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Pronunciation
Ok, how do you pronounce Broccoli?
A: Broc-a-lie
B: Broc-a-li
C: Broc-a-lee
I am originally from Sydney, and pronounce it broc-a-lie
A: Broc-a-lie
B: Broc-a-li
C: Broc-a-lee
I am originally from Sydney, and pronounce it broc-a-lie
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Re: Pronunciation
A: Broc-a-lie - I used to pronounce it this way. N.S.W country up bringing
C: Broc-a-lee - Now pronouce it this way as that is how they pronouce it in Europe.
As I travel there are many words I have changed the way I pronouce them.
Also I have started but not lost the Aussie Upward inflection at the end of words.
C: Broc-a-lee - Now pronouce it this way as that is how they pronouce it in Europe.
As I travel there are many words I have changed the way I pronouce them.
Also I have started but not lost the Aussie Upward inflection at the end of words.
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Re: Pronunciation
Well you can see the problem, you're from Sydneymellie wrote:Ok, how do you pronounce Broccoli?
A: Broc-a-lie
B: Broc-a-li
C: Broc-a-lee
I am originally from Sydney, and pronounce it broc-a-lie
BROCCOLI
And then there's BROCCOLINI
Whichever you pronounce BROCCOLI then BROCCOLINI is the same just add the NI
Some nuff nuffs would like to try and convince others that BROCCOLINI is pronounced completely different to BROCCOLI
But I am surprised that you don't offer the option to pronounce BROCCOLI as BROC-COLLY
Guess you just suffer from BROCK syndrome
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Re: Pronunciation
Bart wrote:Well you can see the problem, you're from Sydneymellie wrote:Ok, how do you pronounce Broccoli?
A: Broc-a-lie
B: Broc-a-li
C: Broc-a-lee
I am originally from Sydney, and pronounce it broc-a-lie
BROCCOLI
And then there's BROCCOLINI
Whichever you pronounce BROCCOLI then BROCCOLINI is the same just add the NI
Some nuff nuffs would like to try and convince others that BROCCOLINI is pronounced completely different to BROCCOLI
But I am surprised that you don't offer the option to pronounce BROCCOLI as BROC-COLLY
Guess you just suffer from BROCK syndrome
It's not my fault that I am of the 1st STATE, (This being NSW, Sydney) and you on the other hand are but a mere Mexican this and cannot prononounce many words correctly.
I call this 2nd state-Syndrome, you lot have an inferiority complex because NSW was in fact the 1st, and don't you forget it Mr Bart.
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Ok....
How do you pronounce Canberra?
A: Can-be-raa
B: Cam-bra (This is how Bart pronounces it lol)
C: Can-berra (This is how I was taught to pronounce it)
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Re: Pronunciation
Super Nova wrote:A: Broc-a-lie - I used to pronounce it this way. N.S.W country up bringing
C: Broc-a-lee - Now pronouce it this way as that is how they pronouce it in Europe.
As I travel there are many words I have changed the way I pronouce them.
Also I have started but not lost the Aussie Upward inflection at the end of words.
And Super Nova, you had it right the first time, ignore Bart, he talks like a Mexican.
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Re: Pronunciation
mellie wrote:Super Nova wrote:A: Broc-a-lie - I used to pronounce it this way. N.S.W country up bringing
C: Broc-a-lee - Now pronouce it this way as that is how they pronouce it in Europe.
As I travel there are many words I have changed the way I pronouce them.
Also I have started but not lost the Aussie Upward inflection at the end of words.
And Super Nova, you had it right the first time, ignore Bart, he talks like a Mexican, he not being of the first state and all.
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mellie wrote: It's not my fault that I am of the 1st STATE, (This being NSW, Sydney)
Yes the Penal colony state
Should have gassed the lot of them, as afterall we all know that Sydney-siders are the biggest exponents of gaseous effluents
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Re: Pronunciation
Broccoli ....
Oh, people who live in Canberra say "Canbra".
Bart is right too, NSW the Penal State and always jealous of Victoria since Melbourne was the Original Capital of Australia.
I've been called a Mexican as I do pronounce some words differently having been brought up in Victoria. I would probably still ask for a "round of ham and tomato" at the sandwich shop and pronounce dog as dawg and salt as sawlt. It always amazed me when I lived in Sydney that what I called Silverbeet was called Spinach there.
Aussies are different and each State has its little idiosyncrasies and pronunciations of every day words. We tend to sound the same on Forums where "accents" aren't obvious but there are subtle differences between each State and Territory, believe me.
Oh, people who live in Canberra say "Canbra".
Bart is right too, NSW the Penal State and always jealous of Victoria since Melbourne was the Original Capital of Australia.
I've been called a Mexican as I do pronounce some words differently having been brought up in Victoria. I would probably still ask for a "round of ham and tomato" at the sandwich shop and pronounce dog as dawg and salt as sawlt. It always amazed me when I lived in Sydney that what I called Silverbeet was called Spinach there.
Aussies are different and each State has its little idiosyncrasies and pronunciations of every day words. We tend to sound the same on Forums where "accents" aren't obvious but there are subtle differences between each State and Territory, believe me.
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Re: Pronunciation
I say broccoli with a short e - broccole. There are so many dialects in NSW that it's hard to know what the original pronunciation of words was like. I read that a 100 years ago in Australia we had one of the best and clearest dialects of all the English speaking countries, but today it seems that much of the population is unintelligible.
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What else can you expect from Australia's first penal colony, I mean those penilists are just a bunch of d-heads!
Guess that's why Sydney always have been and always will be jealous of Melbourne.
Bunch of inbred hicks and convicts (Sydney) versus Melbourne the cultural capital of Australia and the sporting capital of the world
Guess that's why Sydney always have been and always will be jealous of Melbourne.
Bunch of inbred hicks and convicts (Sydney) versus Melbourne the cultural capital of Australia and the sporting capital of the world
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