How do you say it?

AmberJslimsAWAY
AmberJslimsAWAY Posts: 2,339 Member
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Everyone says words different. I say legs and eggs weird... get made fun of all the time.

But other words people fight about, like caramel, vanilla, crayon... How do you say it?

I say all of those like they are spelled.... Legs and eggs-laygs and ayggs (I know I'm weird) :P
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  • VenomousDuck
    VenomousDuck Posts: 206
    I say every thing like I have tourette's, then nobody cares how I say caramel.

    My speech therapist was Samuel L Jackson.

    mutha f'n caramel and ****.
  • ket_the_jet
    ket_the_jet Posts: 1,257 Member
    I say all of those like they are spelled.... Legs and eggs-laygs and ayggs (I know I'm weird) :P
    If you said those words as they were spelled, you would pronounce them "legs" and "eggs."
    -wtk
  • cutchro
    cutchro Posts: 396 Member
    You should be from where I was born and raised... and leave off all your "r"s. Like Lobstah, cah, front yahd, and then move south and add a southern Y'all to your lobstah! :drinker:
  • AmberJslimsAWAY
    AmberJslimsAWAY Posts: 2,339 Member
    I say all of those like they are spelled.... Legs and eggs-laygs and ayggs (I know I'm weird) :P
    If you said those words as they were spelled, you would pronounce them "legs" and "eggs."
    -wtk

    I meant the other 3 :tongue:
  • Tanyawhite30
    Tanyawhite30 Posts: 473
    I'm French.... Everything I say sounds weird lol!
  • BAMFMeredith
    BAMFMeredith Posts: 2,810 Member
    It bugs me when people say car-mul instead of cair-uh-mel for caramel. THERE IS AN 'A' IN THERE! PRONOUNCE IT!

    And when people say "crown" instead of crayon. That's not even kind of how it's spelled. Cray-on.
  • AmberJslimsAWAY
    AmberJslimsAWAY Posts: 2,339 Member
    It bugs me when people say car-mul instead of cair-uh-mel for caramel. THERE IS AN 'A' IN THERE! PRONOUNCE IT!

    And when people say "crown" instead of crayon. That's not even kind of how it's spelled. Cray-on.
    hahahaha me too!
  • Nerple
    Nerple Posts: 1,291 Member
    You should be from where I was born and raised... and leave off all your "r"s. Like Lobstah, cah, front yahd, and then move south and add a southern Y'all to your lobstah! :drinker:

    Yep. There is no room for the letter "r" in my pronunciations either. Thick Boston accent and all.


    The only one that really throws me off is when people pronounce aunt like a homonym to ant. I always wonder why they know so many people with a hard chitin shell and 6 legs.
  • kansasbelle
    kansasbelle Posts: 264 Member
    Butter and Buttons Budder and buddons.. Darn that little bit of New orleans in me And now y'all know why it's who dat....isntead of whos that? LOL
  • whitneysaenz
    whitneysaenz Posts: 125 Member
    And when people say "crown" instead of crayon. That's not even kind of how it's spelled. Cray-on.

    Apparently, my husband doesn't know how to say "crayon" correctly so he calls ALL crayons "crayolas". LOL such a weirdo! He also says something else realllly weird but right now I can't remember the word... I'll have to post it when I remember, though!
  • LauraMacNCheese
    LauraMacNCheese Posts: 7,173 Member
    Orange = arnge

    Creek = crick

    Those I've kept since I moved from PA...one I lost though is I used to pronounce water as "wooder"
  • Sarahbara76
    Sarahbara76 Posts: 601 Member
    I say "tock" instead of "talk" or as they say here in NC "tawlk" lol I :heart: accents and I bet yours is sexy
  • torylinnangel
    torylinnangel Posts: 253
    I get teased for the way I cay candy cane I say candy CAYNE, but everyone says it is CANDY cane. I am sure that I say other things weirdly as well, but I can't think of any others.
  • ampa916
    ampa916 Posts: 189 Member
    Everyone says words different. I say legs and eggs weird... get made fun of all the time.

    But other words people fight about, like caramel, vanilla, crayon... How do you say it?

