British vs American words - pronunciation - Americans in England

[@SchaeferFamilyAdventure]

Sorry for a bit of background noise, you can occasionally hear our toddler playing in the next room! Enjoy the video!

[@fizzelopeguss]

Never apologise for kids being awesome!

[@christinesimm5251]

The child is fine. It is the repetitive 'music' that is annoying

[@alfredernesto8386]

A trick : watch series at Flixzone. I've been using it for watching lots of of movies lately.

[@matiaswesley8464]

@Alfred Ernesto yea, I have been watching on flixzone} for since december myself =)

[@MrMarkchennells]

Love these videos, we all talk the same language, just say it differently. As an englishman when i talk to a scot, a welshman or even an irishman, we all talk the same language but sometimes i struggle to understand them! They talk too quick or whatever. Its easier to understand an American! Love the fact we can all speak to each other at least and have a conversation! xxx

[@fionagregory9147]

I can understand anyone as long as they speak English. I am English myself.

[@blindarchershaunhenderson3769]

The American spelling and pronunciation comes from the Webster's dictionary which was any attempt by Noah Webster to make it easier for the American public to learn to read and write by simplifying the English language, he wrote a dictionary and a series of tutorial books with the dictionary appearing I think in 1809, the language as spoken by Americans today us based on Webster's books which is why spelling and pronunciation is different. Really strange thing about this, most Americans don't realise there is a difference.

[@zyndr_]

When I saw you include 'basil', I was really hoping that you'd also include oregano. I was not disappointed! Fun video :)

[@SchaeferFamilyAdventure]

Thanks for watching! Glad we didn't disappoint! 😊.

[@andreww2098]

The US generally uses Italian food ingredient names due to the large Italian immigrant population, the UK uses French due to 1066

[@paulharvey9149]

You should try it with place names! Kirkcaldy, Kilconquhar, Milngavie, Findochty are among the more famous Scottish ones, but a lot of Americans struggle with Edinburgh, too. Or in Norfolk, try Happisburgh, Wymondham and Worstead. How about Mousehole, in Cornwall - or Cirencester, and the many other cities ending in -cester? Welsh is a different language - but be aware, Welsh people tend to speak English in the same was as they do Welsh - with emphasis on the penultimate syllable!

[@SchaeferFamilyAdventure]

Ah yes, place names are the hardest. I know a lot of places in the US are based on native american names (making them nearly impossible for a native English speaker to pronounce properly). Good idea!

[@timelordtardis]

@@SchaeferFamilyAdventure Oddly enough folks that live in Worcester and Leicester, Massachusetts pronounce the names exactly as in the UK. The museum in Worcester, MA, even has a shirt with all the funny misprouncations on it. Here's the name of a place in the UK that floors everyone unless you're from Norfolk, Stiffkey. I can never understand how Arkansas gets to be pronounced ark-an-saw. Surely in should be r-kansas. :-)

[@liuzhou]

Borrowstounness is the best one!

[@valeributler8539]

What fun!! Both did really well but I think Danielle did better. She is living there and hearing the pronunciation currently though. 😊

[@SchaeferFamilyAdventure]

It was fun! She does have that advantage, definitely!

[@patrickholt2270]

There is also a word wroth, which is an old fashioned form of wrathful. "He was wroth." Actually that word form is interesting philologically, because it's related to wrath, writhe, wreathe and _wraith,_ the word which Tolkien created, on the same principle as the relationship of raid to ride and road. "Ride" produces "rid" (what you get once you or it has ridden (away)), and "road" is the word created for the place where people ride, and then "raid" is what happens when people ride with evil intent. So similarly "writhe" produces "wreathe", to encircle something or be encircled, "wreath" - the object produced by twisting plants together into a circle, but writhe is also what you do with something in your hands when "wroth" (in "wrath"), and is what wrath makes you do inside, twisting you up. So then what wrath and writhe ultimately do to you when pursued with evil intent would be "wraith"-ing, and thus the Nazgul were formed, _wreathed_ by Sauron's Ring of command, _writhing_ under Sauron's domination, and so _wraithed_ by his and their own wrath. And you cannot understand the concept except by going back through the word trail that way, because "wraith" as Tolkien extrapolated it from writhe has no equivalent in modern English, except perhaps in some movie depictions of individuals warped out of recognition in the context of war, like John Rambo in the original First Blood, or Vincent Donofrio's unhappy dummy in Full Metal Jacket who is warped into a suicidal murderer by Marine boot camp.

