bad american pronunciations of (european) loanwords

[Samus Aran]

lol what the hell

i've never heard of that town before

[Kalahari Inkantation]

Let's keep it that way.

[Kalahari Inkantation]

...boyah, how is "appalachian" pronounced

[Mando Pandango]

...boyah, how is "appalachian" pronounced

apple-ate-chin

and i grew up in appalachia so

[Kalahari Inkantation]

aaa-puh-láy-chee-in is what i had been saying, but thank goodness i have since corrected myself lol

[Mando Pandango]

apple-at-chin is also acceptable but that's a southern pronunciation i think

[don't let's]

apple-at-chin is also acceptable but that's a southern pronunciation i think

that's basically what I say

[Thyme]

for some reason i was under the impression the "ch" made a hard "k" sound in english

[Hiro]

apple-ay-shin

[Thyme]

for some reason i was under the impression the "ch" made a hard "k" sound in english

appa-lay-kian

[Kalahari Inkantation]

lol

to be fair, i'm pretty sure english is the only germanic language in which ch is pronounced tʃ rather than 'k' or 'kh'

i think we inherited that trait from french

[Mando Pandango]

for some reason i was under the impression the "ch" made a hard "k" sound in english

appa-lay-kian

lel

apple-ay-shin

yeah actually i think this is closer to what i say gj hiro

[Kalahari Inkantation]

And now I'm kinda mad at kaz

as you should be

don't get me started on polish names

poor poland

Oddly it's my English last name that gives people problems versus my mother's maiden name But yeah polish gets crazy

my last name is also english and nobody ever even reads or writes it correctly, let alone pronunciation

[Thyme]

my last name is also english and nobody ever even reads or writes it correctly, let alone pronunciation

gib-s

[Kalahari Inkantation]

lol

i mean the 'mispronunciation' doesn't really bother me because '-ings' becoming '-inz' is very often a dialectal thing

but some of the insane misspellings ('misspellinz') i've seen, man