Is it pronounced N(i)kon or N(y)kon????

Major Eazy said:
Do you happen to have one with English subtitles for me? I would love to know what's being said.
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I noticed that when I watched it, the CC subtitles are almost gibberish.
Sorry :)
 
kendo1 said:
I noticed that when I watched it, the CC subtitles are almost gibberish.
Sorry :)
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Yeah, those YouTube CCs sometimes tend to be one of those automatic speech-to-text stuff that can't get it right, they tend to goof up the translation just like Apple's Autocorrect. It's only when the YouTube poster who made an effort to type in the subtitles, that those clips with subtitles are great.
 
Major Eazy said:
got me checking for the 'Four handles' sketch,
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And a real classic it is too :thumbs:
BTW Its actually "fork 'andles" if said quick, especially with a cockney accent it comes out as fo(u)r candles.
 
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Major Eazy said:
That's great thanks, the subtitles on this one is much better, and thinking about the passing away of the late Ronnie Corbett got me checking for the 'Four handles' sketch, and it's cool to get to see the whole clip.
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...and the whole script is written out below.
Useful site, the home page has some good links.
 
Well that was interesting, I spelt it out for my daughter (8) and she said Nykon, I say Nikon..

Both of us English but she most stuff she sees comes from the US.. Is this the end of the empire??
 
Actually, Americans don't pronounce it Ny-kon. They pronounce it Ny-karn. Obviously wrong!

It always makes me laugh to hear them say mirror. They seem to miss the middle rrs out and go for meor.

I once saw a video on youtube of a lady teaching immigrants into America how to pronounce English; she was telling them the correct way to pronounce the double t in words such as bottle and battle, was as a 'd'.

:facepalm:
 
JayJay said:
It always makes me laugh to hear them say mirror. They seem to miss the middle rrs out and go for meor.
I once saw a video on youtube of a lady teaching immigrants into America how to pronounce English; she was telling them the correct way to pronounce the double t in words such as bottle and battle, was as a 'd'.
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I dunno, I think there are peculiarities of British English pronunciation that are just as bad. For example, where I'm from (Southend in Essex) you probably wouldn't pronounce the double T (butter is bu'er), and what happens to the L in milk I really don't know.
 
And then there's the surname Beauchamp.

And in the coroner's court they "pronounce the corpse dead". How does that work?
 
StewartR said:
I dunno, I think there are peculiarities of British English pronunciation that are just as bad. For example, where I'm from (Southend in Essex) you probably wouldn't pronounce the double T (butter is bu'er), and what happens to the L in milk I really don't know.
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Oh aye. I'm fully aware that most of us in this country are on thin ice criticising how anyone pronounces English. It was just an English teacher teaching students to say words wrong that just struck me as odd - even if she is teaching them to speak like the locals to where they are moving to.

I couldn't imagine an English teacher in the east midlands or north of England teaching people to drop their Hs and leave the S out of isn't and wasn't, even though most of the natives do.
 
d00d said:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuA6xkAOyYc :p
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So just over a year later we have the definitive answer? :p

StewartR said:
I dunno, I think there are peculiarities of British English pronunciation that are just as bad.
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Milton keynes is a hive of pronunciation anomilies
Broughton - pronounced Brought-'n
Woughton - pronounced Woof-ton
Loughton - Pronounced Loud(without the d)ten

I've lived here a lot of years and had some pretty amusing requests for directions over time :D
 
I'm just eternally grateful it's not pronounced 'Ca-non' :)
 
Cobra said:
So just over a year later we have the definitive answer? :p


Milton keynes is a hive of pronunciation anomilies
Broughton - pronounced Brought-'n
Woughton - pronounced Woof-ton
Loughton - Pronounced Loud(without the d)ten

I've lived here a lot of years and had some pretty amusing requests for directions over time :D
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Try down here where Woolfardisworthy is pronounced "Woolsery" and Brown Willy can be found near Cat's Hole...
 
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