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[Bluetoes101]

Well, sometimes those comments are interesting, and I want to know when I'm really mispronouncing regular English words. And other times they are amusing, like the guy who insisted that I should pronounce "Moskow" like the British do, which is apparently the only right way.

The internet word police.. it makes me laugh because "English" in the UK varies so wildly I'm not sure who decides what is "right". I grew up in the midlands and travelled north for Uni, a few years back I travelled back down for a football game and I had to ask my sister to translate my drinks order to the bartender because he couldn't understand me. Another guy at the bar was laughing.. which was embarrassing.. because I grew up in this place!.. all of 2hrs away from where I am now.   

Then you have the whole American thing.. words like (what I would say) "Aluminium" and Americans would say "Aluminum" (dropped i).. where originally British English was "Aluminum" and American was "Aluminium" which the British adopted.. then the Americans decided to go back to "Aluminum" which the British will laugh at and say is wrong.. when it was what we said to start with before American influence!

This is what I mean by "we don't even know ourselves".. our language is a massive hodgepodge of influences and I doubt we say anything "correctly" ourselves anymore. There's a classic "TV blooper" of a girl announcing the "Grand Prix" as "Grand Pricks" instead of "Grand Pree" which people found hilarious, but god knows how many words we have actually morphed like this over the years.

At a complete guess I think what may have happened is we took French "Moscou" which we would pronounce "Mosco" and switched out the "u" for "w", or something similar.