[@SchaeferFamilyAdventure]

Wow! What an interesting word history/origin. Thanks for the word lesson!

[@liuzhou]

Tolkein did not create wraith. It dates back to the early 16th century!

[@NigelDowney-sh5yd]

It’s interesting that one of the big differences was the pronunciation of ‘r’, with the British guy leaving it out when it’s there in the spelling, but putting it in in one case when there wasn’t one. The other big difference was the difference in word stress, which tripped them up a bit.

[@martinhughes2549]

That's a southern English accent of course. There is great variation on pronunciation in the UK.

[@sidplays77]

I’ve just come back from the states and they really struggle with words ending in HAM, like Birmingham. Americans will pronounce it Birmingham like literally but the HAM is pronounced birmingum. My surname is Derbyshire, and it’s pronounced Derbysher. Americans literally prounced the SHIRE so it comes out as Mister Derby SHIRE, it comes out as two words instead of one.

[@SchaeferFamilyAdventure]

That's true! Before I can to England I wouldn't have known those pronunciations either. Bucking-Ham palace, or york-Shire tea. Now I know better (bucking-um and york-shur).

[@tsu8003]

Good job your surname isn't Leicestershire then!

[@andrewlaw]

The best example being Worcestershire. It's hilarious listening to Americans trying to pronounce Worcestershire sauce! 😆 (Honourable second place goes to Loughborough)

[@EricIrl]

@@andrewlaw And don't forget that Americans genuine pronounce the "E" in "Derby or "Derbyshire". Over here, we prounounce it "Darby" and "Darbyshire". The same goes for "clerk" - which we pronounce as if it was "clark".

[@xandro2445]

What's weird is we (Americans) pronounce New Hampshire correctly. I pronounce Birmingham "correctly" because I originally heard it off an English tv show lol.

[@Danimaz3211996]

18 wheeler semi trucks here in the uk we call them "artic lorry's" which is short for "articulated lorry" because its got a cab and trailer ( tractor and trailer)

[@junctionfilms6348]

The vowel sounds can change a lot around but something interesting to know is that the word 'shire' like Yorkshire of course. In the UK, the proncouacntion is not phonetic as it is a hangover from Old English ( as opposed to Modern and Middle English ) and the word was at first written in Latin ( after Runic script ) as: 'scir' and then became 'sceor' in some cases / areas / Germanic dialects - both of these would have been pronounced more like 'sheer' and the old pronunciation has simply stuck. The wrath / bath etc general difference between north ( including Scotland ) and south is called the 'bath / trap split'. Related to the 'Vowel Shift' where, the north England and Scotland areas have retained much older pronunciations related to Old English of a thousand years ago or more. Some exceptions onf some words here and there in both sides but that is the general 'rule' Southern accents change a great deal and your friend definitely has a south east accent

[@PhilipWorthington]

The one I can never get over is the American pronunciation of the word 'buoy.' Although I think they pronounce 'buoyancy' and 'buoyant' like we do.

[@johnnybeer3770]

The English version of aluminum has an "I " in it aluminium in it .

[@christopherfairs9095]

Oh no - he said 'haitch' instead of 'aitch'. That let the side down a bit.

[@tsu8003]

Tell him to pronounce it the way Americans pronounce herbs lol

[@alanastone5241]

Why do yanks pronounce Moscow Idaho correctly but when they say Moscow in Russia they pronounce it as cow instead of co. Why?

