Accents that drive you up the wall

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intedomine said:
There is also something in the South Australian accent as well. Hard to pin down what it is, though they have been renowned to call things by different names from the rest of the country anyway. They call thongs something completely different I think.
As Earnie pointed out, we say "dance/chance/France" as "dahnce" etc, not a flat "a". That's about the only real difference between us and you lot.

And I dunno where you got this thong thing from? :huh: The rubber things on your feet? They're thongs! Underwear butt-floss? They're g-strings! What do you call them??? :eyebrow:

:D
 
Trinity3000 said:
It annoys me how Americans say aluminium as a-lume-a-num.
Alu-min-ium. It's not that hard.

I think they spell it as aluminum, and thus the pronunciation?

I hate Hong Kong people trying to Americanise their accent while they are actually pronouncing and using the words like Brits. They thought adding weird 'rrrrr's after every single damned word would make they sound better. No, that sounds stupid really. :mad:
 
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