In a 2019 sketch from the US late-night comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL), the actor James McAvoy plays a Scottish air traffic controller attempting to help a US brand integration manager (Mikey Day) land a plane in distress, because the pilot has been knocked unconscious.
from the US late-night comedy show Saturday Night Live , the actor James McAvoy plays a Scottish air traffic controller attempting to help a US brand integration manager land a plane in distress, because the pilot has been knocked unconscious. The fact that Day's character is not a pilot only partly explains why the mayday call is not a success. McAvoy lays on thick Glaswegian, in both accent and vocab, and none of the Americans on board understand a word he says.
The International Civil Aviation Organization requires aviation personnel to"use an accent which is intelligible to the aeronautical community." This implies that accents which are more familiar to people, such asBut I have shown that no combination of vowel and consonant sounds is inherently difficult to understand. Rather, the degree to which someone is familiar with an accent will dictate how much they understand. It is a matter of accent exposure.
The ICAO therefore recommends pilots say"tree" instead of"three," for example, because the English"th" sound does not exist in many other languages and can be difficult to pronounce. Similarly, people whoseamong native English speakers too. The words"hot" and"hat" said in a strong Chicago accent sound, to a British-English ear, like"hat" and"he-yut," respectively.
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