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"Pronounciation :- "Ad-varnce" or "Ad-vance""

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Sat 19/07/03 at 17:20
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Well?
Mon 21/07/03 at 18:22
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..they wouldn't believe you.
Mon 21/07/03 at 18:07
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Let me guess, you got up before you went to bed as well?

But if you told that to the kids of today...
Mon 21/07/03 at 18:05
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Advanceywancy

- little girl speak
Mon 21/07/03 at 18:03
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Blank wrote:
> Kiriyama wrote:
> Blank wrote:
> Kiriyama wrote:
> Blank wrote:
> Kiriyama wrote:
> Northerners are st00pid.
>
> Hmm, irony.
>
> Hmm, sarcasm.
>
> Hmm, humour.
>
> Hmm, Bud, true, true :D
>
> Hmm, I can't work out where this is going to go from here.

You were lucky: we 'ad to get up and hour before bedtime, eat hot tar f' breakfast, work f'a year in t' mines and the ur dad would kill us with a spade.
Mon 21/07/03 at 16:26
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"twothousandandtits"
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Kiriyama wrote:
> Blank wrote:
> Kiriyama wrote:
> Blank wrote:
> Kiriyama wrote:
> Northerners are st00pid.
>
> Hmm, irony.
>
> Hmm, sarcasm.
>
> Hmm, humour.
>
> Hmm, Bud, true, true :D

Hmm, I can't work out where this is going to go from here.
Mon 21/07/03 at 15:57
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Rickoss wrote:
> I would have thought it would be "Ad-vaynce".

Or "advayance".

Deep South only though, I reckon.
Mon 21/07/03 at 15:34
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DébUK wrote:
> Twiddly wrote:
> RastaBillySkank wrote:
> Y'know the "posh" way of saying advance?
>
> Don't you mean the phonetically correct way of saying it?
>
> Actually, the correct term is 'received pronunciation.'
>
> >the "ah, buh, cuh, duh" pronounciation dummy-down so
> popular in the north and, co-incidentally, poverty stricken areas.
>
> You are obviously total idiot. Dialect has little or no correlation
> with socio-economic status. I live near Birmingham and do not speak
> with a Black Country accent. My friend would be considered as
> wealthier than me and speaks with a broad Black Country accent.
>
> You are a fool and obviously speak with received pronunciation, my
> friend is not a fool and also speaks with received pronunciation.
> Wow.
>
> If people could only talk properly, conversations like this would be
> uneccessary.
>
> Oh, go and sit in your rocking chair, bemoan the current social
> problems and ramble on about 'yob culture' you condescending ar$e.

Go Debbeh! :D
Mon 21/07/03 at 15:33
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WòókieeMøn§†€® wrote:
> "Advarnce" is the English pronunciation.
> "Ad-vance" (emphasis on second A) is the American
> pronunciation.

Yup, vewy tw00 :D
Mon 21/07/03 at 15:31
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Blank wrote:
> Kiriyama wrote:
> Blank wrote:
> Kiriyama wrote:
> Northerners are st00pid.
>
> Hmm, irony.
>
> Hmm, sarcasm.
>
> Hmm, humour.

Hmm, Bud, true, true :D
Mon 21/07/03 at 13:58
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"Ad-vance" - because I'm from the north. We don't say "barth" "marster" or any of that crap.

Though the Americans go one step further... they don't say "harf" (half) "banarna" (banana) or anything with a silent R sound. Crazy Yanks.

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