolsmile:

    Post edited by Chohole on
  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634
    edited December 1969

    All the time in New Zealand and Australia, I grew up with that rude connotation.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited December 1969

    Szark said:
    All the time in New Zealand and Australia, I grew up with that rude connotation.

    Must be because you are standing upside down when you are over there. :coolgrin:

  • TotteTotte Posts: 13,955
    edited December 1969

    Szark said:
    Oh I started something here.....I feel so much better today.

    Yes you did, you invaded Poland!!
  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634
    edited December 1969

    hey with the amount of Poles living close by I often wonder. Like everyone though there are good. bad and some really funny Poles. I made my neighbours welcome in the old style, which very few do these days over here. The husband is a nice bloke but the wife, lets just says she had no idea of respecting other peoples boundaries. I have now educated her and she is fine now. Caught the son trying to feed George (dog) pebbles the other day. I have other Polish mates that are teaching me a few choice words and some everyday ones. I will freak them out one day with some Polish spoken across the fence. :)

  • TotteTotte Posts: 13,955
    edited December 1969

    Szark said:
    hey with the amount of Poles living close by I often wonder. Like everyone though there are good. bad and some really funny Poles. I made my neighbours welcome in the old style, which very few do these days over here. The husband is a nice bloke but the wife, lets just says she had no idea of respecting other peoples boundaries. I have now educated her and she is fine now. Caught the son trying to feed George (dog) pebbles the other day. I have other Polish mates that are teaching me a few choice words and some everyday ones. I will freak them out one day with some Polish spoken across the fence. :)

    LOL!!!

    We mostly have Polish construction workers around here, and the only word you need to know is Robotnic, or so the foreman told me when they relaid my roof last year.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited December 1969

    Totte said:
    Szark said:
    hey with the amount of Poles living close by I often wonder. Like everyone though there are good. bad and some really funny Poles. I made my neighbours welcome in the old style, which very few do these days over here. The husband is a nice bloke but the wife, lets just says she had no idea of respecting other peoples boundaries. I have now educated her and she is fine now. Caught the son trying to feed George (dog) pebbles the other day. I have other Polish mates that are teaching me a few choice words and some everyday ones. I will freak them out one day with some Polish spoken across the fence. :)

    LOL!!!

    We mostly have Polish construction workers around here, and the only word you need to know is Robotnic, or so the foreman told me when they relaid my roof last year.

    Our Polish neighbours across the road don't speak any English it seems, so no one speaks to them much at all. They bought the house which no one local wanted to buy, as it needed a lot of work done to it because the previous occupants had been tenants and the local Heddlu took exception to their horticultural habits. The owner evicted them and then decided to sell up,

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