Ignorant local pronounciations that stick...
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Oklahoma.
Ya'll
tump
fixntah
crick
crooknick
fanger
worsh
cern.
Eyetalian
and the whole Miami - My-am-uh thing irritates the crap out of me.
I could ramble on for days.
one of the funniest I heard was an In-law (southeastern OK) discussing his crooknicks....... (yellow squash).
my neighborhood - all roads named after roads in France.....it gits interstin. :noway:
we don't have streets, we have roads.
and it get's worse the further south you go, I've lived here my entire life, and even I get confused there.
However, I have no accent at all. :bigsmile:
You spelled y'all wrong. Now who's the ignurnt one?
Day best be gitt'n going or ima fixin to open a can a woop *kitten*
We country boys don't worry too much about you city folk. We know how to navigate through the city but you can't navigate through our woods...haha.
Who you call'n city folk?!0 -
The one that I wonder about is Carnegie. Andrew Carnegie was from Pittsburgh, but was a titan of industry world wide. As such many places are named after him, New York for example. But everyone else pronounces it Car-nuh-Gee while we say it Car-Nay-Gee.
I really hope everyone else is saying it wrong and not us.
i'm in upstate new york, i say Car-nuh-Gee!
I don't know about Carnegie but you also have an Albany, NY. Down here we have an Albany, GA and it's pronounced Al-beeny.0 -
Oklahoma.
Ya'll
tump
fixntah
crick
crooknick
fanger
worsh
cern.
Eyetalian
and the whole Miami - My-am-uh thing irritates the crap out of me.
I could ramble on for days.
one of the funniest I heard was an In-law (southeastern OK) discussing his crooknicks....... (yellow squash).
my neighborhood - all roads named after roads in France.....it gits interstin. :noway:
we don't have streets, we have roads.
and it get's worse the further south you go, I've lived here my entire life, and even I get confused there.
However, I have no accent at all. :bigsmile:
You spelled y'all wrong. Now who's the ignurnt one?
Day best be gitt'n going or ima fixin to open a can a woop *kitten*
We country boys don't worry too much about you city folk. We know how to navigate through the city but you can't navigate through our woods...haha.
Who you call'n city folk?!
I only assumed because your country writing seemed like it was a little overboard and stereotypical. It's cool bro, I actually dig the southern stereotypes but usually city folk will over do it.0 -
Oklahoma.
Ya'll
tump
fixntah
crick
crooknick
fanger
worsh
cern.
Eyetalian
and the whole Miami - My-am-uh thing irritates the crap out of me.
I could ramble on for days.
one of the funniest I heard was an In-law (southeastern OK) discussing his crooknicks....... (yellow squash).
my neighborhood - all roads named after roads in France.....it gits interstin. :noway:
we don't have streets, we have roads.
and it get's worse the further south you go, I've lived here my entire life, and even I get confused there.
However, I have no accent at all. :bigsmile:
You spelled y'all wrong. Now who's the ignurnt one?
Day best be gitt'n going or ima fixin to open a can a woop *kitten*
We country boys don't worry too much about you city folk. We know how to navigate through the city but you can't navigate through our woods...haha.
Who you call'n city folk?!
I only assumed because your country writing seemed like it was a little overboard and stereotypical. It's cool bro, I actually dig the southern stereotypes but usually city folk will over do it.
Cheers - I'm from Florida and educated in your neck of the woods, though no one ever guesses where I'm from when I speak. To me, you can't take any of this too seriously0 -
I grew up in Lancaster, PA.
It's pronounced lan-kiss-ter
Easiest way to figure out if someone is local or not.
We have one in Ohio, but we pronounce it LAIN-ca-ster... it's fun to listen to out-of-staters try to say it...
The one we have in Wisconsin is pronounced LAN-cas-ter0 -
Met a fella once.. co-worker... asked me to pass him the PAR-Mason cheese... instead of the par-meh-zhan cheese... I had to ask him 3 times what the Fu...???0
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Oklahoma.
Ya'll
tump
fixntah
crick
crooknick
fanger
worsh
cern.
Eyetalian
and the whole Miami - My-am-uh thing irritates the crap out of me.
I could ramble on for days.
one of the funniest I heard was an In-law (southeastern OK) discussing his crooknicks....... (yellow squash).
my neighborhood - all roads named after roads in France.....it gits interstin. :noway:
we don't have streets, we have roads.
and it get's worse the further south you go, I've lived here my entire life, and even I get confused there.
