How Do You Say It?

[orange shark]

ALGEEEEEEEE

 

[shortymet55]

AL JEE.

On this topic, I was watching Dirty Jobs and got a laugh. Mike Rowe was doing something with Sharks in another country, and the guy he was with said "Look at the sharks intestines." But he pronounced it "In-test-Ines (Second I pronounced like the Letter I)", which by the spelling I guess would be normal. But I say "In-test-inns( Second I pronounced like the I sound.)"

 

[jourdy288]

Algee, but only for multiple. Alga I use for a single cell, like, "Look at that single red brown alga under the microscope".

 

[OldMan47]

I am a canadian Caaristiona. Been living in the US for a while so my spelling has been converted over. It doesn't mean that I don't understand english or canadian or american. I think that makes 3 languages that I can understand. I can speak two of them fluently. English I can make myself understood but I wouldn't say I'm fluent in it.

 

[blodhi74]

AL JEE.

 

[Caaristiona]

I am a canadian Caaristiona. Been living in the US for a while so my spelling has been converted over. It doesn't mean that I don't understand english or canadian or american. I think that makes 3 languages that I can understand. I can speak two of them fluently. English I can make myself understood but I wouldn't say I'm fluent in it.

Haha. So true!

My aunt and her family live in South Carolina. They've been converted !

Seriously though, when you get down south, everything really does change. It's quite disconcerting, actually.

 

[5teady_2012]

Green crap.

 

[blodhi74]

I am a canadian Caaristiona. Been living in the US for a while so my spelling has been converted over. It doesn't mean that I don't understand english or canadian or american. I think that makes 3 languages that I can understand. I can speak two of them fluently. English I can make myself understood but I wouldn't say I'm fluent in it.

Algae ... EH

 

[Miss Wiggle]

algee....... bloomin yanks don't know how to spell or how to talk english properly

Give us another 100 years and we will have a completely separate language - American! Guess it's the melting pot influence - we have strayed pretty far from the King's English over on this side of the pond.

If the old joke holds true the main difference is..........

Most Americans think 100 years is a loooooong time;

Most Brits think 100 miles is a looooooong way.

i heard an interesting theory once that the way americans speak english is actually truer to the roots of the language and that it's the english pronunciation of the english language that has strayed from the norm.

yeah, i have a habit of introducing myself to americans by saying 'I'm from England, where the history comes from'

 

[SJ2K]

algee....... bloomin yanks don't know how to spell or how to talk english properly

Give us another 100 years and we will have a completely separate language - American! Guess it's the melting pot influence - we have strayed pretty far from the King's English over on this side of the pond.

If the old joke holds true the main difference is..........

Most Americans think 100 years is a loooooong time;

Most Brits think 100 miles is a looooooong way.

i heard an interesting theory once that the way americans speak english is actually truer to the roots of the language and that it's the english pronunciation of the english language that has strayed from the norm.

yeah, i have a habit of introducing myself to americans by saying 'I'm from England, where the history comes from'

Get outta here that nonsense they talk to truer to oldie english God save the queen and her pronounciation!

 

[5teady_2012]

Who gives a crap about the queen? shes a freeloader damn coffin dodgers

 

[fergalthefish]

oh, how rude

do you mind, i'm trying to sleep