I, an intellectual pronounce it using the metric system, coming out as a sophisticated "BroaohofoaADHDDs", I don't know why we don't just switch over to the metric alphabet.
They say being drunk isn't too different from being sleep deprived.
In that case I've been on a two-week bender.
If we follow your logic, then a saying like bros before hoes apparently doesn't exist or it's grammatically wrong. Which it isn't. But you could have a point on it being a British vs American thing.
Although... I may be American, but I live in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and over here, the word bro and its plural "broes" is just as common as back in the States, so there's that.
Maybe it's that infamous stiff upper lip mentality that makes it so that the British can't get their head around it... (for the record: just pulling your leg, so no offense meant)
@ReaderRagfish my point exactly. People who say "bross" are being just a "teeny-tiny bit" too literal...
I'm from Sweden and we always pronounced it short. Like the "Bros" in "Brosnan". The same was true for Tomb Raider, which was pronounced like "Tom Raider".
@ThanosReXXX Nah, I wasn't saying that the phrase "bros before hoes" doesn't exist (though whether it should is, as you say, another question), but note that you gave "ho" an "es" for the plural, but not bro! I was suggesting the spelling of "broes" would be technically incorrect, though, and it should probably be spelt bros even when it rhymes with throws. Like avocados. But not dominoes. English, eh?
I honestly think it's regional differences. In the UK, our equivalent to "bro" would be "bruv", hence the bross pronunciation. It's like Anti-Matter's fellow Indonesians: we just didn't know any better.
Is this subject exhausted yet? Feel like we can maybe get another two or three pages out of it... 😛
@Krull Ah, okay. To that we can agree. In some comments I just spelled it that way, to make it look similar phonetically, but I reckon you already got that...
And yeah, it's probably pretty locale-based, and in some regions in the US, they will also not use bro all that much, as well as over here. It's pretty much urban talk, or pop culture speak. Much like any other word that is the hype of the day, and disappears or gets old again after a couple of years...
As for the topic being exhausted: the original one probably, yes. But I'm pretty sure we can come up with a couple of other words that aren't written as they are pronounced, or that are pronounced SO differently in the States and the other English speaking regions, that we can have yet another hefty discussion or two about it...
Which is why I already mentioned a few comments back that it reminded me of the whole "how to pronounce Sega" discussion, that was going on in the forums and/or in a couple of articles quite a few months back....
(I'm not even touching that with a ten-foot pole, though, so please be so kind as to leave me out of that one, if you decide to share your opinion on that conundrum. It's almost like Yanni and Laurel all over again.. )
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
Nah, I wasn't saying that the phrase "bros before hoes" doesn't exist
An interesting factoid is that this phrase originated in the 90's with Boer farmers in South Africa. International trade restrictions with South Africa made it hard to import farming equipment, including hoes. Lots of fighting over hoes and rakes made Nelson Mandela hold a speech to the nation that "bros always come before hoes".
@ThanosReXXX I didn't get your Sega discussion reference previously, and don't remember it in the forums, but now you refer to it again it jogged my memory that I'm pretty sure when I was a kid we pronounced it See(as in Wii)-ga. I definitely remember calling it the Seega Megadrive before ever calling it the Sayga Megadrive.
Don't know when that changed, presumably just after one of us saw a 'Say-ga' splash screen for the first time.
It only ever meant friends before girlfriends, nothing to do with farmers.
@gcunit Oh man, like I said: I'm not going there. Keep that away from me...
I wouldn't want to deny anyone their fond childhood or teenage memories, but I've already had more than my share of that one...
P.S.
Could be that you're right, and that it wasn't a forum topic, but just a discussion in the comments section underneath an article. If I remember correctly, NLife posted some article, quite a few months ago, that had a video in it, talking about retro video gaming on the Sega Genesis/Megadrive, and the guy kept saying "Seg-ga", which is what started the whole discussion, because for me, and many others, that was like nails on a chalkboard, and VERY disruptive, and it made watching the video a quite unpleasant experience...
But in all seriousness: that is really all that I'll say about it. It's more than likely an even more useless discussion than the whole bros vs brothers thing, but I did want to clarify it a bit, which might help jog your memory even more...
@gcunit They most certainly were. Although, on the other hand: See-ga, you say?
Now, while I was mulling that over, I actually sincerely started wondering how come people in general always seem to be unable to stick to one set of rules, and simply go from left to right or from up to down whenever they feel like it. Allow me to clarify:
To at least keep the topic game related, let's take the not too long ago released game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds for example: I dare to wager a bet that 9 out of 10 people will refer to that game, or pronounce that game as PUB-G, instead of calling it by its full name.
And there's quite a few other games I could come up with, for which the same would be true. In general, as an older gamer, I'm actually kind of annoyed by all these abbreviations that are used nowadays, also because half of the time, I haven't got a clue as to what game people are talking about, if they use acronyms and/or initialisms. To me, it just comes across as lazy or uninterested. No offense to anyone using abbreviations, though. Just my own opinion.
At one time, things such as TWEWY, SoT, MHGU, GGXACPR and what not kept flying around in the comments sections here. Some weren't too hard to guess, and I now know what they all mean, but before I either had to Google them or hope someone would be nice enough to explain the ones I didn't know.
But I digress...
What I meant with people sticking with one set of rules, is that, if people think that we should pronounce Smash Bros as Smash Brothers, then the same should also be true for ALL other game names, and we should not bend the rules to whatever mood we're in for the day, or whatever kids these days think is popular...
Kinda comes across as a bit of a "have your cake and eat it" situation...
There, just had to throw that in there, because it annoys me, and I'm actually curious to find out why we can't just use a "one size fits all" rule...
@ThanosReXXX I suppose it's like Warner Bros. There is some consistency to saying brothers. As far as Sega goes in UK, we had TV adverts with the tag line "Do me a favour, plug me into a Sega" (They were terrible ads) so anyone who said anything other than 'say-gah' got met with a funny look lol.
I never drive faster than I can see. Besides, it's all in the reflexes.
@GrailUK Well, that's the whole point: but it's either/or, not AND/AND, so if bros is brothers, then PUBG shall henceforth only be known and pronounced as PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, NOT as PUB-G...
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
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