All right, what is the correct pronounciation of "salmon?"

[brerrabbit]

pu-cahn, good job! My grandparents never had indoor plumbing and when I stayed with them the pee-can was what you kept under the bed to keep from having to go to the outhouse in the middle of the night. The pu-cahn what was my grandmother made the best pies in the world out of.

 

[Towncrier]

Ok, thanks so much eveyone. The reason I ask is because my MIL says "saLmon" and it just makes my ears bleed.

Your MIL wouldn't happen to have the first name Marge, would she? If so, we may be related (by marriage). It drives me bonkers when she says sal-mon. She has trouble with all sorts of words, though. Like quesadilla. She pronounces that one queasy-deeya. And her favorite program used to be Texas Walker (aka Walker, Texas Ranger).

Then again, my wife has a friend who insists that taquitos should be pronounced tah-KWEE-toe.

And my mom pronounces the word ruin as RUE-een. And so did I until someone in elementary school set me straight (by making fun of the way that I talked).

Sheesh.

BTW - What's wrong with PEE-CAN pie???

 

[#1hockeymom]

salmon = sammin
almond = all mind (short i)
Us Michiganders must like the short i sound in our endings!

 

[Towncrier]

salmon = sammin
almond = all mind (short i)
Us Michiganders must like the short i sound in our endings!

And, for the record, my son insists on pronouncing almond as AL-mond. Darn kids.

 

[hlbtimes2]

Sam-in (salmon).
Al-mind (short i- like mint)
Pe-con (pecan)

 

[damo]

I agree. sam-min. Must be us New Englanders.

We say it like that up in Ontario too.

 

[hlbtimes2]

Oh, I got another one-

Apricot.

I say it "app-ri-cot", not "ape-re-cot"

 

[VirtuallyMe]

Salmon= Sammon for me but very common to hear SaL min here

Almond= Ahmond for me- but again ALmond and my mother swears it rhymes with Salmon as in ammin

Pecan= pecahn with accent on cahn not pe... and I had family with a pecan grove lol

Apricot App re cot is how I say it

lots of words have regonal pronunciations- and all are technically correct- I had one college professor who always made a point of pronouncing words more than one way and say "Depending on what side of the river your from"...

 

[Catzeyes]

no l for me.

 

[rhanditresmom]

Ok, I say sammon...no "l", almond...with the "l", pucahn...stress on the second syllable.


What about "often"???? I do not pronounce the "t". Anyone else?

 

[LindsayDunn228]

Your MIL wouldn't happen to have the first name Marge, would she? If so, we may be related (by marriage). It drives me bonkers when she says sal-mon. She has trouble with all sorts of words, though. Like quesadilla. She pronounces that one queasy-deeya. And her favorite program used to be Texas Walker (aka Walker, Texas Ranger).

Then again, my wife has a friend who insists that taquitos should be pronounced tah-KWEE-toe.

And my mom pronounces the word ruin as RUE-een. And so did I until someone in elementary school set me straight (by making fun of the way that I talked).

Sheesh.

BTW - What's wrong with PEE-CAN pie???

LOL!!!! There is nothing wrong with PEE-CAN pie at all!!

I'm as Southern as the come, Tenneeseean born and bred, and saLmon is not a Southern thing

 

[scanne]

But saLmon isn't the only thing she mispronouces: mamEogram instead of mammogram (this coming from a woman who's had a double mastectomy); Coomin (think cumin with a soft u) for Coumadin, etc. Sometimes I just sit shaking my head when I am on the phone with her.

My MIL takes the cake on mis-saying words. In 2005 (on our now infamous HUGE) family trip to WDW, all the ladies went to tea at the Garden View Lounge. I swear I almost spit out my tea when my MIL ordered SCONCES instead of SCONES. I even corrected her but she was like, "No, they're sconces." Ok lady. If you want to eat a light fixture, that's fine by me!

 

[Jpgirl]

Thanks for the clarification thougth I was going nuts

Brer-I say pu kan too, but my mom pronounced pie like paaai (best i can do the a was short and went into long i at the end). Let's not even get into how to pronounce some Houston Street names or rivers like San Jacinto, San Felippe or Atascocita (the nova scotians will never get that one)

 

[lucas]

True Story - Years ago, I ordered pu-cahn pancakes at a pancake house. The waitress could not understand me and kept asking me to repeat it. When my order came she brought me CORN pancakes!! They were horrible but I was too embarrassed to send them back. From that day on I am always hesitant and embarrassed to say the word pu-cahn and I'll never order pu-cahn pie at at restaurant!

 

[paigevz]

Yall aint from Texas is ya? Okay, okay the correct pronuciation of the word calls for a silent "l" . But down here it's salllmon.

Not in my house. It's sammon. Same in any restaurant I've been in.

 

[claudia]

Ok, thanks so much eveyone. The reason I ask is because my MIL says "saLmon" and it just makes my ears bleed. Around here, NO ONE says the L and she's the only person I have ever heard say it that way. We went to O'Charley's yesterday and she got the saLmon and it made me wonder if I had been saying it wrong all these years.

But saLmon isn't the only thing she mispronouces: mamEogram instead of mammogram (this coming from a woman who's had a double mastectomy); Coomin (think cumin with a soft u) for Coumadin, etc. Sometimes I just sit shaking my head when I am on the phone with her.

But she's the best MIL a person could have, otherwise

My MIL has a few little ditties as well....she will pronouce the liquor Grand Marnier the way it is spelled, she refers to prostate cancer as rostrate cancer, batteries are battries...the list goes on....but she is so sincere when she says any of them, that I can only smile sweetly back at her.

 

[my4kids]

Here's one - barette - the clip that little girls use to hold back their hair -

'round here we say "ba-ret" but so fast that it sounds like bret.
My friend from the north says Barr -rette with such a hard pronunciation of the r that it hurts to hear it. We also say woof instead of wolf (trying to pronounce the l in that hurts my throat) and towl instead of towel (another throat hurting W and L in there)

 

[crz4mm2]

ambulance = amblience
apothecary=apocethary
kissimmee=kissmitt


my mom has lots of these (she says woof too instead of wolf!)

 

[Michelina]

What about theater as in "movie theater"? I'd never heard it pronounced any way but thee-uh-ter but fast, almost theeter, until I moved to West Virginia.
I had a friend in Charleston who said she was going to the thee-ATE-er. I actually laughed out loud because I thought she was trying to be funny but she thought the way that I said it was just as weird! We spent a good 10 minutes making fun of each other's accent.

 

[tevagirl]

Wow, four pages on how to pronounce salmon and not one single fight! I think we're growing up.