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View Poll Results: Can you pronounce THREE?
I say Three as normal 33 86.84%
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Old 12-02-2018, 02:33 AM #1
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Unless you're vegetarian bc who wants free or three burgers anyway!?!?!??!


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Edinburgh would be pronounced Edin-BERG. I don't think I've ever heard it pronounced differently anywhere. Like I'm confused how "burgh" can possibly translate to "bra" or "bruh" or "burrow"

Pittsburgh = Pitts-BERG etc.
Btw I just remembered my dad actually says Pittsburrow and he was raised for many years of his life in Europe (Croatia) so idk if he picked up that pronunciation in America or over there.

Also idk why these kind of language/pronunciation topics interest me so much
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Btw I just remembered my dad actually says Pittsburrow and he was raised for many years of his life in Europe (Croatia) so idk if he picked up that pronunciation in America or over there.
That's not a difference in pronunciation though, it's just wrong
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I genuinely have no idea what youre all going on about and its distressing me
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I genuinely have no idea what youre all going on about and its distressing me
Maybe it's like the thing with Japanese and L / R, like you're so culturally attuned to it that you can't even hear a difference (apparently L and R actually SOUND the same to most Japanese people, they don't just mix up saying them )
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Maybe it's like the thing with Japanese and L / R, like you're so culturally attuned to it that you can't even hear a difference (apparently L and R actually SOUND the same to most Japanese people, they don't just mix up saying them )
Yeah if you watch the Japanese Anime Fairy Tail they have a girl named Lucy pronounced as Rushi.
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In all seriousness - in any Scottish primary school, if you mispronounced your "th" as an "f" you'd probably be put down for some speech and language therapy, because it's technically a speech impediment...
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I'm going to ask my mum and dad if they pronounce free and three the same way, I'll keep you updated
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My Dad has no idea what you're all going on about either
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this is painful. I don't understand how that is different to how we would pronounce those words if they were spelt with an f instead of a th.
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this is painful. I don't understand how that is different to how we would pronounce those words if they were spelt with an f instead of a th.
You genuinely can't hear a difference between "free" and "three" when, say, it's pronounced by a newsreader?
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You genuinely can't hear a difference between "free" and "three" when, say, it's pronounced by a newsreader?
I've never heard them in the same sentence before... cant specifically remember a time I heard a newsreader (or anyone else really) say these words either, I'll keep an ear out.
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That said, neither Englishes NOR Americans can properly pronounce "burgh", as in "Edinburgh". English people tend to say "Edin-bra or Edin-bruh", Americans tend to say "Edin-burrow" or even "Edin-burg".

And all y'all pronounce "Loch" as "lock".
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That said, neither Englishes NOR Americans can properly pronounce "burgh", as in "Edinburgh". English people tend to say "Edin-bra or Edin-bruh", Americans tend to say "Edin-burrow" or even "Edin-burg".

And all y'all pronounce "Loch" as "lock".
Them yanks/noreasters (the upstairs Americans) would say Edin-burrow I suspect. I would use Edin-BERG What is the proper pronunciation though of "burgh" though?

We can blame the English language itself. It's not like spelling and pronunciation in our language is thoroughly consistent anyway. Very easy to butcher the language and your butchering would be right depending on what region of the US/UK you live in and in some cases, context.
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Them yanks/noreasters (the upstairs Americans) would say Edin-burrow I suspect. I would use Edin-BERG What is the proper pronunciation though of "burgh" though?
Closest I could type it is "Edin-burruh" but there's a sort of glottal element to the "ruh". And the "bu" is very short so it's sort of ALMOST "Edin-brah"... but it's not.

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Closest I could type it is "Edin-burruh" but there's a sort of glottal element to the "ruh". And the "bu" is very short so it's sort of ALMOST "Edin-brah"... but it's not.

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(Also, Glasgow is "Glazz-Go", not bloody "Glass-Cow".
So I pronounced Glasgow properly then.

Edinburgh I do pronounced as Edin-burruh but I'm slightly off on pronunciation which I didn't know that after 21 years.
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That said, neither Englishes NOR Americans can properly pronounce "burgh", as in "Edinburgh". English people tend to say "Edin-bra or Edin-bruh", Americans tend to say "Edin-burrow" or even "Edin-burg".

And all y'all pronounce "Loch" as "lock".
Edinburgh would be pronounced Edin-BERG. I don't think I've ever heard it pronounced differently anywhere. Like I'm confused how "burgh" can possibly translate to "bra" or "bruh" or "burrow"

Pittsburgh = Pitts-BERG etc.
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I said this before but I'm convinced Irish people can't pronounce th because in the Irish language if words start with th the t becomes silent so there's no sound like the th in English i think our tongues just aren't meant for it
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9/10 times I say TH but sometimes the commoner has to come out in me and I F it.
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I don't have a speech impediment so can pronounce the words properly..
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