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The Public Shaming of England’s First Umbrella User

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Re: The Public Shaming of England’s First Umbrella User

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I love listening to the English butcher (assimilate?) loanwords. Sure, other English-speaking peoples do as well, but the English in particular do it with gusto. Even McDonalds gets 'filet' mostly right.

One thing that really surprised me was when I first started watching Top Gear : they pronounced "Mazda" and "Bugatti" with flat As (that is, they used IPA [æ] for the first occurrences of 'a' in both words). I was really taken aback by how aggressively anglicized those names.

I've noticed many Canadians do this as well with words like 'pasta' or 'lava.'
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