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Dessert or pudding

it's that schwa sound at the end and i got this question the other day on instagram somebody said to me elliot do british people say dessert or do they say pudding to be honest...

Course: Food, drinks and cafésSection: British food and drink expressionsSubtitles: en

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it's that schwa sound at the end and i

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got this question the other day on

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instagram somebody said to me elliot do

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british people say

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dessert or do they say pudding to be

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honest you can say either

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there are kind of backgrounds and

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traditions as to you know you'd say

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pudding about this type of food but

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you'd say dessert about this type of

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food

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if you want my complete honesty i don't

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say pudding

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i just say dessert i'd say what's for

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dessert i wouldn't say what's

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what's for pudding or what pudding do we

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have i call it dessert but in in modern

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english it's really fine just to say

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either so just pick the one you like the

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sound of the most really now another

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good one

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is when we want to check everybody is

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finished now we could say is everybody

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finished

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okay or you can just say the word

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finished but we don't just say

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finished because that sounds like i'm

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just telling my listener that

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i have finished finished instead we need

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to say

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finished finished finished

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okay so this intonation this kind of

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rising intonation it shows that we're

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asking a question

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okay so you can see how we can change

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the meaning of a word

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by changing the intonation finished

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