Who doesn't know how to pronounce the word film?

[cannabis_flower]

Trump. He kept saying filum over and over while he was at Fuji Film in North Carolina.

[qazplm135]

1. people with dementia?

just spit-balling.

[underpants]

2. I thought he knew all about cameras and TV

[lagomorph777]

11. and women.

[TexasTowelie]

3. Perhaps he isn't certain about what he is reading and thinking of phlegm instead? nt

[Spider Jerusalem]

4. Probably a Queens thing, it's pronounced "fillum" in Ireland (n/t)

[Mossfern]

8. Yes

it is. I grew up in Queens and some people pronounced it that way - usually uneducated people.

[Miguelito Loveless]

12. Ah, that explains my mother

and come to think of it, my aunts.

[Demsrule86]

17. He is German.

[Spider Jerusalem]

22. He's American!

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]

19. He also pronounces "airplane" as "aeroplane," and I always figured

it was a something he picked up from his Scottish mum. Probably the same for his pronunciation of 'film."

[MontanaMama]

5. Covfefe...

Smocking Gun, Hamberders, Prince of Whales, Hustory, President of the Virgin Islands, Melanie, Oranges of the Investigation, and Filum to name a few...

[lagomorph777]

14. We have to call him Prince of Whales from now on.

[agingdem]

6. my father

but he was from Lithuania and english was his fifth language

[unblock]

7. he has the best wordes

[BamaRefugee]

9. "FILLUM"...he was thinking about what he used to do to teenage girls

[Miguelito Loveless]

10. A common mispronunciation

My Mom did it for some weird reason.

[madamesilverspurs]

13. Some 'toooorists' ---

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]

15. Folks in Ireland

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]

16. Are you a fellow Texan?

Thinking you might be from Katy, Texas.

[KatyMan]

18. yes on both counts

more "Katy area" than Katy proper though. And you?

[cannabis_flower]

20. I live on the same side of town

but closer in. I live in Spring Branch.

[Captain Zero]

23. Filum, Fugi, Carolina, Corn, Pone

nt

[Buns_of_Fire]

24. Fuji fish are deadly poisonous if not prepared by a skilled sooshe shef. nt