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Government.

There is an "n" in the word...that is pronounced in American English. In British English it usually is less noticeable.

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@Frank Apisa,

Americans pronounce the ham in Nottingham and Birmingham.

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@izzythepush,

izzythepush wrote:

Americans pronounce the ham in Nottingham and Birmingham.

Only stupid Americans.

By now, EVERY American should have a good idea of how to pronounce Nottingham and Buckingham Palace. When I hear the "ham" pronounced, I think, "What a jerk."

BuckingHAM Palace sounds to me as though it is a moron speaking.

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@Frank Apisa,

What about Birmingham Alabama?

I don't think they sound moronic, just unaware of how we talk over here.

There was an American living in Birmingham on Pointless the other day, Richard Osman asked her how long it took her to start calling it Birmingum. Pretty much straight away.

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Mobile--City in Alabama pronounced Mo'-beel

mobile--kinetic sculpture--mo'-beel

mobile--movable--mo'-bul

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@coluber2001,

coluber2001 wrote:

Mobile--City in Alabama pronounced Mo'-beel

mobile--kinetic sculpture--mo'-beel

mobile--movable--mo'-bul

New Orleans...pronounced New Orleeeeens.

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It all reminds me of my time as a southwesterner in New York City. I didn't know which way to go and asked some strangers how to find Houston Street. They didn't know until one snapped and said, "Oh Houston Street." Then he knew how to direct me.

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Scarborough, pronounced Scar bruh.

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@izzythepush,

Yeah, same as Edinburgh - pronounced Edin-bruh. And don't you shorten Northamptonshire to Northants?

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@edgarblythe,

edgarblythe wrote:

It all reminds me of my time as a southwesterner in New York City. I didn't know which way to go and asked some strangers how to find Houston Street. They didn't know until one snapped and said, "Oh Houston Street." Then he knew how to direct me.

I thought you might be heading toward, "I visited New York City and asked someone how to get to Carnegie Hall. He said, 'practice, practice, practice.'"

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@Mame,

When we write addresses, but not in conversation.

It's bruh, for every city ending Borough.

No British City ends burrow, either bruh or burrugh depending on how posh you are.

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Lignin

A class of complex organic polymers that form key structural materials in the support tissues of most plants, especially wood and bark.

Lignin is so tough that organisms like bacteria and fungi that could break it down hadn't yet evolved in the Carboniferous period. Consequently, the dead trees accumulated in the swamps unrotted, and these eventually formed vast coal beds.

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Sadopopulism

Sadopopulism is a term used to describe a government body that operates without policy and causes pain in its citizenry.

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@coluber2001,

coluber2001 wrote:

Sadopopulism

Sadopopulism is a term used to describe a government body that operates without policy and causes pain in its citizenry.

Many that operate with policy also cause pain.

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@edgarblythe,

I guess the difference is that the sadopopulist operates without policy and intentionally causes pain and enmity in order to redirect anger and split the electorate against one another.

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Oligarchy

"Oligarchy is a form of power structure in which power rests with a small number of people."

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Doublespeak

"Doublespeak is language that deliberately obscures, disguises, distorts, or reverses the meaning of words."

Doublespeak is derived from two Orwellian words, doublethink and newspeak.

When Putin talked about a peace force in Ukraine, he meant war. War equals peace. When Trump speaks of unity, he means division, turning groups against other groups to reinforce his base. Unity equals division.

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"Explicit:
describes something that is very clear and without vagueness or ambiguity.

Implicit:
often functions as the opposite, referring to something that is understood, but not described clearly or directly, and often using implication or assumption. To help remember, explicit things are explained, implicit things are implied."

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malapropism

the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar

Example:

My documentaries, the documentaries that I recommend

My dromedaries, the dromedaries that I recommend

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@coluber2001,

coluber2001 wrote:

malapropism

the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar

Example:

My documentaries, the documentaries that I recommend

My dromedaries, the dromedaries that I recommend

Or gazpacho!.

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