It's an aboriginal name emu, so we Aussies definitely pronounce it correctly

@reapingbennefits

Жыл бұрын

Exactly!

@cjw9257

Жыл бұрын

Emu’s are Australian

@xymonau2468

Жыл бұрын

Yes, but Americans think they are the standard by which the world must run. They even took a poll somewhere in the US and decided it was pronounced their way and Australians were wrong. How's that for arrogance?

@criszis

Жыл бұрын

I agree that we pronounce it correctly, but I don't think it is an Aboriginal word.

@xymonau2468

Жыл бұрын

@@criszis I agree, but it is now an Australian word.

Very few Australians would say "vaze" rhyming with "maze". The most common is "vahse", rhyming with "Mars".

@tulinfirenze1990

Жыл бұрын

Please be aware though that when providing the latter example for clarification that you actually remember how the intended audience would pronounce your comparison word - and yes, I know you provided the example of the soft "vAHse. An American would not pronounce "Mars" as we here in Australia would - We'd say, "I feel like a Maaahs baaah." For an American to pronounce it just like an Aussie, that's how you'd have to spell it. If an American followed your example there (vAHse spelling aside), they'd use THEIR pronunciation of "Maaaarrrrrrrs" (hard and long "r" sound) and say "vaaaaarrrrrs" for vase. You need an word that sounds exactly like "vahse". The first that popped into my head was the ice cream company in the US, "Haagen Daaz." I'd tell an American we pronounce "vase" to rhyme with "Daaz" from "Haagen Daaz."

@Nat-dx3vp

Жыл бұрын

Totally agree I say Vahes rhyming with Mars

@jgreen2015

Жыл бұрын

Same as UK

@drewkelly6967

Жыл бұрын

I came here for this comment.

@becwrites

Жыл бұрын

Correct

As a 67 year old Aussie, I have NEVER heard anyone say Vit a mins. It’s always Vite a mins.

@wendykaplar8428

Ай бұрын

Same, that's the Brits

@user-qy4ri2oe5l

Ай бұрын

@@wendykaplar8428 i reallly agree the only people who would say vit-a-mins and like indians or brits

@SuperEpicCookies

9 күн бұрын

I say vit-a-mins

@silverstreettalks343

6 күн бұрын

One of my grandmothers -- Australian born -- used to say "vit a mins", the rest of us said "vyte a mins" The term was invented in 1912, and was probably originally "vit a meen", just to confuse matters. I think that several different pronunciations emerged, reflecting regional or national pronunciation preferences, and we still haven't entirely settled, even in a single country.

"maybe you guys are saying it wrong" Every Australian IT IS OUR BIRD!!

@dcmastermindfirst9418

2 ай бұрын

These words are English. The yanks are saying them all wrong

@glitchvanny3404

Ай бұрын

America got idiot(not all of them but some of them are)

@davidrose2382

29 күн бұрын

Considering we all grew up watching sesame Street,you'd think we'd pronounce them the same😅nuh

@davidrose2382

29 күн бұрын

Vaaze

I'd like to ask all Americans who insist on pronouncing emu as "ee-moo" whether their road rules allow them to do an oo-turn at traffic lights.

@denisehooke3833

Жыл бұрын

Ha I like that one. They probably do say oo turn 😂

@rickyd.989

Жыл бұрын

Ooh make me laugh

@davidjohnpaul7558

Жыл бұрын

😅😅

@iajanus

Жыл бұрын

@Slavery is Freedom, War is Peace Not to create a "schism", but English is a wonderful language in which words that are spelt the same way might have varying pronunciations. Now I'm off to have a glass of "schnapps".

@iajanus

Жыл бұрын

@Slavery is Freedom, War is Peace schnapps is definitely a word in English, and is not a proper noun like "Schwab". It doesn't matter that it's a loanword, something like 80% of English words are. As such, pronunciations can wildly vary, which was my point originally.

We don’t pronounce words wrong it’s just the rest of the world just doesn’t understand

@X.F.P.

Жыл бұрын

He or she's right

@sirsickles

Жыл бұрын

Exactly

@nancyehill7129

Жыл бұрын

Too right!

@1samnic

Жыл бұрын

Most words they spelt most of the words wrong

@axe6028

Жыл бұрын

That goes both ways

I mean, to be honest, as an Aussie, I think we should be considered the experts on how to pronounce “emu” seeing as they are native to our country!?🤷‍♀️👍🏻

"How does one letter have multiple letters to spell one letter?" * Double you has entered the chat *

@MrMrMrTurtle

Ай бұрын

Fr

@jamiealeksic8428

4 күн бұрын

its just a descriptor of what the letter looks like Two U's side by side

Many years ago, a wise woman taught me that when it comes language, "it's not wrong, it's just different". Turns out she had it all arse about. If you pronounce 'emu' as 'eemoo', then it's not just different; it's wrong.

@tammymcleod4504

Жыл бұрын

And we oughta know, it's our bloody national bird! It's E-MEW!!!!!

@jgsheehan8810

Жыл бұрын

100%

@kerryalbany3922

Жыл бұрын

i like your thinking

@kerryalbany3922

Жыл бұрын

@@tammymcleod4504 Too right !!

@6226superhurricane

Жыл бұрын

@illawarrior hill filet and fillet are two different words

Poor old Tristan got a few of these wrong, bless his heart. We say 'ad-VER-tiss-ment' or just 'ad'. We also say vase as 'vahhs', which rhymes with the way we say cars ('cahhs'). Most of us say 'vite-a-min' the same way you do. But 'emu' is EE-MEW and that's a hill we Aussies will die on 😅

@mishamelbourne1649

Жыл бұрын

We do say advertisement but with a “Tis” not a “tise”. I say it all the time. Accent on the “vert” every time

@pascalswager9100

Жыл бұрын

Thank God you said the "vase" one, that triggered Me!

