Curmudgeons welcome

Integral

Aluminum or Al-you-minee-um.

Left-effin’-tenant.

That’s what we call the person who lives in the apartment nextdoor.

yes, total pain in the posterior while it slowly reboots and your kids ask "where’s the sound, dad?’

It is a different word, not a pronunciation difference: Aluminum v. Aluminium.

Labatory v Laboratory.

On a more serious note, can PC Audio please get the London time correct on the Playlists - it’s two hours out! :face_with_symbols_over_mouth:

Actually, it is a pronunciation difference. North America vs Everybody else. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium

I call it Atomic Number 13 for short. :innocent:

It is pronounced differently in the State and Canada because it is a different word. See, the same citation you provided, top of the page, far right, under “Pronunciation.” You will see there the two different words and corresponding pronunciations.

Let’s not miniumize this😆

Well done :slight_smile:

Or over exaggerate


And then there is cockney. Hey come on admit it, even most of Britain must snicker a tad at the Cockneys. This American practically needs a Star Trek universal translator to understand the dialect.
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The most incomprehensible English dialect used to be Geordie, from Tyneside in the North East. Fortunately (?) 50 years of a more global culture have washed away most of its extremes. I was originally from Tyneside but a few years after my family moved to London even I had difficulty understanding it.

For all intensive purposes, this is a most interesting conversation.

I could disagree more.

I could care less



and I don’t care to.

Do I look like I give a rat’s behind?

I’m offended!
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Get off my lawn!