>Corps
>Americans pronluce it core
Hmmm
Corps
so do the french
That's the french pronounciation.
>colonel
>pronounced kernel
This one always gets me. I'll be just watching some war film and this pops into my head.
whats with french and having everything silent
REEE
>lieutenant
>leftentant
>lieutenant is pronounced LOO-TENANT
> mirror
> pronounced "meer"
>Non-French arguing about how to pronounce French words
1066, worst year of my life
We don't use the french pronunciation for some things because we hate them.
>ameriblobs pronounce craig as "creg" and greg as "graig"
But Nigel, you're ruled by the French
So do we
>tube
>pronounced "chewb"
>Leicester
>pronounced "Lester"
How do you pronounce tube? Like toob?
That's how you pronounce it you twat
>not pronouncing tube as "toob"
Are you even Germanic?
you frogs ruined it. English is nothing but trash. Silent letters everywhere and the worst thing is the use of words not even pronounced the way they are written.
>not pronouncing tube as "toob"
Are you even Germanic?
did u know that between 12th and 15th century english intellectuals tried to distance english language from germanic languages on purpose and so changed every vowel to a "higher" (e->i, a->e, etc) one, and thus occurred the vowel heightenance of english?
really makes u hate english
thats lame. English should go back to its germanic roots.
If English completely got rid of froggery it would sound more like Danish.
Is that good or bad?
we do that
Can't tell, but it wouldn't resemble modern English at all.
...
The correct way
With a hard U