@FionaEm

Жыл бұрын

@@pascalswager9100 Me too 😅

@davidjohnpaul7558

Жыл бұрын

😅😅

@lonewallet3713

Жыл бұрын

Good lord someone said it right

I love the fact that as an Australian, and I'd say New Zealanders are the same, as long as you're speaking English we can understand it. It doesn't matter the accent or the pronunciation we know what you mean, even when you have a different word for something we still know what you mean. I'd say us antipodeans are the best at understanding all forms of english.

@Larissa_aus

9 ай бұрын

I had to look up antipodean. As a 50yo woman I have NEVER heard that word before??! Well, there you go! Huh! 🧐🤔

@Codcj2

7 ай бұрын

Good old ausie english. A compleate abomination of acronyms, slang, and abbreviations, mixed in with actual words from the english language. Makes it easy when people speak on other accents cause we are used to understanding shit that makes no sense. 😂

@AussieFossil

3 ай бұрын

@@Larissa_aus The Brits seem to use it much more than we do.

@hellabella8295

2 ай бұрын

New Zealanders miss entire letters and can’t say certain letters.. how the hell can E TURN INTO U.. LIKE SEX.. they say SUX.. WE RUIN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE BUT NZ IS EVEN WORSE.. 😂😂

@neilt6480

Ай бұрын

You could be right. I was in a pub Pommieland (yeah-nah what a surprise) and I kid you not - I had to do a bit of translating for a bloke with a strong west-country accent and a bloke with a strong Newcastle accent. There were a bunch of words and phrases where they didn't understand each other. Mind you that was back in the mid 70s. TV has both softened accents and made them more broadly heard. I doubt if they'd have such trouble nowadays unless they were bunging it on.

This was such a roller coaster. I can’t believe you guessed he was mispronouncing some words still in the “Aussie” version and you’re american!! 😂😂 I’m really getting into this series. How nice to see someone reacting nicely to things ❤

here's the really fun part: we Aussies are still able to understand you when you say aluminum, basil, pecan, caramel, oregano differently to us. in fact we generally can handle many different accents speaking english and using odd words, better than americans. (actually maybe not caramel)

@lady_bexy

Жыл бұрын

Yes! Why do they drop the 'a' from the middle of caramel? Like the forget it's in there...I can kind of get being lazy about the letter u in words like colour/color, it doesn't really change it. But caramel is a 3 syllable word, you don't usually lose an entire syllable....

@murkrowo

Жыл бұрын

@@lady_bexy It’s like aluminium! They just drop a syllable

@starshinestarbright964

Жыл бұрын

Yeah as Carmel is usually a ladies name

@michaelparsons9236

Жыл бұрын

American caramel triggers me

@XxShade_FrostxX

Жыл бұрын

I can't take it when Americans prnounce Australian cities the wrong way. So add that to the list of no goes like Caramel.

As far as EMU is concerned it is a very large bird native to our country. So I think we have the pronunciation correct……end of subject. As for the others, Australia mainly goes by the Oxford English with a few of our own variations. Americans have the Webster’s which they drop off letters out of words and much of their spelling is phonetic. ie. Color/colour program/programme they have their own take on things. We will just have to agree to disagree, suffice to say when in Rome……👍🙃

@danielgrey5754

Жыл бұрын

Yep it's our fucking bird and we decide how it's pronounced. It's on our bloody coat of arms FFS. The almost willful and stubborn refusal to pronounce it correctly does make me laugh though. Can't be pissed off. Happy arvo.

@blacksorrento4719

Жыл бұрын

@@danielgrey5754 yes I agree, there are some things the Americans just shouldn’t argue about. They are WRONG.

@dianaellul9345

Жыл бұрын

As a sixty two year old woman who is born and raised in Australia I would like to say this, Emu is pronounced neither Emoo nor Emew, it is Eem-you. You say a slightly long e and pronounced the u as you would the letter. As for some of the others. I've never heard anyone say gairage, either ga(p)rage or g rahge. Cordial can be two completely different words. When someone is being cordial it means they are being polite, as in "You are cordially invited to...". It is also a sugary fruit syrup which you add iced water to when you want a cold drink (usually for children). The first is pronounced cordjule and the second cord ee al. Vase is pronounced vahze and bouquet is bowkay (like a ribbon).

@blacksorrento4719

Жыл бұрын

@@dianaellul9345 yes most definitely. I don’t think either pronunciation was correct, but it certainly was not the American one. What gets me is that they argue the point. Okay we pronounce the black cat of South America Puma differently to how they do. But we do know that it is native to South America, hence however they say it, one would assume it is correct. We just pronounce it differently here. Thank you for your comment, stay safe. 😊

@navarian4579

Жыл бұрын

have to agree, honestly getting a little tired of people who dont have the creature in the country, and who never named the creature telling us how to pronounce it and correcting us rather than accepting correction on how to say Emu

He was pretty close to the pronunciations as an Aussie this made me giggle, we love being unique LOL

Would like to point out that "filet" and "fillet" are two different words. In Australia, most will pronounce filet the french way, whereas fillet is a more general term and people will pronounce as written.

Z is pronounced as 'zed' in not only Australia, but the UK and Canada. It was 'zed' in these countries long before America made it zee. I also know of no one who calls them 'vit-a-mins'. No, no, no... v'aze is WRONG. It's v-arz

@alonedingo

Жыл бұрын

It’s also because every consonant has a ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ sound (for vowels it’s long and short) so both are correct, however traditionally in English the hard sound is used for the letter on its own.

@terryjackson8773

Жыл бұрын

@@sparksy6273 I'm first generation Brit-Aussie and I have never said vit-a-mins. Perhaps it's also where I grew up, which was in SA.

@nicolasutton5709

Жыл бұрын

I was fine all the way up until he said ‘vaze’ instead of ‘varz’

@kay8449

9 ай бұрын

As an English/Aussie i still say Vit-a-min rather than Vite-a-min

@stevepapandony4409

6 ай бұрын

He definitely got heaps of Aussie pronunciations wrong. Ant and Arnt, (not Ont.)

