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Originally posted by Undertoad
Not as interesting to non US people... or maybe it is?
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Being non-yank myself, I'll say it's reasonably interesting, we often think of language differences as being a country thing I guess, probably because NZ isn't big enough to get any serious language differences (besides a couple, like Bach ((pronounced batch) South Islander's term for a holiday home) vs Crib (that's what they call the same thing in the North Island)).
Maori pronounciation is also slightly different depending on whether you are SI maori or NI maori (I'm not maori at all however), but it's been waay too long since Maori language class at school for me to remember what the differences are.
As for the words in the image, around here those would be (in order)...
Soft Drink
err, Filled Roll maybe
llama (pa-jar-mas)
car-a-mel (I can't imagine pronouncing that any different ??)
I think this would be gym shoes
oh and it's AL-YOU-MIN-E-UM not A-LOO-MIN-UM !!