Re: stupid 'Home and Away' producers!

annily wrote:
 
>
> "David Springthorpe" <david.springthorpe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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>> On Thu, 01 May 2008 02:51:06 GMT, lynx <none@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>>
>>> The producers of 'Home and Away' have got the actors pronouncing
>>> 'progress' like Americans do.. PROG-ress instead of pro-GRESS. Duh!
>>> What's next?? will actors be lying on gRASS instead of lawns? drinking
>>> water from faucets instead of taps? why on earth do ppl think it's
cool
>>> or necessary to copy everything the Yanks do and say?!
>>
>> I think you'll find one's a noun, the other's a verb.....
>
> I don't think his phonetic spelling was clear. Perhaps he was 
> referring to the different ways of pronouncing the noun. 
 
Yes. What wasn't clear about it?
 
> We use a long "o", yanks use a short "o", both with stress on the 
> first syllable.
 
Well the Yanks break the word differently. They say 'prog/ress' we say 
'pro/gress'. They add the 'g' to the first part, we put it on the second.
 

 

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