Re: The awesomesauce with Chimerica
Reply #87 –
A typical British (English) pronunciation: Their proclivity is to pronounce everything as if it were English (language, spelling), e.g. /vä'-lit/ instead of /vah-leh'/ for valet... The letters of the Greek alphabet!, included. One gets used to it.
(Who was the wag who described the Americans and the British as "two peoples separated by a common language"? Churchill, most likely; but authorities say George Bernard Shaw.)