However, I have no accent at all. :bigsmile:
You spelled y'all wrong. Now who's the ignurnt one?
Day best be gitt'n going or ima fixin to open a can a woop *kitten*
We country boys don't worry too much about you city folk. We know how to navigate through the city but you can't navigate through our woods...haha.
Who you call'n city folk?!
I only assumed because your country writing seemed like it was a little overboard and stereotypical. It's cool bro, I actually dig the southern stereotypes but usually city folk will over do it.
Cheers - I'm from Florida and educated in your neck of the woods, though no one ever guesses where I'm from when I speak. To me, you can't take any of this too seriously
No offense but if you're born and raised in Florida then you're not a Southerner. :grumble:
Sorry that's my Southern elitist side coming out. Florida is affectionately called our Northern friends to the south. haha0 -
Oklahoma.
Ya'll
tump
fixntah
crick
crooknick
fanger
worsh
cern.
Eyetalian
and the whole Miami - My-am-uh thing irritates the crap out of me.
I could ramble on for days.
one of the funniest I heard was an In-law (southeastern OK) discussing his crooknicks....... (yellow squash).
my neighborhood - all roads named after roads in France.....it gits interstin. :noway:
we don't have streets, we have roads.
and it get's worse the further south you go, I've lived here my entire life, and even I get confused there.
However, I have no accent at all. :bigsmile:
You spelled y'all wrong. Now who's the ignurnt one?
Day best be gitt'n going or ima fixin to open a can a woop *kitten*
We country boys don't worry too much about you city folk. We know how to navigate through the city but you can't navigate through our woods...haha.
Who you call'n city folk?!
I only assumed because your country writing seemed like it was a little overboard and stereotypical. It's cool bro, I actually dig the southern stereotypes but usually city folk will over do it.
Cheers - I'm from Florida and educated in your neck of the woods, though no one ever guesses where I'm from when I speak. To me, you can't take any of this too seriously
No offense but if you're born and raised in Florida then you're not a Southerner. :grumble:
Sorry that's my Southern elitist side coming out. Florida is affectionately called our Northern friends to the south. haha
It's okay, you Yankees are all the same0 -
Oklahoma.
Ya'll
tump
fixntah
crick
crooknick
fanger
worsh
cern.
Eyetalian
and the whole Miami - My-am-uh thing irritates the crap out of me.
I could ramble on for days.
one of the funniest I heard was an In-law (southeastern OK) discussing his crooknicks....... (yellow squash).
my neighborhood - all roads named after roads in France.....it gits interstin. :noway:
we don't have streets, we have roads.
and it get's worse the further south you go, I've lived here my entire life, and even I get confused there.
However, I have no accent at all. :bigsmile:
You spelled y'all wrong. Now who's the ignurnt one?
it's all in how you e·nun·ci·ate.0 -
I live in Iowa... and we have several towns with issues
Nevada - pronounced ne-VAY-duh
We have one of those in Missouri too! Same awful pronunciation. Also in Oklahoma there's a Miami with the pronunciation of "My-AM-uh" which many insist is correct Native American pronunciation.
^^ It is.
It used to drive me crazy until I learned that pronouncing it "correctly" as per the spelling would actually be a gross bastardization of the tribe name, so I do it the native american way out of respect.0 -
Oklahoma.
Ya'll
tump
fixntah
crick
crooknick
fanger
worsh
cern.
Eyetalian
and the whole Miami - My-am-uh thing irritates the crap out of me.
I could ramble on for days.
one of the funniest I heard was an In-law (southeastern OK) discussing his crooknicks....... (yellow squash).
my neighborhood - all roads named after roads in France.....it gits interstin. :noway:
we don't have streets, we have roads.
and it get's worse the further south you go, I've lived here my entire life, and even I get confused there.
However, I have no accent at all. :bigsmile:
You spelled y'all wrong. Now who's the ignurnt one?
Day best be gitt'n going or ima fixin to open a can a woop *kitten*
We country boys don't worry too much about you city folk. We know how to navigate through the city but you can't navigate through our woods...haha.
Who you call'n city folk?!
I only assumed because your country writing seemed like it was a little overboard and stereotypical. It's cool bro, I actually dig the southern stereotypes but usually city folk will over do it.
