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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! :)

    I could tell by the "yinz"! (I'm from Eastern PA but we still know how to spot someone from Pittsburgh!

    :) Yep, you can move, but the language sticks with ya forever!
  • the_journeyman
    the_journeyman Posts: 1,877 Member
    Youston = Houston

    .

    It drive me NUTS when people pronounce it Youston...

    I'm known to occasionally toss a V in place of a W. I have also heard my Mamaw (mountain term for grandmother) pronounce sink as 'zinc' as well as calling a vacuum cleaner a sweeper.
    what about "warsher"? makes me cringe

    This one drives me bonkers!

    I hear that one ALL THE TIME here in the mountains (I live in the area where 'Deliverance' is about & filmed) as well as here Warshington.

    JM
  • Langlady
    Langlady Posts: 51 Member
    Youston = Houston

    .

    It drive me NUTS when people pronounce it Youston...

    Can you guess where I am from? LOL
  • dani_1977
    dani_1977 Posts: 557 Member
    Im from Maryland... where it's pronounce Murlyn and Baltimore is pronounced Balmor.

    Also for some MD folks

    Dog = Dug
    Window = Winder
    Sink = Zinc

    But luckily I escaped that... my mother and grandmother would constantly remind us.

    How ever I do say:

    Yogrit ..instead of yogurt. ????
  • lickmybaconcakes
    lickmybaconcakes Posts: 1,063 Member
    Italics = "eye"talics.
    either= "eye"ther
    develop= "dee"velop
    ask= arske
    lease= liasse
    half= arth


    I also emphasise my Os too much with vowels...
  • _Christine_
    _Christine_ Posts: 1,385 Member
    ...with a Texas drawl.
  • the_journeyman
    the_journeyman Posts: 1,877 Member
    I remember being in Australia and hearing:

    Thirdeen (Thirteen)
    Idear (idea)

    JM
  • yoovie
    yoovie Posts: 17,121 Member
    my best friend calls pillows "pellows" she cant say it right.
  • _SpeshK_
    _SpeshK_ Posts: 496 Member
    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

    This is exactly what I was going to say!!
  • CoryIda
    CoryIda Posts: 7,870 Member
    Thanks to 13 years of experience doing theatre, I don't have an accent of any kind, really.

    I say everything "properly" although very quickly.
  • classycouture
    classycouture Posts: 888 Member
    what about "warsher"? makes me cringe

    This kills me! My ex-boyfriend was from the MD area, and he would say "warsh." What pissed me off the most was that his name is Josh... So I would tell him. Say "Josh" - Now say "wash".. And he would go back and forth "Josh, warsh, Josh, warsh."

    But I'm also from the Boston area.. So I said his name more like "Jash" - I clearly also say "Bahstin"
  • YoungDoc2B
    YoungDoc2B Posts: 1,593 Member
    Caramel - Car-mul
    Vanilla - Va-nail-a
    Crayon - Cran

    Lol...that's Indiana, for ya
  • _SpeshK_
    _SpeshK_ Posts: 496 Member
    Youston = Houston

    .

    It drive me NUTS when people pronounce it Youston...

    Can you guess where I am from? LOL

    OMG I HATE THIS, TOO!!! YOUSTON? WTF That doesn't even make sense!!! I am from Houston area so I hear this a lot, it makes NO DAMN SENSE.
  • _SpeshK_
    _SpeshK_ Posts: 496 Member
    I hate when people say "nukular" when they are saying the word nuclear. OR when they pronounce "similar" as "simUlar". UGHHH
  • _Christine_
    _Christine_ Posts: 1,385 Member
    my best friend calls pillows "pellows" she cant say it right.

    I do the same. The husband makes fun. ;)
  • MikeyD1280
    MikeyD1280 Posts: 5,257
    I know peopel that call the toilet tur-let HAHAHAHAHA

    i need some tur-let paper...

    and how about when people say, can I have some Soder (soda)
    have you met my friend, Melisser (Melissa)

    and as for the person saying there is an a in caramel, how do you say Salmon or Sword?
    i say Sal-mon, and sword, i put the w in the sword.. because it is used in
    swim, sworn, swear, swagger, swoop, swindle.....
  • Langlady
    Langlady Posts: 51 Member
    LOL. When I was a kid I moved from Texas (T E xis) to MIchigan (Mish again), walked into class saying...Haay yaa'll. They loked at me like I had two heads. Moved back to Texas as a teen and was told I "tawlk tooo faist". I picked up Youston when I moved there. It's annoying but just cant break it.
  • beach_please
    beach_please Posts: 533 Member
    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"

    Lol. I'm from PA and I say 'arnge'. I don't say 'wooder' but my father in law does. He also says "Grarge" for garage and "Warsh" for "wash".
  • LauraMacNCheese
    LauraMacNCheese Posts: 7,173 Member
    How about "dyeat yet"?? Or referring to eggs over easy as "dippy eggs"? LOL!
  • Foxypoo61287
    Foxypoo61287 Posts: 638 Member
    Are-can-saw- Arkansas ( Supposedly you can get a ticket for pronouncing it wrong ie Are-can-sus

    I had another good one but forgot it. :(

    * Remembered- Ma-he...NOT MAUI! omg....

    I don't say any of these btw.... LoL
  • wolverine66
    wolverine66 Posts: 3,779 Member
    I will get lazy with my speech (leave the "g" off of words ending in "ing," or softening "t"s to "d"s) but I don't think there is any word that I consistently mispronounce.

    One of the best compliments I think I've received was "You don't sound like you're from West Virginia."
  • TexanThom
    TexanThom Posts: 778
    Most things that ends in an"o" becomes an "a". Tomata, potata,
  • EmCarroll1990
    EmCarroll1990 Posts: 2,832 Member
    How about "dyeat yet"?? Or referring to eggs over easy as "dippy eggs"? LOL!

    I say "dippy eggs" too. But I pronounce eggs as "eh-ggs"

    Or, here we've got a huge coffee chain called Tim Horton's and my family makes fun of me for pronouncing "Horton's" as "*kitten*-duns."
  • EmCarroll1990
    EmCarroll1990 Posts: 2,832 Member
    I will get lazy with my speech (leave the "g" off of words ending in "ing," or softening "t"s to "d"s) but I don't think there is any word that I consistently mispronounce.

    One of the best compliments I think I've received was "You don't sound like you're from West Virginia."

    My dad lives there now and his speech has gone to the sh*tter.
  • 10acity
    10acity Posts: 798 Member
    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:
  • beachlover718
    beachlover718 Posts: 82
    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
  • AmberJslimsAWAY
    AmberJslimsAWAY Posts: 2,339 Member
    Another one that peeves me is when people pronounce the t in often lol
  • Bronx_Montgomery
    Bronx_Montgomery Posts: 2,284 Member
    Ive been told I say the word bathroom weird.
  • 10acity
    10acity Posts: 798 Member
    Another one that peeves me is when people pronounce the t in often lol

    It bugs me when people don't! :laugh:
  • MinnieInMaine
    MinnieInMaine Posts: 6,400 Member
    After being made fun of for years, I had to train myself to pronounce antenna correctly. Used to say AN-TAN-AH for some reason...

    DH recently made fun of me for pronouncing golf oddly. Apprently my tongue can't tell the difference between gulf and golf - they both sound the same. Not sure I'll ever get that one right.

    I've been known to say "horror" like "*kitten*" as well. My bro loves picking on me for that.

    Good to know others pronounce bagel like BAG-el. My mother does that - no idea where she picked it up.
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