How do you say it?

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  • 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!!!!
  • curvykim78
    curvykim78 Posts: 799 Member
    Creek=crick
    y'all=yinz
    soda=pop


    Yeah, I'm a Pittsburgher! :)
  • abberbabber
    abberbabber Posts: 972 Member
    I've been told I pronounce "horror" like "*kitten*" :grumble:

    Honestly I think I do too.

    I never noticed until I was having a conversation with an ex and his family about going to see a movie. I said I was in the mood for a horror movie...and they all looked at me like I'd lost my mind.
  • abberbabber
    abberbabber Posts: 972 Member
    Creek=crick
    y'all=yinz
    soda=pop


    Yeah, I'm a Pittsburgher! :)

    Yinz makes me want to kick a puppy...I'll never get used to it.
  • ultim8one
    ultim8one Posts: 80 Member
    I've been told I pronounce "horror" like "*kitten*" :grumble:

    Honestly I think I do too.

    Honestly I think EVERYONE does ... or maybe that's just what I want to hear ... (-:
  • JadedSouls
    JadedSouls Posts: 136 Member
    Being canadian, my american friends tend to think I say "about" like "aboot" .. "out" like "oot" ..
  • HauteP1nk
    HauteP1nk Posts: 2,139 Member
    According to my fiance, I say hashbrown funny....or brown in general... He says it sounds funny with a huge emphasis on BRowwwwn...lol
  • HauteP1nk
    HauteP1nk Posts: 2,139 Member
    Being canadian, my american friends tend to think I say "about" like "aboot" .. "out" like "oot" ..

    Are you from the east coast? I am from Toronto but definitely do not speak like that.
    My friends from Newfoundland speak like that though. :)
  • NU2U
    NU2U Posts: 659 Member
    I've been told I pronounce "horror" like "*kitten*" :grumble:

    Omg...THIS!!!
    My son actually got in trouble at school because he said he liked "*kitten* Movies" (horror)

    Geez..like I actually let him watch porn!! I was so angry at his wacky teacher....Madea Time!!!

    I've since taught him how to pronounce it correctly....so that his teacher wouldn't get her panties in a bunch.
  • yo_andi
    yo_andi Posts: 2,178 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:

    Massholes! :drinker:
  • xlolitabandita
    xlolitabandita Posts: 242
    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:

    ^^^This is so me! haha I moved to Virginia from new jersey a few years back, and get made fun of whenever I say "cawfee" and "dawg", yet I have picked up saying "y'all", so my speech is all messed up right now.

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