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Post by floog on Jun 6, 2006 18:15:50 GMT
Can LIGHTSPEED, or indeed anyone please help my puzzled little brain on this one...... The word ROUTE is pronounced ROOT in the UK. Over in CANADA, they also say ROOT In the USA there was a mighty cool song by CHUCK BERRY titled 'ROUTE 66' and Mr Berry sang ROOT all the way through the song, as did millions of americans and peeps worldwide since it's release When I went to Vegas a few earth years ago, I just had to have an excursion taking in the famous road that IS Route 66 and it was ace ;D ....and all day long the US guide kept saying ROWT (as in NOWT) 66......ROWT 66 What gives??? I love Americans, and have had the pleasure of meetings scores of lovely ones over the years, so don't get me wrong.... But if the song says ROOT and it's sung by an American....how comes they say ROWT??? On TV, Americans always say ROWT.....even Dick Van Dyke says it in 'Diagnosis Murder'.... I must know before I die.....I go lie down now, brain hurty quite a bit... Answers on a postcard to: FLOOG'S completely pointless ..... questions #3 in a series of 329
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Post by lightspeed on Jun 6, 2006 22:33:55 GMT
There are probably as many "different" dialects of American English as there are variations over there. I'm sure there are words which, when spoken in the Isles seem to sound the same to everyone who happens to understand what is being said, BUT, to an outsider, would sound like entirely different words. We have a bit of that in Canada, especially between the East Coast and the rest of Canada. Having been on the OA site for a while, it is very obvious that to and "unfamiliar ear" not only the words used, but the way they are used is very different from one region of the US to another. The Northeast (Boston) area has its own peculiar way of pronouncing vowels, the South tends to drag words out until you've kinda got to replay then in fast forward to get what they said, California has its own language (expected cuz they're just a bit weird out there) and the Central States are different yet again. Some say pot (eh)to, others say pot (a) to I don't try to sort it out, I just try to understand it. Guess that's not an explanation - more like an excuse.
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Post by floog on Jun 7, 2006 4:02:24 GMT
Thonks LEETSPUD, thut's eh geed enuff exploonution four meee...... " Get your kicks... .....from ROWT 66 " me old PO (TART) TO....
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Post by lightspeed on Jun 7, 2006 17:40:18 GMT
Thonks LEETSPUD, thut's eh geed enuff exploonution four meee...... Hmmm. . . and just where would that dialect have you from? ;D
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Post by floog on Jun 7, 2006 18:34:43 GMT
Thonks LEETSPUD, thut's eh geed enuff exploonution four meee...... Hmmm. . . and just where would that dialect have you from? ;D Ah well, it's a Bedfordshire base with a southern twist and a Canadian British Columbia topping.........
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Post by lightspeed on Jun 8, 2006 0:02:24 GMT
Ah well, it's a Bedfordshire base with a southern twist and a Canadian British Columbia topping......... Sounds most tasty. ps. like the little 'band' players gif!!!
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Post by ZRX Gremlin on Jun 8, 2006 21:02:32 GMT
In Austrailia, the word ROOT takes on an entirely different meaning, so to avoid lowering the tone, I won't mention it here.
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Post by BADGER on Jun 11, 2006 6:46:02 GMT
In Austrailia, the word ROOT takes on an entirely different meaning, so to avoid lowering the tone, I won't mention it here. :mut: surely Grem , you not suggesting that someone here is lowering the tone :hides:
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Post by ZRX Gremlin on Jun 11, 2006 9:30:33 GMT
surely Grem , you not suggesting that someone here is lowering the tone :hides: Who me As if.....
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Post by floog on Jun 11, 2006 10:39:59 GMT
surely Grem , you not suggesting that someone here is lowering the tone :hides: Who me As if.....
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Post by bornagainden on Jun 11, 2006 10:59:02 GMT
Floog.......way conner thay tul wot thate onnerbate? if thay comst dine ere fer a dee , wail explun aw abite rageannul spaking fer thay.thast a poshun ar spose. an thayst gorra sulva spun inst thee gob er summat.
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Post by floog on Jun 11, 2006 12:45:35 GMT
Floog.......way conner thay tul wot thate onnerbate? if thay comst dine ere fer a dee , wail explun aw abite rageannul spaking fer thay.thast a poshun ar spose. an thayst gorra sulva spun inst thee gob er summat. That took me about three attempts to decipher.....here goes... FLOOG, why can't you tell what they're on about. If you come down here for a day, I will explain all about regional speaking for you. You're posh I suppose and you've got a silver spoon in your mouth or something How'd I do?? Put the original post through the spell checker on the site......it really struggles.... I have a very non standard lingo, born in Bedfordshire but moved to London very young so it's a southern accent but not cockney, East or West London etc Whenever I visit my folks in Canada, wherever I go, Canadians in shops and restaurants stand and listen to me and can't work out what country I'm from!! I think I sound pretty English, but they can't work me out. Many times I have been told by locals that they love my accent, and almost every time I go, someone will say to me, " Just keep talking, I love the way you sound" ....weird innit guv'nor Lawks a lummy me old china an all that.
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Post by floog on Jun 11, 2006 13:53:30 GMT
My Calgary born brother in law is always trying to bamboozle me with Canadian colloquialisms many of which are regionally based.....as an example... Apologies LIGHTSPEED for the poor linking of the words... My Hydro was busted so I could see dick-all on the TV. After a play in the Tubbie I decided to take a cab to the Mall where I got an awesome Bunny Hug in blue and a pair of twisted runners. Quick rest where I had Poutine all dressed and a Gatorade which sure beats Vico any day Got a toonie off a Two-Four, Iron Horse my favorite. Beats a Poverty Pack in my view. On the way back to my Ute , some trailer park trash pecker neck got Snarky in his Tuque. Think he was on the Pogey. Bit of a Newfie When I got home, the Eavestrough had overflowed and the Garburator had exploded I completely leave my brother dazed by some Cockney...never fails
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Post by lightspeed on Jun 12, 2006 14:04:17 GMT
My Calgary born brother in law is always trying to bamboozle me with Canadian colloquialisms many of which are regionally based.....as an example... Apologies LIGHTSPEED for the poor linking of the words... My Hydro was busted so I could see dick-all on the TV. After a play in the Tubbie I decided to take a cab to the Mall where I got an awesome Bunny Hug in blue and a pair of twisted runners. Quick rest where I had Poutine all dressed and a Gatorade which sure beats Vico any day Got a toonie off a Two-Four, Iron Horse my favorite. Beats a Poverty Pack in my view. On the way back to my Ute , some trailer park trash pecker neck got Snarky in his Tuque. Think he was on the Pogey. Bit of a Newfie When I got home, the Eavestrough had overflowed and the Garburator had exploded I completely leave my brother dazed by some Cockney...never fails Hmmm . . . I see he's only been giving the colloquialism "light" version. Wait till ya get to the north (ie the waaay north) or the east coast (Newfoundland, PEI, New Brunswick or Nova Scotia! They're something akin to you characters - the words they use have nothing to do with the meaning intended. BTW, glad you did a translation on Bornagainden's "epistle"
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