Another one the Brits massacre is Jaguar. On the car commercials, they pronounce it Jag-u-ar.
Yes! That one always annoyed me.
A Brit saying to my ears sounds either like they’re trying to mock the word itself or they’ve got something stuck in their throat.
Hello,
sorry to butt in once more, but couldn’t it be that, in times past, an apartment used to be called a „flat“ in America, too?
I once read, in Bill Bryson‘s book „Made in America“, a very instructive and enjoyable read on American English and American culture. In this book, the author quotes the following little poem, which was a roadside advertisement from the 1930s for a - then very famous - brushless shaving cream:
„He had the job,
He had the flat,
but his face scratched
And that was that. Burma Shave“
From this, I concluded that, maybe, before the mid 20th century, Americans used the therm „flat“ as well. Maybe…🙂