"Ask Benedict to say the word 'penguin'!"

[Hans Tucker]

I have been watching Graham Norton interviews on YouTube and I came across one interview with Benedict Carlton Cumberbatch where he couldn't say the word Penguin correctly during his narration of a documentary.

Apologies for the Facebook link but it is the only shortened version I could find. You might have to turn the sound on because it defaults to 'Off'


https://www.facebook.com/BBCOne/videos/the-graham-norton-show-pengwings/1832374693449607/

So .. do you have a word you just can't pronounce correctly?

[xelasnave]

Fonomnollomonol so I say trific instead.
Alex

[Hans Tucker]

Ask someone from England to say 'Three'

[leon]

Try and ask an English person to say YEAR, it ends up being YURRRR :lol:

All in jest here, ;) no offense to the English community. :thumbsup:

Leon :thumbsup:

[raymo]

You two are referring to different dialects. In Leon's example you would hear
YURR from some west country people, and some northern people, but the vast majority of the population pronounce it the same as we do here.
The same goes for Han's example; only people from parts of London pronounce three FREE.
raymo [pom in my distant past].

[Hans Tucker]

Now I want Benedict to try and say Pangolin

[Camelopardalis]

And in the West Country dialect that pronunciation means “here” :lol:

[leon]

You guys are dead right, I did forget and realised after the post that I should have said that in different parts of the country people pronounce things differently. sorry.

Leon

[raymo]

Nothing to be sorry for Leon, we ex poms make fun of the Sydney squeak.
raymo

[Camelopardalis]

And the rising intonation at the end of EVERY sentence, rather than when just posing a question :shrug: :lol: or is that the Sydney squeak? :question:

My adherence and sensitivity to the “mother” tongue dwindles with every passing year :lol:

[raymo]

Yes, when women do it, it is known as the Sydney squeak. I have always wondered why Aussies pronounce maroon marone. They don't do it with
other words that have double o at the end.
raymo

[Camelopardalis]

I get around it by calling it “burgundy” .. you can imagine the funny looks I get here in QLD :lol: