Comedian Matt Rife gets in row with British audience over how to say ‘aluminium’
‘The British language is proper rubbish INNIT!’ he said
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Your support makes all the difference.Comedian Matt Rife has posted a video on his TikTok showing a funny row between him and his British audience over how to pronounce the word “aluminium”.
The exchange began at a recent UK gig when the Ohio comic, 27, spotted one fan using her phone during his set.
He went over to jokingly scald her for being on her phone, before asking her what her name was. When she repeatedly told him her name was “Lorna”, he kept mispronouncing it as “Lana”.
Someone in the crowd then shouted something like “Go on Lorna!”, to which Rife replied: “What was that?! That was just four vowels in a row.” He then started to tease the crowd over their accents, saying: “Just say letters!”
Rife then asked Lorna what her job was, to which she replied: “I buy aluminium.”
This response set Rife off. “She just said something that it so not a word!” he cried, pronouncing the word himself as “a-loo-min-um”.
“F*** y’all man, that’s not a word. Where are all the extra letters coming from? You’re doing too much.”
He then insisted that there is no letter “i” after the “n”, but then was proven wrong when he looked it up on the internet. “Whatever, dude!!!” he shouted, admitting defeat.
At the time of writing, the video has been viewed 2.9 million times.
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