The British guy is complaining about the American prouncing the "t" in Water like the "D" sound, but ignoring the fact that he's dropping the r. Wataaaaah.
The T sounding like a D in US English is called a flap T. Not every T is a flap T however and it can be seriously annoying for English learners. The IPA phonetic alphabet used in dictionaries has a symbol for them. You will see a V shape under the T in the phonetic spelling. If you look up a word like "better" and compare UK and US, you will only see it in the US phonetic spelling. As a general rule (There's probably exceptions) two T's side by side in a standard spelling is a flap T. Individual T's aren't as easy and that's where the dictionary becomes useful. Have a great day guys!😉
And then you need to get into the idea that British English is Not spoken by the majority of the British, even in the Home Countries: England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland. Regional vernacular are way different. I'm not even sure if the Queen even speaks the Queens English. Anyone learning that particular brand of English will be understood, mostly, but not completely.
I would love to see ex-North Korean soldiers reacting to the star spangled banner like you've never heard before. I'm curious on a fellow soldiers opinion on the story of the US national anthem.
Even though the the ways that Americans and people in England speak are different, it's even more different here in the USA, the way people speak. In other words , people in the different parts of the USA speak differently. It depends where you live in America. Some southern people have what's called a Southern drawl. Some people in the North East have an accent ( like Boston ). It depends where you live in America , you can kind of tell where they grew up or live. It's not just accents, it's also words.
The way Americans say water like “wawder” likely comes from the way it is pronounced in Scotland as we say water like “waw’er” and it’s quite quick compared to America, so an almost silent “t” sound. Whereas in England they say “Wo’er” or “WoTar” and either don’t pronounce the “t” or over pronounce the “t” but we say water with “waw” sound whereas in England it’s a “wo” sound.
All you need to know is English comes from England so the right way is the British way (that's why, other than the US, the majority of English speaking nations use the sames words as the British).
Saying American and British accent is so stupid because within each countries there are way too many accents. Always found these challenges to be misleading af to foreigners lol I would even call it dumb but w.e, just me I guess.
Most of the words Americans use are words that the British first used but then they changed it so American English is technically old British English Like the word "Soccer" for example was first coined by the English.
Yeah I head about that they changed there accent so they didn't sound like "common people" so then everyone copied the nobles and then hello new accent lol at least that's what I learned in history class
@@nightlyrowentree6047 I think that's pretty much the jist of it haha. I always thought it's because either British or American English had the French pronunciation of the words and that's why it changed I'm not sure which one but I'd guess the Brits. But you're probably more right.
@@shyryTsr2k who knows lol could you imagine 🤣 😂 Americans meeting British for the first time since the revolution and going "what's up with your accent?" Lol
@@nightlyrowentree6047 I know😂 I wonder how we managed to completely change the way we speak because if you know, we were colonized by the BRITISH and also other Europeans like French and later Dutch but the majority of our population was British so shouldn't Americans technically have a British accent or am I crazy??🤔
@@shyryTsr2k well British and Irish lol and for me who took georgia history georgia was the original Australia the British empire put there criminals there as a buffer from the Spanish in florida lol fun fact jacksonville was originally french and savannah had the Spanish and French try to colonize it and they all died including the natives originally there from diseases and the general location lol then the British showed up and bam savannah georgia is British now lol we also later had lots of German and prussian like during wwI originally most of the population wanted to fight with Germany because we had so many immigrants
American English is simplified English and they over emphasize the *R. The letter *a is pronounced the same as *e . Example the word *and pronounced as "eh nd" instead of "ah nd" . They don't use the nuances of English, the word *our is pronounced as "arrr " like a pirate. 1 syllable instead of 2 syllables " ow-er" Example the word lever pronounce as " leh- ver" instead of " lee ver" . English is a mixture of french Danish and Britton hence so many nuances
Not all british people would pronounce the "T" in water but it depends on your accent and how well spoken you are (as in how you pronounce your words), I'm British and I pronounce water with the "T" in it 🙂
