You crazy yanks

Just watching Family Guy where Stewie miniaturises himself to destroy Peter's sperm. Stewie says duodenum and pronounces it... doo-od-eenum You guys, you really crack me up

Thanks...?

And how many words are there for "stupid person" here? Let's see what I can think of off the top of me conk:charlie, wally, herbert (God knows what any of the three ever did to be so immortalised), berk, muppet, numpty, div, pillock, prat, twonk, twit.Must be a lot of 'em over here

We breed'em, then export'em

And what's with route and lever and vase?Numpties

Your nose?

Ermmm . . . yeah I've got the hang of this, me.

You forgot a few - Oni

A little different this side of the swamp.We breed 'em, then elect 'em.

Hi, cavediver.Someone on a medical drama recently pronounced it that way, too. That show instantly lost all credibility with me (although I don't now remember which one it was).

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Hi, Larni. How do y'all pronounce these words?Americans might say "rowt" or "root," depending on region and individual.All Americans I've ever heard say "lever" pronounce it "leh-ver." But, people faking British accents always say, "lee-ver."Americans may say "vayss" or "vahz." I have always felt that "vahz" was how snobby, rich people who want to sound sophisticated say it.

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Vase is Varse pretty much all the through the UK.Lever is Leever, too.Route is always Root.One that always got me was Aluminium is Al-la-min-ium rather than Aloo-min-um.But then I say Grarse for Grass and Barth for Bath but my wife (from the grim place that is the North of England [I'm from the more appropriate South]) says them the latter way.I saw a stand up routine by a fellow from Oz and he said that in England you can tell what street you live on by your accent; he was right, too.ABE: how would you pronounce Slough?Edited by Larni, : Slough

Depending on how the word is used either slau (noun) or sluf (verb)

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Not long after I came over here, I worked in a small office where the manager would nip out pretty much every day to the local news agent's (something else foreign to me) and get snacks and drinks. He used to say to me,"I'm goin' down the shop, you want ought?" (pronounced "oat")It took me a while to actually work out what that meant.I've also had to get used to being called a duck (pronounced "dook" to rhyme with "book"). Edited by Kitsune, : No reason given.

Do you pronounce this with an intrusive r after "saw"? As a non-native speaker I have always liked the intrusive r very much. It sounds so very British.