Quote Originally Posted by 7eat51 View Post
Compared to French, Italian seems so easy.

Earlier this week, Sue, some friends, and I were discussing English and all the exceptions and pronunciation issues, e.g. the pronunciation of spook and book.
Eric, if you ever come over this side of the pond and we meet up (hopefully we will), you will meet my lovely wife from Stoke on Trent (famous world wide for its pottery). The middle of England and upward speak quite differently to us refined Southerners (yes i expect the jessies comments lol).
Here are some words and their northerly phonetic versions:
Southern = Northerly
Bus = Boz
Grarse = Grass (yep they get it right)
Spook = Spoo-ck
Look = Luke
Glarse = Glass
Book = Boo-ck

There are lots more, as my wife says them i will add them (covertly, as she gets a bit funny lol).