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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
(183,019 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)TexasTowelie
(112,683 posts)Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)Mossfern
(2,605 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
(68,800 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
(14,930 posts)it was a something he picked up from his Scottish mum. Probably the same for his pronunciation of 'film."
MontanaMama
(23,367 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
(7,874 posts)but he was from Lithuania and english was his fifth language
unblock
(52,494 posts)BamaRefugee
(3,488 posts)Miguelito Loveless
(4,477 posts)My Mom did it for some weird reason.
madamesilverspurs
(15,820 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
(4,218 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
(3,769 posts)Thinking you might be from Katy, Texas.
KatyMan
(4,218 posts)more "Katy area" than Katy proper though. And you?
cannabis_flower
(3,769 posts)but closer in. I live in Spring Branch.
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Captain Zero
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