Pronunciations of different words

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  • kami3006
    kami3006 Posts: 4,978 Member
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    Quiz got my region accurate if not the cities.

    FWIW i say pee-can
  • madhatter2013
    madhatter2013 Posts: 1,547 Member
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    ind1983 wrote: »
    i find it quite weird (and irritating) when people say "idea-r". It's IDEA. There's no R.

    Or warsh instead of wash
  • madhatter2013
    madhatter2013 Posts: 1,547 Member
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    _John_ wrote: »
    ind1983 wrote: »
    i find it quite weird (and irritating) when people say "idea-r". It's IDEA. There's no R.

    you should axe them why they say that...

    LOL RIGHT!?!
  • determined_ella
    determined_ella Posts: 4,354 Member
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    tom-ay-toe or tom-ar-toe for tomato :joy: same with potato and yo-gart , yog-its and yog-ert for yogurt :/ or film and filum. water, warter, war-tah and wadder :joy: I could go on!
  • MrsBooBear
    MrsBooBear Posts: 12,619 Member
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    ThomasW13 wrote: »
    the real question is how do you properly pronounce the word "gif"

    the correct answer is, of course, "JIFF"

    I'm convinced that "meme" Should be pronounced"memmay",kinda with a French accent on the end.Not "meem" :angry:
  • determined_ella
    determined_ella Posts: 4,354 Member
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    MrsBooBear wrote: »
    ThomasW13 wrote: »
    the real question is how do you properly pronounce the word "gif"

    the correct answer is, of course, "JIFF"

    I'm convinced that "meme" Should be pronounced"memmay",kinda with a French accent on the end.Not "meem" :angry:

    0_o I though it was said meme?! :joy: but then again I haven't seen it written down much!
  • MrsBooBear
    MrsBooBear Posts: 12,619 Member
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    newmeadow wrote: »
    Pitcher instead of picture is common. So very common.

    Lol! :joy:
  • maeld51
    maeld51 Posts: 3,415 Member
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    Took the Dialect Quiz, got me within 100 miles of my city.
    Here, we drop the g's,
    Washin', gettin', goin', havin' and we add r's where there aren't any.
    Bugs when I hear Golf of Mexico, it's Gulf.

  • salembambi
    salembambi Posts: 5,592 Member
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    i speak like a Canadian

    when people pronounce Toronto wrong it makes me cringe its To-ron-no
    not Tor-ron-to
    its melk not milk
    and so on
  • aippolito1
    aippolito1 Posts: 4,894 Member
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    haha Based on the quiz, I'm either from Irving, TX, Tallahassee, FL or San Antonio, TX. I'm from Dallas...
  • Tigg_er
    Tigg_er Posts: 22,001 Member
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    Took the quiz ,, I flunked
    It couldn't tell me where the hell I'm from
  • barbecuesauce
    barbecuesauce Posts: 1,779 Member
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    I think I've read too much or known too many people from outside of my region. That quiz gave me cities I'd either never been to or simply drove through.
  • buffer221
    buffer221 Posts: 4,751 Member
    edited July 2015
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    I'm Scots, speak Doric which is old English and Gaelic and a few other languages, and if I even write the pronunciation of our words here you still would not match to what is written hahaha

    Bennachie = Ben a hee
  • Osiris275
    Osiris275 Posts: 228 Member
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    Day-ta, root and sih-rup! I think it's a county thing too though. I've never heard anyone say rowt or seerup in the uk. In fact, when I heard those words spoken in American TV I had to put subtitles on to work out what they were!
  • buffer221
    buffer221 Posts: 4,751 Member
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    tomlawson02 wrote: »
    I have to say, if you are from Aberdeenshire, I'm also a Scot and don't have a clue :)

    Aye well it's a different world hahaha
  • barkin43
    barkin43 Posts: 508 Member
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    Ah thank ahm gunna go warsh sum squarsh an the-un ah'll axe mah mahmuh effun shill cook um fer meh.

    Translation from east Texas dialect: I think I'm gonna go wash some squash and then I'll ask my mama if she'll cook them for me.
  • aippolito1
    aippolito1 Posts: 4,894 Member
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    hahahaha @barkin43!!
  • CourtneyParcell
    CourtneyParcell Posts: 127 Member
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    How do you guys pronounce the word crayons? I learned to say it like crowns but almost everyone I know says cray-ons

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