As a linguist I found this video very interesting....the Australian 🇦🇺 pronunciation of these 50 words is almost identical to how we would say them here in the UK.. Greetings to 🇦🇺 and 🇺🇲

@mickybaus6848

Жыл бұрын

That's right. It's Americans that are wrong 🙂

@vikkievenden9988

Жыл бұрын

Hello 👋

@vikkievenden9988

Жыл бұрын

hehehe I love our ways

@Lotsielots

Жыл бұрын

Very true.

@xymonau2468

Жыл бұрын

Some of what he said was completely incorrect.

Yep that was fun! I LOVE my Aussie accent 🇭🇲 Here's a few more for you: ROUTE 🇺🇸 Row-t 🇭🇲 Root BATTERY 🇺🇸 Bat-ery 🇭🇲 Bat-ry BRISBANE 🇺🇸 Bris-bane 🇭🇲 Bris-bin CANBERRA 🇺🇸 Can-berra 🇭🇲 Can-bra BUDGERIGAR 🇺🇸 Parakeet 🇭🇲 Budgie P.S. I don't like vit-a-mins either! I prefer vite-a-mins 👍 P.P.S. Everyone I know says vah-s not vaze 😁

It's safe to say that different states around Australia are a bit different in pronunciations, plus also areas. I'm from South Australia, and heard people from Victoria and Queensland and Northern Territory speak similarly and different. To me it was Queensland that spoke the most different to the way I do. (Haven't been to all the states) You did good though and I love how you're willing to have a go at everything. Love your videoes.

@druidgrove

6 ай бұрын

Plant is pronounced differently

@lisaflower5994

2 ай бұрын

This is a funny thing about our states. It’s the vowels that change. Like grass, either gr ar se or grass with the a as in hat. Castle is the same, C ar stle and cas (like cat) tle. The funny part is that we judge each other as trying to sound plummy and yet we all make the plummy sound in some words and not others. In SA most people say dance to sound like darnce, no other state does.

@lisaflower5994

2 ай бұрын

Never heard anyone say booquey

@freddy9120

Ай бұрын

With Queensland there is more then one accent you go west or the further north you go it completely changes

Emu, it's an animal only native to Australia, therefore how it is pronounced in Aus is the correct way. Saying "i can't do it" is not correct, you are choosing to say it wrong. Do you say moocus for mucus? do you say moosic for music?

@athenagoddessofwisdom2094

Жыл бұрын

They say legoom for legume

@vurmitza

Жыл бұрын

Well, your argument is not a valid argument since there is absolutely no logic especially in English: how do you pronounce "hiccough"? See! That's why can be an "e-moo" bu "m-yusic".

@SlowmovingGiant

Жыл бұрын

@@vurmitza my argument is quite valid, Aussies like myself pronounce it E-mew. In Aus we spell it hiccup and pronounce it hick-up. English is a hodge-podge of a language.

@rossbrumby1957

Жыл бұрын

@@vurmitza there are norms in english- laws if you prefer- that pronounce a vowel a certain way if followed or preceded by another certain vowel or letter. Much in the way spelling is ordered such as i before e except after c. The laws of pronunciation are seldom spoken of because just saying the words teaches others to pronounce correctly. The only time this fails is when people refuse to learn correctly. Remember people, American is not a language, but English is.

@chygwelanmeneth

Жыл бұрын

@@rossbrumby1957 Do the yanks say "oo-ess-ay" or U-ESS-AY. If the latter, then why can't they say 'e-mew'???

Cordial is a tricky one. For me it has always depended on the use. The drink is cor-di-al, the other meaning is cor-jul

@catherine18924

Жыл бұрын

came here for this comment! 😅

@annaduffield8964

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely right with this one

@Skipperau

Жыл бұрын

Nope, we use cor-di-al in all cases.

@audreydoyle5268

Жыл бұрын

@@Skipperau we use cor-jul as in cordial: friendly or having rapport. Cordial is pronounced cor-dee-al for the drink.

@52188972

11 ай бұрын

yea came here for this comment - i corjully invite you to have a glass of cordial - different things i reckon

Cordial in Australia is often pronounced differently, depending on the meaning. Cordial (as in cordially invited) is pronounce “corjul” but the cordial (drink) is as he said (cor-dee-al). Also, Iran and Iraq are not pronounced as he said we do… the ‘a’ sound is more ‘ahhh’ sounding than how he said it - like the difference in the a sound between American and Australian accents.

@leglessinoz

11 ай бұрын

Both words are CORD-IAL

@Eilen62

2 ай бұрын

​@@leglessinozAbsolutely!!! 👍👍

@susie9893

Ай бұрын

I say both words as corjul. Altho as kids we used to say cordigal 😂

@Eilen62

Ай бұрын

@@susie9893 Yep, 🤣🤣🤣🤣

We tend to pronounce words the way they are spelt. Enjoying the series and love that you have such a great outlook . Keep them coming 👍

@dcmastermindfirst9418

2 ай бұрын

That's 'spelled' mate not spelt. Spelt is an Americanism. They say everything wrong.

“Ew-no” This whole video is hilarious 😂😂 His excitement when he get’s the pronunciation right He’s dying to be one of us 🇦🇺

The language is" English" so Australian pronunciation is closer to the U.K. Aluminium was invented in the U.K. so that is correct. The U.S. drops letters from many words such as the "U" in colour but also over emphasise some letters. I hear an American say "and" as ayand but in the end we understand each other.

@kerryalbany3922

Жыл бұрын

Canadians get it

@FionaEm

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like "eeeeeaannnddd" when they're thinking out loud or joining two phrases together.

@ianmontgomery7534

Жыл бұрын

yeah we compromised and it is now sulfur not sulphur so the US should change to aluminium.

