American things

for a limited time only, great deals on Niss-arn automobiles

the way australians say ‘nissan’ is the worst imo

I don’t know how you personally say nissan but north americans say it very similar to its original Japanese

Same with Subaru

Do Australians say s’-BAY-roo or something?

I don’t know how you personally say nissan but north americans say it very similar to its original Japanese

Same with Subaru

yeah that’s how i understood it. we say ‘NISS-uhn’ and ‘SOO-buh-ROO’

acetaminophen

synthetic marijuana that makes you run around naked in traffic

105. Pronouncing the name Cecil as Cee-cil, thus rendering a silly name even sillier.

― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, February 18, 2018 11:58 AM (three hours ago)

106. also, ‘warwick’

― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, February 18, 2018 12:02 PM

107. calling people named Craig by the non-existent name Kregg.

108. Puerto Rico :(

109. Poncy faux-French pronunciations of the names Gerard and Bernard.

co-ed, presumably meaning 'female'?
also in weird name pronunciation: Graham

“Gram”

how the hell do yall say it?

“graham”

is that GRAY-HAM
or
GRUH-HUM
or
guh *trill* ah *glottal catch* um
or
GRIMMINY GROO
or what come on

“graham”

gray-um

just think of how “graeme” is pronounced, it’s the same

greemee

accents shouldn't really count though

there are regional differences even within england and not to mention the uk

i always thought it was funny how non-rhotic dialects insert an /r/ sound between vowels (when there is no letter r of course)

some good ones i just remembered:

nonsensical use of semester
junior college

darn i forgot the other one

Nonsensical use of “semester” is an English thing we inherited iirc

graham crackers

gray-ham cray-koars

xxp

not sure i'm understanding

i thought most uk universities used terms

gram crack whores

Nevermind, I got it confused with the three halves of the Eton school year

In the UK they have something called “michaelmas”

not since yewtree

In addition to the ‘Michaelmas term’ we have the ‘Hilary term’ which iirc the US also missed out on.

an English thing we inherited

Also true of sophomore, junior, etc.

month/day/year

peanuts in all the candy

peanut butter in all the candy

(which I love btw)

the one area in which usa doesn’t have enough cultural influence

can't believe it took this long for month / day / year to come up, it's so dumb

on zing so can't ctrl +f for fahrenheit

a) peanuts are in barely any of America's mostly-terrible candy

b) peanut butter NEVER is, only a weird gritty peanut-flavoured sugar sludge, occasionally

is your pedantry a bug or a feature, i cant decide

Sem-eye finals of world's championships of sports - the score, five hundred twenty to three hundred four.

I wish actual peanut butter was in this stuff though!

xpost by 15 seconds

Veg it's terrifying how much sugar or corn syrup is in almost everything here, and how little food content is in so many food items

(xp) he carried an assist and rushed one hundred two yards in 32.7 seconds.

Incomprehensible sports with incomprehensible jargon, is what I'm trying to say. Incomprehensible jargon in general, in fact.

xpost nah it is true that corn syrup is in everything, yr not wrong

maybe we cracked it: corn syrup is the most american thing

Bringing u haribo when u request fruit

even the bread had a buttload of sugar

the cult of 'mexican coke' and its sugar

Space cowboys

Had my first mexican coke yesterday twas like a melted Mr freeze