How do you say it?

EmCarroll1990

Sherbet.... Pepole like to add an extra R. It is not SherbeRt!

This irritates me. I actually got a bucket of sherbet to show a friend how it's spelled and she STILL insists it's "sherbeRt" just to bug me.

Also, people in the south make fun of my pronunciation of "lilac". They say "lie-lack". Up north (you know, where there are loads of actual lilacs), we say "lie-lock".

Worse: "supposively" / "supposably" / etc instead of the actual word, which is "supposedly" ... when did reading get hard for grown adults? :huh:

I say "sorbet" that could be a totally different thing, but anytime I read sherbet, I say "sorbet."

ETA: I don't pronounce the "T" in it though.

_SpeshK_

I know people who can't pronounce the word "drawer" and they say something along the lines of "JOOR."
I also have a friend who says the word "disgusting" as DIZZ-GUZZ-TEENG. She really draws it out too, haha.

NU2U

I crack up when I hear..

"What canna serp do ya'll gat?"

"Somebody caw da ammalamps"

"Gatta go to da stow and get some arnge juice and fuewt"

"I'm gon' take my chirrin home"

And the word....WAWTA..........water

10acity

I know people who can't pronounce the word "drawer" and they say something along the lines of "JOOR."
I also have a friend who says the word "disgusting" as DIZZ-GUZZ-TEENG. She really draws it out too, haha.

It kinda bugs me when people pronounce "-ing" as "-een". Like, say, "disgust-een". Ack.

I swallow my Ts, though. As in, "button" or "cotton"... I'm not even sure how to type what it actually sounds like. A friend of mine makes fun of me for it, even though I'm pretty sure she doesn't say them much differently.

NU2U

I say farhead instead of forehead

from DE so like eastern PA folks I also say arnge instead of orange. But I say wader not wooder or water

I've heard people refer to their forehead..as "Fard"

cutchro

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.

Hey I have a Mainer accent with a new southern drawl! And I resemble that remark they are my ants! Not Aunts! lol

terryjo623

I hate the way some people say foyer!!!!

YoungDoc2B

I crack up when I hear..

"What canna serp do ya'll gat?"

"Somebody caw da ammalamps"

"Gatta go to da stow and get some arnge juice and fuewt"

"I'm gon' take my chirrin home"

And the word....WAWTA..........water

LOL! I cannot properly pronounce "ambulance" to save my life..it normally comes out something like "amba-lamps" ..smh

EmCarroll1990

I hate the way some people say foyer!!!!

Such as?

Oliviamarie05

I pronounce library with the R. I hate when it's said li-bary.

Schedule. Should be pronounced with a hard sch not sheshuale.

drives.me.insane.

terryjo623

I hate the way some people say foyer!!!!

Such as?

with a huge errrr on the end

LauraMacNCheese

It's Ne-Va-Da NOT Ne-Vah-Duh

SmexAppeal

Apparently I said milk wrong... I say it like "melk". Which until it was pointed out to me, I never noticed. Now when I say it wrong it just drives me nuts.
I like to pronunciate... so Tim Hortons is Tim HorTons... not Tim hor-ins...
I used to say brown with a really strong southern accent, not sure why.

frixtine

I crack up when I hear..

"What canna serp do ya'll gat?"

"Somebody caw da ammalamps"

"Gatta go to da stow and get some arnge juice and fuewt"

"I'm gon' take my chirrin home"

And the word....WAWTA..........water

You gotta be from New Orleans too!!!

PinkEarthMama

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

Dude, no. I'm Canadian too and it is weird as hell when you randoms say "PA-sta" "DRA-ma" and such.

I'm actually orginally from NJ, and I've worked hard to say things the way the rest of Canada does... otherwise they don't know what I'm talking about! I've **never** heard anyone here pronounce it correctly. When in Rome..

GeminiFairy89

It's Ne-Va-Da NOT Ne-Vah-Duh

Haha,I say it as Nuh-Va-Duh

rosiejocotton

I'm from London.
Instead of saying water I say WAW-AAAAH.
Instead of saying butter I say BUUUUH-AAAAAAAAAH.

nah, I'm joking. I am from London but I speak in Queens English, like a newsreader. :laugh:

NU2U

I crack up when I hear..

"What canna serp do ya'll gat?"

"Somebody caw da ammalamps"

"Gatta go to da stow and get some arnge juice and fuewt"

"I'm gon' take my chirrin home"

And the word....WAWTA..........water

You gotta be from New Orleans too!!!

I heard it alot when I was in GA. I had to hurry up and get back to Illinois. I thought if I stayed much longer..I'd end up speaking the same way..and being made fun of on
the forums..lol

Xia21

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.

There are tons of rules and exceptions in the english language that allow for BOTH pronunciations.... thats what makes it so
difficult to learn but... unless someone is purposely mispronouncing and slurring words, something like that would never bother
me

MelMoly

I say cinnamon wrong... I say it with an "m" sound so it sounds like cim a nin

ShilohMaier

Cauliflower. Is it "Caw-li-flower" or "Caul-ee-flower"?
Also, I say "buh-ins" and "cur-ins" instead of "buttons" or "curtains".

My grandpa was Canadian, and he couldn't say "spedometer". He called it the "speed-o-meter". Which is kind of what it is anyway .

rextcat

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"

but do you still "red up your rooms", cheer tha stillers and tha "iggles"? i my warshers

rextcat

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

naw its CRAW-DADS!

LauraMacNCheese

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"

but do you still "red up your rooms", cheer tha stillers and tha "iggles"? i my warshers

The "iggles" yes...the "stillers" HELL NO...:sick:

rextcat

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"

but do you still "red up your rooms", cheer tha stillers and tha "iggles"? i my warshers

The "iggles" yes...the "stillers" HELL NO...:sick:

awwwa

emilymichellee

I've been told I pronounce "horror" like "*kitten*" :grumble:

that's me!! haha, it's like I forget to pronounce the "o".

terryjo623

I always say iron as ' iearn'

antonio823

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

LMBO!

emilymichellee

Also, it's or-a-gen! NOT or-e-gone. there's no e at the end!
:grumble:

kaitimae

I don't, but most of my friends call it a BAG - EL instead of BAYGULL. Or DECK - EL instead of Decal.

I ALWAYS get made fun of for saying BAG-EL!!! My friends used to try and trick me into saying it so they could laugh at me. Booo!!!