Surf Advert

[Tuvok]

Does anybody else find the current Surf adverts anoying?

Whos says "perf"

She can't even pronounce Surf - she pronounces it "serf"

Another add that anoys me is the Car Gurus advert - I hear it as "car ger oos"

[Tilly2]

So it is, Nightmare and I spelt it wrong. Tut!

Thanks anyway.

[THECORBYLOON]

"And then there’s dose and rose and lose"

Those three words rhyme for me.

[pixie374]

They sound the same to me, as well. Are there any accents though, where everything is pronounced phonetically? I'm sure there are a lot of valid variations. This looks like "my accent is better than yours" lol.
I once had a friend from Lancaster, who kept saying "there is no r in glass"... and yet ask her how she pronounced doll and roll... they sounded different. The hypocrisy :-)

[pixie374]

CL, all those sound different to me. Dose has a soft s, rose doesn't. Lose has a long o.

[nightmare]

dose usually has a hard s
rose has a soft s - pronounced like z
lose is usually pronounced looz - i.e. with a long u sound
I know of no-one who pronounces lose to rhyme with either rose or dose

[pixie374]

I wouldn't say "dose" does have a hard s. To me that would be "doze"- to sleep.

[nightmare]

pixie, hard s is the sound of s
soft s is the sound of z

[THECORBYLOON]

Scotish National Dictionary

DOSE, n. Also doze.[doz Sc., but Rxb. du:z]

1. = Eng. dose, a portion (of medicine). The Sc. pronunciation is exemplified by the following quots.Sc. 1938  St Andrews Cit. (21 May) 4/2: 
He treated his young brother to a liberal “doze” of cider.Abd. 1737  in Sc. N. and Q. (1894) 124: 
To Dr Gaven Cocks, for his advice, and two dozes of salts for making the water operate.

[pixie374]

Oh right, ok x

[Cloverjo]

I’m intrigued as to how surf can sound different from serf. JimF, you’ve told us how you pronounce surf. How do you pronounce serf? And what is a tapped r?

[Tilly2]

Good post this Tuvok. :-)

[THECORBYLOON]

To me, the pronunciation of the "e" in serf is similar to the first "e" in Eritrea.

[Cloverjo]

Corby, are you Scottish?

[THECORBYLOON]

Corby is in Northamptonshire but there's a large percentage of Scots or Anglo-Scots. Both mum and dad were Aberdonians but I was born here.

[Tuvok]

Here's another word for you

highland

Its not pronounced high land

[Tuvok]

Approx 46s

https://youtu.be/Op6Qpg8RMzk

[THECORBYLOON]

I've tried to watch that video and it keeps stopping either at five seconds or fifteen seconds. I seen it's been viewed 5,457 times and about 5,000 are mines.

Is it worth trying again?

[THECORBYLOON]

Finally got it to work by another method. Was that just to hear the correct pronunciation of Highlands?