Pronunciation test

[mochaaddict05]

you forgot to include Herb....

[Locarith]

that was awesome

[orphansparrow2]

You did good. :)

We actually do though, pronounce crayon as CRAY-on. Just the way you said it for British/Australian. Or at least, I have never heard it pronounced any other way. :)

[joelbhartzell]

cute

[slackmack]

lol... great idea, very funny. I can relate to that being an ex-pat myself

[theEdwizard]

Given that the Beverly Hillbillies fans are far from representative of the majority here in America, caramel, crayon, buoy, caulk, pajamas, and pecan are all pronounced just as you pronounced them here as well. The rest were on point.

[carrottop12292]

Pecan is said differently in the US in different regions.

[3rkid2]

Your reaction to the American buoy was hilarious.

[MichaelPaoli]

privacy - US pronunciation is with long i, but British with short i. I'm in the US, but I find I at least sometimes like to use the British pronunciation - particularly for emphasis. I believe I picked that up from Patrick McGoohan in _The Prisoner_. In that entire series, I think that may have been the only word he pronounced with a decidedly English accent.

[MichaelPaoli]

crayon - Did you flip the order around on that one, or would that be the New York pronunciation (and maybe also New Jersey? - I dunno, I'm on the left coast). Otherwise, at least for most of the US, crayon pronunciation would be quite as you first pronounced it. And yes, there are many words that are pronounced differently depending where one is in the US (such is true also for at least the UK).

[EmberflyLayouts]

I laughed out loud everytime you pronounced the American version.. Your face was like "why the fck do these idiots say it like this" XD. I'm American. I'm not being rude. :)

[vleijon]

I can't stop looking at how your eyebrows lift as you switch to the American pronunciation.

[RavnoUK]

@vleijon I know!! 

[ellamorton]

@vleijon I emote with my eyebrows.

[ellamorton]

@doctorcatsburger Serve in the military to own land?! Never heard that one before.

[seriouslyWeird]

0:54 did she do this on purpose

[rbnsc1]

does anyone like the new youtube?

[otheus]

Well done. Your American accent is quite good. You got the 'r's down, anyway. But you're a bit short on the schwa sounds.

Caulk should sound like "chalk". It's almost indistinguishable from "Cock", but the "o" is swallowed a bit. Wow. That wasn't meant to be suggestive.

[httprover]

Is there a New Zealand accent?

[baxtermaxtor]

Cah-lk 

[ukimalefu]

Uhm... ok? (english is my second language)

Keep the australian/british accent please.

[BambuFan1]

Oregon. You forgot Oregon.

[ellamorton]

@BambuFan1 No, I remembered Oregon! Nebraska was actually the one I forgot.

[fiftysevenhypocrites]

and you even put a lot of UMPH behind CAULK in american...

[johnnytastetest]

Snarg

[andharvey8]

Cock?

[ericinsurgent]

i think i put more of an 'h' sound in caulk kind of like "khauk" and less cock lol.

also vase the way you say it ("vahs" like bras), and vase the way you said it as an american ("vace" like face) , are both used in america, but "vahs" means an expensive "vace"

:)

[DekenFrost]

"it seemed like a good idea at the time" Is good enough reason for anything really :)

[firnantok]

Great video. :)

[KaceKlosed]

That was a riot... top marks! I'll try and send my thespian friends here to enhance their accent skills. Cheers

[MannenStudios]

You say potato i say potato you say tomato i say tomato...

[TheWiepi]

Wtf, as a non-native english speaker I didn't even notice that there was a difference between saw and saw. Well done!

[chbclark]

This was great. I love the accent challenges. It's amazing how many people don't think of themselves as having an accent, but we all show our idiosyncrasies.

[Linuxdirk]

I love the Australian way to pronounce certain things!

[waldron2]

Brilliant, talented, funny AND beautiful... that's just not fair!

[TheGiantRobot]

<3

[GeneralAtreyu]

And here in Canada we pronounce it all both ways.

[dar482]

Omg, that's fantastic. As an American, I wasn't even sure how "we" say "vase." I had the exact same puzzled into "Whatever...." expression.

Keep up great random stuff like this! :)

[nomiSimple]

Oddly fantastic. For part 2, I would like to request the words 'no' and 'water'.

[superciliousrbt]

I'm an American and I pronounce some of these word the "British" way.

[OneEyeJay]

I think only Americans that don't know how to say "Caulk" pronounce it "Cock", I'm American and in my line of work, I use Caulking all the time and pronounce it properly. But i have never heard "Oregano" pronounced like "Or rah gon no" before!

[spacecowboy5000]

I like it when a woman says "caulk". -lol-

[dalekkiller]

I find it interesting that in Canada we will do both an English and the American pronunciations for some of the word that you went through and some with will use the American pronunciation or we will use just the British pronunciation.

It confusing me some time. 

[hijoeturre]

@dalekkiller try following a conversation between someone from London and someone from Scotland. Add in an Irish, and you're setup for a real mixup.

[mbarkhau]

Oregano freaked me out. Americans are crazy.

