http://www.englishforums.com/search/pro.htm?q=tag%3aFootball+tag%3aPronunciation+tag%3aAmerican+EnglishSearch results for 'tag:Football tag:Pronunciation tag:American English' matching tags 'Football', 'Pronunciation', and 'American English'en-USCSMOD (Build: 3273.32735)http://www.englishforums.com/English/PrepositionOf/dkjgx/post.htm#302410Sun, 10 Dec 2006 08:03:33 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:302410califjimof always has the v sound at the end except in typically faster informal conversation where the v is sometimes dropped when the following word begins with a consonant of then being identical in sound to the word a Help Help An alligator s got a hold of me a hold a me A friend of my sister s got a pony for Christmas a friend a my sister s That s the end of the story the end a the story A lot of the children already knew how to read a lot a the children He was the star of the show the star a the show Today s the start of football season start a football season She played the queen of spades queen a spades This form of of is sometimes written o but with the same pronunciation as the a s above and has become a fixed part of a few words such as o clock jack o lantern will o the wisp and man o war This comment applies to American English CJ http://www.englishforums.com/English/WhyAmericanEnglish/3/qjhd/Post.htm#81331Tue, 15 Mar 2005 08:40:12 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:81331guestTo the citizens of the United States of America In the light of your failure to elect a competent President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence effective today Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states commonwealths and other territories Except Utah which she does not fancy Your new Prime Minister The Right Honourable Tony Blair MP for the 97 85 of you who have until now been unaware that there is a world outside your borders will appoint a Minister for America without the need for further elections Congress and the Senate will be disbanded A questionnaire will be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed To aid in the transition to a British Crown Dependency the following rules are introduced with immediate effect 1 You should look up revocation in the Oxford English Dictionary Then look up aluminium Check the pronunciation guide You will be amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it The letter U will be reinstated in words such as favour and neighbour skipping the letter U is nothing more than laziness on your part Likewise you will learn to spell doughnut without skipping half the letters You will end your love affair with the letter Z pronounced zed not zee and the suffix ize will be replaced by the suffix ise You will learn that the suffix burgh is pronounced burra e g Edinburgh You are welcome to re spell Pittsburgh as Pittsberg if you can t cope with correct pronunciation Generally you should raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels Look up vocabulary Using the same thirty seven words interspersed with filler noises such as uhh like and you know is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication Look up interspersed There will be no more bleeps in the Jerry Springer show If you re not old enough to cope with bad language then you shouldn t have chat shows When you learn to develop your vocabulary then you won t have to use bad language as often 2 There is no such thing as US English We will let Microsoft know on your behalf The Microsoft spell checker will be adjusted to take account of the reinstated letter u and the elimination of ize 3 You should learn to distinguish the English and Australian accents It really isn t that hard English accents are not limited to cockney upper class twit or Mancunian Daphne in Frasier You will also have to learn how to understand regional accents Scottish dramas such as Taggart will no longer be broadcast with subtitles While we re talking about regions you must learn that there is no such place as Devonshire in England The name of the county is Devon If you persist in calling it Devonshire all American States will become shires e g Texasshire Floridashire Louisianashire 4 Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as the good guys Hollywood will be required to cast English actors to play English characters British sit coms such as Men Behaving Badly or Red Dwarf will not be re cast and watered down for a wishy washy American audience who can t cope with the humour of occasional political incorrectness 5 You should relearn your original national anthem God Save The Queen but only after fully carrying out task 1 We would not want you to get confused and give up half way through 6 You should stop playing American football There is only one kind of football What you refer to as American football is not a very good game The 2 15 of you who are aware that there is a world outside your borders may have noticed that no one else plays American football You will no longer be allowed to play it and should instead play proper football Initially it would be best if you played with the girls It is a difficult game Those of you brave enough will in time be allowed to play rugby which is similar to American football but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like nancies We are hoping to get together at least a US Rugby sevens side by 2006 You should stop playing baseball It is not reasonable to host an event called the World Series for a game which is not played outside of America Since only 2 15 of you are aware that there is a world beyond your borders your error is understandable Instead of baseball you will be allowed to play a girls game called rounders which is baseball without fancy team strip oversized gloves collector cards or hotdogs 7 You will no longer be allowed to own or carry guns You will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous in public than a vegetable peeler Because we don t believe you are sensible enough to handle potentially dangerous items you will require a permit if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public 8 July 4th is no longer a public holiday November 2nd will be a new national holiday but only in England It will be called Indecisive Day 9 All American cars are hereby banned They are crap and it is for your own good When we show you German cars you will understand what we mean All road intersections will be replaced with roundabouts You will start driving on the left with immediate effect At the same time you will go metric with immediate effect and without the benefit of conversion tables Roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of humour 10 You will learn to make real chips Those things you call French fries are not real chips Fries aren t even French they are Belgian though 97 85 of you including the guy who discovered fries while in Europe are not aware of a country called Belgium Those things you insist on calling potato chips are properly called crisps Real chips are thick cut and fried in animal fat The traditional accompaniment to chips is beer which should be served warm and flat Waitresses will be trained to be more aggressive with customers 11 As a sign of penance 5 grams of sea salt per cup will be added to all tea made within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts this quantity to be doubled for tea made within the city of Boston itself 12 The cold tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actually beer at all it is lager From November 1st only proper British Bitter will be referred to as beer and European brews of known and accepted provenance will be referred to as Lager The substances formerly known as American Beer will henceforth be referred to as Near Frozen Gnat s Urine with the exception of the product of the American Budweiser company whose product will be referred to as Weak Near Frozen Gnat s Urine This will allow true Budweiser as manufactured for the last 1000 years in the Czech Republic to be sold without risk of confusion 13 From November 10th the UK will harmonise petrol or gasoline as you will be permitted to keep calling it until April 1st 2006 prices with the former USA The UK will harmonise its prices to those of the former USA and the Former USA will in return adopt UK petrol prices roughly 6 US gallon get used to it 14 You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns lawyers or therapists The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows that you re not adult enough to be independent Guns should only be handled by adults If you re not adult enough to sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist then you re not grown up enough to handle a gun 15 Please tell us who killed JFK It s been driving us crazy 16 Tax collectors from Her Majesty s Government will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all revenues due backdated to 1776 Thank you for your co operation http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheMostCommonSlangWords/zkwx/post.htm#27605Mon, 12 Apr 2004 16:54:44 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:27605nestorDawg It s a pronunciation spelling of the word dog If someone s my dawg he or she is my friend If someone s a dawg he or she is promiscuous I can also dawg something If I m hungry I ll dawg my food meaning that I ll eat a lot of it in a hurry And in sports you can dawg the other team If you got beat 20 to nothing in a soccer game you got dawged Aiight That s just all right How are you today Aiight It s a Southern American English pronounciation and isn t just limited to rappers or African Americans Dat That African Americans Cajuns Southerners New Yorkers and some others use it The New Orleans Saints an American football team in Cajun country once had a slogan Who dat say dey gone beat dem Saints You see or hear dat in Jamaican English too Holla This comes from holler which is a Southern and Appalachian American word used by both blacks and whites and it means to yell African American and Southern American English are closely related in vocabulary and pronunciation