Different pronunciations I've heard for words in different parts of America: Caramel = "carra-mel" vs. "car-ml" Lawyer = "law-yer" vs. "loy-er" Syrup = "seer-up" vs. "sirrup" Aunt = "ant" vs. "ahnt" Almond = "al-mond" vs. "ahll-mend" vs. "am-end" Pecan = "puh-kahn" vs. "pee-can" Coyote = "ky-o-tee" vs. "Ky-ote" Mayonnaise = "man-aze" vs. "may-uh-naze" vs. "my-nez" Adult = "uh-dult" vs. "add-ult" Caribbean = "kar-ruh-bee-en" vs. "kar-rib-ee-en" Crayon = "cray-ahn" vs. "cray-awn" Salmon = "sal-mon" vs. "sammon" Coupon = "koo-pahn" vs. "kyoo-pon" Poem = "poh-em" vs. "pome" (rhyme with "Rome") Flourish = "flore-ish" vs. "fluh-rish" Been = "bean" vs. "ben"
I love this comparison you’ve been doing between culture of the US and Scotland. I’m an anthropology major so this is vastly entertaining! Keep up the great stuff!
Yes, because some of the elements have the -um ending like platinum and talcum, while the others have the -ium ending. Both were used in the 1800s, but ultimately commercial industries in America and Britain determined which became common in each region.
😄 Love the oven mitt! It's kind of a joke - the state of Michigan is shaped like a mitten. Whenever you meet a Michigander and ask where they're from they pop up their hand and say, "If this is Michigan, I live..." and point to the spot that corresponds to their town on the map. 🤚😁
I have a T-shirt that has "Smitten With the Mitten" on it. Maybe someone will send Shaun one. They're for sale on Michiganisawesome.org. I don't have Shaun's address.
So in the US, to pronounce vitamin with a short i we need two ts. "vittamin" would have that short i as you pronounce it. "vitamin" with one t, gets a long i. A vowel followed by two of the same consonants is short, a vowel followed by one consonant is long. nibble is short; bible is long,
@@JoeBlow_4, to many, it seems to be! I lived in southern New Jersey for over 20 years, and you would not believe how they talked and what they didn't know or care to know.
You should visit Michigan! I had my honey moon in Traverse City and it was marvelous. You should also come to Alma Michigan. There is a Scottish festival here called the Highland Festival.
Let's just face it, we're all just a bunch of fruit loops in a world of Cheerios. I did however laugh myself silly when you said aluminum. Sure glad I didn't have a mouthful of water. 🤣 Great video Shaun. 💜
I was just watching Laurence from Lost in the Pond & he mentioned your channel! I thought it was pretty funny because I was thinking you should watch some of his videos because he explains a lot of reasons why some words are pronounced differently in the US & the UK.
The American pronunciation of Herb originated in Great Britain. In the past The British pronounced Herb exactly as Americans do. However, over time, the British changed the pronunciation and Americans continued using the original pronunciation.
I love these types of comparison videos!!! It was a fun to listen to. As Andrew Campbell mentions below, Ad for Advertisement is very common, as in, "There are way too many Ads on TV." I also live in Michigan and was just in Traverse City!!! We just moved here last year and are still learning the Mitten State! It's exciting to know you have fans so close by to us. You should definitely visit Michigan it is so pretty. We are surrounded by 4 great lakes and have more lighthouses than any other state in the US. In fact there are 124 lighthouses, some with museums. My husband and I have endeavored to see all the lighthouses we can this summer. We have already seen over 40!!! By the way, my husband just sprung a surprise on me last night. He wants to visit Scotland next year!!!! I am overjoyed! I have only been to Europe one time and it was to England for our son's wedding. Your videos will help us decide where to visit. My hubby was stationed in Holy Loch many years ago when he was a submariner. He was in the Navy for 20 years (and he's been retired from the Navy for 20 years now). I always wanted to visit while he was there, but we couldn't afford it with our three chilidren (who are now all grown). I really can't wait to visit Scotland!!! Love your videos and have been a fan for quite some time. :-)
Herb was originally pronounced erb in the UK but for some reason it evolved in the UK to Herb but stayed erb in the US. Why this happened I have no idea but remember learning this some years ago.
Michigan box!!!! How awesome!!!! I live south of Traverse in Saginaw but its still awesome! You said it right! Love the necklace :) way to represent our state!!
I believe "controversy" is pronounced differently as well. We put the accent on "con" whereas in the UK the accent is on the second syllable. I like the new facial hair 😊
ANOTHER EXPORT FROM TRAVERSE CITY, MICHIGAN--- Me! Lol. That is where my mom's mother is from. I live in West Virginia, now, but my parents were from Michigan. There is a different accent there than where I am, now, but I love how upper mid-west people talk, talking about different ways of saying things. Maureen
Do you get the significance of the oven ‘mitt’ from Michigan? People from Michigan will say you can tell people where you are from in the state by holding your hand 🖐 like a mitt...being the shape of the state!
Hello from Michigan! I loved watching your reaction to things from my home state. I live in the thumb (near Frankenmuth) (yes we use parts of a mitten to describe location and geography) so there are some very different things to try from this part of the state. Hopefully you can make your way over to these parts and visit our 5 beautiful Great Lakes.
You pronounced Petoskey correctly. You should come visit Michigan. Depending on what kind of weather you like winter lots of snow. Spring is pretty with flowering trees. Summer is great for water and going the beach. Fall has great color when the leaves change.
I was taught that alot of our pronunciations derive from middle english rather than modern english. Also that some were changed by early colonists to separate themselves more fully from England.
As someone who has lived in Georgia most of my life, I have fond memories from childhood when I lived in Indiana & used to go on summer vacation in Michigan. My grandparents had some fishing cottages in Traverse City on Lake Leelanau, so I can tell you it's beautiful in that part of Michigan! We used to walk the shores of Lake Michigan looking for Petoskey stones too. So cool that you got one. You were right about the reason Cherry seemed to be a theme of your box, Traverse City is known as the "Cherry Capitol of the World". It's a sight to behold in cherry season and to stop at the roadside stands selling cherries, so good. Fun to hear the words you discussed. IDK why we don't pronounce the H in herb. haha Another word I thought of might explain why Americans pronounce Edinburgh wrong a lot of times - we see the burgh and think of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It's pronounced "burg" and so I think a lot of people do the same when they go to Scotland instead of "bur-ah" as is the proper way to say Edinburgh. haha Thanks for the fun Shaun!
Yes, in our American pronunciation it is a "voiced, alveolar-flap" which is a [d] sound. Some say it almost as if there's a soft "r" before the "d"= war-der for "water" (I had a classmate in college who was from New Jersey, who said it that way). I am from Illinois, and we day "wadder". The surrounding consonants and vowels modify our "t" from voiceless to voiced. (Put your hand on your throat when you say "very" and you'll feel the vvvvibrations from the "voicing". Keep that hand there - and say, "Ta ta!" (Good-bye!) The "t" here is voiceless - no vibrating the vocal cords.) Okay, class is over for today . . . There will be a test tomorrow on voiced and voiceless consonants! (LOL!)
