Alunimun....warsh.....
mis-pronounced words in your area
- Thread starter Lee Barner
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A friend asked if I wanted to put a deck-all on my project; guess where he is from.
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THE PILGRIM
Member
There are regional differences in pronunciation and speech patterns everywhere, don't you know?
Now all you SEA Vets can stand and sing 'Rolling Down the Liver.'
They don't bother me like they apparently bother some of you guys.
Now all you SEA Vets can stand and sing 'Rolling Down the Liver.'
They don't bother me like they apparently bother some of you guys.
Lee's Landing Billy
Member
Me and mine mostly country as corn bread. We might on occasion emfasize the wrong sillable.
Qc Pistolero
Member
Please gentlemen,do not be too harsh on others who mispronounce or mispell;afterall,nopody is berfect!
Qc
Qc
joeintexas
US Veteran
Always like the CCR version of Yellow Liver! I had almost forgot about that.
carpriver
US Veteran
Spending a large chunk of my live in the military and in different parts of the USA and with people from all across the nation, I learned how to speak American English. We are a unique culture and for the most part we understand each other.
Milton
US Veteran
I'll bet none of you folks shop at Walmarts.
deadin
US Veteran
A couple of our "tourist filters" are Puyallup and Yakima. (Towns in western WA)
Are you "being hayve" instead of behaving and the all time winner "seen it" instead of have seen or saw. I've head college professors say "I seen it happen." ugh.
Old TexMex
Member
I'll just inventory my own pronownciations:
chesterdrawers
sub quetainious (that's just dumb)
dubya
Mazda (I still say it rhymes with casbah)
san dwich (rather than sanwich)
sorry, I have a Texas/Australian/Mexican dialect of my own.
chesterdrawers
sub quetainious (that's just dumb)
dubya
Mazda (I still say it rhymes with casbah)
san dwich (rather than sanwich)
sorry, I have a Texas/Australian/Mexican dialect of my own.
Do you ever get up to May-retta?
kwselke
Member
Nissan is not pronounced "Neesan" and Jaguar is not pronounced "Jagwar"
When I had my 280ZX Nissan was pronounced Datsun.
Around these parts a Jaguar car is a "Jagwire" and it's made of "still" not steel.
Funky regional dialect aside, we can pronounce, Monongahela Youghiogheny, Kiskiminetas, Punxsutawney, Connoquenessing, Quemahoning, Tunungwant, Tidioutte, Toinesta and Conemaugh!
Funky regional dialect aside, we can pronounce, Monongahela Youghiogheny, Kiskiminetas, Punxsutawney, Connoquenessing, Quemahoning, Tunungwant, Tidioutte, Toinesta and Conemaugh!
Nissan is not pronounced "Neesan" and Jaguar is not pronounced "Jagwar"
Garsh darnut!
I have enough trouble with American cars (Ferd and such), and there you go, throwin' 'round them hi-flutin' firrin oughtaMObeel names.
Cdog
Member
First to my mind, "Crystial for Crystal."
Assburn for aspirin is common here. One of my grandmothers used the word dreen for drain. I hain't seaman to be able to put my fanger on any others ryat cheer an now...
Assburn for aspirin is common here. One of my grandmothers used the word dreen for drain. I hain't seaman to be able to put my fanger on any others ryat cheer an now...
Inusuit
Member
In Wyoming:
Opal is not pronounced as the stone is.
Dubois is not pronounced as it would be in France.
Popo Agie rhymes with ambrosia.
When I grew up in Eastern Colorado, coyote had two syllables, not three, and I still say it that way.
Opal is not pronounced as the stone is.
Dubois is not pronounced as it would be in France.
Popo Agie rhymes with ambrosia.
When I grew up in Eastern Colorado, coyote had two syllables, not three, and I still say it that way.
I bet 2 out of three Texans pronounce it wrong like that.
I wasn't sure myself, so I wrote the company about 30 years ago and they said LOOPOLD.
Grip_Maker's_Wife
Member
My mom was from MN and I used to give her a hard time because she said things funny. She used to say "beg" instead of bag (like Erich pointed out), "pin" instead of pen (this caused a lot of confusion when she would ask for a "pin" and I never knew if she meant a sewing pin or writing instrument), "ruff" instead of roof, "Or-a-gone" instead of Oregon. She eventually changed the way she said things. It only took living in CA for 30+ years and maybe living in England too.
One word I often hear mispronounced even by highly educated people is the word library. They forget the first "r" and pronounce it "lie-berry".
I myself have to slow down and concentrate when I say "aluminum" and "phenomenon" otherwise they come out funny. I don't know why but I get tongue tied!
One word I often hear mispronounced even by highly educated people is the word library. They forget the first "r" and pronounce it "lie-berry".
I myself have to slow down and concentrate when I say "aluminum" and "phenomenon" otherwise they come out funny. I don't know why but I get tongue tied!
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