18 English Words that are Pronounced Funny in Pakistan

[Kambojaric]

Pistol: Pastool
Rifle: Rey-fal
Bulb: Bul-ab
China: Che na
Diamond: Dammond

 

[XenoEnsi-14]

I'm gonna cook some rabbit stew.

 

[Local_Legend]

Have you met any Andhra person pronouncing like that... to some extent people mix local language with English... especially the Tamil ..

Yes. That was my point. They all speak the way they speak their mothertoung . Lola in channel V was having a dedicated programme make fun South Indian accent ! ( never been a fan of it )

 

[danger007]

south Indians including telugus have their own pronunciation... sometimes its hard to understand... telugu pronunciation of English alphabets: ye, bee, cee, dee, eee, yef.....
telugus cant pronounce certain letters that they have their language.. for example 'Katha' is pronounced as 'Kada' (with soft d). Do ask your telugu friends to list alphabets in their language.

I never knew we pronounce like that

 

[Zibago]

Compared to Sialkot people "looriyas" still have a better accent ..

Sialkotis have a softer accent that sounds more friendly Jhang has a very rude,ish accent

Tiles =taylein
Science= sayeens
Switch=sooch

 

[Thorough Pro]

It's a very interesting topic. What is pronounciasion? a combination of different sounds generated by placement of one's tongue or touching different parts of the mouth. If people of Pakistan can produce the 15th Urdu alphabet sound than every other human being should be able to produce the same sound, but most westerners can't, similarly Pakistan's can't make certain sounds from other languages. why? because we humans are restricted to pronounce only the sounds that we learn in our respective alphabets. Because we communicate using the language we learned (limited only to the sounds contained in alphabet set), we loose the ability or find it hard/unnatural to pronounce other linguistic sounds and thus mould the foreign sounds according to our "learned" sounds, and this phenomenon is not restricted to Pakistanis/south Asians only, the westerners do the same they can't pronounce certain sounds like Toay (22nd Urdu alphabet) so names like Tahir, Taimore get pronounced by Tay rather than Toay, etc.

 

[Arsalan]

Well most of the words you mentioned here is what we call these things is Urdu and it is not wrong English pronunciation. Those who know Urdu may actually realize that.
Still, there are so many words that our people pronounce wrong and understandably so. Perhaps you should listen a French speaking English or a German doing so.

 

[Maj.Osmani]

You people forget to add
Kalashnikov = Kalashan or koop (kalashan koop)

lighter = later

Bread = Double Rooti

Motorcycle = Motor Cycal

Resturant = Hotal

and the most hilarious one is

Burst Fire = Bre-ast fare

 

[third eye]

I am surprised these have been missed .

Straight from school days. Typical Punjabi accent

Treasure = Traiure
Measure = Maiure

 

[livingdead]

I never knew we pronounce like that

exactly.. nobody is aware of his/her own MTI... because the English they hear is the one they speak.. so for them they are the normal ones... also there is sub-regional variation within teluguland...

 

[Dash]

Meanwhile in South India.

Thanks= Tanks
Yellow= E-lo
Question= koschen
Problem= praab-lhem
Sure= shoer
OK= oykehi


And Bihar

School= es-kool
Soap= Sabin
Toothpaste= kolget
Washing powder= surf

 

[livingdead]

You people forget to add
Kalashnikov = Kalashan or koop (kalashan koop)

lighter = later

Bread = Double Rooti

Motorcycle = Motor Cycal

Resturant = Hotal

and the most hilarious one is

Burst Fire = Bre-ast fare

how is burst fire ever in common conversation?

I am surprised these have been missed .

Straight from school days. Typical Punjabi accent

Treasure = Traiure
Measure = Maiure

maruti = mruti (basically drop the first vowel you see)

 

[Shah Xaib]

mobile- Mobail
officer- afsar
computer- compeetar

 

[Sparkle229]

Best ever