[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Speaking 'properly'

[Ladi lyndi]

Karen wrote:

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

Most English people get Happisburgh wrong!!!

Karen
 
Lynn:
 
Well, I definitely got it wrong.  LOL  You will be happy to know that most of us who have lived in New England pronounce Worcestershire correctly - after all, I used to live in Worcester, Massachusetts at one point in my life so it was an easy transition.  I cringe when they pronounce it Wor-chester-shire sauce.  
 
I tried learning Dutch as an adult and while I speak a little (I have to with Dutch in-laws), I have never been fluent - just can't make some of those nasal, mucous sounds.  I'm much better at understanding it.  When we moved here my daughter was fluent in Dutch but didn't speak much English - just understood American English.  We had to push English for school and now she likes it so much she doesn't want to speak Dutch anymore - well, only when Oma (grandma) is here.  
 
Lynn


 

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