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How do you say it?
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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!
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Youston = Houston
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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.
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Youston = Houston
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It drive me NUTS when people pronounce it Youston...
Can you guess where I am from? LOL0 -
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. ????0 -
Italics = "eye"talics.
either= "eye"ther
develop= "dee"velop
ask= arske
lease= liasse
half= arth
I also emphasise my Os too much with vowels...0 -
...with a Texas drawl.0
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I remember being in Australia and hearing:
Thirdeen (Thirteen)
Idear (idea)
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my best friend calls pillows "pellows" she cant say it right.0
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I say all of those like they are spelled.... Legs and eggs-laygs and ayggs (I know I'm weird) :P
-wtk
This is exactly what I was going to say!!0 -
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.0 -
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"0 -
Caramel - Car-mul
Vanilla - Va-nail-a
Crayon - Cran
Lol...that's Indiana, for ya0 -
Youston = Houston
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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.0 -
I hate when people say "nukular" when they are saying the word nuclear. OR when they pronounce "similar" as "simUlar". UGHHH0
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my best friend calls pillows "pellows" she cant say it right.
I do the same. The husband makes fun.0 -
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.....0 -
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.0
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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".0 -
How about "dyeat yet"?? Or referring to eggs over easy as "dippy eggs"? LOL!0
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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.... LoL0 -
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."0 -
Most things that ends in an"o" becomes an "a". Tomata, potata,0
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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."0 -
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.0 -
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:0 -
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 water0 -
Another one that peeves me is when people pronounce the t in often lol0
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Ive been told I say the word bathroom weird.0
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Another one that peeves me is when people pronounce the t in often lol
It bugs me when people don't! :laugh:0 -
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.0
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