How do you all pronounce “beer”?
I pronounce it " Beer" but most around here at least pronounce it as “Bee-a”. I’ve noticed it with other words such as ear (ee-a), tear (tee-a). Beer, ear and tear are one syllable words are they not?
Are you asking when at this stage:
or at this stage:
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Ha. No. It’s at anytime of day. Is it a WA peculiarity or am I getting it wrong?
I thought the only word Western Australians can pronounce is “Booooooooooo”.
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We seem to pronounce it “Boo-ooo”
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I pronounce it ‘bourbon.’
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Nothing like a quiet bee-ah before going to the fillums.
A ‘beer’ before a ‘moo’vee’ is quite nice.
Not just a WA thing. I’ve heard bee-a here in Victoria plenty of times.
My pet peeve at the moment is a certain weather presenter who constantly refers to the period before night as the e/ven/ing. Which means “to make things even”.
The word you are after is eve/ning. Two syllables. Stupid bint.
And don’t get me started on “police” versus “pleece”.
/rant.
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“Poh-lice”
Anyone read Confederacy of Dunces? If not, a warning - you might laugh yourself unconscious.
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When’s this thread going racist?
I’m not racist…but when I was in china they had this Beer called Reeb. I’ve got no idea how the pronounce it, but it’s marketing genius!!!
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2 beers in and I’m going all Mexican.
I’ll have areeba andalay andalay.
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One that I can’t handle is dissect.
It has two syllables:
Dis = apart
Sect = cut
(Not ‘di’ + ‘ssect’)
The ‘dis’ should be pronounced as it is in display, distance, disparate etc.
It’s not meant to rhyme with bisect.
Weird pedantry I know, but I’m right.
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Unfortunately, you’re not.
Who said English is a phonetic language? And there’s a joke…spelling ‘phonetic’ that way.
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At the Thee et er
It’s beer spelt backwards!!!
Genius. Chinese got mad marketing skills
In the Glenorchy footy clubrooms theres no syllables at all. Park the work bus , walk through the doors and bang, there it is , waiting on the bar.
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I remember when I was in a supermarket in San Diego and asked in my aussie accent if they sold beer. The guy had no idea what I was talking about. I then pronounced it with the thickest american accent I could do and he said ‘yeah aisle 4’
One for the Sandgropers. Derby. Most pronounce it as “Darby” rather then “Der-by” as they do in the west. When I lived over there I stuck to the normal (non-WA) way of saying it, much to their chagrin…
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