on a completely random note

[fahye]

Watching the new Doctor Who was the first time I have ever heard anyone, other than members of my family, pronounce 'yoghurt' the way I do*. I have been MOCKED for that during the course of my life! On many occasions! But I have always stuck to my guns: YOG-ut, not YO-gurt.

I'm feeling more aware of my British roots than usual because since I started at the Sydney Eye Hospital two days ago, no less than three patients have asked me what my accent is. And okay, it's not VERY Australian, but it's still more Australian than not, I feel. One of them guessed Canadian (????).


*I guess...it is not a word one expects to pop up on the television with any great frequency. Though I'm watching QI series G and Stephen Fry just said it. PRONUNCIATION CANNOT BE WRONG WHEN IT IS ENDORSED BY STEPHEN FRY.

Comments

[miscellanny.livejournal.com]

Heeeeee if it had come up in conversation when we met I would have said it the same?

[oxoniensis.livejournal.com]

It's most definitely YOG-ut!

[fahye.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU. Now come to Australia and tell that to everyone I know :D

[kayloulee.livejournal.com]

I get relentlessly mocked for pronouncing 'squirrel' with the middle syllables slurred! My sister does too, and we've confirmed that yes, it's not an us-thing, it's a North American accent thing.

Also, I can't say Cairns properly to save my life, if I say it in a way that ought to make it sound right with an Australian accent, it comes out fucked up. This drives me bats.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

It's weird, isn't it, because 'cairn' is a legit English word but CAAAIRNS is somehow the ultimate example of the Aussie drawl. Somehow a few 'y's manage to appear in it.

[lizardspots.livejournal.com]

YOG-ut for sure!

Here's another for you: How do you pronounce "scone"? I go by SCON (rhyming with "con").

[fahye.livejournal.com]

SCON for me too!

[dr-biscuit.livejournal.com]

I resolutely say YO-ghurt despite all the funny looks I get for it here. Likewise VI-tamin. You have to draw a line, and that's mine. Despite this my father gets increasingly concerned by the pommification of my accent when we talk.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Mmm, I'll stick with VI-tamin. Though quite honestly I spend fifteen minutes with my cousins and my accent veers alarmingly pommy, so if I ever actually lived there for any amount of time I'd probably shake most of my Australian pronunciation.

[ariastar.livejournal.com]

I LOVED the way he said 'yoghurt', even though as a good American I say it the YO-gurt way. (I do often get mocked for the way I say words, though! I've moved enough that I have a mishmash of regionalisms and someone can always laugh at the way I say, for instance, 'tour'.)

I think it should be on record that I would like a version of this post in audio, because I do not think I have ever actually heard you speak! And it would be so deliciously meta.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Meta it may be, but I am sure there are far more interesting things I could read aloud for the purposes of accent display.

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

YOG-urt! We are not heathens. *scandalised*