How do you say it?

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  • EmCarroll1990
    EmCarroll1990 Posts: 2,832 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:

    I say "sorbet" that could be a totally different thing, but anytime I read sherbet, I say "sorbet."

    ETA: I don't pronounce the "T" in it though.
  • _SpeshK_
    _SpeshK_ Posts: 496 Member
    I know people who can't pronounce the word "drawer" and they say something along the lines of "JOOR."
    I also have a friend who says the word "disgusting" as DIZZ-GUZZ-TEENG. She really draws it out too, haha.
  • NU2U
    NU2U Posts: 659 Member
    I crack up when I hear..

    "What canna serp do ya'll gat?"

    "Somebody caw da ammalamps"

    "Gatta go to da stow and get some arnge juice and fuewt"

    "I'm gon' take my chirrin home"

    And the word....WAWTA..........water
  • 10acity
    10acity Posts: 798 Member
    I know people who can't pronounce the word "drawer" and they say something along the lines of "JOOR."
    I also have a friend who says the word "disgusting" as DIZZ-GUZZ-TEENG. She really draws it out too, haha.

    It kinda bugs me when people pronounce "-ing" as "-een". Like, say, "disgust-een". Ack.

    I swallow my Ts, though. As in, "button" or "cotton"... I'm not even sure how to type what it actually sounds like. A friend of mine makes fun of me for it, even though I'm pretty sure she doesn't say them much differently.
  • NU2U
    NU2U Posts: 659 Member
    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


    I've heard people refer to their forehead..as "Fard"
  • cutchro
    cutchro Posts: 396 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:

    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.

    Hey I have a Mainer accent with a new southern drawl! And I resemble that remark they are my ants! Not Aunts! lol
  • terryjo623
    terryjo623 Posts: 101 Member
    I hate the way some people say foyer!!!!
  • YoungDoc2B
    YoungDoc2B Posts: 1,593 Member
    I crack up when I hear..

    "What canna serp do ya'll gat?"

    "Somebody caw da ammalamps"

    "Gatta go to da stow and get some arnge juice and fuewt"

    "I'm gon' take my chirrin home"

    And the word....WAWTA..........water

    LOL! I cannot properly pronounce "ambulance" to save my life..it normally comes out something like "amba-lamps" ..smh
  • EmCarroll1990
    EmCarroll1990 Posts: 2,832 Member
    I hate the way some people say foyer!!!!

    Such as?
  • Oliviamarie05
    Oliviamarie05 Posts: 528 Member
    I pronounce library with the R. I hate when it's said li-bary.

    Schedule. Should be pronounced with a hard sch not sheshuale.

    drives.me.insane.
  • terryjo623
    terryjo623 Posts: 101 Member
    I hate the way some people say foyer!!!!

    Such as?
    with a huge errrr on the end
  • LauraMacNCheese
    LauraMacNCheese Posts: 7,173 Member
    It's Ne-Va-Da NOT Ne-Vah-Duh
  • SmexAppeal
    SmexAppeal Posts: 858 Member
    Apparently I said milk wrong... I say it like "melk". Which until it was pointed out to me, I never noticed. Now when I say it wrong it just drives me nuts.
    I like to pronunciate... so Tim Hortons is Tim HorTons... not Tim hor-ins...
    I used to say brown with a really strong southern accent, not sure why.
  • frixtine
    frixtine Posts: 965 Member
    I crack up when I hear..

    "What canna serp do ya'll gat?"

    "Somebody caw da ammalamps"

    "Gatta go to da stow and get some arnge juice and fuewt"

    "I'm gon' take my chirrin home"

    And the word....WAWTA..........water

    You gotta be from New Orleans too!!!
  • PinkEarthMama
    PinkEarthMama Posts: 987 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.

    I'm actually orginally from NJ, and I've worked hard to say things the way the rest of Canada does... otherwise they don't know what I'm talking about! I've **never** heard anyone here pronounce it correctly. When in Rome..
  • GeminiFairy89
    GeminiFairy89 Posts: 45 Member
    It's Ne-Va-Da NOT Ne-Vah-Duh


    Haha,I say it as Nuh-Va-Duh
  • rosiejocotton
    rosiejocotton Posts: 12
    I'm from London.
    Instead of saying water I say WAW-AAAAH.
    Instead of saying butter I say BUUUUH-AAAAAAAAAH.

    nah, I'm joking. I am from London but I speak in Queens English, like a newsreader. :laugh:
  • NU2U
    NU2U Posts: 659 Member
    I crack up when I hear..

    "What canna serp do ya'll gat?"

    "Somebody caw da ammalamps"

    "Gatta go to da stow and get some arnge juice and fuewt"

    "I'm gon' take my chirrin home"

    And the word....WAWTA..........water

    You gotta be from New Orleans too!!!

    I heard it alot when I was in GA. I had to hurry up and get back to Illinois. I thought if I stayed much longer..I'd end up speaking the same way..and being made fun of on
    the forums..lol
  • Xia21
    Xia21 Posts: 84 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.

    There are tons of rules and exceptions in the english language that allow for BOTH pronunciations.... thats what makes it so
    difficult to learn but... unless someone is purposely mispronouncing and slurring words, something like that would never bother
    me
  • MelMoly
    MelMoly Posts: 1,303 Member
    I say cinnamon wrong... I say it with an "m" sound so it sounds like cim a nin
  • ShilohMaier
    ShilohMaier Posts: 135
    Cauliflower. Is it "Caw-li-flower" or "Caul-ee-flower"?
    Also, I say "buh-ins" and "cur-ins" instead of "buttons" or "curtains".

    My grandpa was Canadian, and he couldn't say "spedometer". He called it the "speed-o-meter". Which is kind of what it is anyway:tongue: .
  • rextcat
    rextcat Posts: 1,408 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"


    but do you still "red up your rooms", cheer tha stillers and tha "iggles"? i:heart: my warshers
  • rextcat
    rextcat Posts: 1,408 Member
    And its CRAWFISH!!! not CRAYFISH!!!!


    naw its CRAW-DADS! :tongue:
  • LauraMacNCheese
    LauraMacNCheese Posts: 7,173 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"


    but do you still "red up your rooms", cheer tha stillers and tha "iggles"? i:heart: my warshers

    The "iggles" yes...the "stillers" HELL NO...:sick:
  • rextcat
    rextcat Posts: 1,408 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"


    but do you still "red up your rooms", cheer tha stillers and tha "iggles"? i:heart: my warshers

    The "iggles" yes...the "stillers" HELL NO...:sick:

    awwwa :cry:
  • emilymichellee
    emilymichellee Posts: 7
    I've been told I pronounce "horror" like "*kitten*" :grumble:

    that's me!! haha, it's like I forget to pronounce the "o".
  • terryjo623
    terryjo623 Posts: 101 Member
    I always say iron as ' iearn'
  • antonio823
    antonio823 Posts: 298 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

    LMBO!
  • emilymichellee
    emilymichellee Posts: 7
    Also, it's or-a-gen! NOT or-e-gone. there's no e at the end!
    :grumble:
  • kaitimae
    kaitimae Posts: 727 Member
    I don't, but most of my friends call it a BAG - EL instead of BAYGULL. Or DECK - EL instead of Decal.

    I ALWAYS get made fun of for saying BAG-EL!!! My friends used to try and trick me into saying it so they could laugh at me. Booo!!!
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