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American words vs British words - My top 5 funny sounding pronunciations

2016-05-02 · 3 min

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    In this video, I want to talk about 5

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    American pronunciations that sound funny

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    to me. I'm not saying there's only one

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    correct way to pronounce these words, so I

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    hope no one gets offended. Thanks.

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    Roly-poly. For some reason, there have

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    been a lot of articles on Facebook

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    recently about this insect, and every time

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    I see the word roly-poly, it makes me want

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    to roll up and cry. Roly-poly reminds me

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    of one of those strawberry roll cakes that

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    have the swirly pattern in the middle. I

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    call them woodlouse or woodlice, but there

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    are loads of different names for this

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    insect. Here's a short list I found:

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    armadillo bug, boat builder, carpenter,

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    cheese log, cheesy bobs, doodle bug, pill

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    bug, potato bug, roly-poly, saw bug,

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    roll-up bug, chiggy pig, butcher boy,

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    butchy boy, and wood pug. How can one

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    insect have so many names? Number 2,

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    buoy. You know those orange things that

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    float in the water? I only found out

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    recently that Americans pronounce it as

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    buoy. Buoy sounds like something a kid

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    would say if he gets hurt. Owie, I've got

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    a buoy! In the UK, it's pronounced boy,

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    like B-O-Y, which makes sense to me

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    because the word buoyancy isn't pronounced

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    boo-yancy. Buoy is originally a French

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    word, and according to Google Translate,

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    Boy in French is also pronounced buoy like

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    the Americans say. Buoy. So I guess the

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    British are the ones saying it

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    differently. Number 3, Moscow. When

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    Americans say Moscow, it makes me think of

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    a cow covered in moss. I actually looked

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    up the Russian pronunciation and it's

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    completely different. Have a listen.

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    Moskva. Moskva?

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    I still think Moscow sounds better.

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    Number 4, herb, or as Americans would say,

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    herb. I don't understand why the H becomes

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    silent. Herb reminds me of some

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    middle-aged overweight man for some

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    reason. Good old Uncle Herb. But then some

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    people in the UK leave out the letter H

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    all the time. For example, horrible or

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    100. I've got an horrible headache.

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    Number 5, aluminium, aluminium.

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    Aluminium, as Americans would say. No,

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    sorry, but aluminium just sounds

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    ridiculous to me. I understand that it's

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    easier to say than aluminium, but it's

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    only one syllable less, so I don't see why

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    the simplification was needed. So those

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    were my 5 American pronunciations that

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    sound kind of funny to me. How about you?

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    What words sound funny to you?

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