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[–] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You mixed up America and UK, who saysays an American accent is ever fancy lol

[–] Wilzax@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

US is normal

UK is fancy

Aussie is wildcard

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No. Wild card is you learned English in a foreign non English native country and your accent is an absolute mess. You say Autumn but Taxi, color but wa(t)er, and maybe you call you cell phone your "Handy".

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also, you never considered pronouncing gif as “jiff” because your native language (German), where you heard it first, has no soft G.

[–] Wilzax@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

pronouncing it as "yiff"

[–] LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

UK is traditional

US is simplified

Aus is wildcard

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure you've got Aussie and US arse about.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

I'd rather dub the US variant a wildcard, based on it being the result of mixing English and all the other languages of settlers. Also, the US and its variations are very common and shadow the other variants which is somewhat sad.