Teaching Americans (especially oneiblind30) how to pronounce words in English

response to Perroquet51 The words and questions below.

Say these words...
garage
herb
schedule
figure
jaguar
lieutenant
water
advertisement
vase
route
ballet
tomato
leisure
address
ate
buoy
aluminium
aunt
wash
oil
theatre
iron
salmon
caramel
fire
sure
data
ruin
crayon
toilet
new orleans
pecan
both
again
probably
spitting image
alabama
lawyer
coupon
mayonnaise
syrup
pyjamas
caught
...
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Education

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• english

[oneiblind30]

Well we took a little bacon and we took a little beans...

[paul1967uk]

@oneiblind30 What the fuck are you smoking. It's a pity the Native Americans did not scalp you, and use your scalp as a fucking ashtray

[jbdtaylor]

@floppybelly Yes, it's true. Although a lot of people don't know it (I think mainly due to the fact that most people aren't in the military and the majority of times it's heard here is on American films. It is "Leftenant" (only by pronunciation), and it does annoy me when I hear people over here say it the American way!

[floppybelly]

I just read that lieutenant is pronounced with an "f" sound in British dialects? Not the case in your accent! I can't even imagine how that would sound!

[lemonrind]

@mercycollege123 Actually, North Americans pronounce words closer to their original English pronunciation than modern-day Britons do.

When America was colonized, they standardized education, which effectively froze the language. Everyone, from rich to poor, sounded alike.

After North America was colonized, the UK, and especially England, experienced extreme changes in pronunciation. During that time, England became non-rhotic, or "R-less". So English English changed a lot more than in America.

[lemonrind]

I cringe every time I hear an English person say "garage". The British really butcher foreign loanwords by Anglicizing them to an absurd level. This is especially true of French words like "garage". The emphasis is on the wrong syllable, and they say it with a hard J at the end. I don't know why, but North Americans tend to pronounce French loanwords much closer to their original pronunciation.

[YamahaBoyTTR230]

@mercycollege123 I was joking and mocking most other Americans. I understand that I say it wrong, while most others don't.

[mercycollege123]

@YamahaBoyTTR230 hang on so the English created the language but you think that you guys pronounce it the correct way and they're the idiots? haha

[metaldorksforever666]

It'll be aluminium the day you're supposed to pronounce meme as ME-ME!

[metaldorksforever666]

Damn your video titles are dicks.

[YamahaBoyTTR230]

You pronounced Aluminum completely wrong. You idiots always add an extra I in there.

[thizizliz]

@samdeval Yes, it has been for decades. We call it English but there are marked differences in spelling, definition and pronunciation. But then, there are differences between all the 'English' speaking countries and the original English. It's fun to compare.