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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWho doesn't know how to pronounce the word film?
Trump. He kept saying filum over and over while he was at Fuji Film in North Carolina.
qazplm135
(7,447 posts)just spit-balling.
underpants
(182,980 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)TexasTowelie
(112,592 posts)Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)Mossfern
(2,579 posts)it is. I grew up in Queens and some people pronounced it that way - usually uneducated people.
Miguelito Loveless
(4,477 posts)and come to think of it, my aunts.
Demsrule86
(68,753 posts)Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)And if there were a lot of Irish immigrants in Queens it would've affected the local accent regardless of where his ancestors came from.
Tanuki
(14,926 posts)it was a something he picked up from his Scottish mum. Probably the same for his pronunciation of 'film."
MontanaMama
(23,364 posts)Smocking Gun, Hamberders, Prince of Whales, Hustory, President of the Virgin Islands, Melanie, Oranges of the Investigation, and Filum to name a few...
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)agingdem
(7,870 posts)but he was from Lithuania and english was his fifth language
unblock
(52,431 posts)BamaRefugee
(3,488 posts)Miguelito Loveless
(4,477 posts)My Mom did it for some weird reason.
madamesilverspurs
(15,813 posts)My first retail job was at a gift shop at Marineland, and one of the other cashiers had to explain it to me when a customer asked for "feeyum." Heard it many times a day.
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KatyMan
(4,214 posts)tend to say 'filum', in the same way the name Colm is 'Colim'. Has to do with the Irish language I would imagine. But no idea why dumbass would say it that way.
cannabis_flower
(3,768 posts)Thinking you might be from Katy, Texas.
KatyMan
(4,214 posts)more "Katy area" than Katy proper though. And you?
cannabis_flower
(3,768 posts)but closer in. I live in Spring Branch.
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Captain Zero
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