@vurmitza

Жыл бұрын

I doubt that "in the end we understand each other" part! Have you seen that hillarious clip on YT from that current TikTok series "What is the dumbest thing an American has ever said to you" in which an American lady had to -> translate

@SoggyToast506

Жыл бұрын

Americans kinda made their own language, and don’t realise that the UK and Australia use the proper English which is made up of 350 languages…

Also, just on the subject of whether American travellers are pronouncing place names wrong or with their own accent - pronunciation is all about accent. Even when 2 people from the same place say things differently to one another, it is because they’re putting a different accent on different parts of the word. How you pronounce things is defined by your accent - this is why it’s so hard to learn a new language and perfect the accent, because you’ve trained yourself to say those letters / words in certain ways. But any time you’re in another country and you’re saying their word, they’re correct and you’re incorrect. I occasionally say “fillet” with a hard “t” when talking about fish or a knife, and that’s fine in my country. But I wouldn’t go to France and tell them that they’re saying it wrong. It’s just a courtesy thing. I think the reason so many people get annoyed with American tourists for mispronouncing things is not because they’re saying it wrong, it’s because a lot of people (that I am aware of) have had experiences with American tourists not just pronouncing things incorrectly, but continuing to do so after they’ve been advised otherwise, and then also arguing about why everyone in the country they’re visiting is wrong. A lot of places in Australia carry the names of famous English people or the original aboriginal names of places. Peoples’ names often have a different pronunciation than the strict alphabetical interpretation would suggest, due to regional dialects, etc. In terms of aboriginal australian words, these languages were never written and contain sounds that don’t make sense using the English language or alphabet - but they are what they are and that’s all we’ve got to remember some of those languages by now. Pronouncing things differently is great and fun and half the joy of an overseas trip, I think sometimes people just struggle with the when, how, why or how often it’s asked.

So many of these I have never heard pronounced that way in Australia. But the one that annoys me the most is Melbourne. As a girl that was born in Melbourne, I pronounce it as Mel-burn.

@susie9893

Ай бұрын

Thanks for that. Cos I've heard a lot of Victorians insist it's MelBOURNE. Here in NSW we always say MelBURN (I've also heard MelBIN)

@user-qy4ri2oe5l

Ай бұрын

in south australia everyone who has said that has always said melbin

omg it is not "care-a-mel"... it is "ca-ra-mel" - EXACTLY as it's spelt 😂🤦🏻‍♂

@jocelynmarks5111

Жыл бұрын

Ca-ra-MULL

@andrewsyd

Жыл бұрын

@@jocelynmarks5111 actually it's probably more like ca-ra-m'l -- I've never heard it sound like "mull" here, with the clearer "u"

@cadifan

Жыл бұрын

American caramel is "car-mil" I don't know how they get that, it's obviously "ca-ra-mil"

@tssCaramel

Жыл бұрын

agreed

This dude is pretty spot on except for the vitamins one, I've never heard anyone say it like he says us Aussies say it. He also left out my favorite word...pergola.

@janeogrady8020

Жыл бұрын

Yeah Ive literally heard no one say it the way he reckons us Aussies do!

@nancyehill7129

Жыл бұрын

I’ve only ever heard people of British background pronounce it that way.

@Chookly44

Жыл бұрын

Yep. Only British say vittamins. And yes pergola is a great one. Ryan didn't recognise the word on a past vid. lol

@Amber86queenbee

Жыл бұрын

It drives me nuts how UK pronounces vitamins and my grandparents are from there. I have never heard an Aussie pronounce it that way.

@Robert-cu9bm

Жыл бұрын

@@Amber86queenbee British get annoyed at the way Aussie pronounce data. Day-ta....dar-ta

Number 33 - if it's under $50, it's a vaze, but if it's over $50, it's a varse.

No we don’t say garage or vitamins like that. The one word that grinds my gears when I hear Americans say it is vehicle.

He definitely got 3 wrong. We say varze rather than vayze. He's right about premier except that the ending is more like PREM-i-uh. The main one he got wrong was advertisement. It would be ad-VER-tiss-mnt - shortened to a simple 'ad'. It's the Poms (Brits) who say 'advert'.

@applebees3729

Жыл бұрын

more of a prem-yeah, or atleast thats ive been sayin it

@louiscypher4186

Жыл бұрын

I think he's hanging out in Vic or SA. Vayze is much more popular in Aussie rules land.

@thevannmann

Жыл бұрын

He's mixing premier with premiere. Premier is PREM-ee-uh whilst premiere is prem-ee-AI(R). We have state PREMIERs whilst a TV show will PREMIERE.

@caro7085

Жыл бұрын

@@louiscypher4186 WA exists as well :( we speak correctly AND like the correct sport.

@louiscypher4186

Жыл бұрын

@@caro7085 WA? Hello and welcome to the internet.

Ryan, the pronunciation of Cairns reminded me that there’s a true story passed on by a member of Qantas cabin crew. The passengers were about to disembark at Cairns International Airport. The attendant was asked by an American passenger what time the film festival would be starting…

@vurmitza

Жыл бұрын

The last sentence would make a perfect answer to that popular TikTok series of "What was the dumbest thing an American ever said to you?" (triggered by an Aussie, btw). Greetings from Germany!

@louiscypher4186

Жыл бұрын

It would have been even more hilarious if flickerfest was on.

As an Aussie, let me assure you the accent guy is TOTALLY WRONG in many cases 😂 Vase is “vahse” in Australia (rhyming with cars or Daas from Haagen Daas). You said it correctly, the guy in the vid was wrong. Premier is “Prem-ee-er” for a politician and “Prem-ee-air” for a first time film screening or opening. So many other wrong ones I could write a list but I can't be bothered 😅

@susie9893

Ай бұрын

I'm glad I'm not the only one who pronounces Premier a couple of different ways (actually, I think I might have 3 different pronunciations, but 🤷‍♀️)

You were definite right about the Hyundai one, we definitely pronounce the y. We don’t like silent letters either, as much as we butcher our words sometimes

As a 70yr old Australian I guess I don’t know how to speak the language. The one that got me most was vase which I have only ever heard called a ‘v ar z’.

@kerryalbany3922

Жыл бұрын

YES

@becp488

Жыл бұрын

Same.

