Do you find it funny when people pronounce "clerk" to rhyme with "work"?

@DDonde No, we pronounce it "clark".

@BijouPleasurette that's strange

@ScarletWitch It's not. Pronouncing it to rhyme with "work" is.

@BijouPleasurette In the American accent, clerk and work usually rhyme

@BijouPleasurette So are you in the UK, where I reckon it's pronounced "Clark" to rhyme with bark... Or in the US - where maybe its generally clerk - as it's written - to rhyme with berzerk. Obviously.

Or perhaps you're somewhere completely different.

@AfternoonWine I'm in the UK, I've always lived here.

@BijouPleasurette Good choice 😉

I have heard it said that Americans do actually sometimes stick with a more original pronunciation, and it's actually ours in the UK that evolves. Don't know in this case here.

Here, by chance is an example...

https://similarworlds.com/4554883-I-Like-This-Poem/2481671-Percy-Shelleys-Ozymandias-I-met-a-traveller-from

From just this evening on here - nothing to do with Breaking Bad or The Watchmen - but the original poem from 1818.

Read it straight - with "received" English and it doesn't quite work. It's actually better with an American or, perhaps, a Yorkshire accent. In normal, southern, BBC English, the word "command" just doesn't quite sit right.

There are many, many examples on YouTube with both British and American versions. People must enjoy the challenge.

@AfternoonWine Since when has "southern, BBC English" been "normal"? Lol :)