Finally I reencountered the word that the British add a syllable to - the past tense of the verb orient. They say orientated. Don't they know that oriented is a proper word? I actually heard it tonight on a show where some crazy men were going scuba diving under the ice of a frozen lake. "The cold and blackness make you disorientated." Good to know. Suddenly it sounds much less sensible a thing to do.
I am sure there are other words they do the same thing to, but this is the one that I hear around the office. Not just weird pronunciation - like aluminium - but an actual extra syllable.
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so funny! i remember watching "Nigela Bites" one day on food network & when she said aluminium it took me a minute to realize what she was talking about!!
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