Quote: DaButt @ August 22 2009, 3:04 PM BSTI guess it'd be something like the name Marilyn with a D tacked on the end.
Surely that's just down to accents though? We speak propaz like da Queen innit.
I noticed the Americas often pronounce it Class-cow, instead of Glas-go, not Maryland. Confused myself here 
Quote: DaButt @ August 22 2009, 3:04 PM BSTI guess it'd be something like the name Marilyn with a D tacked on the end.
Ohh, I see.
I remember realising that Arkansas was pronounced Arkansaw.
Mental. 
Quote: Leevil @ August 22 2009, 3:08 PM BSTSurely that's just down to accents though? We speak propaz like da Queen innit.
I noticed the Americas often pronounce it Class-cow, instead of Glas-go, not Maryland. Confused myself here
We have dozens of different accents here, but I'll guarantee you that not a single American in any part of the country pronounces it Mary-land.
But Americans do tend to pronounce the cities as Glass-cow and Moss-cow. I think we just like cows.
Quote: DaButt @ August 22 2009, 3:17 PM BSTBut Americans do tend to pronounce the cities as Glass-cow and Moss-cow. I think we just like cows.
Which you call "Goes".
All this time I've been eating my Maryland cookies under false pretences... 
Quote: DaButt @ August 22 2009, 3:04 PM BSTIt's not the end of the world if someone mispronounces something, but we (technically) share a common language and alphabet,../
Well, you speak *American* English, while we speak the original version.
So how should we pronounce Birmingham? Should we say it your way when we talk about the one in Alabama, but our way when we say our one? I think there is no definitive answer.
Quote: zooo @ August 22 2009, 3:16 PM BSTI remember realising that Arkansas was pronounced Arkansaw.
Mental.
That's the best one of all. Some of the crazy Cajun names in Louisiana are unpronounceable by mere mortals such as myself. And Indian names might as well be Welsh as far as I'm concerned.
Quote: Nogget @ August 22 2009, 3:25 PM BSTSo how should we pronounce Birmingham? Should we say it your way when we talk about the one in Alabama, but our way when we say our one?
That's the way I do it.
I the best American pronouncing something really bad ever story, what you don't have one?
I was in town with some mates, and an American couple came up to us and asked where loo-ga-ba-ru-ga was. We later found out they were trying to find loughbourgh...
Quote: Paul W @ August 22 2009, 3:32 PM BSTI was in town with some mates, and an American couple came up to us and asked where loo-ga-ba-ru-ga was. We later found out they were trying to find loughbourgh...
Quote: Paul W @ August 22 2009, 3:32 PM BSTI was in town with some mates, and an American couple came up to us and asked where loo-ga-ba-ru-ga was. We later found out they were trying to find loughbourgh...
I reeeally hope that's true!
We had to get them to show us where they wanted to go...
I live in a town called Canandaigua. You can only begin to imagine what that is like...
Quote: AndreaLynne @ August 22 2009, 3:41 PM BSTI live in a town called Canandaigua. You can only begin to imagine what that is like...
Is it a cross between Canada and Uruguay?
Quote: AndreaLynne @ August 22 2009, 3:41 PM BSTI live in a town called Canandaigua.
It's them damn injuns again.
Quote: Paul W @ August 22 2009, 3:43 PM BSTIs it a cross between Canada and Uruguay?
Good guess, I'm sure that one has come up.
It's pronounced Can-an-day-gwa, emphasis on the day part.
Quote: DaButt @ August 22 2009, 3:45 PM BSTIt's them damn injuns again.
Yes, this area is lousy with it.