It's pronounced chaps... not chaps.

[Silver]

Welcome to the English language. Colonel is pronounced kernel, lieutenant is pronounced leftennant, on and on it goes.

 

[MurraysMutts]

Don't even get me started on "schedule"

 

[alacowman1]

Shaps

Why didn't they just spell it that way to begin with?

Then they wouldn't have an edge on you. knowledge is power

 

[wbvs58]

This thread is not going to change anybodies mind on much. Especially on syllable emphasis. As kids we used to tease our American friends who thought they spoke like us asking them to say "ice cream, peanut butter and cigarettes" They would invariably fail (putting the emphasis on the first syllables) and we would laugh. Such is the cruelty of children.
Point being, right and wrong are mostly dictated by geography. I have come to accept that Americans an Newfoundlanders just ain't gonna have good diction and that's the way it is

They don't speak our Queen's English hey Silver.

Ken

 

[Travlr]

Shaps

Why didn't they just spell it that way to begin with?

Maybe because the Sharolaise consortium lobbied for it to be spelled with a "C"?

 

[Lee VanRoss]

That I didn't know...

muh-Hay-u makes sense hence Dallas TAY-haas!

 

[Rmc]

lieutenant is pronounced leftennant, on and on it goes.

Not the way it is pronounced in the us

 

[Silver]

Not the way it is pronounced in the us

If so, then probably only the US.

 

[Silver]

They don't speak our Queen's English hey Silver.

Ken

Neanderthals.

 

[Travlr]

Neanderthals.

More evolved than homo sapiens...

And they pronounced it Lew-ten-ant...

 

[Silver]

More evolved than homo sapiens...

And they pronounced it Lew-ten-ant...

And that's why they're now extinct

 

[Travlr]

And that's why they're now extinct

They saw us coming and decided it was the better option. One of the proofs of their more advanced evolution.

 

[Nesikep]

Back when I was working bees I'd go to North Dakota for a few weeks in late August - early September. I don't know if they still do, but back in the '90's they told a lot of Norwegian jokes there. I was there in the bar in Moffitt one evening telling one I'd heard a few days before. The people I was telling it to were laughing their heads off.

Finally one of them told me that the joke wasn't all that funny. They were laughing at me with my drawl trying to imitate the Norwegian accent while I was telling it.

Not the version I was looking for, but this one is funny

 

[jschoolcraft86]

. . . and then we have Mexia, Texas. It's not pronounced MEX-ia, it's muh-Hay-a.

Also good is Refugio aka ruh-fure-io