As an Englishman, I can assure you that there is no such thing as "how the British pronounce" any word. As a man fluent in the English language, I can assure you that, even if there were such a thing as "British pronunciation," you have massacred it with your attempt at phonetic spelling. "GARR-ij" is a monstrosity and does not correspond to the way anyone says the word "garage."
Whatever, Richard. Everything you know about the English you picked up from watching Downton Abbey.
Also, the OED supports St. John on the pronunciation point. As a professed (if ill-informed and misguided) Anglophile, you ought to take that as the final authority.
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What's "The GARR-ij"?
I LOVE that car! That IS my car. That will BE my car!
"GARR-ij" is how the British pronounce the word garage.
As an Englishman, I can assure you that there is no such thing as "how the British pronounce" any word. As a man fluent in the English language, I can assure you that, even if there were such a thing as "British pronunciation," you have massacred it with your attempt at phonetic spelling. "GARR-ij" is a monstrosity and does not correspond to the way anyone says the word "garage."
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Well first, they don't make Englishmen the way they used to, and check a dictionary.
Whatever, Richard. Everything you know about the English you picked up from watching Downton Abbey.
Also, the OED supports St. John on the pronunciation point. As a professed (if ill-informed and misguided) Anglophile, you ought to take that as the final authority.
The pronunciation of UK garage uses British English /ˈɡærɨdʒ/ GARR-ij, rather than American English /ɡəˈrɑːʒ/ gə-RAHZH.
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