[@WhatDayIsItTrumpDay]

As Americans, the only word that we actually don't pronounce every letter of (aside from herb(al)) is laboratory. We leave off the o after the b. So in essence it would be labratory.

[@davidkeenan5642]

Most Britons don't sound the 'o' after the 't'. So we say 'laboratree.' Same word, same spelling, same meaning, just different contractions. Contractions are really important in spoken British English. That's why many of our place names sound so different from the way they're spelt. And yes, it is 'spelt' and not 'spelled' in British English :-) Here's a couple of examples of how British place names are pronounced: Wrotham - ''Rootam'' Ightham - ''Eyetam'' or ''Itam'' Fun subject to explore when you wake up 4 hours before you have to go work, there's crap on the tele, and you just want to get away from the News for a bit.

[@BernardWilkinson]

She's starting to doubt herself. She is truly becoming English.

[@crazycatlover1885]

As a Brit, I would say laboratory as lab-ruh-tree.

[@crose7412]

@crazy cat lover Stop at once!

[@Pellefication]

Does it really matter as long as you understand each other. But it's funny of course!

[@fionagregory9147]

I knew all these.

[@kurt44mg42]

The English and Americans are two peoples separated by a common language.

[@SchaeferFamilyAdventure]

True!

[@nobbynobbynoob]

The English themselves are dozens of peoples separated by a common language. Listen to an ABC newsreader (New York). Listen to a BBC newsreader (London). Now listen to a Geordie. The first two will now sound much the same. :) Think of a very basic English word like "something". USA: something England: something; summet; owt... :D

[@user-ky6vw5up9m]

And 3000 miles

[@EricIrl]

@@user-ky6vw5up9m Forget the English and the Americans,, the entire inhabitants of the British Isles are separated by a common language.

[@CountvonCount33]

@@nobbynobbynoob Sumfink

[@ploppyploppy6554]

You will love the north .

[@SchaeferFamilyAdventure]

Hoping so! We are really looking forward to it.

[@BernardWilkinson]

Just wait till you hear an American try to pronounce Coriander.

[@eugenegilleno9344]

Semi for a big truck ? We call them articulated. 😜 ....and the US pronounce Aluminum as it’s spelt, because they drop the second ‘i’ that we spell it, which is the right way, by the way. 😜

[@batman51]

This assumes, of course, that people in America all speak the same. Just like the UK, they don't.

[@SchaeferFamilyAdventure]

That's true! It can be just as much of a language barrier between deep South and California as us and UK!

[@nobbynobbynoob]

So much this. I noticed Dan rightly identified that both pronunciations "rath" and "roth" for wrath were widespread in England, but then referred to "PROH-gres" as a "UK" pronunciation, when in fact "PROG-res" and "PROS-es" are far from unknown pronunciations in the UK, and I'm pretty sure that's not because of US cultural influences, id est, both these pronunciations predate US cultural influence here - but of course it's true that "PROH-gres" is the standard BBC/Oxford pronunciation. But BBC/Oxford =/= the UK. As I often tell Londoners "there is a LOT more to the UK than London". "Mom" is standard in the west Midlands, for example, but I have witnessed snobby southerners call that "wrong" or "American". No, the Americans likely borrowed the Brum word! :P

[@jillhobson6128]

Wrath is pronounced the same way as "what"

[@Jamie_D]

I guess i say laboratory the American way, missing out the O

[@BernardWilkinson]

Being brought up Catholic, I was taught that children say Amen (Ay-men) and adults say (Ahh-men).

[@Jamie_D]

lol with the water one, because Americans tend to sound t's as d's in many words, i only recently discovered that conversations i've heard are actually about what a burger, i always thought what a gross idea of water burger :)

[@kingpendaofmercia6947]

My favourite difference is road vocabulatory is different in the US and UK. In America they have Crosswalks, Crossing Guards and Reflectors - in the UK we have Zebra Crossings, Lollipop Men/Ladies and Cat's Eyes

[@SchaeferFamilyAdventure]

Cats eyes! Woah,I haven't heard of that yet, that's wonderful! I also really like those differences!

