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  • FlashMorehouse
    FlashMorehouse Posts: 138 Member
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    I grew up in Texas so all of them regardless of language.
  • Pearlsky
    Pearlsky Posts: 2
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    I can say Chicken, and I can say Snitzel, BUT when I try say Chicken Snitzel it comes out shnicken shnishnel
    It's so annoying , I always sound REALLY drunk lol
  • toshtip
    toshtip Posts: 14 Member
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    Originally from Oklahoma... spent some time in Arkansas before coming to California. For decades my sister pronounced crayon as "crown" = endless joy for me! (yes, I know I have issues.) :) MANY relatives from the Midwest say things like "warsh" for wash, "rut" for root, "hup" for hoop, and phrases like "git-r-dun" are a whole separate category combining portmanteaus, colloquialisms and hillbilly speak.

    Trying to explain to my daughter about how certain words should be pronounced - like the place that has the books "Lie Barry"; "Ambalance", and "member" instead of remember. Still says "fow - in" for fountain and "mau - in" for mountain.
  • Snow3y
    Snow3y Posts: 1,412 Member
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    Furor... because I've never heard anyone say it before :c
  • azlifah95
    azlifah95 Posts: 177 Member
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    itinerary.
  • Jestinia
    Jestinia Posts: 1,154 Member
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    Horror. It comes out as an unfortunate one-syllable word if I'm not very careful.
  • slr90
    slr90 Posts: 212 Member
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    Regularly ... :(
  • ashandstuff
    ashandstuff Posts: 442 Member
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    Thesaurus.

    I always say "thesthethourus" and sound like an idiot.
  • FitWarrior7
    FitWarrior7 Posts: 332 Member
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    Rear Wheel Drive
  • KeithPith1458
    KeithPith1458 Posts: 7
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    Precedent and squirrel
  • viciouslitany
    viciouslitany Posts: 187 Member
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    myriad..
  • loonalupe
    loonalupe Posts: 6 Member
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    The phrase, '' Happy Canada Day" is a tough one for me. Always comes out slurry and sounding like I'm drunk.
    Hmmm..on further consideration, it may be because I usually have a few on that day...; )
  • obrientp
    obrientp Posts: 546 Member
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    Saying thank instead of think: "What do you thank we should do?"

    Jewry instead of jewelry

    Creme Brulee. I can say creme, and I can say Brulee, but not together.

    Mallory

    Mitsubishi
  • Fullsterkur_woman
    Fullsterkur_woman Posts: 2,712 Member
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    Rear Wheel Drive
    Apparently this is one of those that lots of people have trouble with. That one in particular is just rife with "approximants", so your poor oral cavity is having to do a lot of work, I think, to switch between them, and I bet there's something going on in terms of the physics of the acoustics that make the sounds come out somewhat indistinct from one another. But phonetics is my weakest area, so I could be wrong.

    I still love talking about it.
  • GC527
    GC527 Posts: 272 Member
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    I always want to say Pacific when I am saying specific.
  • Fullsterkur_woman
    Fullsterkur_woman Posts: 2,712 Member
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    I always want to say Pacific when I am saying specific.
    Is somebody keeping count of this one? I want a scientific answer about this. There's a friggin' reason behind it, I am positive!!
  • mariposa224
    mariposa224 Posts: 1,269 Member
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    ...Dawn/Don - My uncles' name is Don. I pronounce it Dahn. My friends name is Dawn. I say her name Daun.
    I think at least for Texans, when surrounded by those consonants, "ah" and "au" are produced identically. Hence, they sound the same.

    I'm not from Texas but I live here now...

    so the first has less jaw movement. I try to shape the 'w' in Dawn.
    Don = Bomb
    Dawn = Awn(ing)
    "Bomb" and "awning" have the same initial vowel sound to us too.
    From central Ohio with no "discernible" accent (ie Midwestern sound), and this is the case for me as well. ALso the au/ah sounds being the same. I don't hear them different and I don't say them different. At least not in the words that have been shown as examples of how they should be different. :embarassed:
  • iPlatano
    iPlatano Posts: 487 Member
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    +1!

    I said everything perfectly. Bahah :happy:
  • SmoothRiko
    SmoothRiko Posts: 193
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    Wall, coffee, talk, ball,
  • FoxBean
    FoxBean Posts: 910 Member
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    Inevitable...it's always inevitable i'll pronounce it incorrectly or over pronounce it
    Breasts -breast-ist-ist
    Wolves, I say wolfs.
    Knives, knifes.
    there are other words but I can't remember...

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