@barbaraomar4057

Жыл бұрын

Same here

@its_tricky_dick

Жыл бұрын

I've heard it pronounced both equally in perth. Vase both pronouncements are perfectly fine in Australia

Australian English is “non-rhotic”, which means that “r” is silent except when there’s a vowel sound after it. There are non-rhotic dialects in the USA, too, such as the Harvard accent. Some Australia dialects add to the confusion with an “intervocalic intrusive r”, which is a little “r” sound to separate vowels that are in different syllables. For example, when I say “India are” I unconsciously slip an “r” in at the end of “India” and leave out the one at the end of “are”. American friends then point and laugh.

@missyt543

Жыл бұрын

I have noticed this randomly when talking and just put it down as a little quirk. I'm pleased to discover it has an actual name 😀

@beematthewswood

Жыл бұрын

I knew about the non-rhotic bit, but didn't know there was a name for the second one! I stumbled across it saying "luna is"

The "yu" pronunciation in emu, university etc is from the influence of Norman French on Southern English. In French the letter U represents the ü sound (like in German über) but in Old English that sound was indicated by Y, and U has the same sound as "oo" in "boot". In areas where French was more influential, people tended to combine the two, sliding from the French sound to the English one. I suppose that the migrants to America largely followed the earlier pronunciation. "Zed"originally came from the same Phoenician root as Hebrew "tzade", Greek "zeta", German "Zet". It is only in countries where Webster's Dictionary has been influential -- basically the US -- that "Zee" has become dominant. "Haitch" used to be the Catholic pronunciation, and "Aitch" the Protestant way. This was because many teachers in Catholic schools were Irish, where "Haitch" was the common pronunciation. "Nissan" is probably more like "Miss Anne" only with an N.

"How can one letter have multiple letters to spell it?" Just wait until he finds out about "W".

Filet = Filay but Fillet is pronounced Fill-et. The double L changes the pronunciation. The hard part is, depending on where you’re from, it changes. I’m from Western Australia and I say Haitch, but I’ve seen a lot of people in the chat saying that’s wrong. This is why the English language is so hard to learn. One word has so many meaning and different pronunciations depending where you’re from. Also I have an American friend who says they don’t have cordial in the states (could just be where she’s from though). But that could be why the cordial was different. We have two different way of saying it here depending on the meaning.

@HazySkies

Жыл бұрын

That's very interesting. I'm also from Western Australia and have always pronounced H on its own as "aych", Z as "Zee" too, which is also contrary to Australians in this comparison video. I suppose it changes depending on region and definitely also your upbringing, the media, and people you're exposed to.

@lisadean5z

10 ай бұрын

@@HazySkies Zee is American. Plenty of Australians use Americanisms, especially since Sesame Street uses the letter Zee.

Seriously it shows how amazing and awesome we Aussies are.

Melbourne suffered the same fate as Marylebone in London, it took too long to say in a world that didn't have the time to listen. The 'bourne' and 'bone', corruptions of burn, the old German word for a stream or brook, were shortened to 'bun' and prefixed with 'Mel' and 'Ma'.

As an Aussie I've actually found it weird pronouncing buoy as "boi," it just sounds right as "boo-ey." It bothered me a lot being raised by the riverside, buoys came up in conversations a lot. Also on a slightly unrelated note, as a kid I thought Yosemite was pronounced like Vegemite and it still makes me smile to think about to this day. Y' Aussie might! Nah nah, yo-seh-muh-tee.

In Victoria Melbourne is pronounced Mel-bn, essentially no vowel between the b and the n. The further you are from Melbourne the more letters you are likely to pronounce. Brisbane is pronounced the same way - Bris-bn. Our capital Canberra is pronounced Can-bra and Albury is All-bree. I use the long "a" when pronouncing "castle" because my mother came from New South Wales but my Victorian class-mates would use a short "a". When taking into account what the locals call their town Newcastle, New South Wales is pronounced Nyew-car-sl while Castlemaine, Victoria is pronounced Cass-l-main. We don't pronounce "ew" words phonetically either. New is pronounced nyew, dew is pronounced djew or jew and the correct way to pronounce emu is ee-myoo. Tumut is pronounced Chew-mut and the word tube is pronounced choob. The Caribbean is pronounced Car-ib-ee-an rather than Ca-ribian. France can be Frarnce if you come from South Australia or use a more refined Aussie dialect. In the army Lieutenant is lef-tenant. Gaelic words are also pronounced closer to their original eg. Glenorchy is Glen-ock-i. Many indigenous place names starting with Wan are pronounced Won such as Wandillagong but the city of Wangaratta is rarely called Won-gar-atta (locals call it Wang).

@kymharris269

Жыл бұрын

@Mr Goono, they say Mel-bn, but for some reason Roebourne gets pronounced by non-locals as Roe-burn. But it’s Roe-bn if you are a local.

The British and others pronounce “z”, “zed”, owing to the origin of the letter “z”, the Greek letter “Zeta”. This gave rise to the Old French “zede”, which resulted in the English “zed” around the 15th century.

Very nice, thanks for your teaching. Learn alots today 🙏🙏

Hi & many blessings to you from Cairns (Cans) Australia! 😁✌🌴🌞Recently discovered your channel...very entertaining. Love ya work mate 😎

Wow, you are doing so well with Aussie pronunciation! Given emus are our birds and Americans don’t have their own, we get to decide the pronunciation. (How do you say the name of the letter 'u'? That’s why we say it that way.) Same with cities - you own them, you get to decide how to say them. The word is actually spelt caramel, so that’s why it’s pronounced with the extra syllable. No, we say veyetarmins. Aluminium is tactually he correct name and pronunciation. The chemist who originally isolated aluminium from its ore first called it alumium, then changed it to aluminum. The ending -ium represents a metal for the majority of the Periodic Table metal elements (those not originally named by ancient Romans and Greeks)- magnesium, sodium, einsteinium, etc, so IUPAC, who control the standards for chemistry across the world, changed it to aluminium to match the standard naming system for metals. America held out (as they also did with sulphur becoming sulfur, and the use of the metric system), so IUPAC then allowed both versions. In Australia it is generally varz, not vaze or vase. A lot of the differences in pronunciation come about from where the emphasis is placed in a word - on the first or the second vowel. You picked up on that really fast. As usual, love your reactions. You need to be careful, you’re becoming more Aussie every day (and we’d be proud o have you. )Cheers from Sydney.

