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Post by steff on Jan 8, 2020 20:57:37 GMT -5
The test to see if someone was from Houston was to ask them to pronounce Kuykendahl Road.
the answer is Ker-Ken-Doll Road.
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Post by weltschmerz on Jan 8, 2020 21:02:47 GMT -5
The first time I heard him say it, I asked if he was wearing the living room! I have heard his siblings pronounce it suit as well. So how do they pronounce "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes"? Like a man's suit?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2020 21:21:53 GMT -5
I’m born and raised in the south, and clicking through the sides, I realized that some of those words I pronounce differently at different times. Maybe depending on who I’m talking to? Also, my Mom was very big on proper pronunciation and grammar when I was growing up, but I was surrounded by people that spoke “Ebonics”, so I’ve always been kind of all over the place with how I talk. I do know for a fact that I’m more likely to speak properly in unfamiliar, formal, or business settings, and it’s totally different when I’m around family and friends.
Even though I consider myself among friends here (mostly), if I wrote the way that I talk to my friends in real life, some of you probably wouldn’t know what I was talking about half the time, between the Ebonics and the Southern dialect.
I LOVE how people from New Orleans talk. They have a bit of an accent to me that I can recognize, and they don’t go grocery shopping, they “make groceries”. They also ask questions and answer them themselves. “You’re going with us tomorrow, yes?” At least the ones I’ve known talk like that.
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Post by Cheesy FL-Vol on Jan 9, 2020 4:35:32 GMT -5
How about libary instead of library? Maybe those folks take that R from library and throw it in sherbet to make it sherbert?
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Post by oped on Jan 9, 2020 5:00:56 GMT -5
I definitely schwa pecan (pu con)
It’s a living room suite (suit) and a hotel suite (sweet).
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Post by Malarky on Jan 9, 2020 5:51:17 GMT -5
We can always point out the tourists with how they pronounce Kissimmee. And the next video is Worcester, Massachusetts. Pay attention people! Whis-tah. There's no "r" in Worcester unless it's spelled out on paper. R's are frequently excluded from spoken language in MA.
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Post by alabamagal on Jan 9, 2020 7:40:06 GMT -5
The first time I heard him say it, I asked if he was wearing the living room! I have heard his siblings pronounce it suit as well. When I moved to Ga, the furniture stores would advertise “bedroom suits”. I pictured naked people ( getting mixed up with birthday suits !).
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Post by TheOtherMe on Jan 9, 2020 8:14:14 GMT -5
Oh my. My RA's boyfriend and I used to have the most ridiculous arguments about how to pronounce Nevada. It is the same argument from the article. I'm from Boston and Ralph was from Nevada. It was great! There is a town here in Iowa named Nevada. It is pronounced Ne Vaa da, with a long a in the second syllable. That town was my first exposure to Nevada.
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Post by Tennesseer on Jan 9, 2020 10:49:20 GMT -5
And the next video is Worcester, Massachusetts. Pay attention people! Whis-tah. There's no "r" in Worcester unless it's spelled out on paper. R's are frequently excluded from spoken language in MA. Not in western Massachusetts. But in "Whis-tah" and further east, absolutely. I often heard my first name massacred with that ''R' dropping at the end.
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Post by happyhoix on Jan 26, 2020 11:20:43 GMT -5
The first time I heard him say it, I asked if he was wearing the living room! I have heard his siblings pronounce it suit as well. When I moved to Ga, the furniture stores would advertise “bedroom suits”. I pictured naked people ( getting mixed up with birthday suits !). When I first moved to the South I read a newspaper article about a criminal wearing a toboggan running down the street. I thought - that guy will be pretty easy to catch since he's running around with a big sled on his head. Took me a while to figure out the folks around here somehow think a toboggan is a knit snow hat. Mass delusion.
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Post by happyhoix on Jan 26, 2020 11:24:01 GMT -5
There's a town near me that the founders decided to name for that great French ally of the early American rebels, General LaFayette. Only, since this is the South, it comes out 'la FAY it' instead of LA fee ette.
I always wonder what French people think when they hear it,
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Post by Miss Tequila on Jan 30, 2020 21:48:11 GMT -5
I’ve never heard it pronounced as sweet. I’m also from PA. Now, a hotel suite is pronounced sweet
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Post by Miss Tequila on Jan 30, 2020 21:51:41 GMT -5
How about libary instead of library? Maybe those folks take that R from library and throw it in sherbet to make it sherbert? My MIL said libary but she is about the only one I know that says it. We do all say sherbert. I remember the first time I looked at a container and realiEd there were not two Rs. I was confused! But I still say sherbert
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Post by teen persuasion on Feb 4, 2020 15:54:26 GMT -5
There's a bunch of the words in the article that I say both ways, depending on context, or just because: envelope, route, roof, creek, mayonnaise.
Quite a few of them I follow the Midwestern version, lots the Eastern version (with some notable exceptions). And there were a few where the "sounds like" pronunciations listed were ALL wrong!
Couldn't quite figure out the bagel one - I know this one is an often contested pronunciation at college (when students from different regions compare notes), but the versions I'm used to are bag-ul vs bay-gle. Not bah-gul.
Quite a few local town names confuse outsiders, like Chili (CHI-lie), LeRoy (le-ROY), Charlotte (shar-LOT).
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