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

If you said those words as they were spelled, you would pronounce them "legs" and "eggs."
-wtk

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.

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.

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!

I say "tock" instead of "talk" or as they say here in NC "tawlk" lol I accents and I bet yours is sexy

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

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.

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!!!

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

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.

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

I get made fun of for:

Ruin - I say "Roon" no i

and

Bagel - I say "Bag - le" not "Bay-gel"

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!!!!