Americanisms...is it just me that finds them irritating?

This_Year

Pollycat wrote: »

And is Catherine Zeta Jones the daughter of Dai Zeta Jones?

nope lol Zeta is her middle name.

claire16c

pollypenny wrote: »

So Eastenders offers the definitive pronunciation? :cool:

delain wrote: »

I think they meant that it's the most common pronunciation and gave an example! Not a bad one given that even hardened soap haters like me have probably been in someone's house whilst said drivel is being watched

Exactly.

I can't believe anyone has never heard a cockney accent.

I don't watch it myself but like you say you're bound to have caught it on at some point!

Georgiegirl256

This_Year wrote: »

nope lol Zeta is her middle name.

Yeah, it was her grandmothers name which she added in the middle to make it sound posher!

Pollycat

This_Year wrote: »

nope lol Zeta is her middle name.

I knew that - Google is my friend.

This_Year

Georgiegirl256 wrote: »

Yeah, it was her grandmothers name which she added in the middle to make it sound posher!

Yep - Catherine Jones doesn't have the same impact does it.

Georgiegirl256

This_Year wrote: »

Yep - Catherine Jones doesn't have the same impact does it.

Not really no! :rotfl:

Pollycat

Georgiegirl256 wrote: »

Yeah, it was her grandmothers name which she added in the middle to make it sound posher!

Apparently it was the name of a boat seen in Swansea Harbour.

Lucky for CZJ that it wasn't called 'Titanic'. :rotfl:

This thread seems a mix of 'Americanisms' and local dialect/pronunciation.

FWIW, we buy newspapers from the 'papershop', drinks from the 'beer-off' and we 'mash' tea, rather than make it or brew it.

This_Year

Pollycat wrote: »

Apparently it was the name of a boat seen in Swansea Harbour.

Lucky for CZJ that it wasn't called 'Titanic'. :rotfl:

:rotfl:

Pollycat wrote: »

This thread seems a mix of 'Americanisms' and local dialect/pronunciation.

FWIW, we buy newspapers from the 'papershop', drinks from the 'beer-off' and we 'mash' tea, rather than make it or brew it.

"Papershop" yes, "offie" for drinks (though in reality it's Asda :rotfl:) and I "make a cuppa". "Chippy" for fish and chips.

Dialects fascinate me.

Though the way my DD says "dialects" make me think that Dr Who is about to appear.

Georgiegirl256

Pollycat wrote: »

Apparently it was the name of a boat seen in Swansea Harbour.

Lucky for CZJ that it wasn't called 'Titanic'. :rotfl:

This thread seems a mix of 'Americanisms' and local dialect/pronunciation.

FWIW, we buy newspapers from the 'papershop', drinks from the 'beer-off' and we 'mash' tea, rather than make it or brew it.

Yeah, that's what her grandmother was named after

You're right, it's now a mixture of Ameicanisms and local dialect! I won't even start on the Cumbrian words etc, you'd all be like 'eh?!' :rotfl:

adouglasmhor

GF worked with an American, who was mortified when GF called her block of flats a tenement and insisted it was a "brownstone apartment block"; it was a tenement block. Apparently spams think tenement means "slum".

I worked with one and he corrected me for saying “obsidian” and said it was “absidian”, I said he was wrong and he said “It’s an American word”, Bollox I said it’s Ancient Greek and I don’t think American English existed while Pliny was around. He told me he was going to check up and report me if I was lying.