well, maybe "arse" sounds better, but it doesn't look better when you type it. dunno, but to me "arse" even sounds stupid. i'd rather use ass.

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wow this thread grate lol

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Originally posted by evil_bastard I'll answer this one. All it is is accent. The American close their 'r's. So when an American says it it sounds like "ahru" but with a tiny little sound on the end. Not quite a U but it's the closest I could think of. Perhaps "ahrr" would be the best way to spell it. Brits say 'r' and it sounds like "aah" but with a low toned A. We don't "close" the R. Well, it's hard to put into words, but it does sound right, to us. We treat R like it's a vowel in a way, unless it starts a word or something. But listen to people from Liverpool (England). Their R's sound like Ls! They have a programme called Brookside. The rest of us would say "Brookside" but they would say "Blookside". I'm not kidding.

And people from the South of the UK pronounce it as "w", they say Howwowwist as oppposed to Horrorist

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Here's a true gem from another board:

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Hi joose, & help. I have'nt been in hear sence the dinsour days. this is a new site to me. computors been down for several months. like the new site. don't know who to ask to remove all my old tunes from my page if it still igsists. oh and by the way, do you still have your collum that I enjoyed reading, first stop when I came in hear. enjoyed it a lot. also don't know were to go to upload new tunes, please help. sencerly long lost.

WTF is he saying?

...and when checking his details, he's from "pueblo,colorado....usa ".

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Oh thanks for the excellent lesson about using apostrophes, evil_"professor"_bastard

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Oi! Miss Proximus, get over to Kent, that'll be south east England. We pronounce our R's OK, thank you very much.

One thing that gets me, why isn't Phonetic spelt like it sounds??? Double F#!8&% standards or what!

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Originally posted by evil_bastard I'll answer this one. All it is is accent. The American close their 'r's. So when an American says it it sounds like "ahru" but with a tiny little sound on the end. Not quite a U but it's the closest I could think of. Perhaps "ahrr" would be the best way to spell it. Brits say 'r' and it sounds like "aah" but with a low toned A. We don't "close" the R. Well, it's hard to put into words, but it does sound right, to us. We treat R like it's a vowel in a way, unless it starts a word or something. But listen to people from Liverpool (England). Their R's sound like Ls! They have a programme called Brookside. The rest of us would say "Brookside" but they would say "Blookside". I'm not kidding.

Out of curiosity, do you think Americans have a single accent, or can you tell the difference for different areas? We probably have as many accents in the East coast as you do in England.

Some parts of our country drop r's and other things too.

There is a difference I can tell from northern to deep southern America.

I couldn't say to someone "Your accent, New York, West 24th street?"

I suppose some of it must be down to localisation. Like in Washington you might say "that's nice" but in Harlem "that's sweet, bitch".

We have that in the UK. Something might get you a pint and a pat on the back in London but a smack in the face up north, like.

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Originally posted by stella There is a difference I can tell from northern to deep southern America. I couldn't say to someone "Your accent, New York, West 24th street?" I suppose some of it must be down to localisation. Like in Washington you might say "that's nice" but in Harlem "that's sweet, bitch". We have that in the UK. Something might get you a pint and a pat on the back in London but a smack in the face up north, like.

I heard that someone did a study that proved that accents are localized in the Northeastern US to like 15 miles or something, but whole states in the midwest sound the same. I can place people from different parts of New Jersey and New York, but then again, I live here.

I read the other day how American TV was affecting language in the UK. Mainly the young trendy TV like Friends where they now seem to restructure sentences and end them as a question, already. <- like that.

They had a funny name for this new way of speaking, can't remember what it was called though.