50 WORDS AUSTRALIANS PRONOUNCE WEIRD (American vs Australian Pronunciation) 

Ah yes, Nootella... made with delicious hazelnoots.

We don’t pronounce Australian words wrong if they are made in Australia

Mel-burn is acceptable, Mel-born is not.

50 words Australians pronounce correctly and Americans pronounce wrong.

Since emu's are indigenous to Australia it's kinda weird when someone from another country tries to tell you it's pronounced differently - it's like going to Champagne in France and saying the sparkling wine made there is pronounced shampagnee. Also, the first half of Nutella isn't Nu, it's Nut, as in hazelnut, it's main ingredient. Just saying.

Buoy like buoyant to float. Why would you pronounce it boo-ee?!

I’ve only ever heard British people pronounce vitamins like that, in Australia we pronounce it the same as America

I would say that most Australians pronounce Aunt as 'Arnt' rather than 'Ont'

Cities like Melbourne, Cairns, and Brisbane are named after people, and that is how that particular person's name was pronounced.

"Vase" is varse in Australia not vaze

Emu is an Australian word, no? Our way is correct :P

"Adi-das" is correct, because it's named after the founder - Adi Dassler. Hence "Adi Das".

So generally speaking, Australians pronounce things the way that they’re spelled, while Americans are more likely to throw darts at a poster of the alphabet?

I actually thought that the American pronunciation of 'bouy' was someone saying the word who'd never heard it spoken. EDIT: regarding emus - are emus Australian or American? Right, so the Australian pronunciation is correct. Case closed.

This video broken my mind. As an Aussie, I agreed with a good half, but others left me speaking the word out loud several times to remember how I pronounce it.

One thing I noticed that we (Australians) do different. When there is a word that starts with TU, we kind of say it like CH. so instead of saying turmeric it sounds more like chumeric

just btw, you confused "Premier" and "premiere." The first one (Prem-i-uh") is a leader of a state, the second one ("prem-i-air") is the first showing of a film

Most people in Australia actually say vase as 'varze' (at least everyone I know does haha). I also say vitamins the same way you do 😊

New title: 50 Words Americans Say Wrong 😆 Seriously, Creg and Carm-el drive me nuts, where does the 'a' go?!

I’m actually impressed how well you do the Aussie pronunciations. Not all Americans can wrap their mouths around these.

Australians pronounce Nutella nut-Ella because it is made with hazelNUTS 😐

Lived in Melbourne like 90% of my life. Every native Melbournian says "Mel-ben". It was named after Lord Melbourne, the British PM when the city was founded in the 1830s. Never heard anybody but Americans say "Mel-bourne". It's my observation that Americans overpronounce a lot of their words. As in they have to say every single syllable and letter. Down here that just doesn't happen. Must be the heat. We need to conserve energy, so we keep things short, or whatever.

Who says “advertisement”? I’d fall asleep before I could finish it. Just say “ads”. Or am I weird?

Yep, nope, I'm Australian and Vit-a-mins is wrong. Very wrong. Vite-a-mins all the way.

It boggles my onion how ya can pronounce buoyant as boyant, but not buoy as boy. That boggles my onion. Cooee!

In my experience, most Australians pronounce VASE as VAARZ. Aluminium is spelt differently anyway, hence the different pronunciation. I think it's cute how Americans will always say "go ahead and...". It's a good drinking game when watching an instructional video on RU-vid. Did Bill Lumbergh make this saying popular or was it common before then?

Lived here my whole life. Vy-ta-mins. "Vittaminz" is like how those toffy upper-class English people say it. I've never heard anybody apart from the English upper classes say it that way.

Vase - Australians pronounce it like varze, not vaze.

The emu one is really easy. In Australian English the LONG form of the letter "u" (cute not cut) is pronounced like the letter itself (yooo), no matter what consonant is before it (there are some variants I'll get to). So, "tyube" not "toob", "dyooty" not "doody" and (until very recently) "nyood" not "nood". Nudity became noodedy in the last twenty years. The exceptions have always been 's', 'l' and 'r'. You might hear 'syooperb' but you are more likely to hear 'superb', you might hear 'lyoominus', but you are much more likely to hear 'luminous'. The one you will never hear (unless the speaker is being exceptionally pretentious) is 'ryood' for 'rude' or 'ryooby' for 'ruby'. They are just too hard to say and Aussies like things easy!

Who on earth says vit-a-mins in Australia. I've only ever heard vite-a-mins. Btw a better spelling for Cordial would be Cor-dee-all. That's how we say it.

