Re: [Hampshire] Americanisations (Was: Bad Karma)

2009/10/28 Sean Gibbins <sean@???>:
> Chris Aitken wrote:
>>
>>     > Sean,
>>     >  Whats with this "my bad". We are NOT AMERICANS...
>>
>>     I've been living in the USA for a year or so. This example is way
>>     down on the
>>     list of annoyingizations of the language :)
>>
>> The one that gets me is Herbs, pronounced Erbs, and yet the ability to
>> pronounce the letter H as Haitch.
>>
>> All Set.
>
> The use of 'z' instead of 's' - as in Americanization - and also 'zee'
> instead of 'zed' while we're at it!
>

And they still claim to speak English! :-)

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Philip Stubbs