How do you say it?

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  • 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.
  • abberbabber
    abberbabber Posts: 972 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.

    I actually feel better knowing I'm not the only one :laugh:

    Seriously, teach...context clues!
  • nicholettebell
    nicholettebell Posts: 414
    Sherbet.... Pepole like to add an extra R. It is not SherbeRt!
  • MrsORourke
    MrsORourke Posts: 315 Member
    I say every thing like I have tourette's, then nobody cares how I say caramel.

    My speech therapist was Samuel L Jackson.

    mutha f'n caramel and ****.

    :heart:
  • LilRedRooster
    LilRedRooster Posts: 1,421 Member
    I say "tomorrow" funny. I guess most people say "two-maw-row", and I say "two-more-oh." There are also a few other words, which I can't think of at the moment, but most are Midwestern things, since my grandparents both lived in Minnesota and were Norwegian.

    I also call mail "post", which is more British, but my grandfather grew up on a farm in the depression, and they didn't say mail, they said "Can you go pick up the post today?" So I often say "post" in place of "mail" without thinking. My boyfriend gives me all kinds of crap for it when I forget.
  • cushygal
    cushygal Posts: 586 Member
    I get made fun of alot as I am originally from Newfoundland, Canada(Irish accent) but I now live on Cape Cod, MA - so I have the Irish accent mixed in with the Boston accent - so needless to say, there are alot of words I do not pronouce correctly - but thats my appeal :happy:
  • TexanThom
    TexanThom Posts: 778
    Extraordinary

    If something is kind of plain, it is ordinary..

    If something is really plain, it is extra-ordinary.

    If something is Great, it is EXTRAORDINARY.
  • AmeChops
    AmeChops Posts: 744 Member
    I'm from the north of England and my husband is from the south - I'll pronounce things like bath and giraffe like how they're written whereas he'll pronounce them barth, girarffe...he's always taking the p!ss out of me for it lol!!
  • EmCarroll1990
    EmCarroll1990 Posts: 2,832 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.

    This.

    I say "bagel" weird. For some reason when I say it out loud it becomes "begal." And apparently I say "toilet" weird. I don't know how I say it weird but my family makes fun of me for it.
  • Froggy1976
    Froggy1976 Posts: 472
    Sherbet.... Pepole like to add an extra R. It is not SherbeRt!

    I know this was a typo but I said pepole in my head the way you typed it. Pee pole
  • bexy_27
    bexy_27 Posts: 28 Member
    Aurora borealis =arrrur...northern lights

    rural = rrerrr...in the sticks

    vulnerable = vunnara...you know what i mean.
  • kymillion
    kymillion Posts: 791 Member
    I say Hang GRrrrrrrrrr instead of hangER.. I think thats one of the only ones.. oh ,,... and gonna is huge in los angeles .. Like I am gonna and my brother and I would also say gunnu .. (past tense) lol. I think thats it but I have a raspy like voice similar to drew barry moores little deeper and not as lispy.. key word AS. lol..

    but I fandangle words all the time and enjoy coining new ones.
  • TexanThom
    TexanThom Posts: 778
    I'm from the north of England and my husband is from the south - I'll pronounce things like bath and giraffe like how they're written whereas he'll pronounce them barth, girarffe...he's always taking the p!ss out of me for it lol!!

    My GF is from Hornchurch, I am from Texas. I used to eat BaNaNas, now I eat bAnAnAs. Longest A's I have ever heard.
  • elelat
    elelat Posts: 117
    Im not an English native speaker, and I got really messed up when I lived in Minnesota (or Minneso-uda) and they call what plants have under the ground "ruts" instead of roots, and the call a small river arm cra'k instead of creek!
  • EmCarroll1990
    EmCarroll1990 Posts: 2,832 Member
    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.
  • miranda_mom
    miranda_mom Posts: 873 Member
    Creek=crick
    y'all=yinz
    soda=pop


    Yeah, I'm a Pittsburgher! :)

    I could tell by the "yinz"! (I'm from Eastern PA but we still know how to spot someone from Pittsburgh!
  • Langlady
    Langlady Posts: 51 Member
    LOL!!. I have interesting accents. I have a southern texas accent with northern speech speed and a little yiddish influence. And when I get tired (tierd), I don't really keep it in check.

    oyve = geez
    ain't = aren't
    y'all = you all
    don' - Don't
    Youston = Houston

    There is a huge list. Just listen to Jeff Foxworthy's red neck terms. I do most of them.
  • karenjoy
    karenjoy Posts: 1,840 Member
    My Canadian Husband struggle here in England at times, the most strange thing is that I like to drink Archers schnapps with lemonade and THREE times now in bars he has been given ORANGE juice and lemonade instead of Archers...it must be how he says it lol
  • LauraMacNCheese
    LauraMacNCheese Posts: 7,173 Member
    what about "warsher"? makes me cringe

    This one drives me bonkers!
  • AmberJslimsAWAY
    AmberJslimsAWAY Posts: 2,339 Member
    Youston = Houston

    .

    It drive me NUTS when people pronounce it Youston...
  • yo_andi
    yo_andi Posts: 2,178 Member
    I have incorporated a little colloquialism from every place I've lived:

    South Africa - cheers (used like thanks, or hi, or whatever you want it to mean), lekker (lecka) for good, or delicious, or whatever.

    New Jersey - cawfee, dawg

    Berlin - Scheisse (so much more effective than cussing in English)

    Dallas - ya'll, fixin ta

    Boston - pahk, cahd, yahd

    I'm six feet tall and play rugby though, so who's going to give me Scheisse for how I tawlk?

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