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Australians, how do you guys pronounce these words?
Maroon
Strawberry
Fortune
YouTube
Chance
Library
Jalapeño
Garage
Secondary
Category
Opportunity
Caramel
Due
Route
Produce
Foyer
Progress
Tuesday
Tuna
Hyundai
Just curious to see if anyone pronounces any words the same way as I do (I'm Australian)
My pronunications:
Ma-roon
Straw-berry
For-toon
Yoo-toob
Chaance (Just like saying Aaron)
Lie-brairy
Ha-la-pen-yo (Soft 'O')
Gah-rarge
Sec-ond-dairy
Cat-e-gory
Oppor-toonity
Cah-rah-mel
Doo
Root
Prod-euce
For-yay
Prog-ress
Twos-day
Too-na
Yun-day
2 Answers
- ?Lv 74 years agoFavorite Answer
I'm Australian, I pronounce some of them differently though.
Ma-rone
Straw-berry
Four-choon
You-choob
Chaance
Lie-brairy
Hala-peen-yo
Gar-arge
Sec-on-dairy
Cat-egg-ory
Op-poor-choonity
Cara-mool.
Jew ... is it actually pronounced doo? Lol...
R-ow-t
Prod-juice
Foi-er
Pro-gress
Chews-day
Chew-na
He-un-day.
- Anonymous4 years ago
I am not Australian, but I do pronounce those words very differently. Like YouTube is "you-tyoob" for me. And "due" is "dyoo".
And i think you're pronouncing "foyer" wrong. It's "fo-yuhr" not "for-yay", as if it was French.