Cheers - I'm from Florida and educated in your neck of the woods, though no one ever guesses where I'm from when I speak. To me, you can't take any of this too seriously
No offense but if you're born and raised in Florida then you're not a Southerner. :grumble:
Sorry that's my Southern elitist side coming out. Florida is affectionately called our Northern friends to the south. haha
It's okay, you Yankees are all the same
You boys are too freakin sensitive.0 -
Oklahoma.
Ya'll
tump
fixntah
crick
crooknick
fanger
worsh
cern.
Eyetalian
and the whole Miami - My-am-uh thing irritates the crap out of me.
I could ramble on for days.
one of the funniest I heard was an In-law (southeastern OK) discussing his crooknicks....... (yellow squash).
my neighborhood - all roads named after roads in France.....it gits interstin. :noway:
we don't have streets, we have roads.
and it get's worse the further south you go, I've lived here my entire life, and even I get confused there.
However, I have no accent at all. :bigsmile:
You spelled y'all wrong. Now who's the ignurnt one?
Day best be gitt'n going or ima fixin to open a can a woop *kitten*
We country boys don't worry too much about you city folk. We know how to navigate through the city but you can't navigate through our woods...haha.
Who you call'n city folk?!
I only assumed because your country writing seemed like it was a little overboard and stereotypical. It's cool bro, I actually dig the southern stereotypes but usually city folk will over do it.
Cheers - I'm from Florida and educated in your neck of the woods, though no one ever guesses where I'm from when I speak. To me, you can't take any of this too seriously
No offense but if you're born and raised in Florida then you're not a Southerner. :grumble:
Sorry that's my Southern elitist side coming out. Florida is affectionately called our Northern friends to the south. haha
It's okay, you Yankees are all the same
You two are too freakin sensitive.
There's a drunken bar fight in the works. Well, that or a drunken game of corn hole0 -
Oklahoma.
Ya'll
tump
fixntah
crick
crooknick
fanger
worsh
cern.
Eyetalian
and the whole Miami - My-am-uh thing irritates the crap out of me.
I could ramble on for days.
one of the funniest I heard was an In-law (southeastern OK) discussing his crooknicks....... (yellow squash).
my neighborhood - all roads named after roads in France.....it gits interstin. :noway:
we don't have streets, we have roads.
and it get's worse the further south you go, I've lived here my entire life, and even I get confused there.
However, I have no accent at all. :bigsmile:
You spelled y'all wrong. Now who's the ignurnt one?
Day best be gitt'n going or ima fixin to open a can a woop *kitten*
We country boys don't worry too much about you city folk. We know how to navigate through the city but you can't navigate through our woods...haha.
Who you call'n city folk?!
I only assumed because your country writing seemed like it was a little overboard and stereotypical. It's cool bro, I actually dig the southern stereotypes but usually city folk will over do it.
Cheers - I'm from Florida and educated in your neck of the woods, though no one ever guesses where I'm from when I speak. To me, you can't take any of this too seriously
No offense but if you're born and raised in Florida then you're not a Southerner. :grumble:
Sorry that's my Southern elitist side coming out. Florida is affectionately called our Northern friends to the south. haha
It's okay, you Yankees are all the same
You two are too freakin sensitive.
There's a drunken bar fight in the works. Well, that or a drunken game of corn hole
A drunken bar fight sounds good to me. I'll help you up off the floor and when the cops show up just pretend nothing happened. respect!0 -
There is a road in my area named Sciota Rd. It should be pronouced sy-oh-toh but everyone refers to it as sy-o-fee...........and it drives me crazy. We also have a local community named Poga and everyone calls it Pogie. But of course I live in Tennessee so that is just the tip of the iceberg for crazy pronounciations......lol 0
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Oklahoma.
Ya'll
tump
fixntah
crick
crooknick
fanger
worsh
cern.
Eyetalian
and the whole Miami - My-am-uh thing irritates the crap out of me.
I could ramble on for days.
one of the funniest I heard was an In-law (southeastern OK) discussing his crooknicks....... (yellow squash).
my neighborhood - all roads named after roads in France.....it gits interstin. :noway:
we don't have streets, we have roads.
and it get's worse the further south you go, I've lived here my entire life, and even I get confused there.
However, I have no accent at all. :bigsmile:
You spelled y'all wrong. Now who's the ignurnt one?
Day best be gitt'n going or ima fixin to open a can a woop *kitten*
We country boys don't worry too much about you city folk. We know how to navigate through the city but you can't navigate through our woods...haha.
Who you call'n city folk?!
I only assumed because your country writing seemed like it was a little overboard and stereotypical. It's cool bro, I actually dig the southern stereotypes but usually city folk will over do it.
