Talk:Warspite/@comment-26843989-20160813132006/@comment-35182244-20160813133627

Indeed, this is quite interesting and our linguistic team behind it has come up with an inconclusive result.

WW2-era British military ranks were pronounced quite differently, for example "lieutenant" was pronounced "left-tenant" (/lɛftˈtɛnənt/) in WW2-era Britain, while the more commonly known lieutenant pronunciation (/luːˈtɛnənt/) as mostly due to post-WW2 U.S media.

Similarly, it is highly probable that Admiral (/ˈædmərəl/) was pronounced as Admire-al (/ˈædmmʌɪrəl/). However, there is no records of such pronunciation online. We are looking specifically for 1940's BRITISH naval pronunciations. To be even more precise, the pronunciations of the word "admiral" by officers and rank and files. Pronunciations might differ according to social status.

English speaker, particularly British and American have a tendency to speak their own dialect to express their social status, as indicated by a 1966 study by William Labov.

In anycase. Treat it as a little peculiarity on Warspite's part. The rest of her English speaks enough about her voice actress's proficiency. There has to be some underlying reason for this and the aforementioned example of "lieutenant" is one of my key points.