blues exile
First XI
It all started to go wrong when pronouncing the letter 'h' as haitch became acceptable (to some)
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What is hacking you off today?
Napster
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blues exile
First XI
Quite simply, it's 'aitch'. OED etc
Tangled up in Blue
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Tell me about it.The kids at the French Lycée (LFB) drive me mad when they flip-flop between BE and AE in conversation (and writing).The problem is they're not aware they're doing it as most of their listening these days comes from AE series on Netflix etc.Irritatingly, the handbook for Speaking examiners in the Cambridge exams quite rightly insist that non-GB varieties of English shouldn't be discriminated against as long as the useage is consistent.
Brits have no excuse though.
Napster
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Tell me about it.The kids at the French Lycée (LFB) drive me mad when they flip-flop between BE and AE in conversation (and writing).The problem is they're not aware they're doing it as most of their listening these days comes from AE series on Netflix etc.Irritatingly, the handbook for Speaking examiners in the Cambridge exams quite rightly insist that non-GB varieties of English shouldn't be discriminated against as long as the useage is consistent.
Brits have no excuse though.
Hmmm. are you discriminating against non-standard usage? you do know that very very few people actually speak like the Queen? Regional dialectisation has been common for centuries.
ps people have been going on about this for decades. it's nothing but snobbery,
Tangled up in Blue
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Absolutely not. My point was (as I said) that the kids I teach genuinely often don't know when they're using AE or BE (more in terms of vocab.than pron).I'm fine with either but (also as I said) Cambridge exams require them to be
consistent in their usage and not to flip-flop.That's the problem here.
Unless of course you''re talking about my last comment ,in which case there is a perfectly accepted BE pron.of Z which is quite distinct from the AE one.
Coming from Essex we're unlikely to speak like the Queen anyway and who would want to?
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Blueronron
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Tangled up in Blue
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Ha! Typo now corrected.Incidentally,no it doesn't .(Not for the Cambridge English exams anyway).
MK Shrimper
Striker
Agreed but I'm not aware of any regional dialect that makes you speak like an American.
Interesting blog here on it: http://mentalfloss.com/article/62639/why-it-zed-britain-and-zee-america
Tangled up in Blue
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The operative word in Blueron's post is "more".Since there are 5 Cambridge English papers (U/E,reading,writing ,listening and speaking) with each counting for 20% of the total, by definition the writing paper (even with poor spelling) would only account for 20% of the aggregate mark.
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