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Just read the entire thing using your native pronunciation, it's what the english would want 
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If there is one thing I learned from watching too many gordon ramsey videos, it is how to pronounce Worcestershire sauce.
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Feb 4, 2021 19:10
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VictualSquid posted:If there is one thing I learned from watching too many gordon ramsey videos, it is how to pronounce Worcestershire sauce. I always suspected the right pronunciation was YOU loving DONKEY
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Feb 4, 2021 19:27
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Antigravitas posted:Pronunciationtalk reminds me of that legendary Loriot sketch of a German TV presenter reading a "short" summary of an English radio serial that is absolutely full of English names. As she gets further into it the English pronunciation starts to bleed into her German pronunciation until she has a nervous breakdown. That sounds hilarious, would definitely watch if someone finds it
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Feb 4, 2021 19:31
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Antigravitas posted:I can't find the video online anymore because the rights holders have purged it… Audio only, unfortunately. Video of the broadcast version (without audience) seems indeed well purged from the net.
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Feb 4, 2021 19:34
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There's one version (also audio only) by the copyright vampire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJqFVXgYeXQ But the TV version is the best because she completely nails the performance, getting visibly more strained and angry and frustrated as it goes on.
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Feb 4, 2021 20:15
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My hometown is the Australian town of Launceston. It has a British equivalent for which it's named. The two are not pronounced the same.
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Feb 4, 2021 20:48
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Let me tell you about Houston
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Feb 4, 2021 20:58
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Antigravitas posted:There's one version (also audio only) by the copyright vampire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJqFVXgYeXQ Regretfully it's a Facebook link, but here: https://www.facebook.com/br.capriccio/posts/1654880391220998/
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Feb 4, 2021 22:47
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That's absolutely great. I haven't laughed that hard in ages.
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Feb 4, 2021 22:51
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It's Jorcestershire Rorcestershire Rorcestershire Torcestershiremycelia posted:My hometown is the Australian town of Launceston. It has a British equivalent for which it's named. The two are not pronounced the same. How is the British Launceston pronounced?
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Feb 4, 2021 23:00
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Lawn-sten, I think.
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Feb 4, 2021 23:28
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Tree Bucket posted:It's Jorcestershire Rorcestershire Rorcestershire Torcestershire Well it's not pronounced Lonny, which is how you pronounce the Australian one.
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Feb 5, 2021 00:06
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 Capcom design documents uncovered
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mycelia posted:My hometown is the Australian town of Launceston. It has a British equivalent for which it's named. The two are not pronounced the same. I lived in New London, USA for awhile, besides which the Thames river flows, and when I lived there I'd regularly go to regular London, UK, through which the River Thames flows, and let me tell you, those rivers are not pronounced even close to the same.
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KozmoNaut posted:Regretfully it's a Facebook link, but here: lmao thanks
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Feb 5, 2021 08:36
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OwlFancier posted:Just read the entire thing using your native pronunciation, it's what the english would want It is our way. In Scotland you get the added bonus of some of the places being Galeic as well, just crudely anglicised (just like the people eyoooo) 2 places here that always trip folk up are Muthill - which is Muth-ill not Mut-hill Milngavie - which is mul-GHY Theres essentially no way to know how these are pronounced before saying it to a bus driver and them laughing at you.
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Elviscat posted:I lived in New London, USA for awhile, besides which the Thames river flows, and when I lived there I'd regularly go to regular London, UK, through which the River Thames flows, and let me tell you, those rivers are not pronounced even close to the same. The River Thames has long been pronounced as at present, but Shakespeare was dead by the time it got its modern spelling. It was respelled under false pretences of being Greek.
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Feb 5, 2021 10:01
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Southampton. Look closely. Something is missing.
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BonHair posted:Southampton. Look closely. Something is missing. It kind of makes sense, because you pronounce it sou-THAMP-ton.
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KozmoNaut posted:Regretfully it's a Facebook link, but here:  Immediately downloaded and archived it. Thank you.
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Sentient Data posted:Remember, English spelling is so dumb they they used to hold national contests to find kids that made the fewest spelling errors. And even better, many adults watching the competition aren't even sure if an answer's correct until the judge says yes or no “Used to.” How dare you besmirch one of America’s greatest sporting events, The Scripp’s National Spelling Bee.
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Every nerdy US person in their 30s remembers the word they lost on (taupe)
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Piell posted:Every nerdy US person in their 30s remembers the word they lost on (taupe) Mine was "valuable". Nine-year-old Powered Descent skipped the drat "a". Still kicking myself.
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Feb 5, 2021 19:59
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https://twitter.com/afneil/status/1357717251231776770?s=21 Look at those Y-axes 
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I'm not sure The Spectator and Private Eye are competing in the same space, either. Neither is The Week, really. I guess The Economist is a reasonable pick, at least?
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Feb 5, 2021 21:49
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Aramoro posted:Theres essentially no way to know how these are pronounced before saying it to a bus driver and them laughing at you. Milngavie at least has a train station, so you can sit in Glasgow Central Low Level and wait to hear the pre-recorded lady say it out loud Edinburgh is a fun one because while some residents say it slightly differently we can all agree that the Americans are saying it wrong
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https://twitter.com/simongerman600/status/1358129593308315656?s=21
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Just gonna link the flag thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3928619&pagenumber=14&perpage=40
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TinTower posted:
What's wrong with the Y-axes? They don't have the exact same scaling but they're fairly similar (the Spectator graph spans 60K subscribers, while the others span 70K, 70K, and 30K). The axes don't go down to zero, but that's good, because doing so would make the charts harder to read and would obfuscate the trend mentioned in the tweet. The point of these graphs is to show the trend of the change in subscribers: one magazine's subscription count has been steadily increasing over the past few years, while the others' peaked in 2018 and have been declining since. I know basically nothing about these magazines, so maybe comparing them doesn't make sense, but the graphs themselves seem fine.
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Where the hell is Nepal's flag edit: or for that matter, the UK or USA's flag?
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Do you think the US flag fits into one of those criteria?
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trapped mouse posted:Where the hell is Nepal's flag most common. uk and us are in the presumably long tail of the distribution
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Feb 7, 2021 00:23
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No part of the UK flag fits into any of those categories, in fact.
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OwlFancier posted:No part of the UK flag fits into any of those categories, in fact. There is a diagonal line. But I'd say flags with crosses could easily be its own category.
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Paladinus posted:There is a diagonal line. But I'd say flags with crosses could easily be its own category. Yeah the UK flag is just three cross flags layered on top of each other (some of them are X's rather than crosses but that's just a diagonal cross). Scandinavia is all cross flags too.
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The flag of USA and those of Australia, New Zealand and a bunch of other ex-colonies should be placed in "small rectangle in the corner of larger rectangle" category.
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i am vexed by these posts
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