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What do you call this?
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I say "Vahz" my other half says "Vayze."
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Vase.
Rhymes with face.
Honest question, feel silly for asking.... Is it now, the "King's English"?
To the main question: Here in Michigan, I've only heard Vace and Vah-zeh. There's not even an R in there, so I can't get it to rhyme with Mars at all.
Most English and Welsh accents are "non-rhotic" meaning they don't pronounce "r"s and would pronounce "Mars" as "mahs".
I'm from Ireland which does have rhotic accents, along with Scotland. I'm mostly used to hearing the English accents but occasionally it does lead to fun misunderstandings like hearing "carving" as "calving".
Man for some reason it does my nut in when people say Alyoomeenyoom - don't you have shit to do? Places to be? Dreams to fulfill?
So much shorter and easier - aloomeenum - just rolls of your tounge.
I'm not a native btw 🤣
Dude, if we won't switch to the Metric system created in the late 1700's, what are the odds we switch to a spelling decided on 30 years ago?
Imposter, it's clearly Varz.
Really? What reason could stand at the base of of your pronunciation? Can you provide even a single case where someone would lose face to embrace pronouncing it with such disgrace? I have half a mind to chase you away from this place. Or at the very least replace or erase you from this sharing space.
Whilst it is very obviously wrong, it is at least consistent with how we pronounce 'base'. English is weird.