mis-pronounced words in your area

[vt_shooter]

Very few of you Bluecoats get this one on the first try:

What's This Here Sauce ...

 

[susieqz]

crick is not a mispronounciation of creek.
they are two different things.
a creek is tame with grassy banks, meandering across the countryside.
a crick is feral. it winds its way thru cow pastures n has abandoned cars in it.

 

[steamloco76]

Nobody pronounces Maryland the way it is spelled. Murllund, merrilland, but never Maryland, as in merry land. Maybe there was a time way back in the late 1600's...

And here in Pa there is that soft drink thing...



Philly calls it soda, while in Pittsburgh its pop. Or is it the other way around? I come from the north central part of the state and we often called it soda pop. How's that for sittin' on the fence?

John

I like the Northern PA spelling of diner- DINOR.

Another PA thing, we don't like extra little words- The clothes need washed, the dog needs bathed (ug bathed!), your face is filthy and needs washed. If Shakespeare had been from PA his famous line would have been "Be or not, that is the question" since we just can't seem to say "to be".

 

[kthom]

Since this thread is still alive and well, I'll report this. My wife and I can only seem to reach an impasse over this question. For me, the evening meal of the day is supper, and the noontime repast is dinner. Because of her, I sometimes call dinner lunch when it's more of a snack than a regular meal! She insists that the biggest meal of the day is called dinner. I ask her why she doesn't call breakfast dinner when it happens to be the biggest meal she fixes for us on some occasions. That's when I get the stink eye from her and after nearly 50 years of fussing with her about this, I usually smile and walk away. Stink eye is a sign that things are getting worse and I've finally learned to leave whatever causes it alone!

 

[Targets Guy]

1. Crick (creek)
2. Dez Moinzeh (Des Moines)

my two all time favorites

 

[bruce5781]

Catawba or Catobbie tree. It's Catalpa darn it !

Regards,
Bruce

 

[99savage308]

I have lived in Wv for 22 yrs now. I still have trouble with some of the way words are spoken.

Hurricane: Hurricun

 

[Mickey D]

I moved from CA to Idaho two years ago. I live near a crick now.

 

[LMWIS]

A familiar one for law enforcement is 'complaint-ent' for complainant.

 

[Comrad]

I hear in these parts, "open the light" or "close the light" for switching a light on or off.
And a favorite from news reports when they interview inner city folk about the body in the street or the sidewalk they always say the "guy was on the floor"
I'm hungry now, I need a hoagy, a sub, a grinder, a sammage. Oh ***etaboutit.

 

[rich5674]

Hello from Brooklyn

I hear this every day
"Let me aks you"
"I'm going to the baffroom

 

[kamloops67]

At work the other day my coworker asked, "you ready to get back to work?"
I replied ,"that's pronounced 'pub' "

 

[BlackAgnes]

I have two friends who macerate the English language.

One says, "Gawd" for "God", as if he were a five-year-old in religion class. He also says, "TEE-vee" for "TV" (rhymes with "Skeevy")

The other jamoke says, "Innergestion" for a belly ache, "tensiometer" for "tensioner", and train cattle cars are "Bovilated"

Good guys, though!

Bless their hearts!

 

[perryhd]

I bean setting hena trying to thank of some words that get miss pronounced but kant thank of any.

 

[susieqz]

words like gawd n cain't don't bother me. they are just regional dialects.
but aks n suchlike are innercity ignorance.
goes hand in hand with stupidities like ''baby momma''.
not possible to respect people who speak like that.

 

[soFlaNative]

I wear polaroized sunglasses.
How about mispronounced words that I've never heard, only seen in print?
Laugh at me for missing on a locale? Hope not.