Comments by "nozrep" (@nozrep) on "250. Alfred the Great: Fury of the Vikings" video.

@IanCross-xj2gj yes but to some ears, such as American English ears, possibly others, we hear him saying eggbutt. It is simply them saying it in standard British accent which is totally fine, good great grand. But if you have more knowledge on how accents are heard from various perspectives or from different geographies around the world, you may quickly understand why hearing the name Egbert seemingly pronounced like eggbutt quickly becomes a humorous sort of pun, or something. Not really a pun but maybe a homophone I suppose. The British do not pronounce the ‘r’ sound in Egbert. So it sounds like eggbutt instead of Egbert, as it is spelled. And we Americans usually pronounce every hard ‘r’ sound in most words, as it taught in American schools.
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