Roger Quarton I was reading your response and started laughing over the detailed description you sent and thought “is this a class?!” And then you finish with the whole test thing!! HYSTERICAL!!!
Hey, Shawn a wee Glaswegian, living in Southern California responding ....I say "skedule", "ate", "cell", "herb pronouncing the h!", "wader" (I had to change...no one understood me here, could die of thirst :), vitamin....the way you say it. Other words pronounced differently; controversy, Edinburgh, bottle, mirror (meer in USA). The differences are interesting and I enjoy embracing it all! Great videos, tfs.
Yes! Finally I have been vindicated I have always been made fun of for the way I announce certain words. Thank you so so much for putting this video out there! Big Texas thanks and hugs!
Shaun, My Father was from the Carolina's (USA) and always pronounced aluminum the way you do. One thing I think is interesting is that if someone has the name Herb, the H is not silent. As for your box of goodies, I'm from Michigan so I can identify with all of the items that you received. I just thought I'd point out that even the beef sticks are cherry, just so you know! Take care and I enjoy your channel.
If you're going to visit Michigan be sure to cross the lake and come to Central Wisconsin! We're known as a German state but us American Scots here have taken over lol. We're known for our fried foods... cheese curds (the best you'll have), fish fries (fish and chips).... I think you'd love it. Keep up the videos! I love to connect to my heritage listening to you!!!
I somehow missed seeing this one before! Just watched today. Enjoyed the comparisons. You got a box from Michigan already! I believe we were starting to put one together for you about the time you opened this one. Great that you got a Petosky stone! That was a great idea to send. We collect those when we go Up North. Love the the oven mitt!
Funny story - we met a Scottish lady who was staying near us for the winter and when we said our surname was "Craig", she looked confused. We repeated it "Craig"... then she lit up and said "OHHHHH you're saying CRAYG!! (and rolled her "r" a bit) I thought you were saying "CREGG" like "egg"!! We laughed so hard... so nice to hear the "proper way" to pronounce our name!
Michigander here too! Traverse city is like the cherry capitol of the word! One thing that bothers me with at least aussies. Is they say petrol. Then make fun because we say gas. But gasoline is put into your car. Petrol is what it's made out of. Drives me nuts!
In some parts of the southern USA you can sometimes hear " we just ett (for ate) especially in parts of the south where a lot of Scottish immigrated to.
The words: soda, pop, and coke are all used differently in certain states. I live in Washington state and the people here use "pop" compared to California, where I lived for a while, where they say "soda".
Hi Shaun, Love your videos! Greetings from Pennsylvania...( my Great Grandfather was born and raised in Auchtermuchty !) Keep up the great work! Turner
Yeah, but it's all about what you're used to. Their cold temps would probably freeze those of us who live in the South. When I go home to Michigan to visit, I'm shivering whereas my family will be fine in shorts.
I love Traverse City Michigan. You will want to live there:). They have the Cherry Festival in July but not this year due to the pandemic. The Petosky stones are very cool! It is nestled on two beautiful bays off Lake Michigan, amazing world class winery’s, golf courses, boating, hiking the National Lakeshore at Sleeping Beat Dunes ( once voted most beautiful place in America by a Good Morning America TV show). We are Michiganders we live in. Mi...shee...ghan! Ha!
Just got back from Scotland last night. I did pretty well with the language differences. Spoke with an older man at the bus stop and got most of what he was saying. Very friendly people. Fell in love with the people and landscape.
In the Appalachian mountains, a number of older words and pronunciations persisted. "Et" for "eat" is one. The phrase "stinks like cairn" pronounced "kyarn" in Southern Appalachia (maybe only my Carolina part) refers to the smell of long-stored contents of a container used to urinate in before indoor plumbing became widely available. You will probably recognize the container word "cairn"
When I was a child my grandmother from the south, Arkansas at the time she was from originally Illinois. She told me to “Warsh” (wash) my hands. I didn’t know what she meant so I didn’t. She came back yelling at me to warsh my hands I burst into tears “ I don’t know what warsh is” I knew wash like squash kind of a long a sound.
Another michigander here! You would love Michigan is so beautiful. Similar climate to Scotland we're surrounded by water we've got the Great Lakes is where we are 2 peninsula and you've got the ocean. Also that coffee was from Meijer but for some reason we add an "s" to the end of the names of alot in Michigan, so we so we call it Meijer's. Meijer is a big store where you can get almost anything.
Shaun, it really depends what part of the US you come from. In the South, we do not pronounce the "h". However, in the North, I have heard it with the "h" sound. So, as you can see, even the US regions pronounce words differently. The word wash is sometimes pronounced with the letter "r" in it, as in warsh. My northern roommate at college pronounced it that way. Drove me crazy. BTW, speaking of pronunciation, did you know that the word "often" is supposed to be pronounced with a silent "t", as in "ofen". However, most people pronounce it with an emphasis on the hard "t" sound.
I love how you sound Shaun! Getting back to Herb..I think you guys say it correctly because if there's a man in America and his name is Herbert, his nickname would be Herb not "erb"..
We pronounce herb with the silent H more in the French fashion. We tend to pronounce some words with a T in the middle with a soft D sound: butter, water, better. You are lucky to have a Petosky stone as they are hard to find. Travers City is a beautiful place!!!
When you go to school, is it to skool or to shool? When you set sail aboard a schooner, is it on a skooner, or a shooner? So why is there confusion about the correct way to pronounce schedule?
Certain parts of the states say "warsh" for wash (your hands) some of us say "soda" some of us say "pop" others still will say "soda pop" or just "coke" for blanket coverage of any carbonated drink that's dark.
Shaun, in most cases of different pronunciations of words between the US and the UK is which syllable we put the emphasis on. And that's even the case sometimes with different regional accents in the US.
In the UK they started pronouncing the "h" in certain words to differentiate between classes. Lower class people regularly dropped the "h" so because of that members of the higher class started pronouncing it. This didn't cross over into the U.S so that's why we continue to say "erb" and not "herb" 😊
Shaun, you're so much fun! I love watching your vids, they are always interesting and adventurous! Its pretty interesting how different we speak and for the water/wa'er difference, I've noticed a lot of us in the US have a hard time understanding British/Scottish/Irish people who ask for "wa'er" 😀 too funny! And no idea why we prounounce herb the way we do? Now you have me wondering too! Keep up all the videos, you are a blast to watch! Much love from Indiana ❤
Router versus “rooter”. Stayed in a serviced apartment in England and there was problem with the internet service. I would say router and the manager said rooter. She laughed at my pronunciation.
In the US, we usually say "ad" instead of advertisement, to eliminate syllables. We usually pronounce our "h", but the silent "h" in "herb" is influenced by French. Question: Do you pronounce the letter "h" as "hay-ch" or "ay-ch"? We say "ay-ch" in the US. I am curious because I have heard Londoners say "hay-ch" and found it interesting.