Cheers - I'm from Florida and educated in your neck of the woods, though no one ever guesses where I'm from when I speak. To me, you can't take any of this too seriously
No offense but if you're born and raised in Florida then you're not a Southerner. :grumble:
Sorry that's my Southern elitist side coming out. Florida is affectionately called our Northern friends to the south. haha
It's okay, you Yankees are all the same
You two are too freakin sensitive.
There's a drunken bar fight in the works. Well, that or a drunken game of corn hole
A drunken bar fight sounds good to me. I'll help you up off the floor and when the cops show up just pretend nothing happened. respect!
How you gonna do that with a broken beer bottle sticking out of yer side?0 -
Oklahoma.
Ya'll
tump
fixntah
crick
crooknick
fanger
worsh
cern.
Eyetalian
and the whole Miami - My-am-uh thing irritates the crap out of me.
I could ramble on for days.
one of the funniest I heard was an In-law (southeastern OK) discussing his crooknicks....... (yellow squash).
my neighborhood - all roads named after roads in France.....it gits interstin. :noway:
we don't have streets, we have roads.
and it get's worse the further south you go, I've lived here my entire life, and even I get confused there.
However, I have no accent at all. :bigsmile:
You spelled y'all wrong. Now who's the ignurnt one?
Day best be gitt'n going or ima fixin to open a can a woop *kitten*
We country boys don't worry too much about you city folk. We know how to navigate through the city but you can't navigate through our woods...haha.
Who you call'n city folk?!
I only assumed because your country writing seemed like it was a little overboard and stereotypical. It's cool bro, I actually dig the southern stereotypes but usually city folk will over do it.
Cheers - I'm from Florida and educated in your neck of the woods, though no one ever guesses where I'm from when I speak. To me, you can't take any of this too seriously
No offense but if you're born and raised in Florida then you're not a Southerner. :grumble:
Sorry that's my Southern elitist side coming out. Florida is affectionately called our Northern friends to the south. haha
It's okay, you Yankees are all the same
You two are too freakin sensitive.
There's a drunken bar fight in the works. Well, that or a drunken game of corn hole
A drunken bar fight sounds good to me. I'll help you up off the floor and when the cops show up just pretend nothing happened. respect!
How you gonna do that with a broken beer bottle sticking out of yer side?
Just like a Yankee to pick up a weapon in a fight between two men. Coward much?0 -
I asked earlier about the "cho", maybe you can help? Is it like "CHOp" or "COst"?2 more food ones:
Chorizo pronounced as chorit-zo. Special rage points for trying to overdo a Spanish accent while pronoucing it as no Spanish person would ever do. It doesn't have a 'zz' like pizza! But everybody does it. If being strictly correct it's chor-ee-tho although I do agree that sounds a bit pretentious from an English person, otherwise chor-ee-so is ok for an English speaker.
Canape pronounced as canopy.
being half spanish half central american, the only correct ways to pronounce chorizo are with a "th" sound, or with an "s" sound.
choritho
choriso
I think Italians would pronounce "cho" like "CHOp", which is close enough a language, but I don't speak Spanish.
neither. it's pronounced like cho, with an emphasis on the "O."0 -
Oklahoma.
Ya'll
tump
fixntah
crick
crooknick
fanger
worsh
cern.
Eyetalian
and the whole Miami - My-am-uh thing irritates the crap out of me.
I could ramble on for days.
one of the funniest I heard was an In-law (southeastern OK) discussing his crooknicks....... (yellow squash).
my neighborhood - all roads named after roads in France.....it gits interstin. :noway:
we don't have streets, we have roads.
and it get's worse the further south you go, I've lived here my entire life, and even I get confused there.
However, I have no accent at all. :bigsmile:
You spelled y'all wrong. Now who's the ignurnt one?
Day best be gitt'n going or ima fixin to open a can a woop *kitten*
We country boys don't worry too much about you city folk. We know how to navigate through the city but you can't navigate through our woods...haha.
Who you call'n city folk?!
I only assumed because your country writing seemed like it was a little overboard and stereotypical. It's cool bro, I actually dig the southern stereotypes but usually city folk will over do it.
Cheers - I'm from Florida and educated in your neck of the woods, though no one ever guesses where I'm from when I speak. To me, you can't take any of this too seriously
No offense but if you're born and raised in Florida then you're not a Southerner. :grumble:
Sorry that's my Southern elitist side coming out. Florida is affectionately called our Northern friends to the south. haha
It's okay, you Yankees are all the same
You two are too freakin sensitive.
