How proficient are you at english? (native speakers welcome!)

Started by viper37, August 23, 2020, 03:10:34 PM

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merithyn

Quote from: Tyr on August 24, 2020, 06:15:16 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on August 24, 2020, 12:22:39 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on August 24, 2020, 12:20:10 PM
Ending like latrine? The I sound is the one I am unsure of here.
No. Latrine is more like la-treen. Doctrine is doc-trin (short i, not long e).

I've heard from both.
Is it not a case like schedule?

I've never heard doctrine said like latrine. Not to say it's wrong, I've just never heard it.
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I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away...

Grey Fox

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Sheilbh

Quote from: Tyr on August 24, 2020, 06:15:16 PM
I've heard from both.
Is it not a case like schedule?
Maybe (I'm a shed-ule person not sked-ule).

I'm aware there are words that I've picked up pronunciations of that are apparently American not English and I have no idea how or why. Process with a short o instead of a long o, I think is an example.
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Tonitrus

It often seems that my Brit colleague, with whom I work the closest with (he is from Essex), and I, don't pronounce anything the same.  :P

The example that comes most to mind is the word "guard".  I say the usual American way with the "r" stressed like a pirate "g-arr-d".  For him, it will be ridiculously stressed on the "a", as in "g-AWD-rd")...with the "r" hardly heard at all.  Almost like "god" but stressing "o" to an extreme level...and a bit of a flourish.