what's the difference between vase and vase

[ibdebic]

What's the difference between vase and vase?
I've heard it's the cost of the item / true or false ?

[lovejoy]

false. we say tomato, they say tumaytah. it's simply a dialect difference thats all.

[stewey]

A "vaze' costs around five pounds: a 'vahze' is a lot more expensive.

[Quizmonster]

And goodness knows what a 'vawz' - the third possible pronunciation and most up-market of the three - would set you back!

[davkel]

i put flowers in my vase.

[Whickerman]

it's true, in that posh (hence wealthier people who pay more for stuff) pronounce it one way, and us plebs the other.

[Paul_Rook]

ones american ones british