You got the word water right! The 't' is kind of a cross between a 'd' and a 't.' However, here, at least here in Florida, the 't' in vitamin is pronounced the same. You used a hard 't' sound. And you pronounced petoskey correctly. (All of my family is from Michigan.)
We just watched your video and agree that people in the UK and the U. S. say a lot of words differently. But that happened because way back during colonial days, the colonists were separated by distance from the Mother Land. Gradually pronunciation softened and changed because the colonists were no longer in contact with the British. The same thing happened when people began to move westward. The areas like Boston and New York didn't change as much because the colonists were in touch with people from the UK who were involved in shipping. It made things difficult when folks began to emigrate from other countries. My great-great grandfather was Scotch-Irish (okay, Scottish) and his name was MacPherson. The immigration authorities probably didn't understand him when he told his name, so the name was soon McPierson, and then Pierson. By the way, I'm from Michigan and have been to Traverse City a number of times. You pronounced 'petoskey' perfectly. There's a town north of Traverse City called Petoskey.
Great video again Shaun! It’s 33 C in North Texas today and that’s very mild for this time of year. Usually over 38 C this time of year. I was in Scotland about two months ago and it was very nice and quiet warm actually.
My family is from Sand Mountain, which is the northeastern portion of Alabama, and the very northwest corner of Georgia. I actually used to hear a lot of old folks there pronouncing 'ate' as 'et.' They also used to say "I kin ya" meaning "I love you," but I think that's all but died out now. Occasionally still you might hear some one say "I can-uh" for "I cannot." The Appalachians in general has a really unique, and colorful dialect, or rather dialects, though a lot of people not from here kind of look down on it. Even other Southerners who get looked down upon themselves by Northerners. I live close to Chattanooga, Tennessee, which is part of what used to be called the Nickajack Region. It was poorly defined, but included much of Eastern Tennessee, as well as Sand Mountain. Chattanooga is for the most part very nice, and modern. Outside the city in every direction there are a bunch of smaller communities and towns, that are basically their own little world. If you live here for long, you might learn to be able to tell which of these communities someone is from by how they talk. For example there's a little town named Whitwell. Most people would pronounce it Wit-well, but the people from there pronounce it Wootwool.
My mother's folks are from Southern Appalachia, western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee specifically, and the accent is much like yours. Many will say "et" rather than "eet". There are many words which linger from the Scotch Irish migration in the 1700's and early 1800's. Their mountainous terrain and independent attitudes tended to isolate the people and their language from modern changes.
This has been a fun video to go through the words with you, Shaun! Like most Americans, I pronounce the "ch" in schedule as a "k": SKED-ule, while fewer (some here do say it as you do) say it as SHED-ule. However, how would you pronounce "schematic"? I would pronounce it the same, therefore it is: skee-MAT-ick (the upper case letters indicate where the SYLlable that gets the stress/emphasis). In the U.S. we say will do say " 'erb" -not pronouncing the "h". I think several comments below explain it quite well. As for myself, the only time (that I can think of right off the top of my head) I'd say the "H" would be if it's a persons proper name, as in "Herb" (Herbert). This way it's immediately known which you're referring to, the "herb" or "Herb" (Herbert)! Another word that really threw me, the first time a friend from England said: tortoise - Americans say it VERY differently!! We write it the same way, but pronounce it differently. Being from the Midwest, I say "TORT-us" whereas in the U.K. it's "tor-TOIS"! Aluminum is the original pronunciation, but then "aluminium" came into fashion in Great Britain, while "aluminum" stayed in use in the U.S. I grew up with a differing pronunciation of "wash". Of course, the "correct" way is as it is written - but in some areas (including where I grew up, here in rural Illinois, you'll hear people say "warsh" - with a strong, rhotic "r" inserted after the "a' and before the "sh"! Hence, we say: Warshington, warsh rag, do the warsh, or "warsh your hands before supper!" That changing the "t" in water as is done where you live - that is a "glottal stop" - I think of it as being more of a Cockney thing in English, but we do it, too, sometimes in America - as in my own last name: Quar'on, for example. We have regional accents and pronunciations, too: tote = to carry ; poke = bag, or sack; "to carry someone home" means "to give someone a ride (in a car) home". In Wisconsin and Minnesota they say "aunt' as "ah-nt" while just one state south, in Illinois, we say "ant" (ant - the insect, and aunt - the relative, your mother's/father's sister are the same). Also in Minnesota and Wisconin, "bag" sounds very close to how I say "beg"! At the end of the school day, the kids all gather their "begs" (bags) to go home! We also say "et" instead of "ate" "Have you et yet?" (Have you eaten yet?) Yep! Usually there's a reason, since we normally don't say it that way, though. This is a fascinating topic! Thanks for the fun video - and I hope you do this again!
Here’s an interesting one. I’ve noticed that British people tend to add an “R” where there isn’t one. For example, “loverly” instead of lovely, “idear” instead of idea, etc.
If you’d like to search for more information about some of these language phenomena: the pronunciation of ‘herb’ as ‘erb’ is called h-dropping and pronouncing ‘water’ without the ‘t’ you’re actually replacing the ‘t’ with what is called a glottal stop (a short obstruction of airflow in the vocal tract). Hope this helps 😋
Wisconsin also has a place known for cherries, Door County (our thumb). I was there last weekend. It's a really interesting unique place, so is Washington Island which had a lot of Icelandic settlers. Rock Island is great for camping, ferry out and no cars. If you come to Wisconsin you should go there. La Crosse where I live is a cool city along the Mississippi and picturesque with the bluffs. Madison is a nice small city as well, the capital, built around the lakes, good restaurants and arts. The House on the Rock is fun to visit, all kinds of weird stuff. In fact, Wisconsin has lots of cool places, lesser known of the states perhaps but a hidden gem.
One pronunciation difference that is on frequent display in this very video is y'all tend to pronounce "us" with the /z/ sound--/uz/--while in the U.S. it's pronounced with the /s/ sound--/us/. Really like these happy, optimistic videos!
Michigan in the summertime is paradise. If you go to Michigan you gotta check out a place called Charlevoix it’s on northwest coast of the lower part of Michigan about an hour n a half south of the bridge theat connects the upper peninsula with rest of Michigan it’s also about 20 minutes southwest of Petosky where that rock is from. You can find those rocks in Charlevoix as well. That area is the only place on earth you can find those rocks.
I would love to see you do a collab with Joel and Lia! They do a lot of language videos and such like you do comparing to America. They are in London and Chichester.
The history of the word aluminum vs. aluminium is quite interesting, and both of them originate in England where the element was named by the chemist Sir Humphry Davy. First it was spelled alumium, then it was spelled aluminum, and it finally settled as aluminium over a 5 year stretch. Simply, the documented spelling in Noah Webster's American English dictionary (BTW, dictionary is yet another word that Americans say differently) was aluminum, though both spellings and pronunciations persisted through the 1800s, after which aluminum became more dominant in the USA.
We say "et" my dinner (which the rest of America calls lunch) but we still use a lot of words that britons originally used, like reckon and Yonder and y'all. ( but there was an intentional separation of the English language for Americans after the American war of independence. Southerners tend to hang on to old language.)
