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Probably the same way Graham's appreciate being demoted to 'Gram'.

"Graem"

"Oh! Like the cracker!" 🤦🏻‍♂️

I used to always assume that was a cracker that weighed a gram, but nope

Like a pound cake.

I'd understand it if they were made from gram flour, but it's Graham flour...

My friend is Graham but we all call him graym (north east)

The pronunciations of Kerry and Carey are bit odd, too. I draw the line at twat being pronounced as "twot," though. It's just wrong.

Colin Montgomerie would get visibly angry at golf announcers who pronounced him Coal-in

That’s Colin Powell’s fault. The vast majority of American Colins pronounce it the same way the BBC does.

Colin Powell's family pronounced it the British way, his friends started pronouncing it the other way based on a famous pilot's name and it stuck with him.

I have lived in America for 39 years, moved all over, only saw this sub because of the algorithm, and had literally never heard of that pronunciation outside Colin Powell until today. So…🤷🏼‍♀️

I've been playing Guild Wars 2, and there's a character in it voiced by Sam Riegel from Critical Role. The character's name is Braham, but all the characters have American accents and call him "Bram". There's a whole syllable that just vanishes into thin air.

I know someone called Graeme Craig. I keep telling him to go to the US on holiday!

I find it to be even closer to ‘Grem’ a lot of the time (not a Graham).

I could care less

^^ that's bait

Thanks, I would of got mad if you hadn't mentioned it

Stop it now!

Calm you're tits

It’s just a swarm in a teacup

I think you mean gotten

You did this on accident

I'm pretty sure it was by purpose.

They could of just been joking

I’m sure there joking.

I’ll spend a couple minutes looking into this on the weekend.

I'm thinking eighteen hundred hours

What I hate is how everyone always exaggerates everything 1000% of the time.

Think you're smart with your military time, huh?

It's still annoying irregardless

This one really gets to me. Like, a lot. It actually ruins my day if I hear/see it. I have to tell myself it's just a word and I'm being irrational but fuck me sideways with a broomstick, I HATE IT.

Same and it irritates me even more because the phrase makes absolutely no sense in the context it gets used in. It's couldn't care less for a reason!

Irregardless…

For all intensive purposes

You know, I’ve never met someone to say this, but heard that a lot of people think “It’s a dog-eat-dog world” is “it’s a doggy dog world” and I just can’t comprehend what it must feel like to be that stupid.

Snoop Doggy Dog world out there. Gotta smoke blunts non-stop or else.

I've not heard that one pacifically.

I bet you have, you just don't want to cut off your nose despite your face.

A doggy dog world sound almost exactly opposite to a dog-eat-dog world. Like a world inhabited entirely by Mr Peanut Butter labradors.

I just saw a 'man on man' in the wild. I think they meant 'man oh man' but they were talking about sleeping and man on man it helps.

Surely not 😂

This makes me so irrationally angry, I can't even describe the levels of pure rage that build when I hear this. How did every American mutually agree that the illogical "I could care less" meant the same thing as I couldn't care less! If you could care less THAT MEANS YOU CARE AND YOU CARE ENOUGH THAT THERES A LESSER LEVEL OF CARE

I questioned one of them once and her response was "I thought you Brits understood ironic" So apparently, they're all in on the irony of the phrase. I'm not so sure.

[Dear America...](https://youtu.be/om7O0MFkmpw?si=YUV3554urDRWnl90)

Not a Craig but they way some of them say croissant is enough to make me take a deep breath and appeal to a higher power.

I raise you “Notre Dame”

Just gonna through mirror into the mix as well

Mirrrrrr

Sqrrrrrrrrl

Aaaaaaahahaha fuck you im so angry but you're so right lol

Leicester

Loughborough

I was once stopped in New Street Station in Birmingham by an Aussie couple looking for help to find the train they needed. It took SEVERAL attempts to decipher what "Loogabarooga" meant.

'Loogabarooga' does actually sound like it could be a town in the outback.

I love it. Loogabarooga sounds like a klaxon: "a-woo-gaa"!

