When British people say shedjewal instead of schedule, does it drive you...

[kayakjohnny]

bonkers?

crazy?

out of your head?

mad?

Or no big deal?

Me, right between bonkers and mad.

Damn NPR sometimes.

[begin_within]

1. 'Tiz a bit daft

I've only heard "shedjewel" once and that was in an announcement from the pilot on a Cathay Pacific flight from L.A. to Hong Kong. I thought it sounded kind of exotic and cool at the time.

[kayakjohnny]

3. Yep, me too. Kind of cool.

But I just felt like raggin' on the weirdness.

Thanks.

How many parts of American slang sound funky to others as well, huh?

[MiddleFingerMom]

2. Rush Limbaugh...

.
...says "shedjewel".
.
.
That is all.
.

[kayakjohnny]

5. Ewwww....

My thread feels somewhat.... oh, I don't know.

Contaminated. Yes that's it, contaminated.

[MiddleFingerMom]

6. That's "neocontaminated" to you, wingnut. n/t

[pokerfan]

8. but did you mean

con-tam-i-nate or con-tam-i-nate?

[Haole Girl]

4. No, not really. nt

[pokerfan]

7. two nations

separated by a common language.

[nickinSTL]

9. nope doesn't bother me a bit

neither does the British pronunciation of "jaguar" - jag-you-are

What drives me nuts is a lot of Americans saying jag-wire

THERE ARE NO "I"s IN JAGUAR.

Correct American English pronunciation: jag-whar (not sure how to spell that out, as war isn't quite right)

:crazy:

[Jamastiene]

10. It doesn't bother me.

Alum-min-yum always takes me a couple seconds to translate though. The ol' brain ain't as sharp as it used to be.

[Robeson]

11. It makes me realize how much we - over here - have mutilated the English language.

[LeftyMom]

12. Of course not. It's their language.

[coyotespaw]

17. Well, if it's their language,

shouldn't they be expected to pronounce it correctly?

[Mojambo]

13. I think they are saying it correctly.

I'm about to be tarred and feathered, aren't I?

[Captain Hilts]

15. We don't say 'shool' for 'school'....nt

[Mojambo]

16. Maybe we should.

In fact, for consistency's sake, I'm gonna start.

[Bucky]

26. Or maybe we skouldn't

If you want consistency, you don't want to speak English at all. Spanish is a language that always sounds like it's spelled. English is a language where the art of spelling stinks as badly as the newspaper you "loagh" your "ghoti" with.

pee-yew

[realisticphish]

23. from the latin, no

"schedula" from the greek "skhedē"

I love wiktionary ;)

[Captain Hilts]

14. Is that the 3 syllable version, or the British 'shedule' version? Eleanor Roosevelt used the Brit

version, having been educated there....

It drove the WH staff nuts.

[HipChick]

18. No..not as much as how Americans have garbled and mutilated the English language..

I keep saying boot,and bonnet..and shedjewal as long as I please..
as long as Americans keep asking me to say something, because they think it sounds kinda cute..:evilgrin:

[Jamastiene]

20. It DOES sound cute.

:*

[JCMach1]

19. ALUMINIUM for aluminum makes me want me to drop them in the

RUBBISH BIN so that they will have LEARNT a lesson...

[PassingFair]

29. Put that in your curriculum vitae and smoke it!

My cousin and I once had a argument about aluminium/aluminum over
the phone, and we both grabbed dictionaries....

They ACTUALLY spell it differently, so we were both correct.

But they're still wrong...

[JCMach1]

30. Absolutely and completely... I used to be an anglophile until I had to live with so many of them

Now they are just as bad as everyone else (and like everyone else even worse in their own special ways)...

Seriously my British friends... CUT DOWN ON THE ALCOHOL!

Then, maybe you can get the pronunciation correct... :sarcasm:

[elleng]

21. LOVE IT!

[realisticphish]

22. to a certain extent

not that english, be it UK, American, or other, is particularly consistent.

but school. not shewel. Why shedjel? They both come from latin (and earlier from greek) and in those languages are pronounced with a hard c. I also get pissed off at Church Latin. It's not dulchay, it's dulkay

Of course, simply look at rough, bough, and through. Yay for our mashed together puree of languages!

[peekaloo]

24. Puts your knickers in a twist, does it now?

Cor blimey!

[grace0418]

25. I find it charming. But then, men with British accents make me swoon so of

course I'd find it charming.

[LanternWaste]

27. It's only when Americans affect British pronunciations...

It's only when Americans affect British pronunciations that I roll my eyes internally. "Arse" "shedjewal", etc.

[blueamy66]

28. Can they quit calling our football games

matches?

"Did you see the football match yesterday?"

They are games.....NOT matches!!!!

okay, I'm done

and I don't want to hear that our football isn't football....yaddayaddayadda

[MorningGlow]

31. Other

All tingly. :evilgrin:

Yeah, I'm an anglophile. Gimme a guy with a British accent and I'm goo.

[Rambis]

32. At least you want hear this

"picher" for photograph

These are pictures of different kinds of pitchers.....



http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2007/12/16/svPITCHER_wideweb__470x350,0.jpg


This is not a "punkin"

[HipChick]

33. British commentators do sound better on sports shows

nasal American accents do me in..

[edbermac]

34. They drive on the wrong side of the road too!

Fooking morons.

[HipChick]

36. Sometimes I slip up here

and forget what side of the road I'm supposed to be on...

[Tommy_Carcetti]

35. Like bob's my uncle, it bloody does! I heard that on holiday when I was in the Underground.

:)

[hippywife]

37. doesn't bother me at all?

I look at it this way: why would someone's accent or dialect bother me anymore than someone saying the same thing in another language? :shrug:

[T_i_B]

38. We have accents. Deal with it.

We have quite a variety of accents as it happens.

[kayakjohnny]

39. Well, I only meant this as a joke. Sorry if I offended.

I spent 6 months in New Zealand, so I know what it's like to be on the other end.

I'm really not bothered at all. I use the British pronounciation all the time, but only with one special person I know.

I was just razzin' you all.

Cheers.

:hi:

[HipChick]

40. No offence...

but I do like confusing people..:rofl: one thing Brits do is that they have the ability to laugh at themselves..

[tigereye]

41. no. I like Brit pronunciations...

[skypilot]

42. That doesn't bother me but...

...I was watching "Mad Men" last week and a British character pronounced "Saint John" as Sin-Jin. I thought that was a bit odd. The only way I knew who or what he was talking about is because I had the subtitles on.

[yankeepants]

43. Bodmin

[LeftyFingerPop]

44. They speak the original and proper English. We are the ones who bastardized it.

:hi: They are actually pronouncing these words correctly.