Cordial is the drink consentrate made up with water. Being cordial to someone is being nice/manners

Along with Craig, I notice Americans say people's names differently - Cecil - Aussies say Sess-il. Americans say See - sill, Leslie - Aussies say Lezz-li, Americans say Less-li....

Most were pretty accurate however these two are actually: Vase = var-se Vitamin = vite-a-min Also Nutella is made from nuts so ofc it's nut tella!

There are also difference in phrases between Australia and US, e.g. "come with"; we would always say "come with me". "Write her"; we would say "write to her". "A couple days"; we would say "a couple of days". "One hundred-one"; we would say "one hundred and one". Interesting that even though Aussies love to shorten words, these phrases are all longer in the Aussie (and English) version.

Corjul and Cordial are two different things unless I was raised wrong in Australia. Corjul is a manner based word , Cordial is a flavored children's drink

We DON'T say Garrige, that is in England.

It's may also be interesting for you to note that Western Australians have a slightly different accent to Easterners. For example, west Australians pronounce the word 'Beer' as 'Bee-ah' and Easterners say "Beeih". They also have different words for stuff. Where people from WA will say "Bathers", QL will say "togs", NSW say "cozzies or swimmers"

"Vitt-a-mins" is the English pronunciation. A lot of Australians do use the American pronunciation. Left to my own devices, I say "vitt-a-mins" but there are people who complain. A significant proportion of the Australian population pronounces 'vase' as 'vahze' (it depends upon the state you grew up in.) Americans appear (in a lot of cases) to drop a syllable with longer words in comparison to Australians, e.g. caramel. Australians often pronounce the letter U as 'yu'. (Russian does something similar with the character written as 'E', it's pronounced 'yeh' (short e). Thus HET is pronounced "nyet".) Back to us* Aussies and 'U'. Even Americans call the letter "You". So using it to represent 'yu' makes sense. Your pronunciation of Melbourne comes fairly close to what we think it should be - where the American pronunciation becomes problematic is when people say "MALL - bourne". You missed "almond" - we don't pronounce the "l". You also missed "solder" - where we _do_ pronounce the "l". (Without the "l" "solder" sounds quite rude to Australian ears!!) Regarding product names like Nissan, Hyundai, Nutella, Adidas and so on, my guess is that the pronunciation was a result of people seeing the word written and pronouncing it the way they thought those letters should sound. There will probably be fewer of those differences in the future as we communicate more over the internet rather than on paper. * Yeah, I'm aware I should be using the dative and not the nominative case but that's an area where Aussies can be a bit lazy.

Who the hell says ‘advert’ I’m Aussie I’ve never heard anyone say that in my life

As far as names of places (Melbin, Cans) would be like saying Ar-Kansas instead of Ar-kin-saw. My rule of thumb, local dialect is correct. Originator of word in the language (English) is correct.

You should really retitle this video, 50 words the whole of the English-speaking world pronounce correctly which Americans don't. Remember, there is no such thing as American English, there is English and there is being wrong.

Oz would say " A bokay of flowers has a lovely bookay"

I found Americans had no idea when I asked for my windcheater back when I had given it to an attendant on a flight in the USA. I had to try "jersey", "jumper", "top" + sign language.

You did so well switch between the pronunciations, I struggle so much doing that because I’ve already forgotten how the other person pronounces it. Also different places in Australia have small differences in accents. Adelaide, for example, has stronger English roots and pronounces more things the English way.

Your Australia vlogs are instructional and entertaining, and I don't miss any of them!

Tumeric - Australian pronunciation is actually like tchoomeric, not toomeric

Australians pronounce it how its spelt more often than not.

Commenters here keep saying that Melbourne is pronounced Mel-bin, or Mel-bun, or Mel-ben, by Australians. But it is confusing when you write that. It also makes it seem like there are all these variations. If you say the word bin, then say Melbourne, it is different. If you say the word bun, then say Melbourne, it is different. If you say the name Ben, then say Melbourne, it is different. In the pronunciation of Melbourne, the 'r' is deemphasised/non-existent sure, but the vowel sound is an unstressed vowel / a 'schwa'. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwa ... this sound is very common in English, it is the vowel in the word 'the'. Like, when you say 'hunted', it is always 'huntd' no one says 'hun ted'.

Hiya mate, some of the pronunciations are region specific. ie some words in Brisbane are different to Melbourne etc. Also different States have there own names for some things eg Potato cakes in one state are scallops in another. Anyways keep smiling.

