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    Pronunciations of different words

    Posts: 4,894 Member
    edited November 2024 in Chit-Chat
    data: day-ta / dah-ta
    route: root / rowt
    syrup: see-rup / serr-up

    How do you say different things? I say day-ta, root, see-rup (not stressed like that, but definitely not serrrrup lol). What other words do you say that you find weird when someone else says it differently?

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    • Posts: 4,568 Member
      i find it quite weird (and irritating) when people say "idea-r". It's IDEA. There's no R.
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    • Posts: 8,646 Member
      anybody who ever eats a peecan is just weird...if I pissed in a can, I ain't eating that.
    • Posts: 4,537 Member
      _John_ wrote: »
      anybody who ever eats a peecan is just weird...if I pissed in a can, I ain't eating that.

      pronounced peh-khan
    • Posts: 8,646 Member
      ind1983 wrote: »
      i find it quite weird (and irritating) when people say "idea-r". It's IDEA. There's no R.

      you should axe them why they say that...

    • Posts: 8,646 Member
      _incogNEATo_ wrote: »
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      pronounced peh-khan


      "pray lean" also bugs the crap outta me.
    • Posts: 4,568 Member
      also when people say "Roo-sevelt" - It's pronounced "Ro-se-velt", like rose not roose.
    • Posts: 8,646 Member
      Bastrop TX vs. Bastrop LA...
    • Posts: 4,894 Member
      haha! Yes to gif/jif. I always hated "warsh" lol and "illinoise"...
    • Posts: 1,166 Member
      I seem to hear this one a lot, but Pill-Oh and Pell-Oh (pillow)
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      ind1983 wrote: »
      i find it quite weird (and irritating) when people say "idea-r". It's IDEA. There's no R.

      I've never heard this. I live right outside of Boston, though; we have no words that end in "R".
    • Posts: 3,678 Member
      edited July 2015
      I find it fascinating that many pronunciations are regional. For example, Boston may use butt-ah on toast, while everyone else, at least as far as I know, prefers but-ter.
    • Posts: 4,568 Member
      undergloom wrote: »
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      I've never heard this. I live right outside of Boston, though; we have no words that end in "R".

      Haha!

      Here's another:
      "San-wich" instead of "SanDwich" - you can't just go around axing letters from words
    • Posts: 1,434 Member
      My husband eats squaRsh and waRshes the car, but learned about George Washington in school. So if he can say the wash in Washington, why does he waRsh the car??
    • Posts: 5,377 Member
      _John_ wrote: »
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      "pray lean" also bugs the crap outta me.
      Would you say peecan and pray lean drive you nuts then?

    • Posts: 386 Member
      I'll leave this quiz here. This thread is reminding me of it! It was based on linguistic research or something along those lines. It's fun to look through all the other options... Definitely never heard some of them before!

      http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?_r=0
    • Posts: 3,818 Member
      Regional dialects fascinate it! It really is interesting to hear the differences across the globe.
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      Maleficent0241 wrote: »
      I'll leave this quiz here. This thread is reminding me of it! It was based on linguistic research or something along those lines. It's fun to look through all the other options... Definitely never heard some of them before!

      http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?_r=0

      I just took the quiz, it was spot on, gave my exact city!
    • Posts: 4,894 Member
      Yeah, different accents make things interesting. But also words like "pruh-fer-uh-bly" vs. "preh-frib-ly" (preferably). I work in a call center and we have a script so it's interesting to hear how everyone says certain words. Or applicable. Some say "uh-plick-uh-bull". I say "app-lick-uh-bull".
    • Posts: 1,434 Member
      That quiz was crazy accurate!

    • Posts: 4,979 Member
      Quiz got my region accurate if not the cities.

      FWIW i say pee-can
    • Posts: 1,547 Member
      ind1983 wrote: »
      i find it quite weird (and irritating) when people say "idea-r". It's IDEA. There's no R.

      Or warsh instead of wash
    • Posts: 1,547 Member
      _John_ wrote: »
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      you should axe them why they say that...

      LOL RIGHT!?!
    • Posts: 4,354 Member
      tom-ay-toe or tom-ar-toe for tomato :joy: same with potato and yo-gart , yog-its and yog-ert for yogurt :/ or film and filum. water, warter, war-tah and wadder :joy: I could go on!
    • Posts: 12,618 Member
      ThomasW13 wrote: »
      the real question is how do you properly pronounce the word "gif"

      the correct answer is, of course, "JIFF"

      I'm convinced that "meme" Should be pronounced"memmay",kinda with a French accent on the end.Not "meem" :angry:
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      MrsBooBear wrote: »
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      I'm convinced that "meme" Should be pronounced"memmay",kinda with a French accent on the end.Not "meem" :angry:

      0_o I though it was said meme?! :joy: but then again I haven't seen it written down much!
    • Posts: 12,618 Member
      newmeadow wrote: »
      Pitcher instead of picture is common. So very common.

      Lol! :joy:
    • Posts: 3,415 Member
      Took the Dialect Quiz, got me within 100 miles of my city.
      Here, we drop the g's,
      Washin', gettin', goin', havin' and we add r's where there aren't any.
      Bugs when I hear Golf of Mexico, it's Gulf.

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    • Posts: 5,585 Member
      i speak like a Canadian

      when people pronounce Toronto wrong it makes me cringe its To-ron-no
      not Tor-ron-to
      its melk not milk
      and so on
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