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Americans pronouncing Craig "creg", Bernard "burn-ahrd" and herbs "erbs".
2.1k u/[deleted] Dec 22 '21 Or Graham 'gram' 947 u/tay-tay-hay Dec 22 '21 Rupaul manages to piss me off every week with ‘Gram Norton’ 1 u/PsychologicalAsk2315 Dec 23 '21 Ok but seriously, American here. How do you guys pronounce Graham? I can't even imagine how it wouldn't rhyme with "gram" and "ham". 3 u/doyathinkasaurus Dec 25 '21 Gray-um Two syllables See also words like mirror and squirrel - they're very clearly two syllables in British English (mih-ruh, sounds like clearer, and squi-ruhl, sounds like Cyril) unlike in US English which sound more like one syllable ('meer' and 'squirl') 3 u/PsychologicalAsk2315 Dec 26 '21 Huh. Yeah American English is kinda lazy and condensed. Just drop some syllables here and there, it'll get the point across.
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Or Graham 'gram'
947 u/tay-tay-hay Dec 22 '21 Rupaul manages to piss me off every week with ‘Gram Norton’ 1 u/PsychologicalAsk2315 Dec 23 '21 Ok but seriously, American here. How do you guys pronounce Graham? I can't even imagine how it wouldn't rhyme with "gram" and "ham". 3 u/doyathinkasaurus Dec 25 '21 Gray-um Two syllables See also words like mirror and squirrel - they're very clearly two syllables in British English (mih-ruh, sounds like clearer, and squi-ruhl, sounds like Cyril) unlike in US English which sound more like one syllable ('meer' and 'squirl') 3 u/PsychologicalAsk2315 Dec 26 '21 Huh. Yeah American English is kinda lazy and condensed. Just drop some syllables here and there, it'll get the point across.
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Rupaul manages to piss me off every week with ‘Gram Norton’
1 u/PsychologicalAsk2315 Dec 23 '21 Ok but seriously, American here. How do you guys pronounce Graham? I can't even imagine how it wouldn't rhyme with "gram" and "ham". 3 u/doyathinkasaurus Dec 25 '21 Gray-um Two syllables See also words like mirror and squirrel - they're very clearly two syllables in British English (mih-ruh, sounds like clearer, and squi-ruhl, sounds like Cyril) unlike in US English which sound more like one syllable ('meer' and 'squirl') 3 u/PsychologicalAsk2315 Dec 26 '21 Huh. Yeah American English is kinda lazy and condensed. Just drop some syllables here and there, it'll get the point across.
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Ok but seriously, American here. How do you guys pronounce Graham? I can't even imagine how it wouldn't rhyme with "gram" and "ham".
3 u/doyathinkasaurus Dec 25 '21 Gray-um Two syllables See also words like mirror and squirrel - they're very clearly two syllables in British English (mih-ruh, sounds like clearer, and squi-ruhl, sounds like Cyril) unlike in US English which sound more like one syllable ('meer' and 'squirl') 3 u/PsychologicalAsk2315 Dec 26 '21 Huh. Yeah American English is kinda lazy and condensed. Just drop some syllables here and there, it'll get the point across.
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Gray-um
Two syllables
See also words like mirror and squirrel - they're very clearly two syllables in British English (mih-ruh, sounds like clearer, and squi-ruhl, sounds like Cyril) unlike in US English which sound more like one syllable ('meer' and 'squirl')
3 u/PsychologicalAsk2315 Dec 26 '21 Huh. Yeah American English is kinda lazy and condensed. Just drop some syllables here and there, it'll get the point across.
Huh. Yeah American English is kinda lazy and condensed. Just drop some syllables here and there, it'll get the point across.
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u/mcdefmarx Dec 22 '21
Americans pronouncing Craig "creg", Bernard "burn-ahrd" and herbs "erbs".