Hi everybody. Thank you for having me with you. My name is Emmelda and I have an interesting
news for you. What is it? Well, soon I will be travelling to the United States of America,
but then I thought something that maybe interesting for you as well. You know what? I often have
trouble with pronouncing certain words, when I’m in the US, because they pronounce it
differently. So they have trouble understanding me and I have trouble understanding them.
So I thought it would be a great idea, where I can show you all the words and how they
are pronounced differently in both the UK as well as the US.
So let’s get started
with the first word of the day is, Schedule. Now the British pronunciation is, Sh, Shed-yul,
so it’s like shedding your clothes, so schedule, however Americans pronounce this word as,
Sked-yul. So it is Sched-yul vs. Sked-yul. The next word I have for you is, Often. Now
British pronounce this word as, Of-Un, however Americans they stress on the “T” here
and they pronounce this word as Of-Tin, not ten but tin so you can say, yes it’s not
often, its oftin. So its schedule, often. Let’s move on to the third word, Herb. What
is a Herb? You see the green vegetables or leafs that will help you or will become a
medication or a drug, that’s what the herb is, it’s like its plants. However its pronounced
differently in these two countries, so herb is pronounced the way it is pronounced or
spelt in British, which is, H-urb, so it is herb, however while you’re in America, they
often drop the letter “H” and just pronounce the Erb. So it becomes Erb, Herb vs. Erb.
Is that clear? Let’s move on to the complicated ones, Is it Pri-vacie or is it Pr-I-vacy?
Well, the British pronounce this word as Pri-Vacie, however the Americans stress on the “I”
and they say Pr-I-vacy, so its Pri-vacie and Pr-I vacy. Similarly Vitamins vs. Vite-mins.
Vit-amins, they say, Vite-mins. So the pronunciation or the stress is on I here, the difference
in the pronunciation is on I here. The next most common, but most confused word is, Water.
Now British pronounce this word as W-aw-tuh, so I’m gonna write as Water. Please note
my mouth or my lip movement, W-aw-tuh . Notice the way my lip is becoming round, W-aw-tuh.
One thing that you may want to note is British usually; do not pronounce the letter “R”
in their words. Maybe its Park or Water or Car. They don’t pronounce the “R” as
much as the Americans do. So how does this word water changes in W-aw-dder lets look?
So its W-aw-dder. What happens with American pronunciation is., as soon as the alphabet
“T” falls between two vowels. The T becomes D. So it becomes W-aw-dder vs. W-aw-tuh. You
saw the difference? Now let’s move on to the next word, Identify. Now British pronounce
the way it is read or it is spelt I-den-ti-fy, that is I-den-ti-fy. However Americans they
usually do not pronounce the letter T. How would you pronounce the word then? It becomes
I-deni-fy . So its I-den-ti-fy vs. I-deni-fy. We need your identification, so that’s how
an American would ask your any identity proof. So its I-den-ti-fy vs. I-deni-fy. Moving on
to the next word is, Can you help me pronounce it? Now some say its Gar-idge, some say as
Ga-rr-aage. So Gar-idge is British, Gar-idge. It’s the same as Marriage or Cartilage,
the age becomes idge for British. However the word –Garage is changed as Ga-rr-aage.
So it’s no more Gar- idge sale, it’s more as a Ga-rr-aage sale in the US. And finally
the last but my favourite word of the day is, Moh-bil or Moh-bile. American is Moh-bil,
some of the Americans don’t pronounce the ile sound. Sometimes they pronounce it as,
so you can either say Moh-bil or Mo-bil. However our dear British friends pronounce it as Moh,
so the stress is in the I here, Moh-bile and Moh-bil. So friends you saw how different
pronunciation or how different people pronounce the same words in the US or UK. I hope you
found this lesson extremely interesting as well as useful. I will be back with another
one. Until then
see you. Good Bye.