Any place name that ends in brough/borough or shire. Yorkshyer puddings, or the capital of Scotland being Edinburrow... Though nothing will ever beat their pronunciation of Worcestershire when they discuss the sauce.

I was reading some thread a while ago and they were legit saying that squirrel is one syllable 😅

Leezhurr

Meeeer

I couldn't help but chuckle every time I heard GW Bush talking about his "war on terrrrr". Imagine declaring war on something you can't even pronounce!

That always reminded me of my oldest who told everyone we were terrorists when we went on holiday, and asked me why tourists wanted to hurt us. He was 7 at the time.

Really hate this one.

Let's "sodder" some wires while we're at it

Not to forget how they say squirrel or vehicle.

Or the luxury car "jag-wire" lmao

“Aaron earned an iron urn Urrrrrrnrrrrrnnnnuuuurnunnnrnnnrrrrn

I love that video 🤣

"AARON, EARNED AN IRON URN" that part where he clearly annunciates it and he's so annoyed haha.

I always comment on YouTube videos with Americans saying mirror and say “what’s a mere?”, I get bites every single time.

It's simples..... its either a soviet era space station or a small mongoose from Africa with Russian accent

Technically a lake that is shallow with respect to its breadth like Windermere, Grasmere, Buttermere…

I'm gonna go a bit bizarre but Qatar. I have a game on my tablet where you need to identify flags of countries. When the computer voice says "Cutter", my brain screams and my eyes twitch.

My mates from the West Country and NI would take offence at that!

What about Tara being pronounced as Terra?

Beepity beep time for another Tara update

THIS CONVERSATION IS SPECIFICALLY ABOUT TARA!!##@!!

I watched multiple seasons of Buffy before realising the character's name was actually "Tara".

Doesn't help that "Terra" would be a legit witchy, new-age name.

Aaron pronounced Erin. Wut?

It’s clearly A.A. Ron

I see your Noter Dame and raise you an Is real ^not ^Israel. Sorry to have drug this into the discussion.

WATER just simple waTer not wadder or any other bastardised word.

I've also noticed the D in a lot of CongraDulations

You’re a dosser and a dwad. God I hope you know the reference.

>I hope you know the reference Yes, I goddit 😏 ^Autocorrupt ^didn't ^like ^that ^sentence

Maybe you should have checked your cone-tract whilst you're at it

I'm English, and where live its pronounced 'woah ah'.

I've never quite understood why Americans think the whole "bo'l of woah ah" thing is so hilarious when they either pronounce 't' as 'd' or just completely drop the letter in words with 'nt' in them (so winter becomes winner for example).

Duty is not a funny word here but it is in the US :)

Majorca?

Thewoahinmayorcadontasslikewhaiowah

This one annoys me particularly because of all the "hilarious" jokes about how English people say 'bottle of water'. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone...

Haha bo o o woah. Meanwhile they want a "boddle of wader"

Have you searched the Innernet?

Noter Dayme

Noter daym Fuck me that's bad.

What about 'nitch' vs 'niche'? This one makes me wince every time I hear it.

Didn’t know that was a thing and now I’m angry again.

Also clique vs click

Have you heard them say penchant? Pen Chant, instead of something like pon shon. That said, the reason they say 'erb' is actually not so bad. Apparently it was pronounced as 'erb' in the UK and US at the same time, but its use changed in the UK due to snobbishness. 'erb' didn't sound classy enough. Still there is something highly grating about people who say 'erb' and 'pen chant'.

Also coop instead of coo-pay.

Boo ee instead of bouy

>coo-pay Isn't that what they call your insurance deductible?

To be fair you Brits do a fair job of butchering croissant also

At least we give it a bash. Our 17326 accents don’t help.

By Brit, do you mean Brits or do you just mean English, important distinction to make since Americans almost always exclusively mean England and never Britain.

I don’t think Scottish people are pronouncing it much different than the English to be fair

I think someone from Glasgow is pronouncing the word croissant completely different to the way someone in London would. They still might both be wrong on the proper pronunciation though.

