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06-30-2017, 06:42 PM | #77 |
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06-30-2017, 06:58 PM | #78 |
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This American has heard it said both ways about equally.
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Here's the specific difficulty: arjaybe is... Canadian! I'm in the Yank ANcillARy camp myself, but who the heck knows what's right for Canucks? They mostly sound like us except for that weird "aboot"* thing, but there are exceptions. We need to hear from those west** of the border.
*I just finished listening to a Robertson Davies book read by Frederick Davidson and I was charmed to hear that he altered his normal accent to say "aboot." **Alas, from my particular vantage point, west of the border is as accurate as north of the border. I have a crony in Ontario whose town is on the exact latitude as mine, within minutes. |
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issybird, we don't say aboot, we say about. Americans hear aboot because they're used to a much broader pronunciation. Trust me, we hear the dipthong when we say it. |
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The British way just sounds odd. |
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Frederick Davidson can't pronounce Henry Purcell or Schenectady.
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So how did Schenectady turn out?
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One of the odd pronunciations that I ran into in Gemmell's Legend is the word albino. I've always hear it pronounced al-bi-no, but the reader pronounced it al-be-no. Maybe it's a English verses US thing since the reader is English.
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The British pronunciation is indeed al-BEE-no. I didn't know there was any other way to pronounce it .
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Albino = al-bye-no
al-bee-no just sounds so wrong. So does ze-bra sounding wrong instead of zee-bra. And it's aluminum instead of aluminium. |