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Post by jean on Aug 29, 2010 11:40:03 GMT
How do you say it, then?
I thought there were only two possibilities - oreGANo, and oREgano, as in Italian - give or take a few extra rs from rhotic people like the Scots.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2010 11:42:27 GMT
but riot acccused my abundance of RRRRR's as being a suuvern thing.. im confused now.
i think the american pronounciatian sounds like raygun with an 'O' ON EACh end of it.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2010 11:43:20 GMT
i may start calling it ORAY-GARRR-NO. a sort of combination of the two.
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Post by Weyland on Aug 29, 2010 11:44:06 GMT
How do you say it, then? I thought there were only two possibilities - oreGANo, and oREgano, as in Italian - give or take a few extra rs from rhotic people like the Scots. The first. Several Northumbrian dialects are rhotic, but not in the Scottish way. Pitmatic, for example. Geordie isn't. |
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Post by jean on Aug 29, 2010 11:48:39 GMT
It gives two pronunciations Jean. The American one is the second one. Oh I see - or rather I hear - now. Don't know how I missed the second one before. I'm not surprised the Americans pronounce it like Italian. American English has lots more influence from Italian and other European languages than we do, on account of there being so many immigrants from continental Europe. I just typed testa di cazzo on another thread - the translation dickhead is more American than British I think. |
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Post by jean on Aug 29, 2010 11:50:29 GMT
but riot acccused my abundance of RRRRR's as being a suuvern thing.. im confused now. I think she was trying to confuse you. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2010 12:00:27 GMT
it doersnt take much. i got told by someone the other day that my voice sounded a bit west country..
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Post by Weyland on Aug 29, 2010 12:05:52 GMT
it doersnt take much. i got told by someone the other day that my voice sounded a bit west country.. Is it a Hampshire accent? I know a bloke in Shrewsbury from there, and he sounds like West Country to me, oh aaarrrr. I know it's wrong. |
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Post by alanseago on Aug 29, 2010 12:14:55 GMT
Dick'Ed, is scouse. Just look back at the origins.
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Post by Patrick on Aug 29, 2010 12:30:37 GMT
The Hampshire burr starts (or used to) creeping in as you go West from Brighton. One or two of my teachers on the the South Coast had it. I used to think it was a result of how far the Londoners spread out and diluted the accent - and they didn't get as far as there! Now when you hear Gardeners Question Time from Somerset nearly all the questioners have RP accents!
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Post by jean on Aug 29, 2010 12:39:02 GMT
Dick'Ed, is scouse. Just look back at the origins. Not especially, alan. (Or was there a joke there I missed?) |
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Post by alanseago on Aug 29, 2010 14:09:17 GMT
There was, quite possibly, something you missed.
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Post by jean on Aug 29, 2010 15:41:54 GMT
Oh well, that's all right then, because it wasn't very funny.
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Post by riotgrrl on Aug 29, 2010 15:43:42 GMT
Jean & Alan . . get a room.
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Post by alanseago on Aug 29, 2010 15:47:22 GMT
For what exactly? I mean exactly?
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Post by everso on Aug 29, 2010 17:19:22 GMT
Every time I see the title of this thread, I think of that old Elton John number "Saturday night's alright (for fighting)
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Post by rjpageuk on Aug 29, 2010 18:05:02 GMT
Ask him how to pronounce the herb basil.
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Post by riotgrrl on Aug 29, 2010 18:11:43 GMT
Ask him how to pronounce the herb basil. Bah-sill. |
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Post by riotgrrl on Aug 29, 2010 18:12:19 GMT
For what exactly? I mean exactly? So you can go and niggle away at each other like an old married couple in private of course. |
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Post by Weyland on Aug 29, 2010 18:13:15 GMT
Ask him how to pronounce the herb basil. My son used to have a basil plant called Basil. Such was his dedication in the horticultural department that we toured Europe with Basil in the heatwave of 2003, and Basil never needed A&E, not once. [ Basil in Dutch is Basilicum.] |
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