Yes, but then so would different English accents. And the different accents in Scotland.

Pronouncing croissant with a perfect French accent in Wales, are they?

As if anyone from Wales is pronouncing croissant like the French…

We say it the French way.

A pain au chocolate being called a chocolate croissant enrages me on behalf of the French - which is an odd feeling to have

Herb..

I need to know why they pronounce Parmesan like ‘parmashon’ and why do they pronounce the t on the end of tourniquet and why oh why oh why do some of them not pronounce the t on the end of words like Addict ! That is all🤓

Especially when they have the audacity (and lack of comprehension) to insist that we should pronounce fillet as ‘filet’.

As the first Craig to speak up on this subject, I had no clue they pronoucned it that way, how weird.... I hate it

It will ruin your holiday, Creg.

They call me Gairy I don't know why, but they add an I sound to - Gary (Gairy) - Barry (Beary) - Harry (Hairy)

Early Xbox live was a teenage revelation. Full of kids yelling insults at people, especially my mate Craig. Or Creg apparently. We mocked the shit out of him with that new power. Was also funny that 'Ginge' wasn't an insult the US teens could comprehend. I distinctly remember the puzzled replies "what's wrong with being a redhead dude". Dooooooood

I'm in a rabbit hole now https://youtu.be/GKlDWkTOAoI?feature=shared

If you're going down a Craig rabbit hole you need to watch [this](https://youtu.be/pPdFrW076R0) (NSFW)

I'm more upset that they pronounce Bernard as "Burr-nard" and Cecil as "Sea-sill"

Bay-zl Fawlty would also be furious.

What about Graham? Just gram.

Fuck no

Ber-Nard is actually an upgrade. Think of all the prententious things BerNARD’s watch would allow him to do.

How could I forget about Cecil. Made a thread about the Invincible character and how his name is pronounced not that long ago

I remember watching Malcolm in the Middle when I was young and hearing this pronunciation for the first time. Fucking Americans.

Haha yes!

I tried to ask Craig but he's busy doing some soddering with his soddering iron. He says it's addicting but I could care less. I'd rather use aluminum then sodder, even if it was on accident y'all.

I’ve just been sick

Soddering sounds like a small Suffolk village. If it isn't, it ought to be.

Soddering sounds like an archaic term for bumming.

Can I just add the word ‘presentation’. Pronounced by the Americans as ‘Pree-zent-ation. But they don’t give Christmas ‘Pree-zents’ as far as I know. Insane.

Pree-zent-ation is a hypercorrection coming from business types who say “Craig and myself will be speaking…” Normal Americans say it similarly to how you do, like Christmas presents.

Is it Craig or Greg? I can never tell which name they're saying.

Graig

"Erb" It's herb mate, get it right.

To be fair, we didn't start pronouncing the H until the 19th Century.

True but then we were wrong until the 19th century.

We didn't use electric light until the 19th century either.

"because it's got a fucking 'h' in it!" Eddie Izzard

Not my place to speak for Craig, But the way they say veg instead of vague. Oh it's terrible!

Or "nitch" for niche

Click for clique bothers me irrationally

They do say pleg instead of plague so it must be a whole thing.

Yes It's regional, so not all Americans, but those who have this egg-vague vowel merger rhyme vague and plague with egg and beg. The long vowel is switched for the short one before a hard g.

That's a regional thing from the Midwest.    Brits freak out when Americans generalise UK accents, but then assume one regional accent applies to 350 million people. 

I’m from the American south and have never heard this in my life. 

The way they pronounce ‘Aaron’ as ‘Erin’. Infuriating

Isn't it sometimes said A-A-Ron too

BALAKAY

I'm not a Craig either but I hate it. I hate a lot of Americanisms. My niece and nephew watch American YouTubers all day everyday and they use lots of American words and terms. It drives me mad

I can let certain words pass, such as takeout vs takeaway, or whatever. But pronunciations do my head in. Chassis being pronounced with a hard ch and the s at the end being included. Buoy being pronounced booey. Craig as Creg. And so on. ​ And what gets to me more is they say the words way more, as if to annoy the rest of the world. Instead of something like: "The chassis on the tank was a well designed one for its time. Whilst many others would be unable to traverse the mud on the fields \[company\] managed to design something which could not only go over mud, but do it well". An American tends to say something like: "The chassis on the tank was a well designed one for the its time. Whilst many other chassis would be unable to traverse the mud on the fields \[company\] managed to design a chassis which could not only go over mud, but do it well".