There’s a ‘y’ in there - eem you. It’s an Australian word so there is NO other way to say it!

@X.F.P.

Жыл бұрын

true

@Teagirl009

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. Though that also applies to Uno which is Spanish for one. Oo-no, no other way to say it. And puma which is a south America animal. Poo-ma not pew-ma.

@joshlagreca

Жыл бұрын

@@Teagirl009 Honestly, as an Australian, I say Oo-no. In reality it's about half-half that say Oo-no or you-no

Your advertisement is better than his attempt at Australian English. Vahz is mostly how we say Vase in Sydney

I was so proud when Ryan pronounced Melbourne correctly!

You should check out and react to this classic short comedy series called "How to talk Australians". It's made by Australian Indians who nail true Aussie humour.

@mcshmurty8255

Жыл бұрын

Haha yes!! I second this. Such a great little series

@pjm582009

Жыл бұрын

Definitely piss funny

@mattcernjavic9999

Жыл бұрын

Definitely.

@RandomHero19813

Жыл бұрын

This is exact what I thought at the end when he said if he was taking a foreign class on how to talk in australia

I can agree that in most cases it is just an accent or different way of saying things, however the Emu is an Australian bird and Emoo is not only wrong it grates in the worst way on the Aussie ear. Most Aussies will attempt to correct a person who says Emoo but if it persists they will probably not brush it of as a mistake made by a non Aussie, more likely they will conclude that the person is a deadshit . It seems almost insulting, akin to if we were to keep saying The American Bald Seagull.

@redwarpy

Жыл бұрын

laughing at the bald seagull

@micheledix2616

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍

@eastsid3ridah

Жыл бұрын

emu big not yellow bird, emoo electric cow.

@joshlagreca

Жыл бұрын

As an Aussie I am forever more calling it a bald seagull haha

Z as in "Zed" was introduced to clarify over radio a clear definition over C.

People living in Melbourne call their city -Mel bin'- Am sure in the USA, there are cities where the local pronunication is different from the actual spelling.

Most of the words it’s just a case of how you pronounce it depends on where you are from and there were a few he got the Australian pronunciation wrong like vase, vitamins and aitch (only bogans say haitch) and in the grand scheme of things it doesn’t much matter… ….but when it comes to emu, they are an Australian bird, they aren’t found anywhere else. Our bird, our pronunciation! 🙂

@baird55aus

Жыл бұрын

@@Alyce101 if you went to a Roman catholic school then you are more likely to say Haitch rather than the correct aitch.

@miniveedub

Жыл бұрын

@@Alyce101 I went to school in the late fifties/early sixties and if we said haitch instead of aitch it would have earned a scolding from the teacher about only “common” people saying it that way. Common was the term used before bogan became popular.

@carokat1111

Жыл бұрын

It is generally Catholic schools which taught Haitch, but not exclusively from there.

@suestewart8024

Жыл бұрын

@@miniveedub Ah yes. Another of my era. No haitchs for us.

@ianmontgomery7534

Жыл бұрын

@@Alyce101 i went to school in Wonthaggi then Horsham and then sale and its eemed to apply in those towns but maybe that was a Victorian thing.

"maybe you guys are saying it wrong" Really? The emu (e-mew) is an Australian bird. It is endemic to Australia and found nowhere else. I know there are some that have been imported to the USA but it is still an Australian bird and "e-mew" is how it is pronounced. There is no argument and no discussion about that, it is e-mew. By the way, the popular cage bird, also endemic to Australia, found all over the world is the parrot known as the budgerigar, often abbreviated to "budgie". It is not, as Americans insist on calling it, called a "parakeet".

@micheledix2616

Жыл бұрын

Right on🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍

@grandmothergoose

Жыл бұрын

Hate to burst your bubble, but there's many different species of parakeet, budgies are one of those many species. Saying a budgie isn't a parakeet is like saying a cockatoo isn't a parrot, or a canary isn't a songbird, or an eagle isn't a raptor. American's aren't wrong about budgies, they're just very unspecific.

@micheledix2616

Жыл бұрын

@@grandmothergoose it is true what you say, but as Australians we do prefer to be more specific with naming of birds ( including the naming of those on the parakeet family as we have SO MANY native varieties of parakeets calling them all parakeets appears to make them all the same bird species

@jackvos8047

Жыл бұрын

@@micheledix2616 I have a species of parakeet visit neighbours trees every summer, but I don't think parakeet when I see them, I think rosella. The more ornithological inclined would call them eastern rosella.

@micheledix2616

Жыл бұрын

@@jackvos8047 gorgeous noisy birds. An Aussie neighbourhood wouldn't sound right without the sounds of the Lorries and Rosella chatter

Cant believe im commenting so many times, I just been binge watching your videos, with Zed being pronounced that, think of Kay, Jay, Bee, C also sounds like sea or see, and so forth

I have to admit, that with 'Aluminium', the US has the pronunciation correct. It was Humphry Davy, an English chemist, who first suggested it be called 'Aluminum'.

@sebastianusprime

7 күн бұрын

I believe when the name was being created, it first went from 'Alumium' to 'Aluminum' and then finally settled on 'Aluminium'.

Love your reactions to 🤣and growing understanding of things Australian, Ryan! One inaccuracy that struck me in Mr. Kuhn's (generally) impressively accurate list here is that most Aussies would I think say "Vah-z" for "vase" (like the English and the original French), not "Vay-z". Though that could be changing with younger generations parroting American mispronunciations and getting it wrong. (What do any other Aussies who may notice my comment think?)

@kayleadawn

Жыл бұрын

Can confirm. I definitely say "Vah-z" as do most people I know :)

@FionaEm

Жыл бұрын

I've always said vahz (Gen Xer here) but have heard the American pronunciation creeping in when younger ppl say it.