It’s now 85 degrees Fahrenheit (30 Celsius) in North Carolina and that’s cool for around here now. It should be around in the upper 90’s F. next week and July. Now that’s hot!
Hey Shaun! Fun video! I love watching you open gifts! Beautiful necklace for Teka! I think the word herb originated from France. I speak some french. So the h should not be there, it should be silent. Herb is short for Herbert. Heure is french for hour. H is silent. Here in the small town I live in, people do say et for ate. Crick for creek. Warsh for wash. And other cowboy slang! Instead of swearing, my ex would say, 'fish piss'! First time I heard that I spit my coffee out! Heavily used is 'ain't'. That one drives me nuts! Isn't not ain't. "Put yer boots on fore ya go down to that there creek to warsh yer face!" "Ain't gonna happen, aye don't wanna Pa". It felt like the Andy Griffith show when I first moved here! Lol! Thanks for the video! ☮
Advertisement when shortened is just Ad, like an ad in the paper; advertisements on TV and radio are commercials probably because they were called commercial advertisements early on. Water is a fun one, around Philadelphia where I am, many of us seem to pronounce it , though sometimes ; is rare as would be . I know my aunt always said thang instead of thing, she had what we call a southern draw and we liked it. We used to have so many area dialects in the 70's that seem to have gotten homogenized by commercial TV and radio I'm not sure how many still exist. More than likely Scotlanders and Bostoners of the 1970's would've understood each other just fine, they had that weird hard missing letter thing going on. "Kah? What is a kah? Oh, CAR!" I couldn't accurately write or say how they pronounced 'battery'. Oh, and why is it spelled 'Worcestershire Sauce' when everyone just says 'worster sauce'?
Traverse City is pretty cool place that's the thing about Michigan is there is so much undeveloped land except the major city's. And we don't measure drive distance in miles we do it in time like it's about 2 hours away. Most of us don't even leave the state for vacation. We will drive 3 or 4 hours north and hang out in the woods
With the knowledge of 2 things, you can account for a good percentage of the differences. #1: In the US system of phonics, a vowel, consonant, vowel combination gives the 1st vowel it's long sound. In order for the vowel to have the short sound, it must be followed by 2 consonants. #2: We tend to be in a hurry & run sounds together. While the way you say "mobile" is phonetically correct, we get in a hurry so it kind of runs together. If you listen carefully, you don't hear the "i" at all as either a short or long sound. In high school, the boys headed to the cafeteria for lunch would say, "Lessgoeat", running together the "Let's go eat" into what sounded like one word. Then you have the word "water", which according to the rules should be pronounced with a long "a". But that's English for you. So many of our words come from other languages, some now archaic, and retain those spellings & pronunciations to some extent.
Canadian girl here. More specifically Newfoundland. Since most of our ancestors are Irish, Scottish and English we hear both regularly. However, depending on what area in Newfoundland you come from the 'accent ' can be so thick that even I feel I need a translator lol. I love it! One exception is aluminum. Our spelling and pronunciation is different than yours.
In America, "mobile" has three pronunciations depending on context. Mo-bul is the most common. Mo-bee-ul is used for the capital of Alabama, and some people pronounce the name of the baby toy that way. Mo-buy-ul is occasionally used for emphasis; usually, only in the sentence, "I'm mobile," meaning travelling or on the move.
We in the US call the ground floor the first floor and going upstairs one level is the second floor. There, the first floor is the first floor up the stairs. Huge difference.
My Mother was born and raised in West Virginia. She comments a lot how she grew up saying Farsee. It means As far as you can see. Haha. I love it. She also says, "Out Yonder". This means, Out side or over there.
I say herb with the 'h', but I pronounce the vowel differently. To me, your pronunciation sounds more like 'hairb', whereas my pronunciation would be more like 'hurb'.
Different pronunciations I've heard for words in different parts of America:
Caramel = "carra-mel" vs. "car-ml"
Lawyer = "law-yer" vs. "loy-er"
Syrup = "seer-up" vs. "sirrup"
Aunt = "ant" vs. "ahnt"
Almond = "al-mond" vs. "ahll-mend" vs. "am-end"
Pecan = "puh-kahn" vs. "pee-can"
Coyote = "ky-o-tee" vs. "Ky-ote"
Mayonnaise = "man-aze" vs. "may-uh-naze" vs. "my-nez"
Adult = "uh-dult" vs. "add-ult"
Caribbean = "kar-ruh-bee-en" vs. "kar-rib-ee-en"
Crayon = "cray-ahn" vs. "cray-awn"
Salmon = "sal-mon" vs. "sammon"
Coupon = "koo-pahn" vs. "kyoo-pon"
Poem = "poh-em" vs. "pome" (rhyme with "Rome")
Flourish = "flore-ish" vs. "fluh-rish"
Been = "bean" vs. "ben"
Bayou Maccabee Been = bin
Flour-ish
Crayons= crans if you're my dad lol. I've always said "crowns" for some reason.
@@sarahwithanhyouheathen3210 my ex and my kids say crown. I say cray-on
I love this comparison you’ve been doing between culture of the US and Scotland. I’m an anthropology major so this is vastly entertaining! Keep up the great stuff!
Brian Dennis even within America we all say words different. I live in a small state . If I travel not to far from home people talk differently.
I'm from the deep south in the U.S. I was taught the "H" in Herb is silent - in school.
New England here, same
Indiana, same.
Same here. I am from Alabama. How did we get this wrong?! Lol
Thomas Parker same.
@The real glasgow I think the folks from Yorkshire drop the h in the front a lot too. Am I right Yorkshiremen?
Im from America and was raised that Herb (with h) is a persons name and herb (without h) is spices
erbs 🌿 in LA slang is weed lol
In the US we even spell aluminum differently so that may explain why we pronounce it differently too.
Yes, because some of the elements have the -um ending like platinum and talcum, while the others have the -ium ending. Both were used in the 1800s, but ultimately commercial industries in America and Britain determined which became common in each region.
@William Mills A guy who eats it calls it aluminumnumnum.
check the history, I think the difference started as a typo , and stuck
😄 Love the oven mitt! It's kind of a joke - the state of Michigan is shaped like a mitten. Whenever you meet a Michigander and ask where they're from they pop up their hand and say, "If this is Michigan, I live..." and point to the spot that corresponds to their town on the map. 🤚😁
Truth! I'm from SW MI (a long time ago) and I'd point to the palm of my right hand, way over toward the edge 'cause, yanno...near Lake Michigan. 😄
@@ltp9019 🤣👍
I was going to say the same thing!
I have a T-shirt that has "Smitten With the Mitten" on it. Maybe someone will send Shaun one. They're for sale on Michiganisawesome.org. I don't have Shaun's address.
I came from the thumb area. It's commonly referred to as...the Thumb Area.
So in the US, to pronounce vitamin with a short i we need two ts. "vittamin" would have that short i as you pronounce it. "vitamin" with one t, gets a long i. A vowel followed by two of the same consonants is short, a vowel followed by one consonant is long. nibble is short; bible is long,
Perfect, Joe! You nailed it!
