drow zelensky: when i hear english people call french toast "eggy bread" or call a bread roll a "barm" all i can think of is "how are you this terrible at a language you invented"

when i hear english people call french toast "eggy bread" or call a bread roll a "barm" all i can think of is "how are you this terrible at a language you invented"

"Father and farther are pronounced the same" No they're fucking not. You're just saying things now.

If the letter R wasn't meant to be pronounced it wouldn't be in the alphabet. Grow up.

where I grew up they do the opposite. There's a R in "Washington, Indiana." at least the way the locals say it: "Warshington."

I have once met an American who refused to understand that my name was not Dorvydas no matter how many times I repeated it without a random R.

I think _some_ American dialect speakers are like, profoundly unused to the idea that a vowel could be something other than a schwa.

My aunt once ran a Jacadi franchise (French high-end kids' clothes) in Brooklyn. The locals called it 'Jacardi'. My uncle suggested hanging a sign with a slogan: "Jacadi: the 'r' is silent"

It's either a schwa or it's a triphthong

Did they also speak of warshing their clothes?

Thing is, no. The guy himself seemed to have a more or less General American accent.

'Warshington [SIC] DC'

If they joined the Navy, they'd warsh up on a warship.

This is the (fading) rural Oregon dialect as well

Weirdly this is true in rural Washington (Warshington) state, too.

not in the part of rural WA I’m from

Where in WA? Family from Republic and Pullman do and it was the tell-tale sign of someone who grew up in a small-town when I was a kid in Seattle.

Non-rhotic English accents need to shape up. Report to Ireland for reeducation.

Wowzers.Sounds like someone could do with a cup of tea. Wait until you hear southerners say *grass* *glass* and *bath* 🤣🤣🤣 Also, 'accents' are a thing.😉

The slow and inconsistent process of rhoticising my idiolect has been one of the weirdest parts of living here for so long. Every letter R is a dice roll for if I'll say it in a Valleys way or a Lanarkshire way

Oh no, I beg you, do not start the "name for a bread roll" discourse. It will leave all other food discourse (yes, even that one), standing in the dust.

The etymology of the word "barm" might surprise you.

I admit to being surprised

See, every time I hear eggy bread called "French toast" all I can think is "why are you trying so hard to make it sound posh and fancy"

French toast? It's not even toasted!

And then there's the fact "baps" means something very different in some parts of the UK. (Either a kind of bread roll or a slang term for a woman's breasts. Everyone knows bun-words are for buttcheeks!)

"chip butty"

French toast is NOT the same as eggy bread, though. One is sweet, the other is savoury.

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