Ignorant local pronounciations that stick...

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*

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It was phonetic . They spell it aluminium but the British pronounce the word " AL -U -Men- E -Um "
Sorry married to a Brit .

I don't know who you're referring to with your "they", but I take it you're American? If you go back and read, my "they" are the Americans.

Everywhere on the planet (with a few exceptions), the element is spelled alumiNIum. It is the original spelling and what I said earlier was that I don't quite see how the letter i was dropped in the U.S.

I can't remember off the top of my head, but a quick google search will answer that question. I think there's even a Wikipedia page explaining the word's evolution in the US.

Technically, the correct pronunciation IS aluminium (the way the Brits say it). And I say this as an American who says aluminum. :-) And Google Chrome accepts both spellings as accurate.

I just want to add that both spellings are indeed correct. It's just an interesting etymology with a letter that was dropped; to me it makes no sense, but there obviously is a logical explanation for how it happened. Thanks for the tip to check out the history article of it!

Our colonial cousins LOVE dropping letters for words :-p "U" mostly .. Colour, flavour, humour

That is because we are giving back all of those extra vowels you guys stole from the Welsh.

Always crack me up when yanks say ...

Eye-Rack

Eye-tal-ians


Oh and they never get the town of Leominster right .... (it's Lemster BTW)


PS ... Aluminium ..bwhaaaaaaaaaa

That is only the ignorant ones (who also refer to the AYE-mish). Most Yanks (well, except for a former president) use the correct pronunciation for Iraq and Italian.

I'm not sure if this happens country-wide, but it's definitely prevalent in the South. People mispronouncing REALTOR as REAL-A-TOR... The latter of which being entirely wrong.

Also, this next one is not necessarily local, it just happens to be a pet peeve of mine... But people saying NUCULER instead of NUCLEAR

I grew up in Lancaster, PA.

It's pronounced lan-kiss-ter

Easiest way to figure out if someone is local or not.

Which is one reason Shibboleths exist. There was a story that the Dutch resistance in WWII could pick out the German spies in their midst because only a local could pronounce the name of the resort town Scheveningen correctly. In fact, the term "shibboleth" comes from the Bible where the armys of Gilead knew if someone was an Ephraimite by how they pronounced the word (which is Hebrew for "stream" or the "current in a stream"). Then, pronouncing a word different than the locals could get you killed.

There's a large difference between pronouncing words incorrctly and those same words sounding different because of an acent. Also some one brought up the pronounciation of French words, such as foyer.....the proper ENGLISH pronunciation is FOY_ER....not FOY_EY.....that would be the French ponounciation. Same with names of cities in Europe....Munich in english....Munchen in German....Turino in Italian, Turin in Englsih.

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...

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:

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For the most part, regional differences in pronunciations don't bother me. But there's one that gets under my skin. I'm from Houston, Texas, and moved to Atlanta about six years ago. I just about fell out when I heard Houston County, GA, pronounced as 'HOW-stun.' Wrong, wrong, wrong.

Clearly, Georgians can't pronounce ANYTHING correctly!

Delta has flights out of Atlanta purdy much evry 10 seconds. Y'all call feel free to be on one of them. We won't miss ya. Tell yur ma and dem we said howdy.

Dem hue-stun county folk be ornery critters

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For the most part, regional differences in pronunciations don't bother me. But there's one that gets under my skin. I'm from Houston, Texas, and moved to Atlanta about six years ago. I just about fell out when I heard Houston County, GA, pronounced as 'HOW-stun.' Wrong, wrong, wrong.

Clearly, Georgians can't pronounce ANYTHING correctly!

Delta has flights out of Atlanta purdy much evry 10 seconds. Y'all call feel free to be on one of them. We won't miss ya. Tell yur ma and dem we said howdy.

Dem hue-stun county folk be ornery critters

Just wait till football season starts.:drinker:

Missouri accents boggle my mind a bit, having learnt to speak in West Virginia, that is.

This sentence: "Take the fork in the road and continue down 44," is usually pronounced "Take the fark in the road and continue down farty-fahr." Yes, even on the news.

Personally, I can't complain much since I say (inexplicably) sody and sundah. My daughter is always mocking my pronunciation of caramel as "car-a-mel" because she insists it's "car-mul."

I relax in a hammuck, but others hear take their leisure in a ham-mock. My "cabnet" has my plates, but others keep theirs in a cab-i-net. (My Grandmother kept her drawers in her draws.)

The "ruins" have been heard to be "roins" and for some odd reason, we live in Missourah. Folks do their warsh with their laundry soap whereas I use detergent to wash my clothes.

We eat pork steaks instead of pork butts and we slather them with beebeecue sauce. We use wooster sauce for our steaks. Realators sell our homes and we used to have a nuculer power plant.

They ax questions in the libarry in Febyooary and use farks for our Gooey Butter Cake. We don't live far from Dez Moinz or Cay-ro, Illinoiz, if you can pitcher that.

We're a bit mixed up, in my opinion. Now, I'll go back to my sody and plan on my ice cream sunduh.

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?

i love them! (still reading through them)..

i hate when people don't try to sound it out!!

example:
people outside my area apparently can't take the time to sound out my city:
Binghamton -- they either automatically think it's Birmingham or say Bing - hamp- ton - its bing-um-ton

or my last name:
Platt-Harendza - they automatically say platE - hernandez - NO look at the letters! -- pl -at - HER-END-ZA

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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*

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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.