Posted on 09/05/2021 12:14:24 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
—”You’d have a hard time driving a Cadillac on some of the Isle of Man’s roads.”
YES, and still they are doing well over a ton on them!!!
Everyone chill. Through my experience Ihave noteiced that everyone else in the world has an accent...except me. :D
Ok boo...
Hebert - A bear
Reservoir - rese-vwa
Food shopping - make groceries
Canal Villere - Canal Villery
Where y’at
Galatoire’s - Galatwaz
Vieux Carré - voo car-ray
I fell on the banquet and got a bo-bo
Opposite of yes is noah
Atchafalaya
LOL
Yeah, many people not from the UK think that any British accent is “exotic” and “suave”, not aware of the consequences of having a cockney accent, right in London proper.
“Houston Street”
Yeah, you new yawkus pronounce it as, “house-ton.” ;-)
Choopitooless?
Grosse Tete... I think that means big Dolly Partons.
—” Ihave noteiced that everyone else in the world has an accent...except me.”
An astute observation.
You gave me an excuse to look up this quote that I was certain to be from the Anglo-Irish author & playwright, George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950). His 1912/3 play, 'Pygmalion', is the source of the more modern & famous, 'My Fair Lady' as adapted by Lerner&Loewe for a Broadway Musical (1956) and the 1964 movie.
In the set piece of the musical, 'Why Can't the English?', Professor Harry Higgins first meets flower seller Cockney Eliza Doolittle, with this piece about proper pronunciation of language, especially English by the lower class English. In it is this couplet; "There even are places where English completely disappears./ In America, they haven't used it for years!" I have not seen this movie for years, but this piece remains a favorite.
ANYHOW, and to my shock, this quoted statement is not found in any of Shaw's writings or interviews! Yet there are, from the 1920s to WW2 England of the '40s, where multiple people attribute a form of this quote to him! So many that you almost have to think that there must be a fire there somewhere!
Still, having this mystery, there turns out to be yet another Irish writer, Oscar Wilde, DOES HAVE a paragraph in his 1887 short story, 'The Canterville Ghost' which says almost the same thing but in more words;
"Indeed, in many respects, she was quite English, and was an excellent example of the fact that we have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language."
Thanks DUMBGRUNT for leading me on this literary excursion, from New Orleans to New York City to Dublin and then to London / England!
Looks entertaining.
Coworker is not quite that bad!😂
I am NOT a New Yorker. I grew up in CT and listened to New York talk radio with traffic reports.
But there is no way to win with the surname Robert. Could be 'ro-bert' or it could be row bear'. (And I'll confess at this age I don't recall the proper pronunciation of the town of that name in Tangipahoa Parish.)
And the two different prononciations might be close relatives. Just like hometown might be more determinative of claimed race than skin color.
Maybe none of them never took French in high school. If they did, they’d know the pronunciation.
Here’s one I remember from my years there-
Rigolette = Row-GULLY
I loved Top Gear when Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond were on. The banter between the three made the show. Three guys who got along and loved what they did.
I tried watching one time after they left. Absolutely horrible. Never again.
Haven’t seen Clarkson’s Farm. Read a bit about it. Sounds interesting.
—”I was certain to be from the Anglo-Irish author & playwright, George Bernard Shaw”
And I too, would have lost that bet!
That said, QI makes a good case that GBS popularized the phrase, if not independently(?) originated it.
QI, my first stop for such things and a fun read.
Thanx
—”Haven’t seen Clarkson’s Farm.”
Take the time, to take the time...
They never watched Paul Prudhomme
Never go to Wales
Only if they’re in Georgia
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