    I say all of those like they are spelled.... Legs and eggs-laygs and ayggs (I know I'm weird) :P

    I say caramel like "Car-mill" vanilla like "va-nill-a" and crayon like "Cray-on" but my hubby says it "crown" any care to guess where he is from? lol

    sometimes when I am talking about something I care about I get a southern twinge to my "i's" like fine, turns into "f-I-Ine" lol
  • CoffeeNBooze
    CoffeeNBooze Posts: 966 Member
    When I say "tax" people think I'm saying "text". I moreso just think that's people not hearing me and getting confused with their own thoughts, though. It's a pretty distinct difference. I lived in Michigan for many years, they're known for over enunciating the a's.
  • Foxypoo61287
    Foxypoo61287 Posts: 638 Member
    What about La-easy-ana?
    Cimanin -cinnamon
    Dem dare chickuns over yonder?

    I could go on and on but I will stop myself before I get to carried away.
  • AmberJslimsAWAY
    AmberJslimsAWAY Posts: 2,339 Member
    What about La-easy-ana?
    Cimanin -cinnamon
    Dem dare chickuns over yonder?

    I could go on and on but I will stop myself before I get to carried away.

    haha feel free to go on!
  • BAMFMeredith
    BAMFMeredith Posts: 2,810 Member
    Orange = arnge

    Creek = crick

    Those I've kept since I moved from PA...one I lost though is I used to pronounce water as "wooder"

    OMG my dad used to say "wooder" (he was raised in Baltimore) and it drove me crazy!!!
  • AmberJslimsAWAY
    AmberJslimsAWAY Posts: 2,339 Member
    what about "warsher"? makes me cringe
  • PinkEarthMama
    PinkEarthMama Posts: 987 Member
    I'm Canadian, which means I pronounce half my vocabulary different.

    Pasta, drama, latte with the same a as SLAT, FLAT, MAT instead of Pahsta, Drahma, Lahtte
  • PinkEarthMama
    PinkEarthMama Posts: 987 Member
    I don't, but most of my friends call it a BAG - EL instead of BAYGULL. Or DECK - EL instead of Decal.
  • LemonsAndCoffee
    LemonsAndCoffee Posts: 313 Member
    It bugs me when people say car-mul instead of cair-uh-mel for caramel. THERE IS AN 'A' IN THERE! PRONOUNCE IT!

    And when people say "crown" instead of crayon. That's not even kind of how it's spelled. Cray-on.


    ^I'm the person you can't stand talking to!! I say car -mul AND crowns!!! I've called Crayons "crowns" ever since I was little. It drives my husband batty.
  • spade117
    spade117 Posts: 2,466 Member
    Creek = crick

    I don't think crick vs. creek isn't a pronunciation thing, but more locational...similar to pop/soda/cola.
  • abberbabber
    abberbabber Posts: 972 Member
    I've been told I pronounce "horror" like "*kitten*" :grumble:
  • abberbabber
    abberbabber Posts: 972 Member
    Orange = arnge

    Creek = crick

    Those I've kept since I moved from PA...one I lost though is I used to pronounce water as "wooder"

    OMG my dad used to say "wooder" (he was raised in Baltimore) and it drove me crazy!!!

    Guilty!!! :laugh:
  • AmberJslimsAWAY
    AmberJslimsAWAY Posts: 2,339 Member
    I've been told I pronounce "horror" like "*kitten*" :grumble:

    Honestly I think I do too.
  • the_journeyman
    the_journeyman Posts: 1,877 Member
    I say all of those like they are spelled.... Legs and eggs-laygs and ayggs (I know I'm weird) :P

    You're not weird, you just need to be in the NC mountains! We talk like that all the time.

    For me:

    Caramel - CARMUL

    Orange - ORNGE

    JM
  • odusgolp
    odusgolp Posts: 10,477 Member
    I get made fun of for:

    Ruin - I say "Roon" no i

    and

    Bagel - I say "Bag - le" not "Bay-gel"
  • ashmarie484
    ashmarie484 Posts: 296 Member
    I say kitten & cotton weird. Kittin & Cottin ... Idk I always have
  • frixtine
    frixtine Posts: 965 Member
    I'm from New Orleans too, and here, we sure do say "dis, dat, dese, and dose and dem" instead of "this, that, these, those, and them" . Frankly, there are at least 20 ways to say N'Awlins alone.

    But we have lots of tourists here and the easiest way to tell a tourist from a local is for them to ask for a soda or a pop in a restaurant. Here, everything is a coke or a soft drink. If you say you want a pop... we think you want us to hit you.

    And its CRAWFISH!!! not CRAYFISH!!!!

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