[@baylessnow]

@@SchaeferFamilyAdventure Shine a torch/flashlight at a cat in the dark and you'll see where the name comes from.

[@harleydonski]

The old joke is that if the cat had been walking away from the cars headlights, Percy Shaw (the inventor of the cats eye) would have invented a pencil sharpener instead. 😊

[@tsu8003]

What about roundabouts?

[@thirdofherne9232]

Ah the irony. The first one you hit and didn't notice is that the word is 'proNUNciation' not 'proNOUNciation'. :) And then there's 'irony'... ahhh it's endless!

[@Codex7777]

There is no 'h' in 'aitch'. So many people pronounce this word incorrectly. Many will add a superfluous aitch, onto the front of the word. Which is a tad ironic... and WRONG! ;) :p :)

[@TheNgandrew]

It's flipping annoying I agree.

[@smudger671]

So true - it drives me insane. It's something you would never have heard years ago. There is no such letter as "haitch" in the English alphabet.

[@claireemmapovey]

This was fun...

[@SchaeferFamilyAdventure]

Thanks for watching! We had a lot of fun filming it too!

[@fionagregory9147]

Yoghurt with an H in it.

[@f3aok]

She's cute. English pronunciation is good if she's only been here 6 weeks.

[@terryevans5476]

PROgress or proGRESS depending on whether a noun or a verb

[@trucktalkvideos]

On the Mobile one he sounds Australian

[@nigeh5326]

You will doubtless notice this as you make more friends around the UK. There is a noticeable difference in pronounciation between the north and south in the UK. In the south they use the soft a sound as your friend does on here whereas from around Birmingham northwards it’s a harder a sound which I’ve noticed Americans also use. Try looking up the longest Welsh place name you will be amazed, Welsh has some crazy, to English ears, words and pronunciations as it’s roots are Gaelic and Breton if memory serves. Cheers 😀

[@SchaeferFamilyAdventure]

We've already noticed that lot - not just pronunciation, but also word choice. Northern England seems to be more similar to American English in several ways.

[@James-gc5if]

Your memory doesn't serve :P Welsh, Breton and Gaelic are all Celtic languages, but Welsh is not descended from the other two languages, rather they are all descended from a common prehistoric Celtic language. Breton and Welsh are more closely related to each other (and to Cornish) than to Gaelic (Irish, Scottish, and Manx). What I mean by that is that Welsh, Breton, and Cornish speakers can understand each other to a degree because the languages are more similar, but a Welsh speaker couldn't understand much, if any, Irish.

[@EricIrl]

@@James-gc5if I'm Irish and can vouch for all that. I can read and speak a bit of Irish and Scots Gaelic but Welsh is pretty much an alien language.

[@James-gc5if]

@@EricIrl I can't read any Gaelic language, but if you look at examples of Irish and Scottish, it's almost like looking at the same bit of text, just with the accents pointing a different way! Interesting that Manx has quite a different look aesthetically (a lot more Ys for a start) though as I understand it is still very similar in other ways.

[@EricIrl]

@@James-gc5if Gaelic is missing a few letters compared to the normal English alphabet. There is no J, K, Q, V, W,X, Y or Z in Gaelic. Some of the sounds made by those letters are obtained by accents or letter combinations of the remaining letters. For example, the get a "V" sound in Gaelic, you combine the letters "B" or "M" with the letter "H". That is why the names "Síobhan" and "Níamh" don't look to English eyes like they actually sound i.e Shivawn and Niahv. Up until the early 1960s, there was no letter "H" either. The V sound was obtained by putting a "dot" type accent (called a "séibhithe" - pronounced "shayviha") after the letter B or H. Also, up to then, most Irish was typed and printed in that lovely Celtic font. However, in the early 1960s, the Irish Department of Education sought to simplify the language so that it would be easier to teach to elementary kids in school.

