American spelling - Yanks to me!

[Jaron]

 

[Eddie Teach]

Yes really.

Well, I suppose it does to the same extent the terms still life, charmed life, lifeboat and My So-Called Life do.

But it really sounds like what someone says who didn't go to college.

[Sheilbh]

I think it's the other way round.  I pronounce it advert-iss-ment

Getting the American pronounciation wrong is not a real shocker, but getting the UK pronounciation wrong is a real stumper.

I think it's maybe a North-South thing.

[jimmy olsen]

I think it's the other way round.  I pronounce it advert-iss-ment

Getting the American pronounciation wrong is not a real shocker, but getting the UK pronounciation wrong is a real stumper.

I think it's maybe a North-South thing.

But presumably he's spoken with people from the south and heard them on tv often.

[Josquius]

I've only ever heard it in American English. Advert-iss-ment is a very American thing to say.
In British English its the regular word advertise with ment on the end. Or just advert.

I think it's the other way round.  I pronounce it advert-iss-ment

How odd.
As I said I've only ever heard that pronounciation from American TV.
Saying it that way it sounds very foreign to my ears.

[Richard Hakluyt]

I just call them adverts, if I said the word in full I'm not sure which pronounciation I would go with.............which would support the theory that it's a North-South thing.

[Sheilbh]

How odd.
As I said I've only ever heard that pronounciation from American TV.
Saying it that way it sounds very foreign to my ears.

Same for advertise-ment for me, it sounds clunky.  Again I would have guessed that was the American pronunciation.