My husband listens to the British radio drama, The Archers. He said one of the characters last night pronounced the word "vacuum" as "vac-u-um" -- with three syllables instead of two (in America we say "vac-youm"). He is wondering if Phil is speaking strangely or if this is a standard British pronunciation of the word.
Here's a link to some pretty hilarious stuff. The latest at Engrish.com (for those of you who don't know, it's a site that shows very bad translations of English which result in very funny mistakes): http://listoftheday.blogspot.com/2008/01/best-
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