@@maryozee6135 it's not rocket science ;)
Spot on. The "i" in "Bite" is the same "i" as the "i" in "Vitamin."
@@JoeBlow_4, to many, it seems to be! I lived in southern New Jersey for over 20 years, and you would not believe how they talked and what they didn't know or care to know.
You should watch Lost in the Pond. Lawrence explains a lot of the origins of words and pronunciations.
Tonya Dull, I too watch Lost in the Pond. Great info on pronunciation.
Yep I agree, Lawrence is great with that sort of thing. That dude is well educated on that kind of stuff.
I'm from Michigan :) Michigan welcomes you Sean I hope you can come here.
You should visit Michigan! I had my honey moon in Traverse City and it was marvelous. You should also come to Alma Michigan. There is a Scottish festival here called the Highland Festival.
I think those Petoskey stones are supposedly a gazillion years old. Seems like you have a good fan base from Michigan. Thanks Shaun.
MI is one of those states with a pretty deep and rich Scottish history I believe. You see that guy who found a 50 lbs Petoskey stone?
@@holyCaptnjack that must be a record size for a Petoskey stone!
I am!
Traverse City is nice - worth a visit and trip across to Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Fall colours are a great time to go.
Let's just face it, we're all just a bunch of fruit loops in a world of Cheerios. I did however laugh myself silly when you said aluminum. Sure glad I didn't have a mouthful of water. 🤣
Great video Shaun. 💜
I can't pronounce aluminum the way the UK says it 🙄😏
@@tagyouritification yeah, I have a difficult time saying it. I actually have to think about it before I say it 😂
@@amethystrose5853 😂🤣😂😁
I was just watching Laurence from Lost in the Pond & he mentioned your channel! I thought it was pretty funny because I was thinking you should watch some of his videos because he explains a lot of reasons why some words are pronounced differently in the US & the UK.
Jennifer Bush
AGREE 😊
The American pronunciation of Herb originated in Great Britain. In the past The British pronounced Herb exactly as Americans do. However, over time, the British changed the pronunciation and Americans continued using the original pronunciation.
I love these types of comparison videos!!! It was a fun to listen to. As Andrew Campbell mentions below, Ad for Advertisement is very common, as in, "There are way too many Ads on TV." I also live in Michigan and was just in Traverse City!!! We just moved here last year and are still learning the Mitten State! It's exciting to know you have fans so close by to us. You should definitely visit Michigan it is so pretty. We are surrounded by 4 great lakes and have more lighthouses than any other state in the US. In fact there are 124 lighthouses, some with museums. My husband and I have endeavored to see all the lighthouses we can this summer. We have already seen over 40!!! By the way, my husband just sprung a surprise on me last night. He wants to visit Scotland next year!!!! I am overjoyed! I have only been to Europe one time and it was to England for our son's wedding. Your videos will help us decide where to visit. My hubby was stationed in Holy Loch many years ago when he was a submariner. He was in the Navy for 20 years (and he's been retired from the Navy for 20 years now). I always wanted to visit while he was there, but we couldn't afford it with our three chilidren (who are now all grown). I really can't wait to visit Scotland!!! Love your videos and have been a fan for quite some time. :-)
Way to go, Lindsay!! (From another Michigander.) Wonderful gifts for Shaun from our State and especially, from Traverse City!
Herb was originally pronounced erb in the UK but for some reason it evolved in the UK to Herb but stayed erb in the US. Why this happened I have no idea but remember learning this some years ago.
@The real glasgow I thought it was a Cockney pronunciation, just like 'ain't'.
Honestly, honor the herb.
Traverse City is known for their wines and cherries. Jerky is amazing. Lake Michigan makes most scotland's lochs look small. and yes it's freshwater
Michigan box!!!! How awesome!!!! I live south of Traverse in Saginaw but its still awesome! You said it right! Love the necklace :) way to represent our state!!
Ashleigh Touchet and the oven mitten is pretty clever, too
I believe "controversy" is pronounced differently as well. We put the accent on "con" whereas in the UK the accent is on the second syllable. I like the new facial hair 😊
Yes! It is Petoskey! You said it correctly. It can only be found around the Petoskey, Michigan area. My family is from the area.
ANOTHER EXPORT FROM TRAVERSE CITY, MICHIGAN--- Me! Lol. That is where my mom's mother is from. I live in West Virginia, now, but my parents were from Michigan. There is a different accent there than where I am, now, but I love how upper mid-west people talk, talking about different ways of saying things.
Maureen
My mother was a Yooper (translation: someone born in the Upper Peninsula) and she sounded Canadian sometimes.
@@maryozee6135 yea, I spent most of my time in the Southwest Mich (Kalamazoo, South Haven) and they talk more like Chicago people!
@@maureenbennett7995 I grew up near Lansing, and it amazes me when I hear people from near Detroit speak. Words like "doorwall" are foreign to me
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Then of course there's Mobile Alabama pronounced "Mobeel"
Yes I live about 40 miles West of there.
This is also what Americans call the spinning musical toy you hang over a crib.
Do you get the significance of the oven ‘mitt’ from Michigan? People from Michigan will say you can tell people where you are from in the state by holding your hand 🖐 like a mitt...being the shape of the state!
Hello from Michigan! I loved watching your reaction to things from my home state. I live in the thumb (near Frankenmuth) (yes we use parts of a mitten to describe location and geography) so there are some very different things to try from this part of the state. Hopefully you can make your way over to these parts and visit our 5 beautiful Great Lakes.
The National Cherry Festival in Traverse City, Michigan starts this week.
🇺🇸 My grandmother would call her cat a wee beastie. Now I call my dogs that!🏴
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I LOVE coffee... it's ALWAYS coffee-time for me LoL! Nice gift package, Lindsey.
Glacier: American - glay-sher, UK - gla-cier or so I’ve heard
You pronounced Petoskey correctly. You should come visit Michigan. Depending on what kind of weather you like winter lots of snow. Spring is pretty with flowering trees. Summer is great for water and going the beach. Fall has great color when the leaves change.
I was taught that alot of our pronunciations derive from middle english rather than modern english. Also that some were changed by early colonists to separate themselves more fully from England.
As someone who has lived in Georgia most of my life, I have fond memories from childhood when I lived in Indiana & used to go on summer vacation in Michigan. My grandparents had some fishing cottages in Traverse City on Lake Leelanau, so I can tell you it's beautiful in that part of Michigan! We used to walk the shores of Lake Michigan looking for Petoskey stones too. So cool that you got one. You were right about the reason Cherry seemed to be a theme of your box, Traverse City is known as the "Cherry Capitol of the World". It's a sight to behold in cherry season and to stop at the roadside stands selling cherries, so good. Fun to hear the words you discussed. IDK why we don't pronounce the H in herb. haha Another word I thought of might explain why Americans pronounce Edinburgh wrong a lot of times - we see the burgh and think of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It's pronounced "burg" and so I think a lot of people do the same when they go to Scotland instead of "bur-ah" as is the proper way to say Edinburgh. haha Thanks for the fun Shaun!
