How do you pronounce the Anglo-Indian word curry?

[Zebra]

How do you pronounce the Anglo-Indian word curry?

 

[Zebra]

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Do You Say It Donner Or Donder?

Believe it or not I just found out about this last night that one of Santa's reindeer is actually named Donder but I've been calling him Donner since I was a kid. I think it's just because of how we pronounce the name in America, but that's interesting to think and I was wondering who all was...

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Do You Say It Donner Or Donder?

Believe it or not I just found out about this last night that one of Santa's reindeer is actually named Donder but I've been calling him Donner since I was a kid. I think it's just because of how we pronounce the name in America, but that's interesting to think and I was wondering who all was...

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Interesting. Now that you mention it, I've heard the Rudolf song sung both ways. Did Burl Ives fck up the English language?

 

[Zebra]

Interesting. Now that you mention it, I've heard the Rudolf song sung both ways. Did Burl Ives fck up the English language?

Both ways are right, I think.

 

[whitehall]

Curry as in surrey.

 

[Zebra]

Curry as in surrey.

I pronounce the u in Surrey like the u in butter

 

[Zebra]

How the English say "Curry".

 

[whitehall]

"America and Great Briton are two nations divided by a common language"....attributed to G.B. Shaw.

 

[Zebra]

"America and Great Briton are two nations divided by a common language"....attributed to G.B. Shaw.

Only too true

 

[Zebra]

fun fact:

In Germany the great majority pronounces "curry" the American way.
I belong to a small minority who pronounces it the British and the Indian way.

 

[Zebra]

I say hurry like curry - both with an u as in butter.

 

[Zebra]