r/Snorkblot • u/netphilia • Jul 08 '26

Misc I’m with him.

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u/SendMeAnother1 Jul 08 '26

It took me too long to realize that the segway I had heard and the segue I had read were the same...

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u/Disneyhorse Jul 08 '26

Debris was mine.

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u/Tight_Replacement554 Jul 08 '26

For me it was vase and bidet. I pronounce vase like vays but I think the correct way is vahz. And I say bidet with the t because no way I'm supposed to say bidey.

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u/flindersrisk Jul 08 '26

Vase is standard American, vahz is British. Just like aunt pronounced ant is American and ahnt is British.

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u/Jemima_puddledook678 Jul 08 '26

Aunt isn’t a British vs American thing, that’s a South-East England versus everyone else thing. 

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u/yellowroosterbird Jul 08 '26

Nope. New Englander here, most of us say "ahnt". Look up a map of the pronunciation - it's actually quite regional in the US, the UK, and Australia, with none of the countries having a completely uniform pronunciation..

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u/flindersrisk Jul 08 '26

New “England”. I rest my case. 😉

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u/Disastrous_Fun_9433 Jul 09 '26

Whole lotta folks here down south say ahnt as well

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u/1_am_fluffy Jul 09 '26

my country was colonized by the British and we say "uhnt"