'It's baah-sil'

I turn around, raise an eyebrow and ask, “Are you correcting my ACCENT?”
That always shut them up…….but I confess that after being here over a decade, I now say ‘baahsil’

UGH! I just made a Live Journal post about this just last week. It had a lot more profane language though!

I also can’t stand when they correct my terminology. When a happy and content ME goes into a store and says, “Oh I want some potato chips!” and some mouth breather will always correct me, “Don’t you mean crisps?” This is when the shouting begins. It was cute the first few months I was here but now it’s annoying.

or how about these kickers of pronounciation just to mention the tip of the iceberg:

progress: proh-gress and prawgress
route: rowwt and rooote
aluminum: Aloomineeeum
vitamins: vidahmens and veehtamins

oh Ladies, better not get me started!

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I forgot to mention the time I had my whole office in stitches one time cos of the way I say waffles and another time when I asked, “Is it time to bring in the trash can?”. How the hell is that funny? I thought one woman was gonna pee herself! I thought it was a bit rude to laugh at me but I didn’t say anything.

I love it when I say a word like “garbage”, and I get to hear it repeated back to me for the next five minutes, with a fake “American” accent: gahr-buj… gahr-buj… (yes, yes, my accent is HILARIOUS!) o__O

And some people get really defensive of the British word for things: I once referred to a toy as a “stuffed animal”, and it was as if I had committed a crime… “stuffed animal?! that’s MORBID! These are cuddly toys!” … and then there was the time, when I first moved here, that I mistakenly referred to the upper level of the building as the “second floor”. And a woman snapped “We’re not in AMERICA- in THIS country that’s not the second floor!” (hey, I’m happy to learn the British word for things, but why the angry over-reaction??)

The most common one for me is ‘router’. I say ‘raow-terr’ instead of ‘root-tah’ and everyone starts going ‘RAOW-TERRRR’ ‘RAOW-TERRR’ ‘RAOW-TERRR’ like a bunch of possessed zombies…

Trash can! It happens to me all the time….. when we’re in the US.
And back in Europe I have to watch my “adaptions”. But really it IS hilarious most of the time.
It is! When you get someone to pee herself or have a waiter baffled just because you said “tomahtoo” or “cutlery” instead of “silverware”! Or when someone tells me to “pop the hood” or when I say the luggage is in the boot.
Just accept British and American English are different.

Kisschick1976 – about the potato chips. Americans invented them, we should be able to call them by their proper name! I hate being smugly corected about that. It isn’t our fault that they misnamed frites chips. Stop renaming the foods of other countries.

The odd thing is an American talking to a Brit in the US will say “oh, you mean bay-zil” but won’t put that corrective spin on things, and will just make the sandwich. We would consider that being rude to a tourist/outsider.

“getting the correct herb”

You mean ‘erb?

I’m definitely a Bah-sil! Baysil sounds like something one might use to clean one’s windies.

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