Things you were shockingly old when you learned

The addition of a y sound after the d doesn’t phase me, but google is telling me the British pronounce it without any d, just a straight up hard j and hard t, which seems insane and wrong.

(Oops faze, not phase - always do that one)

I think of there being two variable: saying the d as just d, dj or j, then saying the u as you or oo.

Just a d is RP I think, and just a j is lower-class SE England, but I’m not sure hope the rest of it breaks down. Scots would generally also say d I think? I’m more dj.

The oo bit is the obviously American, and also Indian. But I think joo-et would be roughly how many in SE England would say it too.

Variables
Sure how

Too confusing; didn’t read:

Posh people and maybe Scots: dyou-ET
Cockneys: joo-ET
Everyone else: maybe djyou-ET, djoo-ET or the top one

i think he means the foreshortened swallowing of the 't' that happens when americans pronounce the word 'mountain' for instance i.e. 'moun-uhn'

Glottal stop?

(xp) Sounds right.

Yes that's what I meant! I kind of slip into it in my more mockney moments.

"It's like Strindberg in here. Wi' glottal stops"

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Vaguely related: I listen to a lot of cricket and am still always confused by the Australian pronunciation of 'debut'. I've only heard minor variations of equally stressed 'day-byew' but the Aussie pronunciation is a tiny first 'de' and a big old stress on the second syllable of 'BOO'.

wi glottal stop meetin' loik this

Legit howling over here

That's down to Americans pronouncing 'u' as 'oo'

I guess we do because I am American and I have no idea what two different sounds you're trying to distinguish here.

u="you" vs u="oo"

in england you hear this difference in words like 'insulate' - americans will just schwa that u, but english people will pretty much say 'insyoo-late'

i think i first clocked this when i heard someone pronounce 'lure' i.e. 'lyure' - which to me just seems like SUCH a long way round for such a simple word

My mum sometimes says 'dyoo-vay' when she's trying to be posh

At least we can all agree on 'inure', right?

…right?

Btw 'lyure' likewise disconcerts my Canuck ears but I can deal with 'alyure'.

A dyoo-ron ron ron

A dyoo-ron ron

Americans say fyool not fool for 'fuel' though, so it's not a hard and fast rule. What about duel or dual though?

.. or fewl not foo-el.

Gimme fool gimme fire

dool
dooshwal

Chewsday

poxy fyule

Americans say fyool not fool for 'fuel' though, so it's not a hard and fast rule.

this is much adieu about nothing

That's what a fyule believes!

I got p-taken for saying syoot for male formal clobber.
NOt sure how you are sposed to say things like that , sooot?

Again, RP would be syoot and it’s one my dad would tell us off for when we said sooot.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes which is on tv right now was based on a play based on a novel from the late 20s which I didn't realise until the novel turned up in a recent poll.

"syoot" would seem pretentious in the US, I would say. We say sooot (rhymes with shoot). (Not to be confused with soot, which rhymes with put.)

feel like wire were not singing 'mr syoot'

Pyoonk rock innit?

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes which is on tv right now was based on a play based on a novel from the late 20s which I didn't realise until the novel turned up in a recent poll.

His surname ends in a t.

Yeah it’s Styu-wert, not Styu-werd

You don't pronounce the w though?

Oh yeah, sorry.

STYOU-ert

Hadn't realised there was a 3 decade gap between th ebook and film until this week. ON a film I've watched since childhood.
also realising how little I like narcissistic turds

His surname ends in a t.

also realising how little I like narcissistic turds

― Stevolende, Monday, December 28, 2020 7:01 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

definitely flipped this in my head so it read "also realising how i like little narcissistic turds," and then quickly corrected lol.

What a shirsey is.

Turns out little-remembered southern rock act the Marshall Tucker Band didn't actually have anyone in them named Marshall Tucker. Who knew?!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marshall_Tucker_Band#Origin_of_the_name

The "Marshall Tucker" in the band's name does not refer to a band member, but rather a blind piano tuner from Columbia, South Carolina.[5] While the band was discussing possible band names one evening in an old warehouse they had rented for rehearsal space, someone noticed that the warehouse's door key had the name "Marshall Tucker" inscribed on it, and suggested they call themselves "The Marshall Tucker Band," not realizing it referred to an actual person. It later came to light that Marshall Tucker, the blind piano tuner, had tuned a piano in that rented space before the band, and his name was inscribed on the key

Fergie sang backup vocals on Martika's "Toy Soldiers"

― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Friday, December 25, 2020 4:38 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f2/80/a0/f280a00a2a405566eb75148896d5016a.jpg

I had a crush on Ryan (third from left) for years and years.

oh, THAT Fergie

There are multiple Fergies?

one was married to Prince Andrew

don't sweat it

i knew about that fergie from grocery store tabloid front covers when i was a kid, which made it confusing to learn about the other fergie when i was an older kid

it's extra confusing because both of them pissed their pants on live television