He-yun-day is how I would pronounce it as an Australian

This was a lot of fun ,😂. Emu was hilarious 😂🤣😂. Keep up the good posts ,👍😁👍

Adidas is German, and correct pronunciation is Adi-Das

I've also noticed we say An-tarctica, whereas americans say Ant-arctica. Minor difference but it gets to me haha. Btw it's definitely Mel-bin and Cans.

My pet peeve is how people pronounce advertisement. I was taught Ad-ver-tis-ment. The e is meant to be silent.

I have travelled to the USA a lot, and the word that shocked me the most after Aluminium was Macramé

I love your videos so much you’re my favorite! I’m looking to move to Sunshine Coast in a year and I’m going to meet my best-friend Abraxis for the first time! Your videos help me so much. Love from Chicago!

Hi Tristian! Craig here. 100% with you on “Vitamins”! “Vittamins” is just whacky. I do a lot of work with electronics and I notice when I go to the US and on RU-vid videos the word “Solder”...in the US you seem to drop the “L”’and say “Sorder”.😎👍🏻

In Australia vitamins has always been pronunced as VY-ta-mens. VITTA-mins is the English/British way. I've lived in both Aust and England so can tell you that Aussies pronouncing it the English way is quite new. Also when the Hyundai car arrived in Australia in the late 80s it was pronounced as Hi-un-die and the adverts tag line was "Say hi to Hyundai" as it was new. Then about 5-10 years later the Koreans informed us (the car being Korean) that we were pronouncing it incorrectly and the correct pronunciation is Hee-yun-day. So all the commercials since say it that way.

2:57 I had a teacher who called it a-DEE-das and every time he said it the whole class started laughing….now ig he’s not the only one who says it like that lol

love this video..so on point..both countries have the better pronunciation on certain words and the" incorrect "version too. the word tube gets me..in Australia we say "choob" which is weird looking at the spelling

I'm an Aussie and can honestly say that I've never heard an Australian pronounce Vitamins that way like what, I am confusion...

Melbourne and Cairns: You say it correctly for their spelling. We just say it how we do because we're too laid back to be that anal about it. LOL

Great video, interesting seeing the differences. The only one that tiggers me is Aluminium 😂 the first time I heard it was on RU-vid and I was like what the how😂😂😂. I totally agree with vitamin luck don’t know anyone who says it that way, or it would drive me crazy too.

My first pronunciation argument in the USA was with a volunteer at the zoo trying to tell me how to pronounce emu. 😂😂

My ears really enjoy hearing you saying things the Aussie way

Another name Americans pronounce differently, and I would say incorrectly, is McGrath. It is an Irish surname and is pronounced MuGr-are. It was my mother’s maiden name and it drives me mad when American’s pronounce it MuGra-th. :)

Buddy actually said “Karens” instead of cans 😭😭

past tense words: spit - spat, sit - sat, shit - shat, yeet - yat also: lego not legos, legos is pasta sauce... a lego piece, many lego pieces.

As far as Emus go since it’s an Australian bird there is only one way to pronounce it and that E mu Melbourne is usually pronounced Mel burn or Mel bin if you’re a bit of a yobbo and a vase is pronounced var s

It’s your accent dude. It’s like some of the words where you enunciate the i, and we don’t, or you leave it out and we put it in. In all, it all comes down to the accent.

Words that begin with Tu are pronounced as tyoo as in Tyoozday for Tuesday, tyoob for tube but said fast, they become ch. Choosday, choob. Therefore, tumeric becomes choomeric.

If an Aussie says “Haitch” they are not correct. It’s weird, but in “Proper English” (the way my educated teachers taught me) the sound of the letter H has a SILENT H sound at the beginning. Z is Zed, like in Canada 🇨🇦

it seems Americans Pronounce a lot of "U" words with an "O" why is that you think? Pooma, Emoo etc

The top word Americans can't pronounce is Pergola

as an Australian thats been here for 36 years not once that i can remeber have i heard someone say Vit-a-mins everyone i know and ever talked to have pronounced it Vite-a-mins.. just saying...

Really enjoy your content. Great work pronouncing the Aussie way.

