Speaking 'properly'

[Karen Barker]

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> ROFLMAO  Yea, we certainly have a way with words.  I'm constantly 
getting into trouble for pronouncing all the letters in a word 
rather than dropping the inconvenient ones, i.e., pronouncing 
Warwick Castle as War-wick rather than War-ick.  Back in the days 
when the Iraq thing was just getting started, the Dutch government 
stated that their support was political only - not with troops.  One 
day Gen. Franks introduced some senior members of the "coalition" 
and lo and behold, there was a Dutch colonel along with an 
Australian and Brit.  The running gag after that was that given the 
language of the Americans, Australians and Brits, they needed the 
Dutch guy to translate for all of them.  LOL.
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> Lynn


LOL!!!  I like that very much!  I lived in Holland for two years as 
a young child and used to be fluent in Dutch - I can hardly remember 
any of it now.  

The one American way of pronouncing all the letters that really 
makes me cringe is calling Worcestershire Sauce 
"Wor-sester-shier Sauce" as opposed to  
"Woo-ster-sheer sauce".  I think that the best example of totally 
crazy English pronunciation of a place name is a small seaside town 
in Norfolk called Happisburgh.  Any guesses on how to say it?!!!

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the answer is 'Haysbruh'  (The burgh is the same as in Edinburgh ie 
not 'boro'!!)

Most English people get Happisburgh wrong!!!

Karen