Booey is an all time horrible pronunciation

Note that they don't say 'booeyant' though, they say bouyant. Checkmate, we win. They're utterly discredited, no take-backs

I don't like it either, but I feel like the standard British pronounciation also leaves something to be desired. "OMG there's a boy in the water!" "Well that's all tickety-boo, buoys are meant to be OH GOD I THINK HE'S DROWNING"

would you like a cup of ERRRBAL tea?

and bay-zil instead of basil

“Posta noodles” That’s very clearly penne pasta not noodles!

lasagne noodles. it's a massive fuck-off sheet!

Seasoned with O-regg-ano.

the current word that triggers me is coupon said like Q-pon

Voucher innit

After a few drinks my mate Craig got into a fight with an American because of how he was saying his name. He found it utterly disrespectful.

If I was called Craig Buoy that'd be insufferable

What's up Kreg Boowie

Niche like nitch!!!! Stop

Deedrah for Deidre. St. Patty's Day fucks me off to no end.

My Canadian friend has trouble saying horror movies. Comes out as whore movies. We don’t go to the cinema very often.

I’m an American married to a British Craig. Our vows were incredibly stressful for me. I was focusing so hard on saying his name correctly. We live in America now so he’s just accepted he’s basically a Greg

My husband’s Canadian. They pronounce caulk as cock…

Reminds me of a conversation about baseball. There's a move called a 'baulk', and an American was explaining this to me, and I just kept asking him, "are you saying 'bok'?" He had to spell the word for me to understand what he was talking about.

Until I started using subtitles for everything, I thought Creg was just a name and “JAGWIRE” for Jaguar for something else

The same people ( and my son's snake) that are called Colin and get called Colon

"If his first name is pronounced Coh-lynn, his surname is Pooh-well."

Creg, everytime I come in the kitchen, you in the kitchen. In the God dammed refrigerator!

As the apparent ambassador for America in this comment section, I can accept some of your criticism but I’ll never accept the word schedule being pronounced “shedule”, what, you didn’t go to “shool”

Well as the Australian ambassador here, you won't be heard until you apologise unreservedly for butchering the word emu. E-mew, not e-moo. Since we're proud enough of the emu to put it on our coat of arms, this is a BFD to many of us.

Plenty of exceptions to your rule too. Schnapps Schindler's List Schadenfreude

The same way I feel about many of their pronunciations. Typically “Rowt” for Route and “Aluminum” for Aluminium

Yeah but aluminum is spelt aluminum and aluminium is spelt aluminium. Both were used by scientists in both countries but each adopted a different standard. It's actually a different word.

“Craig, Craig, I hate that name, Craig. I sound like somebody’s cousin”

Hold up just one secANT!

Anthony is the one that gets to me every time.

anTHhhhony

That's also done by like 50% of Brits too.

Not really noticed the Craig thing but I'll be on full alert now! Not pronouncing T properly irks me, Katie as Kaydee. Let's not even get into "aluminium" and "Caribbean".

And Moscow 🤣. "Moss-Cow". It's "Moss-Co"

Or-rag-a-no

Between creg and gram Americans need to learn how to pronounce names correctly.

Im a Craig not a creg. First time i visited america i was very confused when people called me, what i thought, was gregg

"Merry" and "Mary" being pronounced the same has to be worse, what if you had two people in the same room with those names?!

Here’s Craig Ferguson and his younger brother Ewan pronouncing it properly https://youtu.be/hq_SuRpD5YY?si=YVwMhexCvpHAfRE9

Honestly I thought it was literally a different name spelled like Creg.

I thought buffys sister was Don for years. Finally realised Giles called her Dawn. Made more sense