I'm in the process of learning Danish so I know how they feel.

It's a constant battle of :

"Am I saying this right?"
"No?"
"How about this way?"
"How about this way?"
"How about this way?"
"Okay lets try this way again."
"How about this way?"
"How about this way?"
"Yay I said it right!"
"Now let me try to say it again..."

http://youtu.be/SskKMbX6qmk

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Anyway, I'd like to see a video on how Americans say "Eichhörnchen"

^Related (could be used as a makeshift fix.)

Here we go, level 2.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft

"I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter."
- A Tramp Abroad

“Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thanks, fixed!

Correct. In fact, only Scots can pronounce it correctly.

"A Tramp Abroad" sits by the reading material in the bath

Ok so the first time I encountered the duel-syllabic pronunciation of "squerl" was with Brits. Sounds more like "skwee-rill" when my mates from Clapham said it.

What i can't figure out is why, "Al-u-Min-i-um?" An extra syllable AND but no extra vowel. I love it though-at least the Brits leave room for coloratura....pas comme les monstres de grammaire de la France

Would think it'd sound more like 'skwiro' in Clapham; though there is a high chance your friends in Clapham were Polish

I fully defend the i in i-um in aluminium though. You wouldn't call helium helum or uranium uranum.

I'm guessing it only got bent into 'aluminum' because it became a popular and cheap element to manufacture with, so it entered the pop lexicon of America and got softened up.

According to http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Squirrel.html The word squirrel, first attested in 1327, comes via Anglo-Norman esquirel from the Old French escurel, the reflex of a Latin word sciurus. This Latin word was itself borrowed from Ancient Greek word σκίουρος, skiouros, which means shadow-tailed, referring to the bushy appendage possessed by many of its members.

Seems fine if correct.

And @chingalera you can one i from aluminium. As long as you stay away from silicon .

Al was called aluminum by the English chemist who discovered it, Humphry Davy, in his 1812 book which publicized the metal. It was some anonymous jackass writing a review of Davy's book who decided to change it to aluminium (see 4th paragraph) because he didn't like the sound of Davy's choice.

Nothing to do with Americans... the Brits fucked this one up all on their own and have been living the lie ever since.

He was just correcting his mistake

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Fixed again, thanks!

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