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The most off-topic WCDT discussion ever
GarandMarine:
the "ee" in sheep and feet" is a long "e" sound. Ship and fit are more curt and pronounced differently. So sheep would be "Sh eee p" where ship is more like sh ih p
cesium133:
We occasionally have our collaborator from Brazil visit, and he says that it's difficult for native Portuguese speakers to tell the difference between the "ee" sound and the short-"i" sound, which makes words like "sheep" and "ship" sound the same to him. This sets up the joke about asking for some paper: "Could you give me a shit of paper... uh, I mean a piss of paper... just give me some damn paper."
Pilchard123:
My mother used to teach computer stuff to people that had come to the UK looking for work. One said to her during an MS Excel lesson "I've wiped the shit on my computer". He'd accidentally deleted all the data in the spreadsheet. Yay, pronunscination!
Vurogj:
Seems like a lot of people have never seen this British advert. Oh we're so funny. :psyduck:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xknub_pILt8
Is it cold in here?:
pwhodges added a soundcloud tag not long ago. Does it work on Apple devices yet?
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