Talk:Warspite/@comment-29627131-20160814052305

all this ridiculous fanwank trying to save the mispronunciation of "admiral"

she has no identifiable accent beyond the sort of "generic british" that a non-UK speaker comes up with when trying to imitate it. she is not even consistent. her "warspite" is non-rhotic, as in RP, but otherwise she pronounces the "r" distinctly. this does not sound like someone carefully trying to imitate a particular accent. from the aesthetic they're going with in her art (wearing Victoria's famous mourning crown etc,) I woud expect her to speak a very posh late victorian "RP."

as far as I can tell, the emerging "line" among you dumb nerds is that "admyrall" was an old spelling going back to Plantagenet times, and the name Warspite was first used in Elizabeth I's navy (which is sort of like Plantagenet times in that it's two centuries later I guess,) and "admyrall" was pronounced with an "ai" dipthong like "my" is pronounced today, and therefore it's all a brilliant reference

besides the fact that this explanation is incredibly strained, this is not even the sound that "y" made at the time. it made a front close vowel sound like modern "ee" in "bee" or "ü" in "über." as far as I know there is no english accent, modern or historical, in which the second vowel in "admiral" (or "admyrall") was pronounced as an aa-ee dipthong.

she flubbed the line. because Japan is an incredibly insular country where they can't find / don't care enough to find a single actual native speaker to look over their Engrish before publishing it. deal with it nerds