[KennethMichaels]

So, What's the deal? You no longer employed with the whole Rocketboom thing? You and Molly (Mostly Molly...lol) we're the only reason why I watched that channel.

I guess I have you individual channels to keep me entertain. Also, diggin' the hair.

[AlecCorday]

@KennethMichaels Check out Ella's new Podcast on her site. She and Molly touch a bit on the subject of not working for RB anymore...

[hijoeturre]

I'm fascinated by the Australian pronunciation.

Unconsciously, whenever I listen to someone with an Australian accent, I immediately try to mimic it. I fail completely at it though, particularly the pronunciation of "no" and "so".

My first language is spanish (I'm Mexican). I learnt english through videos by the BBC, then my first english teacher was Australian. I ended up reinforcing the little I knew from the internet. My accent is a complete frankenstein, everyone thinks I'm European.

[shredlessmarmalade]

being a brit in America, I completley related to this. Also the US pronunciation of Squirrel amuses me. It sounds like squirl.

[Crius11]

tapping 8 = seedy Ella...

[Hulkmania316]

I think the american accent is influenced a little bit by the spanish language.

[vealmince]

You say pyjarmas and I say pyjammers...

[xteric1]

Do more words and sentences!

[sth128]

The real question is, why doesn't Claudia Black sound Australian???

[capman911]

Some of the words you pronounced in Australian sounded like southern-red neck talk. Which is not a bad thing at all so you are welcome to our part of the south any time. ;-))

[Pianoguy32]

Also, aluminIum is the internationaly recognised word.

[Pianoguy32]

ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff­ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff­ffff youtube changing just as i get used to it

[ThisguyQuake]

Oh Ella why won't you be my wife.

[PewterCaster]

I like the way you say them better than the American, except for caulk... obvious reason.

[NeuroticVows]

What a delightful and random little video. Thumbs up :D

[Cutlesnap]

I don't know why, but I enjoyed this thoroughly.

[ellamorton]

@Cutlesnap Sometimes it's okay to do things without a reason.

[Uktrayf]

ask an american to pronounce nietzsche for optimal hilarity

[newcoyote]

Saying buoy, Boo-ee is plain wrong. It should be much closer to "boy". The root word of course being buoyant. You would not say something floats because it is boo-ee-ant.

[DavidEatsPaste]

@newcoyote I pronounce buoyant as "BOY-ANT" but pronounce buoy as "BOO-EE". It's just like pronouncing real as "REEL" and reality as "REE-AL-IT-EE". Pronunciation changes for no apparent reason sometimes. I'm not saying that pronouncing it close to "boy" is wrong but neither is saying "boo-ee".

[DeRealUno]

aluminun is always for shits and giggles.

[StripyTie12]

Why are the yanks so obsessed with the concept of accent?, i think we learned that some people speak differently depending on geographic location in primary school and the only times i've heard anyone talk about it since then are when i've watched american people on Youtube.

[TheGreatSteve]

How did you get Daria to pose for your thumbnail? :-)

[ellamorton]

@TheGreatSteve Daria cosplay or deviant display? Human goons as toons, coming up next on Sick, Sad Worrrrld.

[brucestandley]

a pee-can is something you put under the bed at night so you don't have to go downstairs to use the WC (british) bathroom (american)

[KendrickMcMurphy]

LOL The US version of Caramel was soooo cute.. I couldn't help but smile :) Great Video Ella.

[sasukeichigo12]

Well normally when you see a boy in the ocean he's been drowned. But a buoy is something completely different.

[Blargaldalien]

Hello,Ella.

It seems the way each average person in either the US , or Austrailia/ UK pronounce the letter "A" makes the biggest difference.

Loved the 2nd show on Ellipsis!

[SirKnobofCheese]

I noticed amercians say patronise different

[damneddirtyapez]

Cock?



[flaziola]

The one that annoys me the most is 'route' I hate the way americans pronounce it ra-out. It's Root.

[manychefsbroth]

Haha brilliant. Buoy is the strangest!

[innocentsparkle]

Your American caulk sounds like "cock." Oh dear.

[EyeOnTheTV]

@innocentsparkle and she said it rather forcefully too. With an almost angry undertone.

[skyzefawlun]

@innocentsparkle I do believe that was on purpose. There was a little extra pause and raise of the eyebrow when she said it because she knew exactly what she was doing.

[EyeOnTheTV]

@innocentsparkle that's how we roll in the U S of A

[djtron1x]

@innocentsparkle because that's how you say it

[Hulkmania316]

Eddie Izzard said something like this. But you do it a lot better.

[plainwhitepaperful]

Haha cool video! Also, I loved the second episode of Ellipsis!

[ellamorton]

@plainwhitepaperful So glad to hear it! More tales of writing and childhood embarrassment coming up soon.

[ThePappaStu]

you had me caulk......but seriously i say fore-head, not forrid and i'm british

[StripyTie12]

@ThePappaStu same.

[gulllars]

You had me smiling the entire clip. Thanks for lighting up my day :)