And "Moscow" to rhyme with "now", not "no".

Upvoted for modesty

LOL

This is the classic especially when talking about the actor Sean Bean
Is it Seen Been or Shaun Baun

New-clee-er is the right pronunciation. Nu-cular drives me nuts. Cough cough W!

@Jenmcjen Thanks! I did my annoying one wrong. What I meant was basically what you wrote: nuke-U-ler (three distinct syllables). That bugs me.

I agree with a lot of this. Notably, jealous v. Envious.

Similarly I notice many people use “I feel” in place of “I think” or “I believe.”

Aren't these differences in spellings rather than pronunciations, though? Some are correctly spelled with "se" in the U.K. and "ze" in the U.S., but either is incorrect.

Some of these I take issue with: "American pronunciations of originally words from other languages and over stress the wrong syllable or soften the wrong letter such as in BIRmingHam for BirmING'm, Asshole for arse hole"

Those are correct pronunciations in American English. Some are affected by the accent of a region, but are nevertheless correct, just like the U.K. tendency to stick a "u" in the middle of words like "colour" when spelling it. Just because it's pronounced differently does not make it wrong. The dictionary even shows both as correct.

@hemingwaykitten read my post, I did address exactly this point.

@hemingwaykitten There is no such thing as American English, there is English and there is incorrect

@LenHazell53 Ah, now you're showing your true colors! American English is alive and well. Look in a dictionary and you will find two spellings and pronunciations of these words you have complained about. I bet you still say "the Colonies!" Rude, Len, rude.

@Bierbasstard Exactly! Just as the Australians and Canadians have their own versions, but Len neglected to complain about those.

@LenHazell53 I obviously did read your post, and you're wrong. French is the same, Canadian French is different from that spoken in the Ivory Coast, and both are different from Parisian French. If you're going to leave colonies scattered throughout the world, don't be surprised when "English" changes!

A classic example, in the news right now, is when your representative at the United Nations was said to be "confused". She certainly wasn't. She was "confounded" (and probably dumbfounded to boot!)
By the way, it is very often the case that the colony retains a purer version of the original language than the mother country. Thus, South American countries speak a version of Spanish closer to that which was spoken in Spain 300 years ago. The same applies to English, although it has also "evolved" (been corrupted by?) the influence of the languages spoken by the many immigrants from other cultures.
English spellings are, like French spellings, vestiges of a previous era. hence colour from the French couleur. The original Americans also used colour, but then the spelling simplified. However, why did the Americans remove the i from, and then mis-pronounce, Aluminium? (They don't talk about Cadmum, Selenum, etc.)

@hemingwaykitten So far as -ize and -ise are concerned I am not wrong, might I suggest you read a dictionary too (Oh and not Webster's, because when a country has to rewrite the dictionary to justify its own lazy use of a mother tongue they may as well have simply admitted their mistake in the first place, it would have saved time and a lot of trees.)

@hemingwaykitten The vast majority of Canadian and Australasian (Australia does not stand alone) are more in line with Traditional English than the USA. South African English speakers I will grant you are farther away than you "Colonials" are but they at least don't claim to actually speak English but an Afrikaans/Dutch/English hybrid at one time known as the language of the Boers.

@hemingwaykitten

"Rude, Len, rude."

I believe you meant to accuse me of being : ill-mannered, bad-mannered, impolite or, uncivil.
Rude connotes either ignorant, uneducated or vulgar in that I had said something sexually or morally inappropriate.

@Bierbasstard I am not offended by the language spoken in the USA and have no ire, other than to be of the opinion that it is NOT English in any form, it is a language in spelling, grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation that evolved from English and which completely ignores the etymology of English when randomly assigning meanings to words with no lexicographically historical substantiation.
I do object to the importation of "American" as English and the enforced acceptance in Great Britain of "alternate spelling" and "alternate pronunciations" when it is no such thing and is in fact another language the adoption of which has caused the degradation of the actual English language in England.

In short all I ask is stop calling it "American English" when it clearly is no such thing, call it what it is "United States American."

By the way Bastardisation is spelled with an S not a Z even in America, it is only spelled with a Z in Australia.

I am not a "culprit!" I speak American English. Are you guys 200 years old? Where do you pinpoint "correct" English? Chaucer? Shakespeare? Oh no! It has to be as YOU learned it. WRONG!

@hemingwaykitten English is English. Slang doe not apply !

@hemingwaykitten
"Where do you pinpoint "correct" English?"

From Dr. Samuel Johnson the noted linguist, the widely accepted father of philology and author of the first accepted lexicographical and etymological dictionary of the English language, with word analysis of meaning and origin of English word from their Latin, Greek, French, Anglo Saxon and Normandic roots.
I am surprised you did not know this.