Pronunciation

[BlackAgnes]

Monty Python:

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[GKC]

Years ago, I was at a staff meeting...one of the managers was from Scotland (actually born and raised there) and had lovely accent. When she got intense, though, you couldn't understand what she was saying. We were having a presentation on new immigration laws, and the consultant was from South Carolina. He had the thickest Southern drawl I have ever heard...he could have voiced the Foghorn Leghorn cartoon character. At one point, the manager asked a long, involved question, and the consultant waited patiently until she finished. I was curious to see how he would address it, since I couldn't understand a word of what she said, and I knew her well. When she finished, he looked around the room and asked in his slow, Southern drawl: "Can anybody translate that for me?"

It is an interesting anomaly how regional accents differ in the same language. Just look how different the accents are in the various parts of this country from one another...and I'm not talking about people who came here from other countries, but people who were born here and raised here, and all speak English (supposedly, anyway.)

 

[cmort666]

Mais dat looks like "A-Bear" to me

Unless you're Alsatian, in which case it's, "Hay Bairt".

Had a friend in highschool named "Fornier" and a friend in college and the Army named "Behringer". They pronounced them "For Near" and "Bear Ringer" respectively, rather than "Forn Yay" and "Bear An Zhay".

 

[cmort666]

Years ago, I was at a staff meeting...one of the managers was from Scotland (actually born and raised there) and had lovely accent. When she got intense, though, you couldn't understand what she was saying. We were having a presentation on new immigration laws, and the consultant was from South Carolina. He had the thickest Southern drawl I have ever heard...he could have voiced the Foghorn Leghorn cartoon character. At one point, the manager asked a long, involved question, and the consultant waited patiently until she finished. I was curious to see how he would address it, since I couldn't understand a word of what she said, and I knew her well. When she finished, he looked around the room and asked in his slow, Southern drawl: "Can anybody translate that for me?"

I worked for a NASA contractor back in the late '80s and early '90s. They would never pay anybody a decent wage to do internal PC support, so there was either lousy support or none at all.

At the time, the latest victim was a Turkish girl who'd previously been a secretary. I was in charge of personnel and document security, but since I knew a lot about PCs, my boss assigned me to help her out.

Isil spoke very good English, with a moderately thick Turkish accent.

She needed to buy a hard drive for a PC, and I went through Computer Shopper and found her a good deal that included everything she needed, especially instructions on how to low level format it.

Naturally, Purchasing totally ignored our recommendation and bought from somebody else. We got a bare drive, not only without cables, but without ANY instructions.

I told Isil that she'd have to call the company (in California) when they opened. The guy who eventually answered the phone sounded Vietnamese and spoke English a LOT worse than she did. There then ensued an hilarious scene right out of "Big Bang Theory", with Isil trying to get low level format instructions (which she wouldn't have understood in Turkish) in moderately Turkish accented English from a Vietnamese guy who barely spoke English AT ALL, and who couldn't understand her accent. At one point, I believe Isil said something to the effect of, "He talks funny!"

 

[Alpo]

My brother went to school with a kid who's family name was Beauchamp. That is, I believe, ether Bow-Shawm, or possibly Bow-Shawmp.

Nope. Beech-um.