how to pronounce asphalt
how to pronounce asphalt
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Hi all,
I am working in canada currently as an engineer and am hearing the word "asphalt" pronounced as "ash-falt".
Is that typical among engineers here or is that just a folksy use of the word sort of like "rebarb" and "masonary"?
Thanks in advance.
I am working in canada currently as an engineer and am hearing the word "asphalt" pronounced as "ash-falt".
Is that typical among engineers here or is that just a folksy use of the word sort of like "rebarb" and "masonary"?
Thanks in advance.





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Macadam threw me for a while as did Vizqueen.
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Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
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Some people have a different way of saying things and other just have loose lips that have others have regional forms of speech or lip freezing that can be easily identified.
My wife is from Pa and CT. She can clearly identify people with pronunciation difficulties/difference, such a Bastan and the other more correct parts of MA. She can pick out the differences between Bronx, Queen and the difference between NJ and Philadelphia, so there is no "island".
Is asphalt made from oil or "ahl"?
I can easily pick out the difference between my Indian and Pakistani doctors, even though they were born in Bastan. It is not worth worrying about, is entertaining, and it is just a matter of expanding exposure.
Amazingly, most of the differences are spelled correctly in standards and specifications even though the writers are not provincial.
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It's "Queens" (pronounced "Queeenz") not "Queen",
In Brooklyn, ashfault is made from earl. In Queeenz we make it from oy-ull.
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Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
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After Prof. Higgins H.
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as·phalt noun
ˈas-ˌfȯlt also ˈash-, especially British -ˌfalt\
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"Asphalt? That sounds like your butt made a mistake" to which the Canadian replied, "So a fart is an asphalt 'eh?"
A guy walks into a bar with a chunk of asphalt under his arm and says,. "I'd like a beer please, and one for the road."
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Asphalt soup? We don't serve asphalt soup here!
Then I guess I'll have to go eat up the road.
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The important item is the word and the way it is used in the standards or codes to be enforced.
dick
Engineer and international traveler interested in construction techniques, problems and proper design.