Posted on 03/15/2015 3:38:57 AM PDT by iowamark
Ants - nasty little critters who ruin your picnic
Aunts - nice ladies who give you gifts and kisses
Do not pronounce the two the same!! Every!!
Try saying mozzarella (moots-a rell) as mots-za-rell-a in my part of the country and you’ll get laughed out of the pizzeria when you order your apizza (ah peats).
Ricotta - rau- cout, not rick-cot-a
For some reason, people always think I’m from Boston and say I’ve a Bostonian accent, though I’ve lived in the New Haven, Connecticut area all my life. And yes, we know we have the best pizza in the world in New Haven. :-)
Does any one else say drawer like draw-er or quarter like quarr- ter?
Mis-CHEEVE-e-us, instead of MIS-cha-vus.
“Aloha, Oregon. Don’t go there and pronounce it like you’re in Hawaii.”
Of Chili, NY - She-lee, not chill - ee
And don’t ask what happened when my Omahaian husband took me back to Nebraska for a visit. Apparently, they don’t speak French there.
Papillion, Ne. pa-pill-yon Not pap-ee-own.
His family gets a big laugh out of my accent, but I don’t say cement like see-ment
This is a first amendment issue.
What kind of civilization would we live in if it could control everybody enough to make pronounce words according to monolithic standard. What other things would force upon things would it try to force on the populace. I felt it was good that George Bush never pronounced Saddam Hussein name correctly.
I don’t even say bosun anymore. I just say Bos with a long O.
I was taught to pronounce it like ‘eh’ but with the lips rounded for an ‘o’.
The sound is similar to the ‘eu’in French (”Meuse”), and close to how many yung’uns now pronounce the ‘o’ in words like “move” (instead of ‘moove’) ...
LOL. I think they believe that they sound more intelligent.
Living in Indian country, I thought everyone know who Cochise was. It’s the county we live in as well as the famous Indian outlaw.
And then we had an East coast visitor who, with a straight face, called it Cockcheese County.
“Foilage” for “foliage” is my pet peeve. I’ve even heard newscasters mispronounce that word.
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I’m from Tahlequah
Isnt that the old term for zombie?
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I knew a Krista Kaiser from Koln who pronounced that oeh as the near “oi” - aw-eh She was a retired schoolteacher.
I like that. Answer the pa hon ee baby.
Yesterday I had lunch with a bachelor pal who travels a good bit on his own, often to Vegas.
He said his last trip a couple weeks ago he was waiting to board when he spots this sexy (kinda pretty but really sexy) woman sitting in the waiting area.
Gets on the plane and who's sitting next to him but Miss X.
My buddy is a good talker and pretty quickly she tells him she's a dancer in Vegas, originally from our rural area.
Claimed she had a boyfriend, etc., and talked about some other heavier stuff too, and was quite conversant and even bright-sounding, until she told him her stage name: Perryom.
Perryom? he says.
Yes, you know, like the champagne. Don Perryom.
You need to hear Bo Dietl—he’s truly his own lexicographer. He may have trained under Norm Crosby.
physicality
I’m pretty sure Jed and Granny pronounced it “vittles.”
Well, while you are in Massachusetts, have a go at Medford and Hyde Park. One is Meffa and the other is Hi Pak.
Everyone who was born and raised in Western New York State.
My thesis adviser, who was from Worcester, MA, kind of urban, saw our neighbors pony, and exclaimed, "Look! A haahs! A haahs!"
No one but his wife knew what he was talking about --
Cairo, Illinois versus Cairo, Egypt (if they haven’t already been mentioned)
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