"50 WORDS AUSTRALIANS PRONOUNCE WEIRDLY" - (WEIRD - LY) - YES we still use adverbs here! LOL As a linguist, I always enjoy your take on us. American English is greatly influenced by Middle France, hence the reason why you don't pronounce the H in "herb" but, ""niche' is a French word, so why the HECK, don't you pronounce it the French way like we do. You have these rules which you never follow in your own language, which to linguists, we cannot work out... Most Australians actually say "varz" not "vaze" for VASE, but I suspect it's the younger generation that pronounces it the American way because of US TV shows. Also older Australians and the British leave the middle E out of ADVERTISEMENT when pronouncing it as "adver-tiss-ment". In country names, we say "Moss-coh" for Moscow, whereas you say "moss-cow". Keep it up. Good work. Ken

Duty. American version sounds like "doodee" and Australian sounds like "dewtee"

Good video, thank you! Australian linguistics student, here. 🙂 I actually pronounce vase rhyming with cars!

Hope you enjoyed your visit, certainly enjoyed the videos. Car names are so different, some I have noticed, Hunday, Neesan, Maazda, Fiart. Also meer for a mirror. I would love to know how booey came about for a buoy, how that came about is really hard to fathom. Does any one say booeyant for buoyant?

Filet is pronounced the American way (fi-lay) as a way of cutting meat, but if your talking of the meat itself it’s always a Fillet wherever you are cause it’s got 2 L’s not one like you showed. Filet is a particular way of cutting the Fillet.

Fabulous video. Thanks Tristan. Americans pronounce the car manufacturer, Jagwahr, whereas in Australia and England it’s pronounced JAG-U-R. I look forward to more American/Aussie comparisons.

Glad I watch Top Gear, and other English-International shows! Knew about half of these off the top of my head!

Mate love your videos, doing a great job exploring language, I can’t say I’ve ever heard and Aussie call vitamins vita-mins, that is an English pronunciation (my wife is English) and we pronounce it the same as you guys, great channel, keep up the great work

Most of these words are pronounced in Britain the same way as in Australia.

Actually we pronounce 'vase' as 'varz'.

@Tristan - apologies for long comment... just subscribed - as this post of yours was really good - and I wanted to comment on a FEW things in it 🤓😇😂 I’m surprised you didn’t mention Data? Americans and the rest of the English speaking world pronounce that word as Day-ta... Australians pronounce it Dar-ta - As an Australian I was thought the Dar-ta... knowing that we are the ONLY ones to pronounce it that way - I now have trained myself to say Day-ta And how about Schedule? Shed-ule in Australia, sked-ule in America. Some comments - starting with the last 2: Melbourne is pronounced more formally as Mel-burn... and by most Australians I know as Mel-buhn... which is “splitting the difference between Mel- burn and Mel-bin (which is how Australians that drop their R’s speak - not ALL of us do that). The way Americans say it is very grating to Australians as it isn’t just about adding the R - you say Mel-born... So you are pronouncing the Bourne part as Born.. instead of Burn, Buhn or Bin (with the loss of the R). This is why we would say this isn’t an accent difference - you are saying the Bourne part as Born.. which is incorrect. If we were just dropping the R - and it was pronounced Born - then we would say Mel-Bon - which we NEVER do. Sorry mate - Mel-Born is just WRONG to Aussie ears. If you said Mel-BURn - we would have NO issue with you emphasising the R more than we typically would. But it will never be Mel-bORn I’m for Cairns - that is definitely is dropping the R... I wouldn’t give you a hard time if you emphasised the R in Cairns - that is VERY different to saying Mel-bORn... that born is just wrong. Mel-bURn - you won’t get grief. OK - some comments on the REST: Saying that - E-mew is correct - as it is an Australian bird - and that is how we pronounce it - and it is on our coat of arms... HOWEVER - the way Americans pronounce the word is correct in America - as you pronounce words like that e-moo... but you really grate Australian ears saying it that way. Buoy is pronounced correctly as Boy by English and Australians - as it is related to buoyant (boy-ahnt) / buoyancy (boy-ahn-see... which I really hope Americans do not pronounce as Boo-ee-ant or Boo-ee-an-see?!?! Like you stick by Vitamins as Vite-a-mins - which you are 💯 right of course - Then us Aussies - and English - will stand by Buoy being pronounced “BOY” and have to tell you Americans that just because you started mispronouncing Buoy - and have NEVER fixed it - doesn’t make it right!!! If you say Buoyant and Buoyancy with the “Boy” sound - then you SHOULD say Boy for Buoy!!!! This is one that grates on ANYONE that understands the etymology of the word and can’t understand how Americans miss this inconsistency in how they pronounce Buoy, buoyant, buoyed, and buoyancy?!? Seriously - it is just weird. Nut-ella - as it is a NUT spread... Unfortunately we pronounce Uno incorrectly... as it is the Spanish word for one - so it should be oo-no - as Americans correctly pronounce it. Like you did for mom/mum - I think you should have mentioned that Aluminum (Australia) and Aluminum (USA) are actually different spellings... so BOTH pronunciations are correct for the word they represent... that extra “i” in British and Australian English shifts the emphasis of the syllables. Adidas is pronounced ADI-dass by Germans - as it is formed from the name of the founder... so technically Americans mispronounce the name. Just like Australians do for Uno!!! Oh - OK - Zebra... how on earth is is Zee-bra?? How do you pronounce the name Debra? Dee-bra?!?! Or do you pronounce it Deb-ra, like Australians pronounce Zebra - Zeb-ra!!! Look - I get that sometimes accents make pronunciation different - but things have to be CONSISTENT!! Just like the Buoy, buoyant, buoyancy example, with Americans pronouncing those three words with the same structure (and related etymology) differently, then how can you have the two words Zebra and Debra and pronounce them differently?!? What is the rule? If there is a rule - ONE of the pronunciations is incorrect - in this case Zee-bra... as I doubt the Debra’s of the world would tolerate Dee-bra!!! Ironically I’ve heard an American Debra pronounce the word Zebra as Zee-bra?!? 🤦🤷‍♂️ We also don’t get herb pronounced Erb... so you call someone by the name of Herbert - Erbert?!? Again - consistency issue for us Australians. Also - Koreans would pronounce Hyundai as He-Uhn-Day... So both Americans and Australians pronounce it incorrectly - Australians have correct number of syllables.. and the first 2 we get right and Americans get the last syllable correct - Day... I think Aussies more say Ahnt for Aunt... rather than Ont... There is another word that my American colleagues find really weird in the way us Australians pronounce it - but for the life of me I cannot remember it right now - I will update if I recall it. BTW - one of these colleagues is a Craig - so he struggles with how is Aussies pronounce his name. I try and remember to pronounce his name as Creg... as that is his name, and I feel you should call people by their name in the way they want it pronounced as a courtesy - just like Melbourne and Emu!!! Haha. So of course Aussie Craig’s are called Cray-g

