I too get upset when others are ignorant of all the mysterious hidden letters in words. I mean, it's obvious that a 3 letter word has two hard vowels... FOR NO REASON! lol

I pronounce it 'care-uh-mell'. Carmel is a city in California.

Actually I would say we pronounce it as "mel-bn" totally eliding the final vowels

American here - I've tried to say "squirrel" like British people and Australians do. It's not easy. There is a squirrel in my neighborhood, so I asked him. I really could not get him to register any sort of preference at all.

To be fair, some Australians cannot pronounce Cairns. No, it's not Carrns.

American here - We actually spell it "aluminum." It's because of the American Chemical Society.

We do tend to elide over the internal 't' in some words. Sometimes, they're pronounced closer to a barely vocalized 'd' than a 't'.

For those Yanks wondering, it's pronounced "boy" outside the US. Incidentally, how would you pronounce buoyant? Boo-eyant? Or boyant?

More-EECE (Maurice), Coe-LIN (Colin), Ber-NARD (Bernard). SMH.

The name is Scandinavian, and that's how they pronounce it. Go argue with them.

Er... I'm probably proving the point unintentionally, but how do 'tube' and 'toob' sound different? Do they pronounce it 'tyoob' or something?

Who says which? I'm Australian and am confused as to who the OP is versus who "they" are, not at all clear....

I'm American and even I think that's wrong 😅 everyone says it like that and I hate it

My American niece visited me in France (I'm English) and proceeded to correct me on so many pronunciations. I just wanted to strangle her...

Aaron is CLEARLY supposed to be pronounced "A-A-Ron". XD

People with my accent pronounce Erin and Aaron exactly the same. It would sound pretentious and false for someone with my accent to come out with Aaaah-run for Aaron.

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Pronounced the same. Girl vs boy spelling

I'd spell the American version more like Sodder. Perhaps it varies but I've never heard them pronounce the L.

As opposed to the American 'doody', I guess?

Dude, half your vocabulary is words y'all made up. Or you randomly add an 'o' to the end of it, like 'doggo'.

So you don't pronounce 'Kirsten' the way Scandinavians pronounce it, but insist on linguistic purity when it comes to 'dachshund'? Sorry, mate, but you're just as screwed up as the rest of us English-speakers. Because English isn't a language; it's a dozen languages in a trench coat.

Who tf says 'dar-tar'? I've never heard that in my life.

Yes, we do, although a lot of people don't say 'Ant-arc-tic-a' but 'An-tar-tic-a' for some reason.

Our spellings are 'inquiry' and inquire' for both formal and informal investigations.

I tried saying all of these words out loud just now, but I'm no longer certain what my natural pronunciations are, or if I'm getting skewed by reading all of these supposedly "incorrect" pronunciations XD I live in Southern California and I *think* I naturally say all of these words just like the quoted pronunciations. I'm no longer certain if these are "correct" pronunciations or if I'm being indirectly made fun of by people who pronounce these words "correctly" XD

The syllable was added...by the English: "The two spellings (aluminum vs. aluminium) can be attributed to the chemist who discovered the metal, Sir Humphry Davy. It was back in 1807 when the English chemist identified the 13th element on the periodic table which he first named aluminum as a nod to alumina which refers to the oxidation of aluminum and has been used since 1790 or so (even before the element was discovered and named). It was not until 1812 when Sir Humphry Davy was encouraged by his fellow chemists to propose a name change for the metallic element to “aluminium”, pronounced as [ al-yuh-min-ee-uhm ]."

Many of the American pronunciations vary between generations and regions.

Can confirm that we do indeed say "Mee-gan". Likewise Tegan pronounced as "Tee-gan"

TIL ‘auzzies’ pronounce a lot of words incorrectly

Yes, but you don't pronounce 'level' as 'lee-vul', do you? So why would you pronounce 'lever' as 'lee-ver'?