What cheeses me off

[love_the_life]

And my parcel arrived today after its trip via Perth. Now I get to set up my new Samsung Ultra 26. Got it from the Samsung site via my union log on. A nice discount thank you very much.

And I got a delivery the other week that came from Sydney to Canberra also via Perth - what is it with AP?

 

[dajop]

And I got a delivery the other week that came from Sydney to Canberra also via Perth - what is it with AP?

It’s not uncommon with freight companies. Once had a laptop delivered to a hotel in San Francisco. It commenced its journey in the bay area - I think about 50km away. Not before detouring via a couple of airports in the central US Timezone , did it make it’s way to SFO.

 

[JohnK]

Your a bit slow on the uptake, there are holidays and there are special holidays

Special trading hours apply for Anzac Day, Easter, Labour Day and Christmas.

Shop trading hours in Queensland

www.business.qld.gov.au

Yes I'm slow. Good Friday and Christmas Day are the special holidays. Everything else should be fair game with restricted holiday opening hours, not closed signs.

Anyway....

 

[anat0l]

I was listening to a Youtube video talking about the Tokyo airports.

WCMO is the pronunciation of HND.

It's Hah-neh-da (even syllables, the middle one rhymes with the e in error, or the interjection, "eh?"), not He-neigh-da (with a long drawl on the middle syllable). (I won't press people for the proper pronunciation of the Japanese d, let alone r in Narita)

I get it - not everyone has spoken Japanese before, but they just said it so many times in the video it was really starting to grate.

 

[markis10]

It's Hah-neh-da

Canada with a h!

 

[Pushka]

I was listening to a Youtube video talking about the Tokyo airports.

WCMO is the pronunciation of HND.

It's Hah-neh-da (even syllables, the middle one rhymes with the e in error, or the interjection, "eh?"), not He-neigh-da (with a long drawl on the middle syllable). (I won't press people for the proper pronunciation of the Japanese d, let alone r in Narita)

I get it - not everyone has spoken Japanese before, but they just said it so many times in the video it was really starting to grate.

Japanese written language is excellent in that everything is pronounced as you see it. R is a bit trickier though.

 

[prozac]

I was listening to a Youtube video talking about the Tokyo airports.

WCMO is the pronunciation of HND.

It's Hah-neh-da (even syllables, the middle one rhymes with the e in error, or the interjection, "eh?"), not He-neigh-da (with a long drawl on the middle syllable). (I won't press people for the proper pronunciation of the Japanese d, let alone r in Narita)

I get it - not everyone has spoken Japanese before, but they just said it so many times in the video it was really starting to grate.

Like listening to any Asutralian newsreader. No research or pride anymore. Did I mention I dislike their insertion of the sh sound into the F1 driver name Verstappen?
A couple of weeks ago I laughed when a newsreader sounded out each letter sound in the location Curacao off the coast of Venezuela.

 

[DejaBrew]

Like listening to any Asutralian newsreader. No research or pride anymore. Did I mention I dislike their insertion of the sh sound into the F1 driver name Verstappen?
A couple of weeks ago I laughed when a newsreader sounded out each letter sound in the location Curacao off the coast of Venezuela.

Reminds me of the reporter I heard yesterday talking about a “sedarn” that police were investigating. Wondered what the hell he was on about until I realised…

Oh, a sedan

 

[Port Power]

Japanese written language is excellent in that everything is pronounced as you see it. R is a bit trickier though.

As a guide told us a few years ago: every syllable is equal.

 

[markis10]

Bit like the ABC news on the weekend during the NRL broadcast that described a UK team pronounced ly-cester!

 

[JessicaTam]

Canada with a h!

You mean Canadia?

WCMO - Optus have decided they are going to move me onto a new plan as they are retiring the old one. There goes unlimited talk and text to *and* from most countries. Grr.

 

[dajop]

I mean then there's also slightly annoying Mal-borrn. And then those who always say Bris-bayyyn. "bane" isn't meant to be pronounced like that. Depending on where you grew up it should be pronounced "ee" or "vay-gus".

 

[TheRealTMA]

I mean then there's also slightly annoying Mal-borrn. And then those who always say Bris-bayyyn. "bane" isn't meant to be pronounced like that. Depending on where you grew up it should be pronounced "ee" or "vay-gus".

Then there's southern newsreaders who pronounce Enogerra as "Eenoo- Guerra"

 

[kookaburra75]

I mean then there's also slightly annoying Mal-borrn. And then those who always say Bris-bayyyn. "bane" isn't meant to be pronounced like that. Depending on where you grew up it should be pronounced "ee" or "vay-gus".

I loved an interview with a US singer a few years ago, after she had performed in Tassie. She said that she loved Hob-art.

 

[dajop]

I loved an interview with a US singer a few years ago, after she had performed in Tassie. She said that she loved Hob-art.

But it does works both ways. Heard plenty of Australians butcher Chicago. And very few us can pronounce Nu Yawk correctly (but neither can most Americans).

 

[DejaBrew]

But it does works both ways. Heard plenty of Australians butcher Chicago. And very few us can pronounce Nu Yawk correctly (but neither can most Americans).

Well most can't pronounce "aluminium" or "nuclear", so what hope have the rest got?