My first business was owning a taxi. American tourists would come and at the end of a ride they would offer a tip, to which I would smile and say "No tipping here in New Zealand, we pay our people a wage !" I am sure a lot of other taxi drivers and other people happily took tips, but that was just wrong. I apologise for those greedy people.
Maths. You probably can't imagine how wrong 'math' sounds to a non American. It is almost as bad as 'erb. Herb is pronounce herb as in the man's name Herb. Unless you are speaking French, then it is 'erb. And 'ospital.
Hard-h is, indeed, one dialect of English; for other dialects, it may be taught as a barely-heard breath, in which case one must "an" one's "history," and learn the man's name Herb as the special case.
In the TV show M*A*S*H*, you'd have been wonderfully annoyed, because Hawkeye, pretending to be Winchester, says he wants "AN har(as in "hardy har har)monica), using the correct-by-your-dialect h, but the wrong definite article. (I hope that's what "a" and "an" are - it's been a long time since high school!)
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Yes, that -is- Bridgit Mendler (Good Luck Charlie, Lemonade Mouth,etc.)
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That settles it. Our civilization is doomed.
My first business was owning a taxi. American tourists would come and at the end of a ride they would offer a tip, to which I would smile and say "No tipping here in New Zealand, we pay our people a wage !"
I am sure a lot of other taxi drivers and other people happily took tips, but that was just wrong.
I apologise for those greedy people.
There has been a recent upsurge of small companies trying to charge tipping here, but so far the social media outcry has stopped most of it.
Maths.
You probably can't imagine how wrong 'math' sounds to a non American.
It is almost as bad as 'erb.
Herb is pronounce herb as in the man's name Herb.
Unless you are speaking French, then it is 'erb.
And 'ospital.
Hard-h is, indeed, one dialect of English; for other dialects, it may be taught as a barely-heard breath, in which case one must "an" one's "history," and learn the man's name Herb as the special case.
In the TV show M*A*S*H*, you'd have been wonderfully annoyed, because Hawkeye, pretending to be Winchester, says he wants "AN har(as in "hardy har har)monica), using the correct-by-your-dialect h, but the wrong definite article. (I hope that's what "a" and "an" are - it's been a long time since high school!)
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