There's a drunken bar fight in the works. Well, that or a drunken game of corn hole
A drunken bar fight sounds good to me. I'll help you up off the floor and when the cops show up just pretend nothing happened. respect!
How you gonna do that with a broken beer bottle sticking out of yer side?
Just like a Yankee to pick up a weapon in a fight between two men. Coward much?
Sorry, I only saw one man.0 -
Louisville, Ky
In KY it's pronounced "loo-uh-vuhl".
I have no idea why, but it is.
Hurricane, Wv also drives me crazy. "Hurr-uh-cun"
When I first moved to WV from the DC suburbs I was so confused by this. For years I insisted on pronouncing it Hurricane (like the storm) and then finally gave up and decided it's their town, they can pronounce the name however they want! lol0 -
My Indiana pronunciations:
Monticelllo= Normally pronounced 'montichello, we pronounce montisello.
Lafayette= we say La fee-ette, normally pronounced as La Fay Ette.
Caprese= Caprice
My number ONE pet peeve of all time. When people call a REALTOR a REALITER. It's REAL-TOR. There is no I in REALTOR. DO you call your doctor a dockiter?0 -
Vienna sausages. In NC that's Vy-eena,
But I shouldn't make fun. My pronunciation can be a little off sometimes too.0 -
PONCEYYYYPonce de Leon Ave. pronounced in Atlanta: Paansss day Leeeeoyon0 -
Come to Maine.
Then you'll have an even better thread. I'm just getting used to all the stupid things people say. Sometimes I catch my self talking like a Mainer myself and get embarrassed. Lol.0 -
Ok, I grew up in Delaware and still work and live nearby (just over the border in PA.) This isn't a street thing but we all pronounce water as wooder. Even I do, can't help it.
Also, there is an area in northern Delaware called Christiana but every pronounces it Christina.0 -
Yikes! It's one thing to completely mispronounce a word. But to be called ignorant for using your local accent/dialect is pretty harsh.
And I have to say that people spelling things wrong is way worse than people saying things wrong, especially with so many communications these days through email, text, internet forums, etc....
*Hope I didn't spell anything wrong here*
Yes! I get upset every time I'm arguing with someone online and the other person writes "your" when they mean "you're," I cannot continue to take their points seriously. A person who writes "there" instead of "their" just looks stupid. Many of the people who do this on Facebook went to the same school with me, so I don't understand how they don't know the differences.0 -
Incorrect past tenses get my goat too. "I won you" is a personal fave. Did you? Are you taking me home?Not a pronounciation, but a lot of people also say "seen" when they should be saying "saw." Example: "I seen you at the grocery store". Um, what?
Not helped by the alternative (also correct) spelling of jewellery. I think Jewelry is US, and Jewellery is English? (Ha even my auto-correct on Safari says Jewelry is wrong).Jewelry as "jew-ler-y."
The UK one is Lan-ca-ster as well.I grew up in Lancaster, PA.
It's pronounced lan-kiss-ter
We have one in Ohio, but we pronounce it LAIN-ca-ster... it's fun to listen to out-of-staters try to say it...
The one we have in Wisconsin is pronounced LAN-cas-ter0 -
I grew up in Lancaster, PA.
It's pronounced lan-kiss-ter
What's funny is that I grew up near there and we didn't pronounce it that way at all. We said lan-cass-ter.
I think only the people IN Lancaster, PA, and the Hershey company pronounce it LAN-kiss-ter.0 -
Many of the people who do this on Facebook went to the same school with me, so I don't understand how they don't know the differences.
I am constantly amazed at the difference in overall knowledge in the people who went to the same school I did. It blows my mind -- they had the same teachers and classes at the same time and some are quite competent and others, I don't know how they graduated.0 -
i'm in upstate new york, i say Car-nuh-Gee!
I don't know about Carnegie but you also have an Albany, NY. Down here we have an Albany, GA and it's pronounced Al-beeny.
no its def all-bunny!0 -
I hear people talk about Albany, GA, all the time and they pronounce it the same as the one in NY -- even the local radio stations say "all-bunny."
i'm in upstate new york, i say Car-nuh-Gee!
I don't know about Carnegie but you also have an Albany, NY. Down here we have an Albany, GA and it's pronounced Al-beeny.
no its def all-bunny!
I don't live far from there.0
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