Herb (Was Re: Harry and Hairy - The Difference.)

[sistermagpie]

> > montims:
> > OK - why is the th in Anthony pronounced "th", where Thomas is
> pronounced
> > "t"?  You can't imagine how strange it is for a Brit to hear 
Americans
> > talking about AnTHony Hopkins...  Oh yes, and Bernard is prounced
> berNARD,
> > where Leonard is pronounced LEnnud, and leopard as LEpud.  In
> England, a St
> > Bernard dog is BERnud...
> 
> Carol:
> Dunno, but you forgot that we pronounce our "r's." So it's LEHN nerd
> and LEH perd, at least here in Arizona.
> 
> Carol, whose last name (obtained from her ex-husband) also begins 
with
> "Th" pronounced "t" and was once told that it was a Pennsylvania 
Dutch
> name

Magpie:
As an aside, I once saw an English actor talking about doing an 
American accent and they said the hardest word for them to pronounce 
was: murderer. Just far too many of those American R's I guess. (But 
it is easier to do Chaucer's Middle English with the US accent I 
learned in a class where I was the only one--shouldn't be surprised.)

-m (trying to think of what word would be most difficult to pronounce 
going US to UK accent...some versions of "no" are pretty hard.)