Traverse City is known for its cherries in Michigan
And just to clear up the confusion... water is pronounced wah-der . A soft “t” or a “d” sound...
I'm from Boston. "w (awe) duh
Yes, in our American pronunciation it is a "voiced, alveolar-flap" which is a [d] sound. Some say it almost as if there's a soft "r" before the "d"= war-der for "water" (I had a classmate in college who was from New Jersey, who said it that way). I am from Illinois, and we day "wadder". The surrounding consonants and vowels modify our "t" from voiceless to voiced. (Put your hand on your throat when you say "very" and you'll feel the vvvvibrations from the "voicing". Keep that hand there - and say, "Ta ta!" (Good-bye!) The "t" here is voiceless - no vibrating the vocal cords.) Okay, class is over for today . . . There will be a test tomorrow on voiced and voiceless consonants! (LOL!)
or wadder
In Philly it’s “wudder” and it makes me cringe every time as someone from New York 😂
Roger Quarton
I was reading your response and started laughing over the detailed description you sent and thought “is this a class?!” And then you finish with the whole test thing!! HYSTERICAL!!!
Hey, Shawn a wee Glaswegian, living in Southern California responding ....I say "skedule", "ate", "cell", "herb pronouncing the h!", "wader" (I had to change...no one understood me here, could die of thirst :), vitamin....the way you say it. Other words pronounced differently; controversy, Edinburgh, bottle, mirror (meer in USA). The differences are interesting and I enjoy embracing it all! Great videos, tfs.
Yes! Finally I have been vindicated I have always been made fun of for the way I announce certain words. Thank you so so much for putting this video out there! Big Texas thanks and hugs!
Shaun, My Father was from the Carolina's (USA) and always pronounced aluminum the way you do. One thing I think is interesting is that if someone has the name Herb, the H is not silent. As for your box of goodies, I'm from Michigan so I can identify with all of the items that you received. I just thought I'd point out that even the beef sticks are cherry, just so you know! Take care and I enjoy your channel.
Or venison?
Interesting at times when I see a TV shows on BBC America, I thinks it cute to hear your English (British) enunciated words. Thanks for sharing.
If you're going to visit Michigan be sure to cross the lake and come to Central Wisconsin! We're known as a German state but us American Scots here have taken over lol. We're known for our fried foods... cheese curds (the best you'll have), fish fries (fish and chips)....
I think you'd love it. Keep up the videos! I love to connect to my heritage listening to you!!!
Just in Pennsylvania, there are different ways of saying "water". In Pittsburgh it's "wutter", in Philadelphia it's "worter".
Michigan cherry coffee! My favorite. Can't wait to see how you like it.
I somehow missed seeing this one before! Just watched today. Enjoyed the comparisons. You got a box from Michigan already! I believe we were starting to put one together for you about the time you opened this one. Great that you got a Petosky stone! That was a great idea to send. We collect those when we go Up North. Love the the oven mitt!
Funny story - we met a Scottish lady who was staying near us for the winter and when we said our surname was "Craig", she looked confused. We repeated it "Craig"... then she lit up and said "OHHHHH you're saying CRAYG!! (and rolled her "r" a bit) I thought you were saying "CREGG" like "egg"!! We laughed so hard... so nice to hear the "proper way" to pronounce our name!
Michigander here too! Traverse city is like the cherry capitol of the word! One thing that bothers me with at least aussies. Is they say petrol. Then make fun because we say gas. But gasoline is put into your car. Petrol is what it's made out of. Drives me nuts!
In some parts of the southern USA you can sometimes hear " we just ett (for ate) especially in parts of the south where a lot of Scottish immigrated to.
The words: soda, pop, and coke are all used differently in certain states. I live in Washington state and the people here use "pop" compared to California, where I lived for a while, where they say "soda".
My husband and I fight about that constantly.
Hi Shaun, Love your videos!
Greetings from Pennsylvania...( my Great Grandfather was born and raised in Auchtermuchty !)
Keep up the great work!
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You are worried about 28 degrees being terribly hot? The "feels like" temperature here today was 105 degrees.... That's right.... 105-32÷1.8=40.56
Yeah, but it's all about what you're used to. Their cold temps would probably freeze those of us who live in the South. When I go home to Michigan to visit, I'm shivering whereas my family will be fine in shorts.
Yes, when I first moved down South I thought I might die!
I love Traverse City Michigan. You will want to live there:). They have the Cherry Festival in July but not this year due to the pandemic. The Petosky stones are very cool! It is nestled on two beautiful bays off Lake Michigan, amazing world class winery’s, golf courses, boating, hiking the National Lakeshore at Sleeping Beat Dunes ( once voted most beautiful place in America by a Good Morning America TV show). We are Michiganders we live in. Mi...shee...ghan! Ha!
Just got back from Scotland last night. I did pretty well with the language differences. Spoke with an older man at the bus stop and got most of what he was saying. Very friendly people. Fell in love with the people and landscape.
In the Appalachian mountains, a number of older words and pronunciations persisted.
"Et" for "eat" is one.
The phrase "stinks like cairn" pronounced "kyarn" in Southern Appalachia (maybe only my Carolina part) refers to the smell of long-stored contents of a container used to urinate in before indoor plumbing became widely available. You will probably recognize the container word "cairn"
When I was a child my grandmother from the south, Arkansas at the time she was from originally Illinois. She told me to “Warsh” (wash) my hands. I didn’t know what she meant so I didn’t. She came back yelling at me to warsh my hands I burst into tears “ I don’t know what warsh is” I knew wash like squash kind of a long a sound.
Another michigander here! You would love Michigan is so beautiful. Similar climate to Scotland we're surrounded by water we've got the Great Lakes is where we are 2 peninsula and you've got the ocean. Also that coffee was from Meijer but for some reason we add an "s" to the end of the names of alot in Michigan, so we so we call it Meijer's. Meijer is a big store where you can get almost anything.
Shaun, it really depends what part of the US you come from. In the South, we do not pronounce the "h". However, in the North, I have heard it with the "h" sound. So, as you can see, even the US regions pronounce words differently. The word wash is sometimes pronounced with the letter "r" in it, as in warsh. My northern roommate at college pronounced it that way. Drove me crazy. BTW, speaking of pronunciation, did you know that the word "often" is supposed to be pronounced with a silent "t", as in "ofen". However, most people pronounce it with an emphasis on the hard "t" sound.
One of the funnier words that I've heard is squirrel, especially the first time I heard Stephen Fry say it on QI.
I love how you sound Shaun! Getting back to Herb..I think you guys say it correctly because if there's a man in America and his name is Herbert, his nickname would be Herb not "erb"..
We pronounce herb with the silent H more in the French fashion. We tend to pronounce some words with a T in the middle with a soft D sound: butter, water, better.
You are lucky to have a Petosky stone as they are hard to find. Travers City is a beautiful place!!!