@sirsickles

Жыл бұрын

Always saying vahz

@brendonrookes1151

Жыл бұрын

he also spelt melbin the american way iv never heard any aussie call it melbin its either melbs or melben if in formal

@nancyehill7129

Жыл бұрын

I pronounce it Vah-z too

Some of these are more complicated than "we say this and you say that". For example, most Aussies will use both forms of 'garage' (I've forgotten the rule though). Sometimes the different usage has a change in connotation. For example: Dhaaan-sing is used for formal or classical dancing like ballroom, but Dan-sing is used for that jiggly thing you do in the night club.

With the Zee vs Zed debate, bro just forgot about W ‘double you (u)’ omg it’s spelled by more that three letters 🤯

I cannot believe his missed one of the BIGGEST pronounciation differences when some of the words were such a strech. "PERGOLA" - a shaded outdoor room or area attached to the side or rear of a house; USA = "PURR-GUR-LAH" AUS = "PEG-GOAL-AH" Annoys the hell out of me when I watch US renovation shows on TV.

Buoy, as in buoyant.

@Teagirl009

Жыл бұрын

Exactly. We pronounce it correctly

@tishbrett

Жыл бұрын

It gets me when yanks say boo ee lol

I’m an Australian, I learned in English class, if a word has a e at the end the vowel in the middle of the world will sound longer, example hat/hate or kit/kite or cop/cope, so a word like Mobile, sound more right with the longer i sound than the shorter i sound (Mo-bil), because of that English rule.

@JillMarshall-xy6td

11 ай бұрын

Amen! Basic spelling and sounding from primary school.

According to Korean people I've spoken to the way we pronounce Hyundai is spot on. Heyunday

Love this video! You done the well pronouncing most words you would do well here fitting in! The video your reacting to is pretty accurate! Although some words here are said both ways, we built our language from the English accent and had our own way of saying it, but in the last three decades we are adapting more to American English because we watch more American tv shows and less English! But in saying that we will always be Aussie and sound different haha love you all matter how you pronounce words! Come check out Australia I'd love to see you all here 👍

It’s aluminium because all the other metals have the suffix ium - potassium, sodium, barium, calcium, magnesium, aluminium, etc. There are two meanings - basal thermometer or basil the herb.

I’m Australian; it’s always vite-a-mins!! The Hyundai was very accurate, and yes Cairns is Cans and Melbourne is Melbin. 🤣

@ianmontgomery7534

Жыл бұрын

the company Hyundai changed the way they said it in their ads. It was Say Hi to a Hyundai at one stage but now they have 'day' on the end.

@thevannmann

Жыл бұрын

Nah. A lot of Australians say "hee-YUN-day".

@evansmarion550

10 ай бұрын

Melbourne *has* to be pronounced Mel-bin because that's the way Lord Melbourne, the Victorian-era Prime Minister of Great Britain after whom our city was named, pronounced *his* name - Lord Melbin. No ifs, buts or maybes!

As an Aussie I'd like to say most of us pronounce vase the way you thought we did

Cairns still has an A and R in it... just short... and Melbourne is Melbin... yeah... and I love Melbin!!! been there a lot and like the place!

I don’t understand why we find the American mispronunciation of “emu” so triggering but we do🤷🏻‍♂️

@Kayenne54

Жыл бұрын

It's just wrong. melbooorne gets me too. Lol

@andrewhall9175

Жыл бұрын

@@Kayenne54 Well yes, but they do have a Melbourne somewhere in the US, and we can’t really except two different pronunciations

@Kayenne54

Жыл бұрын

@@andrewhall9175 lol

@eshiestrik2756

Жыл бұрын

I get annoyed at the Pronunciation by he US for many of the Australian state capitals. My own, Adelaide you can guarantee it will be pronounced Ad-el-aay-da. Gives me the shivers.

@dcmastermindfirst9418

2 ай бұрын

Because it's fukin wrong. Just like everything else they say

It's amazing how many times you guessed ,giggled and we're correct.

@stirlingmoss4621

Жыл бұрын

*were, not we're (we are). I thank you.

You think saying "Melbourne" is hard. Try saying the name of a country town in New South Wales called Wagga Wagga. It's actually pronounced as "Wogga" and nobody says it twice!

Much love from "MELBURN" HAHAHA love the fist pump reaction for Nutella! Maybe as a kid I said Uno "you-no"... but i learned to say it right which is Oo-no... It's literally Spanish for One hahaha When it comes to Filet... Yes the Filet o Fish is right, or if it was a Chicken Filet same same... but if you go and get a Filet Mignon then it's Filay like the french word Vitamins most would say it the same way you do... vite-a-mins... It's more of an english thing to say vitt-a-mins I'm with you on Hyundai... it's He-un-day

Ryan! Australian here, hello 👋🏼 Watch and review as many of Tristians Australian videos as you can, I’ve watched most of them and I think he really does explain and understand the Australian culture better than most and goes beyond the superficial trash you see by other KZreadrs

"How can one letter have multiple letters to spell it?" Zed, Doubleyou, Aitch......

@andrewsyd

Жыл бұрын

The same with just about every letter lol. Ay, be, see, dee, e...... ok maybe not "e" lol .....eff, jee, aych, iy, jay, kay, ellemenno-pee 😂

@dizzylizzy7582

Жыл бұрын

Apparently, if a word has two of the same letters in it, they don't say double r or whatever. So, if you were spelling out the word parrot and said p a double r o t, they wouldn't get what you meant (according to the man at the aesop counter! Not sure if this is a universal thing for US people or not.

when i hear americans say ee-moo I just want to shout so loudly so u can hear me emu, the correct way to say it

Often in Australia we also don't properly pronounuce the T at the start of words, instedad being somewhere between t and ch, so it would be closer to chew- mer-ick than Tu-mer-ick

I have never heard anyone here in Australia (besides an ad on tv) call Vitamins "VIT-ah-mins". That's more how the British say it. We say it the same as Americans do. Also, Ryan, you got the way we say 'Vase' right - it rhymes with 'cars'.

