Terry;

I would like to suggest that you are using what might be termed “proper English”, be it England or the United States. Pronunciation of the English language differs within neighborhoods, cities, and regions of each of our countries.

I have been to places where the native language is English (in any of its forms) and have not been able to understand the residents. Well, sometimes I will catch a word or two but that is about all!

Some areas I have visited do not know what Guinness Stout is. Now, that is a true indication that you are in a less than civilized area of the world! :)

Tom



>The subject today is Stress on syllables and the differences each side of the pond
>

>WORD        US           UK (and the civilised world)
>__________  ___________  ____________________________
>Metalurgy   Metal-URGY   Me-TAL-(uh)gy
>Laborotory  LAB-'ro-TORY Lab-OR-at'ry
>Inventory   IN-ven-TORY  IN-vent'ry
>

>I've heard lots of others but last week I wasn't sure my ears weren't deceiving me when, in CSI Miami, I swear the pathologist called her profession "patho-LOGY" (We'd say "Path-OL-ogy"). I guess this matches with metalurgy, but it sounded so weird, like by someone whose first language isn't English, like, say, an Indian pronunciation (I used to have a Indian maths teacher who said: "Al-GEB-ra", "Arit'-METIC" and "Geo-METRY")
>
>If that's the case then "apology" should be "A-pol-OGIE" ?