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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
It's a British thing. Sometimes they also add the 'r' to other words ending with a vowel sound. I always remember Paul McCartney's rendition of 'Till There Was You'..."There were birds, in the sky, but I never sawr them winging..."
American dialects can be fun, too. Most Southerners pronounce "oil" as "owel". Texans don't even go that far. They pronounce it "ohl". When Jimmy Carter was president there were comic pieces written about the new dictionary. "Rat Cheer: The place were something is. 'I put it rat cheer'."
Then there's the New York/New Jersey dialect, in which the former is pronounced "Noo Yawk" and the latter "Noo Joisey". Then there's Minnesota, which is famous for following and exaggerating the Canadian "oo". "It's aboot a mile doon the rood". It's not quite Scottish, but cloose.
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Cool, I guess I'm more used to US English.
I remember hearing it said on the Monty Python series. "Idear" huh?
And
"issue" being pronounced
"is-you", I'm used to it being
"ish-you"
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Originally Posted by Kptlt. Hellmut Neuerburg
They forgot Capt. Slow's favorite word "Ronnied", which is British slag for screwed or fouled up and/or fubar. I tend to use bugger, buggered, or buggery a lot.
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I've heard the word
"pants" being used if something is bad, crap etc.
"This is dishwasher is pants"