[@seancollins2134]

Coming from Durham i would pronounce clique as click, used as they were in the same clique

[@danieldravot341]

I cannot sit through the whole thing. Did ‘distribute’ come up?

[@jennyfayeuk7342]

I think if Danielle had a uk accent she sounds like she would sound posh lol

[@BenjWarrant]

pruh-*gress* if it's the verb.

[@Codex7777]

Adding words that have different spellings, that affect pronunciation, is a little silly. The correct scientific spelling of aluminium, for instance, is aluminium. The US is about the only country in the World that differs from this internationally agreed scientific standard. Mind you, the US is also about the only country in the World that still uses Fahrenheit, instead of Celsius. Anyway... my point is, that if you give the American spelling, Aluminum, the American pronunciation is the only correct pronunciation. Especially as no one else uses that spelling. :)

[@nobbynobbynoob]

Alumium, aluminum, and aluminium are all original English names for the metal - Sir Humphry Davy, coined between about 1808 and 1812.

[@davidkeenan5642]

The IUPAC (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry) periodic table presently lists both spellings and says both words are perfectly acceptable.

[@blackvulcan100]

What route are you taking today ? American : you mean what rout ? no a rout is an overwhelming defeat, its root root !! and we have power cuts not power outages.

[@valeriedavidson2785]

You are wrong to tell an American that Wrath is pronounced differently in the the North of England. It is as pronounced in the South. Don't bring regional accents into it.

[@Captally]

Semi - Has that Brit never heard of an articulated lorry? Plus just two rather long questions. Why do Americans think our County names rhyme with 'fire' of 'hire' yet pronounce Hampshire as in New Hampshire correctly? 'Baton' as in policemen's baton, is pronounced in a rather affected gay French way so why not in Baton Rouge, which is actually French?

[@SchaeferFamilyAdventure]

To the semi question- yes! Dan actually mentions artics in another part of the video I think (I cut it out to try not to have such a long video!) The New Hampshire question is a stumper...I'm not really sure to be honest, but you're right, we should be able to pick that one up. Baton is tough for Americans because we see it pronounced quite differently depending on where it is in our country - some cities have gained different pronunciations for that word (bah-ton, bat-tun, bat-ton, etc.). That doesn't make it right, but at least explains the struggle. Thanks for the questions!

[@Captally]

@@SchaeferFamilyAdventure Interesting though, isn't it? We'll leave Arkansas v Arkansas River for another time, eh?

[@andrewlaw]

@@Captally That one has always stumped the hell out of me.

[@tonyeden2944]

Matthew, I do prefer your videos without background music

[@donvitocascioferro4040]

You forgot Lieutenant, in the UK pronounced left-tenant

[@SchaeferFamilyAdventure]

Oh interesting - I hadn't heard that one yet.

[@donvitocascioferro4040]

Schaefer Family Adventure 30 to 40% in the English language is old French or derives from old French.

[@nobbynobbynoob]

This is something I never found logical, and have pretty much always ignored and pronounced the "American" way. But I'm one of those strange people who tries to pronounce a lot of words and names phonetically, and for a long time I had no clue I was an oddball southern Englishperson for saying "MED-i-sn" (medicine), "REK-uhg-naiz" (recognize), "GILD-fd" (Guildford), "AHK-tik" (Arctic), &c. I'm from another century. ;)

[@Gooner1990]

I'm from the UK and I would never pronounce it 'left-tenenat'

[@donvitocascioferro4040]

Horus Lupercal probably because you’ve watched too many American movies. Go in the Army and you’ll hear officers being called left-tenant all the time

[@shifty2755]

JAGWAAARRRRRRRR!

[@EricIrl]

Isn't that based on the proper Spanish or Portuguese pronunciation. It's not an English word.

[@jagdpanther1944]

I am English, and one of the things that annoys me is when English people "correct" American people when using English. British people seem to forget that the language and pronunciation that Americans use, would have been similar to the first English settlers in New England in 17th/18th centuries. In those far off times, English people did spell, (for example) "honour" as "honor". It was only in the 19th century that upper class English added the "u", to make it like French for some pointless snobbish fashion. A perfect example is the town of Hartford in CN; it is spelt in the same way that the English town of Hertford was named for. (After Hart-Ford...a place in the river where deer cross). But for some reason, in England, it was changed to Hertford...but English people still pronounce it as Hartford. Also, if you visit Hampshire, and places like Bristol, some of the locals here sound like Americans with their accents, I read that Americans say that an English Norfolk/Suffolk accent is similar to what they hear in smaller towns in Virginia and the south.

[@nobbynobbynoob]

To be fair, in most cases the -our and -or spellings have been used in parallel for centuries. "Color" genuinely seems to be a made-in-USA product, however. The southern English "burr" typified by, and still surviving in, the West Country, is in many ways the closest to early-modern English because a lot of the LME vowel shifts are absent. Similar applies to Scots/Orkadian/Shetlandick dialects of spoken English.

[@nobbynobbynoob]

And yes, Philip, I agree that it is an irksome attempt at rewriting history and English cultural heritage to mislabel middle- or early-modern English words/spellings/usages as American. There is enough genuine American influence in contemporary culture to work with, and, if one wishes to play a King-Canute-style rôle, attempt to "pick apart". :)

[@Teverell]

Bristol used to be called 'Bristow' and is labelled as such on maps. Sometime in the 18th or 19th century the spelling changed to reflect how the inhabitants pronounced the name of their town. When I lived there when I was very young, my parents were friendly with another couple. He had a very strong Bristolian accent, and when she got pregnant, she told him that she flat refused to call the child Claire, if it was a girl, because her father would address her and refer to her as 'Clairol'.

[@baylessnow]

I think we tend to flatten the tongue to pronounce our 'R'. Americans curl the tongue back. At least I do if I try an American accent. You've never heard of Bayzle Fawlty? Our Semis are called Artics, not to be confused with the Arctic. (articulated lorry)

[@SchaeferFamilyAdventure]

I haven't heard of Bayzle Fawlty - my British friends are telling me that I need to watch faulty towers though!

[@baylessnow]

@@SchaeferFamilyAdventure Err, that was a joke. Basil Fawlty, a long suffering, hen pecked (down trodden by his overpowering wife, Cybil) hotelier who takes out his frustrations on his Spanish waiter.

[@andrewlaw]

Ah, but you used the US version of Aluminum on the screen so technically speaking the pronounciation is correct. We emphasise the second I because it's in our "correct" spelling of aluminium.

[@davidkeenan5642]

Both spellings are acceptable in the scientific community. Even a American spell checker won't correct you if you write aluminium. Though I can't speak for pendant American or British science teachers.

[@StephenC050]

I have seen elsewhere on KZbin that some Americans have difficulty saying Maths as opposed to Math. Would you agree?

[@SchaeferFamilyAdventure]

It isn't that it's difficult - it is just different than what we are used to. I grew up saying Math, as opposed to Maths.

[@tsu8003]

Just don't ever get meths and meth mixed up because you could get into trouble trying to buy meth at a DIY store!

[@cubbykovu8955]

You spelt Yoghurt wrong XD

[@alejandrayalanbowman367]

It is Yoghurt not Yogurt

[@SchaeferFamilyAdventure]

It's spelled differently depending on where you are from!

[@robertwhite952]

I don't care about the pronunciation.i just want to know why the Brits let all the gorgeous american girls leave us. We should have fought harder.

[@Charcoal-Ninja]

I would have loved to have seen 'Niche' and 'Notre Dame'!

[@SchaeferFamilyAdventure]

Oh those are good one! I do know that Danielle pronounces Niche like a Brit - but what is the British pronunciation of Notre Dame?

