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Topic	why do americans pronounce colonel as kernul?
Funkydog 01/18/18 10:36:51 AM #49:	WindMouseHanpan posted... ROBANN_88 posted... While we're on the subject of pronounciation, why do Brits say "saw" with an R? They seem to usually pronounce the letter "A" as "er" or "eer", or just an r sound, depending on the word, rather than "ay" like America does. So for instance "Idea" would sound like "Ideer". Which I think is where the "I have no eye deer" joke comes from. I think this usually happens if the letter comes at the end of a sentence, or near the end, though. In a word like "Bake" or "Rake" they pronounce it the same way as in American English. If anyone here's British, could you explain and clarify if I'm wrong on anything? I mean, it depends where in Britain you're from. Some accents can be like that, and others very much aren't at all. But having looked up how Americans supposedly pronounce "Idea" it sounds exactly the same to me >.> --- http://i.imgur.com/BGbZK.gif <cite>Funkydog posted [p:894293733] in why do ame... [t:76214552]...</cite> <quote><cite>WindMouseHanpan posted...</cite> <quote><cite>ROBANN_88 posted...</cite> <quote>While we're on the subject of pronounciation, why do Brits say "saw" with an R?</quote> They seem to usually pronounce the letter "A" as "er" or "eer", or just an r sound, depending on the word, rather than "ay" like America does. So for instance "Idea" would sound like "Ideer". Which I think is where the "I have no eye deer" joke comes from. I think this usually happens if the letter comes at the end of a sentence, or near the end, though. In a word like "Bake" or "Rake" they pronounce it the same way as in American English. If anyone here's British, could you explain and clarify if I'm wrong on anything?</quote> I mean, it depends where in Britain you're from. Some accents can be like that, and others very much aren't at all. But having looked up how Americans supposedly pronounce "Idea" it sounds exactly the same to me >.> --- http://i.imgur.com/BGbZK.gif</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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