Parisians try to pronounce challenging English words like 'squirrel' and 'Massachusetts'

Okay, now do the same test with Trump.
Hamberders!

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To be fair, some of us English speakers mess up those words, lol.

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I like how the sauce is called in Spanish. It’s just English sauce :smile:

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So… 99% of all non-porn Sonic fan art

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No need to fight over it. There’s plenty to go around.

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There’s one in North Carolina, but that’s locally-pronounced “Derm.” As in the first syllable of Dermatology. Though you might add one or two additional "m"s at the end.

Dermmm.

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Woos-tah?

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I hear it as more Wuss - tur

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I think there’s a similar video of Germans trying to pronounce “squirrel” out there someplace as well.

Yep: https://youtu.be/0FRD4uq1mVw

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Ironically, it’s a mispronunciation of a Native American word.

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Birmingham vs Maidstone. Nicely done.

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Cholmondeley.

Also, Milngavie.

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I want to see all the same French faces as any American interviewer tries to say, “écureuil”.

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OK, that’s one I haven’t heard before. Could honestly be anywhere from Ming to Milling-around-in-Abergavenny.

Mullguy, as best as I can represent it, stress on the second syllable.

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Fair enough. It’s not like we really have rules :smiley:

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Features in that standard, “Glaswegian Pie”:

Bye bye, eatin’ Fray Bentos pie
Drove the Uno roon’ the toon oh wi’ the techno up high,
Wearing wooly bunnets though it’s nearly July
Singin’, “There’s that posh wee c*** fae Milngavie!”
“There’s that posh wee c*** fae Milngavie!”

(No link to original because of single, and probably non-malicious but that’s no excuse, use of racial slur.)

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Beat me to it. I was going to say: if you think this video is funny, you should hear Americans attempt to pronounce the thousands of Native American words they attempt to use every day, such as Massachusetts!

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Funny. Especially when coming from a culture that can’t nail foreign spellings if their lives depended on it.

All together now: Pinocchio, Geppetto, nunchaku, hors d’oeuvres, Schadenfreude. Hauptbanhof, disarcionare, tzatziki, sriracha, schoenpoetsborsteltje…

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But, to be fair, squirrels can’t pronounce “Parisian” either. At least with the correct accent.

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