[@Charcoal-Ninja]

@@SchaeferFamilyAdventure Yes UK says niche the French way, whereas US pronunciation is nitch, which made me laugh the first time I heard it! In UK Notre Dame is pronounced Notra Dam, whereas I think US pronunciation is Noder Dame? :oD

[@tsu8003]

I hate Notre Dame! I'm a MSU fan - Go Green lol

[@NotesOfBoredom]

water - any "er" in British English is a "schwa" - the linguistic way to pronounce it - so the pronunciation isn't errr it's "uh" - daughter is daw-tuh, father - fah-thuh etc

[@paultaylor459]

What are you talking about ?

[@James-gc5if]

@@paultaylor459 Unstressed vowels (the "uh" sound) are called a schwa in linguistics. There are a lot of them in English en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwa

[@tsu8003]

The one word that irritates me more than any is Herbs! So much so that I have created a phrase to show just how annoying the American pronunciation is: His Holiness helpfully hands Her Highness huge helpings of healthy herbs! Would love to see you make a video of you reading that out loud lol

[@SchaeferFamilyAdventure]

That's funny - I'm not really sure why we don't pronounce that "haitch."

[@aw6936]

You need to step back a bit. In fact, in England it was pronounced without the aitch until around the sixteenth century. Linguists aren't sure how the aitch got there - but it's possible that the early American settlers took the pronunciation they knew with them, and stuck to it.

[@elephantsmemory3142]

In the north of England pasta is pronounced more like the American girls version

[@NotesOfBoredom]

Semi with an eye doesn't make sense because we have 2 alphabets in English = one for children when they are learning to read sort of phonetic and the correct pronunciation - so ah, buh, kuh, duh, eff, guh, huh - so for a child cat would be kuh-ah-tuh - cat when the correct pronunciation re the alphabet is see-ay-tee - but i pronounced like ee is more Italian where I live now before any haters come in - I teach British English 🤣

[@NotesOfBoredom]

"sort of phonetically" - even I have off days 😂 we needed an adverb there lol..

[@cancaragold6266]

Americans are correct in saying aluminum, and the British are correct in saying aluminium. Both words are spelt differently, so are pronounced differently.

[@davehughes6501]

Its strange because only the usa say it like "aloo-min-num" the rest of the english speaking world say it the other way.

[@timelordtardis]

The original spelling of the metal is the USA way.That was how Humphrey Davy, its discoverer spelt it. It was changed later to end in -ium to match with other metals such as the more newly discovered ones such as sodium, potassium, calcium, etc.

[@tsu8003]

Americans seem to buy a lot aluminum sidings. Try saying that as aluminium sidings, much more of a mouthful!

[@eugenegilleno9344]

I hate clumsy English - particularly from London. Those people who pronounce three as ‘free’, or those that say drawrings instead of drawings - and no way should ‘gotten’ be used in the English language. It’s not all about transatlantic pronunciations, each region of the UK have unique ways of saying different things.

[@HaiLsKuNkY]

what I notice about Americans is the way they say vehicle. I find it hilarious every time

[@SchaeferFamilyAdventure]

Yeah, we would say vee-hick-el. How do Brits say it?

[@andrewlaw]

@@SchaeferFamilyAdventure Veer call

[@shifty2755]

An POH-LICE

[@jamesblundell4616]

Im uk and id say filla not fillet i agree with america on that one

[@davidkeenan5642]

I'm British, and I wouldn't sound the 't' when using the word as a noun, but I would sound it when using the word as a verb.

[@alanastone5241]

I don't like the way yanks say Cecil. It is pronounced sessil not seesil.

[@johnnybeer3770]

He pronounced the letter " aitch " as " haitch " , so annoying , and very bad English

[@barrygower6733]

No such letter as ‘haitch’.

[@SchaeferFamilyAdventure]

Do you pronounce it as "aitch?"

[@barrygower6733]

Schaefer Family Adventure Yes, the word is ‘aitch’.

[@mikedakin2016]

jesus, I'm losing the will.....