Flight cancellations and mispronunciation

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

I imagine this is going to impact anyone with a recently approved petition, as there will be no mail/deliveries from the US to Europe during this time

[Empress of Groovy 373]

With the Gatwick thing.. in MA, there's a town called "Natick" and I was pronouncing it as the Gatwick-soundalike ("Na-tik"). But then I found that the local Americans were saying it as "Nate-ick".

So maybe that's just how they pronounce those kinda words over here.

I have a crazy aunt who lives in Natick (I'm from MA originally). To be strictly correct, the American pronunciation is "Naydick." You have to make sure the t sounds like a d. It's taken a few years, but this aspect of American English is starting to annoy the husband. He and my mother had an amusing discussion about whether she saw the movie "Ghost Writer" or "Ghost Rider." Not that the topic was that funny...just that the discussion deteriorated into both of them using bad language (Jon saying, "If only you Americans would pronounce Ts properly," and my mother saying, "Too fvcking bad," or something to that effect, him saying "For **'s sake..." etc.). They like to antagonize each other, which keeps things interesting.

[Leenie 15]

I imagine this is going to impact anyone with a recently approved petition, as there will be no mail/deliveries from the US to Europe during this time

Oh no! Good point! It's kind of ridiculous what one volcano can do! I just mailed some things to my fiance for his interview. "Fortunately," he hasn't been given an interview date yet, so it will probably be fine.

[Justine+David 218]

ugh...my sister has been studying abroad in Italy for the past school year and was scheduled to fly back home through London to Seattle for a week and then over to DC to live with me for the summer as an intern for one of our senators. She's been told that her April 27 flight is now pushed to at least May 5th...

And is currently entreating President Obama to send a U.S Navy ship to come get her and everyone else

Edited April 20, 2010 by Justine+David

[Gemmie 142]

I have a crazy aunt who lives in Natick (I'm from MA originally). To be strictly correct, the American pronunciation is "Naydick." You have to make sure the t sounds like a d. It's taken a few years, but this aspect of American English is starting to annoy the husband. He and my mother had an amusing discussion about whether she saw the movie "Ghost Writer" or "Ghost Rider." Not that the topic was that funny...just that the discussion deteriorated into both of them using bad language (Jon saying, "If only you Americans would pronounce Ts properly," and my mother saying, "Too fvcking bad," or something to that effect, him saying "For **'s sake..." etc.). They like to antagonize each other, which keeps things interesting.

I have the same problem.. I had a great time trying to figure out why my husband was calling the wall of stone a "jeddy" and then I asked if he meant "jetty". It drives me nuts. We tease each other now whenever he asks for "budder". My MIL couldn't believe I had never heard of the perfume "Yaddley" because it was a UK scent (I've still never heard of it, but I think it's one of those things where people expect you to know of everything from your country), and finally when she handed it to me I saw that she was trying to say "Yardly". Those damn Bostonian accents!

Anyways I feel really bad for the damage this ash has done, not just for flight travel but for the economy.

[NotworkSte 19]

I can forgive a lot of pronunciation over here, since I grew up in Ballymena and lived in Dundee for a while. Two of the worst accents, anywhere in the world - Glaswegian is excepted due to Billy Connolly making me laugh.

The letter T, I grew up not saying it! Jetty becomes Je'ey, Butter, Bu'er with what approximates a guteral stop in there.

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

I was going to say - a lot of british people drop the t sound altogether, while americans make it a hard D

[Gemmie 142]

Guilty... unless talking to/about something important.