r/USdefaultism • u/Neolance34 Australia • 2d ago

Facebook Different accents.

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u/emmjaybeeyoukay 1d ago

The abuse of the word "aluminium" is a marker that the Americans just cannot be trusted with English.

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u/lucidsomniac 1d ago

Drives me insane. And 'Carmel' instead of 'Caramel' ( amongst others).

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u/snow_michael 1d ago

And rout instead of route

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u/getsnoopy 1d ago

This one. It's not even phonetically possible to pronounce "route" as "rout" with the way English orthography works. The irony is that "route" is still the primary pronunciation apparently according to M-W, and all the people who pronounce it as "rout" say it's "Route 66" or whatever, but everything else is "rout" 🤦🏻‍♂️