Amazing! You really did get those pretty well right! Well done mate. Ahhh EXCEPT... "vase"... most people I know would pronounce it with a long "a" as if spelled "vaarz". As for Melbourne (mel-bin) and Cairns (kehns) - yes, that's hard to write the pronunciation without reverting to phonetics, which nobody understands (except for linguists)... oh another is Brisbane (bris-bun)... I was VERY impressed that you did pronounce virtually all those words exactly right as an Aussie would. So I will reiterate - well done!

2:22 I don't think I have ever heard anyone in my life say "new-tella". I mean, I am Australian, but I didn't even know that Americans said it that way 😂

Melbourne, Cairns, emu are all the same. If it’s Australian day it the Aussie way.

Great video again Tristan. Always get a laugh out of them. You’ll soon be pronouncing your words like us Australians in no time. Where are you currently in Australia?

On the subject of names Americans pronounce Graham as Gram while Australians pronounce it Grey-ham.

Aluminium is pronounced differently because of the extra i in the spelling of the word.

Yes, Melbourne and Cairns aren’t pronounced with the ‘r’ by Australians. .... or rather I do, but I hold the r one twentieth as long as an American would. So. well done you on that one. However I’m laughing over ‘tumeric’ which you still got wrong. In australia the u in tumeric is the same as the u in emu. So it’s t-you-mer-ick, not too-mer-ick.

As an Aussie whose lived in Florida, I’ve adopted y’all. I like it. More than ‘youze’ especially.

Another word difference is: - Aaron = Americans pronounce it Erin, Aussies pronounce it Ah-run

It's pronounced 'vahse' like it rhymes with Mars.

Nutella is pronounced as Nut-ella because it's made out of NUTS!!!! That's what Nutella is named after.

Vahz is how I, as an Australian pronounce the word, “vase”. “Vahz” is the only way I have ever heard this word said in Australia. I am a proud Melbournian, 5 th. Generation Australian of Scotts/Irish and Lithuanian descent, yet am often mistaken for being English because of my accent. I am also a voice actor and semi professional singer. I sing in ten different languages (although I only understand one and a half), and I mimic accents. I love your posts!

He-yun-day is how I would pronounce it as an Australian Varze for Vase And you’ll hear quite often: Chew-mer-ik (tumeric)