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To: iowamark

Whatever:
Is Miami, Oklahoma pronounced the same as Miami, Florida?

It’s regional and most of those words we don’t know how to pronounce “ain’t” really used much.

Forehead, Worcester and Boatswain are.

Aunt=(ant/awnt)


2 posted on 03/15/2015 3:44:46 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Vendome
Is Miami, Oklahoma pronounced the same as Miami, Florida?

Aloha, Oregon. Don't go there and pronouce it like you're in Hawaii.

8 posted on 03/15/2015 4:20:44 AM PDT by Poison Pill
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To: Vendome
Is Miami, Oklahoma pronounced the same as Miami, Florida?

No it's not. The one in Oklahoma is pronounced Miama. Said like "My am uh".

22 posted on 03/15/2015 5:09:52 AM PDT by kjam22 (my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
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To: Vendome

The nautical words don’t really belong on such a list. That’s like putting technical terms from Silicon Valley on it. The only word i don’t say “correctly” is forehead. I might have said gooseberry wrongly had I ever said it at all.
When I was a kid I read a lot and encountered words I seldom if ever heard pronounced. One was ‘misled.’ I read it as my-zled. I thought it meant something like ‘befuddled.’ I knew the word in speech and used it but did not connect the two uses until I was grown.


40 posted on 03/15/2015 5:31:57 AM PDT by arthurus (it's true!)
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To: Vendome

Don’t forget Palestine, Texas!


60 posted on 03/15/2015 6:05:35 AM PDT by uglybiker (nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-BATMAN!)
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To: Vendome

For those journalists going to New Hamshire for the election, the Con-chord is a plan. The City in NH is Con-Curd.


90 posted on 03/15/2015 7:17:06 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (When you are inclined to to buy storage boxes, but contractor bags instead.)
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To: Vendome

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?


121 posted on 03/15/2015 8:35:00 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (Liberals claim to want to hear other views, but then are shocked to discover there are other views)
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