When you go to school, is it to skool or to shool? When you set sail aboard a schooner, is it on a skooner, or a shooner? So why is there confusion about the correct way to pronounce schedule?
Moddey Dhoo I don’t think it’s a matter of who is correct, so much as Shaun is pointing out differences
Certain parts of the states say "warsh" for wash (your hands) some of us say "soda" some of us say "pop" others still will say "soda pop" or just "coke" for blanket coverage of any carbonated drink that's dark.
I hope to meet you when I get there next there next month and discuss these differences of pronunciations, word uses, customs, etc.
Shaun, in most cases of different pronunciations of words between the US and the UK is which syllable we put the emphasis on. And that's even the case sometimes with different regional accents in the US.
In the UK they started pronouncing the "h" in certain words to differentiate between classes. Lower class people regularly dropped the "h" so because of that members of the higher class started pronouncing it. This didn't cross over into the U.S so that's why we continue to say "erb" and not "herb" 😊
Shaun, you're so much fun! I love watching your vids, they are always interesting and adventurous! Its pretty interesting how different we speak and for the water/wa'er difference, I've noticed a lot of us in the US have a hard time understanding British/Scottish/Irish people who ask for "wa'er" 😀 too funny! And no idea why we prounounce herb the way we do? Now you have me wondering too! Keep up all the videos, you are a blast to watch! Much love from Indiana ❤
Router versus “rooter”. Stayed in a serviced apartment in England and there was problem with the internet service. I would say router and the manager said rooter. She laughed at my pronunciation.
In the US, we usually say "ad" instead of advertisement, to eliminate syllables.
We usually pronounce our "h", but the silent "h" in "herb" is influenced by French.
Question: Do you pronounce the letter "h" as "hay-ch" or "ay-ch"? We say "ay-ch" in the US. I am curious because I have heard Londoners say "hay-ch" and found it interesting.
I am from Scotland but live in England and everyone says they can’t understand some things i say
You got the word water right! The 't' is kind of a cross between a 'd' and a 't.' However, here, at least here in Florida, the 't' in vitamin is pronounced the same. You used a hard 't' sound.
And you pronounced petoskey correctly. (All of my family is from Michigan.)
Here in NC, we say it more like wah-der, or if you're my dad it sounds like warter.
We just watched your video and agree that people in the UK and the U. S. say a lot of words differently. But that happened because way back during colonial days, the colonists were separated by distance from the Mother Land. Gradually pronunciation softened and changed because the colonists were no longer in contact with the British. The same thing happened when people began to move westward. The areas like Boston and New York didn't change as much because the colonists were in touch with people from the UK who were involved in shipping. It made things difficult when folks began to emigrate from other countries. My great-great grandfather was Scotch-Irish (okay, Scottish) and his name was MacPherson. The immigration authorities probably didn't understand him when he told his name, so the name was soon McPierson, and then Pierson. By the way, I'm from Michigan and have been to Traverse City a number of times. You pronounced 'petoskey' perfectly. There's a town north of Traverse City called Petoskey.
Great video again Shaun! It’s 33 C in North Texas today and that’s very mild for this time of year. Usually over 38 C this time of year. I was in Scotland about two months ago and it was very nice and quiet warm actually.
My family is from Sand Mountain, which is the northeastern portion of Alabama, and the very northwest corner of Georgia. I actually used to hear a lot of old folks there pronouncing 'ate' as 'et.' They also used to say "I kin ya" meaning "I love you," but I think that's all but died out now. Occasionally still you might hear some one say "I can-uh" for "I cannot." The Appalachians in general has a really unique, and colorful dialect, or rather dialects, though a lot of people not from here kind of look down on it. Even other Southerners who get looked down upon themselves by Northerners. I live close to Chattanooga, Tennessee, which is part of what used to be called the Nickajack Region. It was poorly defined, but included much of Eastern Tennessee, as well as Sand Mountain. Chattanooga is for the most part very nice, and modern. Outside the city in every direction there are a bunch of smaller communities and towns, that are basically their own little world. If you live here for long, you might learn to be able to tell which of these communities someone is from by how they talk. For example there's a little town named Whitwell. Most people would pronounce it Wit-well, but the people from there pronounce it Wootwool.
Another thing we share is a love of Fiddle Music...in fact, I mostly play Scottish Fiddle Tunes...
My Grandparents were from Glasgow! #5 made me smile in how you pronounced Garage!! How about "Composite"
My mother's folks are from Southern Appalachia, western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee specifically, and the accent is much like yours. Many will say "et" rather than "eet". There are many words which linger from the Scotch Irish migration in the 1700's and early 1800's. Their mountainous terrain and independent attitudes tended to isolate the people and their language from modern changes.
This has been a fun video to go through the words with you, Shaun! Like most Americans, I pronounce the "ch" in schedule as a "k": SKED-ule, while fewer (some here do say it as you do) say it as SHED-ule. However, how would you pronounce "schematic"? I would pronounce it the same, therefore it is: skee-MAT-ick (the upper case letters indicate where the SYLlable that gets the stress/emphasis).
In the U.S. we say will do say " 'erb" -not pronouncing the "h". I think several comments below explain it quite well. As for myself, the only time (that I can think of right off the top of my head) I'd say the "H" would be if it's a persons proper name, as in "Herb" (Herbert). This way it's immediately known which you're referring to, the "herb" or "Herb" (Herbert)!
Another word that really threw me, the first time a friend from England said: tortoise - Americans say it VERY differently!! We write it the same way, but pronounce it differently. Being from the Midwest, I say "TORT-us" whereas in the U.K. it's "tor-TOIS"!
Aluminum is the original pronunciation, but then "aluminium" came into fashion in Great Britain, while "aluminum" stayed in use in the U.S.
I grew up with a differing pronunciation of "wash". Of course, the "correct" way is as it is written - but in some areas (including where I grew up, here in rural Illinois, you'll hear people say "warsh" - with a strong, rhotic "r" inserted after the "a' and before the "sh"! Hence, we say: Warshington, warsh rag, do the warsh, or "warsh your hands before supper!" That changing the "t" in water as is done where you live - that is a "glottal stop" - I think of it as being more of a Cockney thing in English, but we do it, too, sometimes in America - as in my own last name: Quar'on, for example.
We have regional accents and pronunciations, too: tote = to carry ; poke = bag, or sack; "to carry someone home" means "to give someone a ride (in a car) home". In Wisconsin and Minnesota they say "aunt' as "ah-nt" while just one state south, in Illinois, we say "ant" (ant - the insect, and aunt - the relative, your mother's/father's sister are the same). Also in Minnesota and Wisconin, "bag" sounds very close to how I say "beg"! At the end of the school day, the kids all gather their "begs" (bags) to go home!
We also say "et" instead of "ate" "Have you et yet?" (Have you eaten yet?) Yep! Usually there's a reason, since we normally don't say it that way, though.
This is a fascinating topic! Thanks for the fun video - and I hope you do this again!
Here’s an interesting one. I’ve noticed that British people tend to add an “R” where there isn’t one. For example, “loverly” instead of lovely, “idear” instead of idea, etc.
