Originally Posted by Jayhawker
Yeah, and they pronounced "decades" with emphasis on the second syllable whereas in the U.S. the emphasis tends to be on the first. I've yet to hear an Englishman pronounce "aluminum" correctly. Someday those foreigners will catch on and start using proper English.


also check out how they pronounce the WW 1 battle of Ypres in Belgium.....

yeah for supposedly being considered so 'high class' by we Americans... they can pronounce certain words that make them sound like backwoods trailer trash...

our family ancestral Name from my mom's side that goes back to the first days of Virginia 17 generations ago , was Meadows...however, there are tons of them, that spelled it closer to how they pronounced it.. Meadors...

I can see La Poo Ah, being pronounced as LapWa in Finland..

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