You guys prob think I'm nuts. Just a little idea I was thinking while while watching some videos on YouTube. When Americans says Iraq, Iran or even Multiplayer, they pronounce the i as "I", but... When English people say Iraq, Iran and Multiplayer, we normally say "E", pronounced E-Raq. So it led me to iPod, as we don't say "I" but "E", should we be saying E-Pod? - Just think of how we say Italy, it's E-Taly, not I-Taly. Am I talking crap? I dunno, don't think so , I'm pretty tired so will see what I can say tomorrow, but you should be able to understand what I'm trying to say. Major
Apple marketing gives it the strong I. personally I say multi(eye)player, but then again I'm a Canadian living in the USofA.
My mother says E-pod.... but that's because she can't speak English, and have this accent, she is the only person I know that says it this way. Here in Canada, well East Canada, we do say I-ran and not E-ran. I THINK it's like tom-a-toes and tom-A-toes. Like do you say cached or cash with the 'a' pronounced in French. Tablet PC, the 'A' pronounce the same way you say the 'A' letter, or t-a-blet PC, where you pronounce the 'a' as the same 'a' in French. Arrr.. so very confusing!
It's a hard I, not defined by it's place in a word but by how people say it. And it's s-cone, not s-con.
It's good to have insight... --Ah, let me stop you right there. No good ideas can result from watching videos on YouTube. Always remember that. You can call it Nexxo's Law if you want. This is because English people, being slightly more aware of the world outside their own borders and the fact that they, like, speak different languages over there (all those holidays in Benidorm were good for something, see?), try to respect the pronunciation of a country's name in its own language. Many Americans barely know that other countries exist* ("What, Europe is not one country?!?"), let alone how they pronounce names over there. Yes. Yes, you do. But don't worry. It's what forums are for. * If it makes the American members of this forum feel better, I couldn't name all fifty States of the US off the top of my head to save my life, let alone find them on the map. So it all balances out.
When and where are you opening up your own school nexxo, your full of information, so unless you wiki it right before you type a post, How the hell do you remember it all? Cheers Sam
You're right, you guys create one of the most impressive languages in the world, with by far the largest vocabulary and the largest number of people able to speak it as one of their languages, and yet you can't even pronounce it right If you're saying ee-taly, ee-raq, ee-ran - then your pronounciation has been utterly ruined by your accent. It's ironic that Scots with good pronouncation seem to get the words right when many English folk can't xD
It's a hard thing to explain tbh. Thing is, Amercans say Iraq and Iran as if it was a product like iRaq, they even took the piss out of the saying on a comedy sketch not so long ago. We don't say those words and others with a strong "I" like the Americans, I laugh when I hear an American say Iran, lol.