Rhiahl Not sure. I just remember that in the musical “My Fair Lady,” the protagonist sings “Wouldn’t It be Loverly.” 😝
If you’d like to search for more information about some of these language phenomena: the pronunciation of ‘herb’ as ‘erb’ is called h-dropping and pronouncing ‘water’ without the ‘t’ you’re actually replacing the ‘t’ with what is called a glottal stop (a short obstruction of airflow in the vocal tract). Hope this helps 😋
Wisconsin also has a place known for cherries, Door County (our thumb). I was there last weekend. It's a really interesting unique place, so is Washington Island which had a lot of Icelandic settlers. Rock Island is great for camping, ferry out and no cars. If you come to Wisconsin you should go there. La Crosse where I live is a cool city along the Mississippi and picturesque with the bluffs. Madison is a nice small city as well, the capital, built around the lakes, good restaurants and arts. The House on the Rock is fun to visit, all kinds of weird stuff. In fact, Wisconsin has lots of cool places, lesser known of the states perhaps but a hidden gem.
One pronunciation difference that is on frequent display in this very video is y'all tend to pronounce "us" with the /z/ sound--/uz/--while in the U.S. it's pronounced with the /s/ sound--/us/.
Really like these happy, optimistic videos!
Michigan in the summertime is paradise. If you go to Michigan you gotta check out a place called Charlevoix it’s on northwest coast of the lower part of Michigan about an hour n a half south of the bridge theat connects the upper peninsula with rest of Michigan it’s also about 20 minutes southwest of Petosky where that rock is from. You can find those rocks in Charlevoix as well. That area is the only place on earth you can find those rocks.
I would love to see you do a collab with Joel and Lia! They do a lot of language videos and such like you do comparing to America. They are in London and Chichester.
I agree. That could be really cool
My Grandmother grew up in the Appalachians (south), she said et, of ate.
The history of the word aluminum vs. aluminium is quite interesting, and both of them originate in England where the element was named by the chemist Sir Humphry Davy. First it was spelled alumium, then it was spelled aluminum, and it finally settled as aluminium over a 5 year stretch. Simply, the documented spelling in Noah Webster's American English dictionary (BTW, dictionary is yet another word that Americans say differently) was aluminum, though both spellings and pronunciations persisted through the 1800s, after which aluminum became more dominant in the USA.
We say "et" my dinner (which the rest of America calls lunch) but we still use a lot of words that britons originally used, like reckon and Yonder and y'all. ( but there was an intentional separation of the English language for Americans after the American war of independence. Southerners tend to hang on to old language.)
@@MichaelTheophilus906 we've always called it "queens English" as well.
It’s now 85 degrees Fahrenheit (30 Celsius) in North Carolina and that’s cool for around here now. It should be around in the upper 90’s F. next week and July. Now that’s hot!
Hey Shaun! Fun video! I love watching you open gifts! Beautiful necklace for Teka! I think the word herb originated from France. I speak some french. So the h should not be there, it should be silent. Herb is short for Herbert. Heure is french for hour. H is silent. Here in the small town I live in, people do say et for ate. Crick for creek. Warsh for wash. And other cowboy slang! Instead of swearing, my ex would say, 'fish piss'! First time I heard that I spit my coffee out! Heavily used is 'ain't'. That one drives me nuts! Isn't not ain't. "Put yer boots on fore ya go down to that there creek to warsh yer face!" "Ain't gonna happen, aye don't wanna Pa". It felt like the Andy Griffith show when I first moved here! Lol!
Thanks for the video! ☮
Hi Shaun, I think the reason some people might say They have ete their dinner is that ETE is a shortened version of EATEN, i.e. I have eaten my dinner
Advertisement when shortened is just Ad, like an ad in the paper; advertisements on TV and radio are commercials probably because they were called commercial advertisements early on.
Water is a fun one, around Philadelphia where I am, many of us seem to pronounce it , though sometimes ; is rare as would be .
I know my aunt always said thang instead of thing, she had what we call a southern draw and we liked it. We used to have so many area dialects in the 70's that seem to have gotten homogenized by commercial TV and radio I'm not sure how many still exist. More than likely Scotlanders and Bostoners of the 1970's would've understood each other just fine, they had that weird hard missing letter thing going on. "Kah? What is a kah? Oh, CAR!" I couldn't accurately write or say how they pronounced 'battery'.
Oh, and why is it spelled 'Worcestershire Sauce' when everyone just says 'worster sauce'?
Check out Alma MICHIGAN they have the Highlands festival every year.
The Alma highland fest is the last weekend in May.
the oven mit because Michigan is famously shaped like an oven mit
Well, the lower peninsula anyway.
Traverse City is the "Cherry Capitol" ; ) Great place!
Traverse City is pretty cool place that's the thing about Michigan is there is so much undeveloped land except the major city's. And we don't measure drive distance in miles we do it in time like it's about 2 hours away. Most of us don't even leave the state for vacation. We will drive 3 or 4 hours north and hang out in the woods
Actually, my friend from CORK IRELAND has sent me coffee (I'm from Minnesota but living in S Dakota) and it was EXCELLANT !!!
With the knowledge of 2 things, you can account for a good percentage of the differences. #1: In the US system of phonics, a vowel, consonant, vowel combination gives the 1st vowel it's long sound. In order for the vowel to have the short sound, it must be followed by 2 consonants. #2: We tend to be in a hurry & run sounds together. While the way you say "mobile" is phonetically correct, we get in a hurry so it kind of runs together. If you listen carefully, you don't hear the "i" at all as either a short or long sound. In high school, the boys headed to the cafeteria for lunch would say, "Lessgoeat", running together the "Let's go eat" into what sounded like one word. Then you have the word "water", which according to the rules should be pronounced with a long "a". But that's English for you. So many of our words come from other languages, some now archaic, and retain those spellings & pronunciations to some extent.
Canadian girl here. More specifically Newfoundland. Since most of our ancestors are Irish, Scottish and English we hear both regularly. However, depending on what area in Newfoundland you come from the 'accent ' can be so thick that even I feel I need a translator lol. I love it! One exception is aluminum. Our spelling and pronunciation is different than yours.
In America, "mobile" has three pronunciations depending on context. Mo-bul is the most common. Mo-bee-ul is used for the capital of Alabama, and some people pronounce the name of the baby toy that way. Mo-buy-ul is occasionally used for emphasis; usually, only in the sentence, "I'm mobile," meaning travelling or on the move.
We in the US call the ground floor the first floor and going upstairs one level is the second floor. There, the first floor is the first floor up the stairs. Huge difference.
My Mother was born and raised in West Virginia. She comments a lot how she grew up saying Farsee. It means As far as you can see. Haha. I love it. She also says, "Out Yonder". This means, Out side or over there.
I say herb with the 'h', but I pronounce the vowel differently. To me, your pronunciation sounds more like 'hairb', whereas my pronunciation would be more like 'hurb'.
To me it's the roll of the tongue. Most everything else I have not a problem with. But it's why I love listening to you.