There was no ‘yous’ option.
And I’m impressed with those who say ‘you all’ instead of ‘y’all’. I never knew anyone did.
I still say hoagie. Never knew the rest of the world didn’t until a few years ago. Now if you want to get REALLY regional, order a cosmo. Nothing better than a ham and cheese cosmo.
How can they not?! (From Texas.)
When my Seattle cousins used to come for a visit and said they wanted “pop,” I thought they were just homesick. :)
I’m from NY, and the thing that amused me when I lived in SF for a while was that they pronounce “ferry” and “fairy” the same! Such as, “I’m going to take the fairy to Marin...”
What does one call the area of grass growing between the sidewalk and street? Answer that is supposedly unique to a very small area of NE Ohio (Akron and Cuyahoga Falls): The Devil's Strip as it belongs to neither the owner of the home adjacent nor to the city (even though the homeowner is more or less expected to keep it mowed).
That’s because you’re not from Southern Maryland, pronounced Shuthin Merlin.
I pronounce Mary, merry, and marry the same..as do most people from Colorado.
I have noticed that a lot of people from back east have an ‘idear’ as opposed to an idea. I’ve heard it from well-educated Easterners...people who made fun of George Bush’s ‘nucular’...
This is a smat idier
There are modern ethnic differences which seem different but unless huge pockets of them, not regional.
What has always intrigued me is how all British immigrants started out with the way Britons spoke at the time but don't any more. There are Scottish and Irish brogue's, too; I'm no expert. The Britons still speak with a distinct accent but their descendants to the US unless immigrating very recently like our beloved Piers Morgan, have assumed the older local dialects. Midwestern used to be the one most sought after for TV broadcasting but now it's a tossup with the elitist British accent.
But why do Australians speak with a British accent? Their immigration was a little later but not that much, and several generations have elapsed. Is it because of their relative isolation despite modern communications? Canadians with the exception of the French Quebecois speak like Minnesotans.
Mar-ray.
Mer-ree
Wha-ter
Woh-fer
Wuh-ter
Hosepipe.
Bushhog.
Just saying..
I forgot “quirks”. Like chimley for chimney, liberry for library, must be many others variants people don’t pronounce correctly.
Depending on the side of the state you’re from, in MO you drink “soda” or “pop.” The pronounciation of the state’s name is, again, depending on what side of the state you’re from, either “Missouri” or “Missourah.”
And then there’s Versailles, MO. It’spronounced “Ver-Sails” by everybody.
Mark
Well, if all of ya’ll no-account carpetbaggin’ Yankees would learn howta speak, maybe we wouldn’t have half the problems we do!
I’m going to have to look up how you can pronounce Mary/merry/marry differently.
Let me guess, some parts of America say Taxes and the other parts says fair share?
Can we sort them by who is working to raise a family and who is working to not raise a family?
I'm from California, and I pronounce "Mary, merry and marry" exactly the same. I also pronounce "Minnie, mini and many" exactly the same, and they rhyme with "Ginnie, Kenny, Lynnie and any."