Americans usually pronounce their English in a way which resembles English English almost perfectly, with some subtle differences. Here's a brief list.
| word | pronounced as | comment |
|---|---|---|
| -gn- (in Italian names) | -gn- | never like "ny" in "new" - that would sound too Italian. I wish I knew how do they pronounce "gnocchi" :) |
| 911 | nine one one | the telephone number of emergency services, never pronounced as "nine-eleven", because one lady tried to find number eleven on her phone and thus lost precious time |
| amphitheater | ample-theatre | also ampy-theatre |
| bologna | baloney | the sausage |
| chianti | chi-antie | never "kyanti", that would sound too Italian |
| clothes | close | |
| colonel | kernel | OK, this is a British thing, from Spanish 'coronello'. Over time, they switched the spelling to Italian/French and pronunciation to Spanish (sort of). |
| corpus delicti | core-puss deh-lec-tee | |
| E. coli | ee-coal-eye | |
| et cetera | excetra | |
| Eustachian | ewe-station | |
| february | febewary | |
| Fredericksburg | frejburg | |
| harassment | harasmnt | so nobody would hear "her ass" in it |
| Helene | huh-leen, heh-leen | |
| karaoke | carry-okie | |
| knesseth | kenneseth | English language makes one forget how to pronounce kn, gn, pn or ps in the beginning of the word, while being perfectly capable of saying them anywhere else. |
| library | lie-berry | |
| mobile | mowbl, moe-bile | Dylan sings "stuck inside a moebeel". Go figure. |
| Newfoundland | nooflan | |
| Nobel | nowbl | |
| nuclear | nucular | |
| personality | person-ul-uh-tee | |
| product | produk | |
| status quo | staytus cow | |
| staunton | stanton | |
| temperature | temp-a-chur | |
| tracheotomy | tricky-otomy |