British speakers use of the word hospital

[sandorski]

So why dont they pronounce Plutonium as "Plyootonium" ?

Or the word luminate "lyoominate" ?

Probably because of the vowel starting the word or something... :shrug:

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

The letter U. Which brings up the question: Why do Americans hate the letter U?

Because asking "what's your favourite colour?" makes you look like a nerd, mate.

 

[WildW]

Right-o chap,

Have you ever heard them pronounce the word "coupe" ?

Thankfully it was used on the car show Top Gear otherwise I would have never guessed what the hell they were saying.

You can hardly pronounce it coop, that sounds like it's full of chickens.

 

[who?]

The picture book "Above Los Angeles" refers to the movie "The Rain Man" which is irritating because the word the isn't in the actual title. Brits will make reference to "the" I40 which is also irritating.

 

[Newell Steamer]

They invented the language,.. let them use it as they see fit.

 

[Uppsala9496]

Yeah, it's pretty stupid to use plurals when discussing mathematics.

Oh fuck.

But they don't say mathematics. They say maths.

Conversation I had this morning was along the lines of "I have done the maths on this and can't adjust the pricing."
Only maths that were involved was simple multiplication. So using a plural to discuss a singular.

 

[sandorski]

Because asking "what's your favourite colour?" makes you look like a nerd, mate.

 

[Fritzo]

I also hate they use the word "crisps" instead of chips. "Crisps" is actually hard to say.

 

[HN]

I also hate they use the word "crisps" instead of chips. "Crisps" is actually hard to say.

and you know they know how to say 'chips' because that's what they insist on calling fries and just have to be different. get it right you bloody old chaps!

 

[sandorski]

and you know they know how to say 'chips' because that's what they insist on calling fries and just have to be different. get it right you bloody old chaps!

No, you get it right. When I was 8ish, we went to the states and I ordered a burger and chips. I was horrified when what I got was a burger and a bag a potato chips! D: Think of the children! :'(

That said, I no longer call french fries "chips". Except when it comes to Fish and Chips.

 

[IronWing]

What, is there only one hospital in the world?

It's a big building with patients, but that's not important right now.

 

[who?]

In the 1800s an american horse racer pointed out that the Brits race things clockwise. Since we threw off their government we started racing things counterclockwise. They say crisps we say chips, so there!

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Thanks for the chuckle regarding the thought that Americans don't have accents or strange word usage. Bronx, Jersey, West Virginia, Maine, Georgia anyone? And that's just the East coast.

 

[HN]

 

[adairusmc]

They invented the language,.. let them use it as they see fit.

It is our language now and we get to decide what is proper grammatically correct, might makes right.

 

[Black Octagon]

You guys crack me up.'British' English is the original, authentic, non-basterdised (with an S, "y'all") English. American English is the weird one, with your (h)erbs and your acclimates and your math.

Slang notwithstanding, British English is what we speak in Australia. Ditto for South Africa and Malta. Your variant is only fluently spoken in the US, and Canada too, sorta.

Your version is taking over the world thanks to America's complete domination of worldwide mass media, but to British English speakers like me it's just weird. Try to imagine what it would be like if the whole world started speaking black rap gangsta slang as if it were the most grammatically-acceptable version of English, and you can start to approximate what it's like for us Britons.

Now, get off my cricket pitch.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Thanks for the chuckle regarding the thought that Americans don't have accents or strange word usage. Bronx, Jersey, West Virginia, Maine, Georgia anyone? And that's just the East coast.

How about those crazy fuckers that say "yinz" instead of "you"? What the fuck is that shit? And you skipped Boston in your list of bizarre regional dialects. If all of America sounded like people from Boston, you'd be shitting yourself silly in anticipation of adopting the Queen's English. "I pahked the cah near Hahvahd Yahd cause Lahs had a haht attack and I had to visit him in hospital. Why weren't yinz there?"

 

[Carson Dyle]

Many British pronunciations make absolutely no sense. I think they take many modern words that were popularized by Americans and purposely mispronounce them out of shear snobbery.

 

[HN]

How about those crazy fuckers that say "yinz" instead of "you"? What the fuck is that shit? And you skipped Boston in your list of bizarre regional dialects. If all of America sounded like people from Boston, you'd be shitting yourself silly in anticipation of adopting the Queen's English. "I pahked the cah near Hahvahd Yahd cause Lahs had a haht attack and I had to visit him in hospital. Why weren't yinz there?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYSVKyQcaJE

 

[disappoint]

Instead of hospital I call it L'Hopital's rule.

 

[Carson Dyle]

How about those crazy fuckers that say "yinz" instead of "you"?

I grew up with those crazy fuckers around Pittsburgh. It still makes my hair stand on end when I go back. Like visiting the heart of Appalachia without the tarpaper shacks and washing machines in front yards.

"Go on, yinz kids go outside and play!"

"Where yinz been?"

"I seen Paul the other day fishing down by the crick."

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

How about those crazy fuckers that say "yinz" instead of "you"? What the fuck is that shit? And you skipped Boston in your list of bizarre regional dialects. If all of America sounded like people from Boston, you'd be shitting yourself silly in anticipation of adopting the Queen's English. "I pahked the cah near Hahvahd Yahd cause Lahs had a haht attack and I had to visit him in hospital. Why weren't yinz there?"

Ay yah.

 

[who?]

People who knew how to speak English properly came to this country ( and/or the colonies) before the language got all screwed up.

 

[Jeff7]

And why, partway through the series, did they change from saying "The Voyager" to "Voyager?"

 

[SunburstLP]

... snip... "I seen Paul the other day fishing down by the crick."

I'll take a stab at this one. I'm from central PA and we don't say y'inz around here. We do have a dual-usage and pronunciation for creek. A 'crick' is a tiny, little piss ant moving body of water. Bit bigger than a stream and is persistent. A creek is what's in-between a crick and a river.

You could jump from bank to bank of a crick. If it is on the large side, you could use a pair of 2 x 6s and a sheet of plywood to make a bridge for it.

With a creek, you're going to need a no-shit, engineered bridge.

For you brits, what I'm calling a creek is about the width of your rivers that I've seen. My experience is limited to the Rivers Ouse and Cam, so take that for what it's worth. Around here, that shit would be a creek.

I lived in East Anglia for the last ten years, so not much in this thread makes my ears perk up anymore. I do catch myself speaking with certain things from East Anglian speech from time to time.

If you guys want to get cranky about something silly, let's go all-in on the all-one-word "(Are)You alright, mate?" greeting. That shit drives me up the wall, lol.