Oregano is one of those words. Pronunciation difference is huge.
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I forgot that one! OreGAno not oREGano.
ā¦we will have to politely disagree. 
Food ways are serious business.
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Oh no my dear because the stress is on the the first syllable 
And MY favorite pronunciation of a word by British speakers is āpalm treesā= PAM trees. Like short for Pamela Trees. :))))
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If āLocationā is such a subjective thing - ie the guest chooses the location of their accommodation and if they donāt then like it itās their fault - then why donāt we just all get together and say to AirBnB that they should drop āLocationā from their list of rated factors? Or am I missing something here?
PS and itās āHerbsā, NOT ā'Erbsā!
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Lol Not quite. We say Paaahm. But yes silent L.
Thatās a new one for me. All these years and I never realised that there were different pronunciations of favourite. What are they?
Iāve never heard āpalmā pronounced as āpamā either. It rhymes with āharmā in English. I think you might be thinking of another English-speaking country!
Iāve had British roommates. They both pronounced palm tree as Pam tree.
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When you say British, I doubt that they were English. Scottish maybe? Welsh? Irish? But the English definitely say parm to rhyme with harm.
Northern like Liverpool? ā¦they say bath where I say baaath. So maybe they say pam ~ really Iāve never heard anyone say palm that way ā¦ @jaquo
You donāt put the stress on the first syllable?
Ah that depends on where youāre from, though! Paarrm is southern, Pam is northern. Like bath versus barth and grass versus grarss .
See what I did there? lol
Nope. Iām as Yorkshire as they come (as is 'imself) and neither of us have ever pronounced it āpamā. (And being in South Florida, itās a word we say quite a lot. And Iāve never heard it pronounced āpamā anywhere.
Yes, we say ābathā and not ābarthā but I still think that @J_Wangās room-mates were Scottish or something. Think David Coulthard at Monaco or Dubaiā¦ 
Thatāll be it From Glasgow, I wager.
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You know, I think you might be right! Iām imagining Billy Connoly nowā¦
Even Scotland has so many accents. Billy Connolly might well say pam but then there are those Scots who would make the word roll of their tongue for half a minute, like āpaaRRRRRRRRRRRRmmmmā.
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Youāre right about all the different accents but in Scotland nobody ever puts an ārā where they aināt supposed to be one! Cue very old joke:
Q. What does sex mean in Kensington?
A. The things into which one puts the coal.
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Cue real story about me from Yorkshire at college in the south of England. Weād had a pretty untidy practical lesson and were clearing up. My friend from Tooting Bec asked me a question.
Friend from Tooting Bec: Whereās the bin?
Me, quite innocently: I 'anāt bin anywhere.
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In America (at least where I live) palm rhymes with balm.
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Same as in England 
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