I think we should know how to pronounce our own native bird shouldn’t we! It’s Eeem- You . Also aluminium is Al-you- min-ium And NO ! Its definitely NOT the way you say Add-a-das ! It’s the way I just spelt it out. .hes wrong on the Vase we say Varze. Mazda wasn’t mentioned either . Americans say Marz-dah we say Maz-dah

@quakxy_dukx

Жыл бұрын

Personally I find it so strange when people pronounce aluminium as al-yoo-MIN-ee-um. For it always has been and always will be al-oo-MIN-yum

@suave-rider

Жыл бұрын

Allah-minnyum

@aussiekat6379

Жыл бұрын

Thankyou I was saying No its not how we say Vase and the way he said we say Hyundai is wrong also and few others as well..🧐🙄

@quakxy_dukx

Жыл бұрын

@@aussiekat6379 I’ve heard so many different ways of saying hyundai. I myself say it the korean way: HYAWN-day

@annab5961

Жыл бұрын

@@aussiekat6379 :Yeah ! We say High-oon-die or High-oon-day

We do say Car as "Kah" - but not as clipped as he's making it. Not "Ka" - more "Kaaah".

For advertisement, you had it right in how we pronounce it, also we shorten it to just ad more often than advert.

“Premiere” and “premier” are two different words with different pronunciations in Aussie English, and Tristan is confusing them. A premier is a the head of government in and Australian state, in yhe way that the prime minister is the head of the commonwealth government. “Premiere” is pronounced French fashion, with equal stress on all syllables; “premier” is PREH-me-uh.

-We pronounce aluminium with the "i" at the end because that's how the word is spelt in English. The international scientific community has had to accept the American way of shortening it. -The letter Z being pronounced zed is the standard English way every country except the USA use it this way. All English speaking nations except the USA call the animal zeb'ra. You guys say zee'bra. -In Australia, we don't say H as Haitch, that's just not the queens English.

@planetpetey

Жыл бұрын

I beg to differ. Australian English is well known for the hard H sound ( haytch), most especially in Western Australia which ironically has the highest per capita English born population

@DaleTuck31

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I've grown up around people pronouncing h with a h lol, it's very common

@jacquelenebennett4028

Жыл бұрын

We were taught that H is the only letter that does not say it's own name hence aitch. Another thing that grates is how Americans say off of. Get off of the table. Get off it.

@ianmontgomery7534

Жыл бұрын

@@planetpetey I found that most people that I know who say Haitch went to a Roman Catholic school. not sure if this is typical across Australia though.

@mundusa

Жыл бұрын

@@planetpetey strange, I'm from SA and the hard H here is considered a low socio-economic thing

Pronouncing all the letters in Melbourne is like pronouncing all the letters in Connecticut

You got the Aussie version of "adVERTisement" better than the presenter. :)

You're great Ryan. Stick with us. You will catch on! I think you are getting a taste for all this Aussie culture.

Hahaha I agree that you are the most Aussie American I’ve seen on KZread lol. You would fit in over here perfectly

I am American. My friend from Sydney, Australia has actually declared that she does not have an accent. Seriously, she thinks an accent is something other people have. (People who live outside of Australia.)

Adelaide people often say vahze for vase. We have quite a few quirks in South Australia compared to the east coast.

When working with kids, a lot of content on line about the alphabet is American and uses "zee" instead of "zed". I wanted to find out why the American pronunciation is different, so I looked into it, and it turns out it's so the alphabet song rhymes. Yep, seriously, they made it "zee" so it rhymes with "gee", "pee", "vee" and "sing with me" and the song scans. In Australia we still sing the song but we just sing it with "zed" instead and it had never occurred to me to be bothered by it.

@bencodykirk

Жыл бұрын

Saying zed is weird. But I say it. (when in Rome...)

@lisadean5z

10 ай бұрын

That's a funny story Ace Pilot mate! Ha!

'Carmel' is a girl's name - and a city in California - note both are spelt (and should be pronounced differently) from the delicious treat called 'carAmel' (note the second 'a'). .Aluminium. is spelt with a second 'i'. If it was spelt without it ('aluminum' THEN the Americans would pronounce it correctly!

@grandmothergoose

Жыл бұрын

Americans do spell aluminium without the i: aluminum.

@aussierhino471

Жыл бұрын

@@grandmothergoose So they SPELL it wrong too? 😉

Watching you from Cairns Australia enjoying your content .. u gotta come and visit our back yard .. keep up the good work mate!

13:14 fun fact...while yes the pastry product we do pronounce as scon there is a town in the Upper Hunter region of NSW that is spelt and pronounced Scone

@susie9893

Ай бұрын

Also, this is a controversy that divides a nation (not ours, England). And just as in England where some say scone and others scon, I've heard both here (but most people don't get caught up in the controversy). But The Goodies episode about this is definitely where you should go to get the definitive info on this issue 😆

About 97 percent or those ''Australian'' pronunciations were just standard English. The pronunciation of the letter ''H'' in Aussie is pretty unique, very few other English speakers do that. And I'm sure no one outside Australia pronounces Uno as ''You-no''. Americans are the only English speakers that can't pronounce ''Emu'' correctly.

@iajanus

Жыл бұрын

I've only been alive and living in Australia for 4 decades but I've never met a single person who has said "you-no".

@cadifan

Жыл бұрын

@@iajanus I couldn't actually picture anyone saying it like that either, in Australia or out.

@marissabishop1833

Жыл бұрын

Every Australian I've ever met, including myself, calls it you- no. Maybe it depends on where in Australia you spend your time.

I have a question. How do you pronounce buoyant? Do you say boo-ee-ant? Or do you say it boy-ant? Buoy comes from the word buoyant so why would you say boo-ee?

@suekeane

Жыл бұрын

Something is boy-ant(buoyant)means it can float or a booee (Buoy)is a floating marker

@TattooedAussieChick

Жыл бұрын

@@suekeane that’s the stupidest reply ever 🤦🏻‍♀️

10:49 we don’t say advert when we shorten advertisements we say ads

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