http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse-hoarse_merger

Some of those are odd like people can pronounce tower and tire as different words and notable a lot of these occur in the South in the US, (Some are UK, one is Aussie/NZ)

I know I’m the say the following the same: Horse-hoarse and Pour-poor, Mary-marry-merry, Hurry and Furry.

They really need to add /ay/ section as there’s a twinge in the Northwest of Canadian has people saying MAYSURE for measure. I’ll fall victim time to time and say "MAYSURE"

Well, there was Steve Jobs’ Jag-wire for jaguar.

I don’t know where they got their info from. Marry-Mary-merry all sound the same in the South.  Same with tire and tar.  :?

BTW Greg, how you can pronounce tower and tire the same way is beyond me.

Ach, you West Atlantic types are all lazy with your pronunciation anyways. I reckon the Ozzies have it best.

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BTW Greg, how you can pronounce tower and tire the same way is beyond me.

I don’t. I actually read that one and was like, "How the fuck?".  The ones I listed I do.

Man, brits really were enthralled with Stevie Jaguar bit. Its West coast, I say JAG WIRE… Hell, I’ve seen commercials that say JAG WIRE. Apparently this was some big international conspiracy that North Americans secretly pronounced it Jaguar instead of jag-gu-wire

That should be jag-u-ar or jag-yoo-arr for the phonetically challenged.

There’s nor excuse, just sheer laziness.

I hear most people pronounce it "jag war".  My friend from Darby pronounces garage "gair-ej" as opposed to the common American "guh-raj".

[quote author=“SticKboy”]There’s nor excuse, just sheer laziness.

*cough* Kettle… black *cough*
Says the person from the country that reduces 4 four letter monosyllable word like "have" to ‘ave

We get to do whatever the fuck we like, thanks very much. When you guys come up with your own language, then you can start mangling it.

Til then, you play by our rules, bee-yatch.

[quote author=“SticKboy”]We get to do whatever the fuck we like, thanks very much. When you guys come up with your own language, then you can start mangling it.

Til then, you play by our rules, bee-yatch.

England just stole German and French and combined them into a creole.  I will admit it’s a great language though, one might even say it’s the best in the world.

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Til then, you play by our rules, bee-yatch.

says the person borrowing American slang…

Dang!

Dey dook ‘er derbs!

The American Southern drawl comes directly from western England, where it’s been lost, which is interesting.

Also, the sheer number and complexity of phonetic symbols boggles my mind.

I duzn’t dink mah’ English be as fucked down as de Jive. What it is, Mama!

I don’t think my English is like wow! as fucked up as thuh Valley Girl.

Iway onday’tay inkthay ymay Englishway isway asway uckedfay upway asway ethay igPay atinLay.

And lastly…

I dun’t theenk my Ingleesh is es foocked up es zee Borkish. Bork Bork Bork!

[quote author=“Raws”]The American Southern drawl comes directly from western England, where it’s been lost, which is interesting.

Arrgh! Shiver me timbers… Oi be, loik, from Bristol, lover… arrgh! Oi I cood be from Behmingum.

I say, "Jag-u-ar", "gah-ridge" and say "tie-er" for tyre (tire for some of the colonials)

"Mare-re" (name), "Mar-ree" (marry), "Meh-ree" (merry).

One thing you can hear in my God’s Country accent (Yorkshuh not Yorkshire) is that I say "Ah" for "I" as in, "Ah’ll be comin’ rand fuh t’whippe’" (I’ll be coming around for the whippet (dog)). The "t’" is almost silent and I cut the "fuh" short. Strange accent but there’re a lot in the UK. It’s funny to hear when I go visit family as my accent’s flattened out over the years of living "ahtsahd God’s Cuntry". I had to *learn* to speak when I moved to Holland and my American (LA) boss had to get translatations from another English (Cambridge) colleague.

Hardest for me to understand is the Belfast accent. I’ve got a mate who I often just nod and smile at or look dumb asking him to repeat himself.