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Re: OT: Worcestershire sauce

From:Tristan McLeay <zsau@...>
Date:Monday, October 6, 2003, 14:26
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Mark J. Reed wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 05:39:11AM -0400, Tristan McLeay wrote: > > Are you any more amenable to /'g&ra:dZ/? > > Nah. That just sounds like you can't make up your mind between the > American and British pronunciations. ;-)
Hey, I'm an Australian. Isn't that what it means to be Australian?
> > I've never actually heard it, but > > <http://www.aussieinamerica.com/language/herbs.htm>, where I first > > discovered the American pronunciation of 'fillet', suggests that we would > > say something more Frenchy. I'd probably say something like > > /fI,lemI'njOn/, but I wouldn't be surprised if the normal pronunciation of > > the -e- was /&i/. The -n- is definitely in the same syllable as the -j-, > > though :) > > Syllabification, schmillabification. :)
Well, it wouldn't surprise me if it differed here and there. Americans and their nooz an ohll...
> Anyway, I'm pretty sure that if you walked into your friendly neighborhood > Outback steakhouse here in the US and ordered a "Victoria's ['fIl@t]", > your server would laugh at you. Not to your face, of course; that would > be rude. She would smile, take your order, and go back to the kitchen > to mock you, probably simply by repeating your order verbatim when placing > it with the cook.
I'm sure she would, but I'll have the last laugh when I walk off without tipping her (because when someone goes to a foreign country, they get to behave like they do in their own, right? Isn't that what American tourists have been teaching us?). Either that or I could put on my best horribly fake American accent and ask for a 'Victahreerrzh Filee' (which is *very* fake, and no-one here would doubt that any less than anyone there).
> Then again, perhaps their extensive employee training in all things > Australian includes such things as the proper native pronunciation of > such words . . . :)
Yes, well my understanding is that the Outback Steakhouse is about as Australian as George Bush (apparently the Outback Steakhouse in Sydney had its menu translated...). -- Tristan <kesuari@...> Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement. -- Snoopy

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