pot, kettle, soccer, football

I just saw a Brit on BlueSky mocking “an actual respected American online news commentator” for pronouncing “Macron” to rhyme with “Ramone.” My first thought: Pronounce the word “Paris” for me. Likewise, one of the Guardian footy commentators was recently annoyed by a (supposed) American mispronunciation of Paraguay — this coming from Britain, where news readers habitually call another Latin American country Nick-a-RAG-u-əh and football announcers refer to the Aston Villa keeper as Emi MAR-tən-EZ. It wasn’t even that long ago that the English referred to a certain French city on the English Channel as Callis. Brits can look down their noses at Americans for many things, but when it comes to mispronouncing foreign words, they are the undefeated world champions. But any stick to beat a MAGA dog, you know? Brits have always specialized in disdaining the USA, but the Trump era has turbocharged that disdain. And — as I commented in a post on why I stopped listening to The Rest Is History —…