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okay, using the words listed at the start of this wikipedia article, here's where i place myself:
analyze/center/defense/labour/organize/program
or, British 1, American 5, Canadian 4, Australian 2
it's a nice litmus test to see where you're at. i knew i used to skew NA in writing style, but i didn't think by that much
I've gone the opposite way - I've been replacing my American pronunciations with the British ones, like leverage starts with lee, like in lever, and that (software) patent starts with pat not pait.
I think it's in response to my younger friends and colleagues sounding, to my ears, increasing American - they say gotten, zee, and on accident (things that are often more consistent, but just not ~~cricket~~ British). I'm old enough to remember the sound of dual up, so I probably wasn't as exposed to US media growing up.
How do you pronounce courgette?
Is it a hard g like get or a soft g like giraffe?
This is one British word I had no idea existed.
I was gonna say, no self-respecting six-year-old wants to even consider zucchini.
That's pure bullshit, my three boys all like them. 8, 5 & 2