The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #132499   Message #4080943
Posted By: Mrrzy
25-Nov-20 - 05:25 PM
Thread Name: BS: Language Pet Peeves
Subject: RE: BS: Language Pet Peeves
I was watching a documentary on the horrors of some island during some war where one side had prisoners-of-war whom they hunted, for sport and for dinner. I kept cracking up because the British [English?] narrator pronounced CANnibalism caNIBBLEism.
Like, they ate them daintily, with pinkies sticking out. And tea and crumpets.