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

[LindsayDunn228]

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

Woo hoo!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[lucas]

great thread

 

[snowwite]

Ok, do you prounce it:

Sammon

or

SALmon??

Do you actually say the "L?" There's a reason why I ask this. Will explain later.

Sammon for the fish
Salmonella for bad food

 

[lucas]

earl = oil

 

[georgina]

Almond is 'al-mund' here.

I've never heard of someone saying 'sal-mon' though!

'Aluminum' [aluminium] bugs me as well, as well as 'carmel' [caramel] - but I've only heard those pronuciations in the US.

But loads of grammatical type things bug me (even though I probably make plenty mistakes myself - so I don't correct people for them because they could just as easily get me!).

Aluminum is the general use over here. Here's a whole article about it, apparently the IUPAC just made aluminium the official word in 1990.

http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/aluminium.htm

I think it's funny how the Brits say the word schedule.

 

[lovesmurfs]

Our pastor uses two syllables to say "known" -- no-en

In 2nd grade the only thing I remember about my teacher (other than the big hair....) is her pronunciation of "vase" and "dinosaur"

It was "vahhhze" and "dy-no-swa". She couldn't understand why we were so out of control in laughter..... Still remember after over 30 years!

 

[Liberty Belle]

Born and raised in South West Michigan, highschool on up in central Kentucky. Here's how I talk:

salmon = SAM-min
almond = ALL-mund
pecan = p'-CAHN
theater/theatre = THEE-uh-terr
barette = barr-ETT (though both syllables are almost stressed equally)
often = OFF-en/OFF-in
guitar = gih-TAR
shrimp = shh-rimp (said in one syllable) - I've heard sss-rimp a lot down here.
Missouri = mizz-ERR-ee - I hear mizz-ERR-uh a lot here.
wolf = woolf (as in foot)
root = rout (as in could)

Oh, and one more that bugs the heck out of me. I say mirror as "MEER-err," not "MEER-uh".

Do you pronounce route as "rowt" or "root" (root to rhyme with boot)? I tend to use both, I think.

 

[paigevz]

Born in Texas, raised here and Oklahoma, and back to Texas for the past 12 years: Here's how I talk:

salmon = SAM-min...........me too
almond = ALL-mund........me too
pecan = p'-CAHN..........me too
theater/theatre = THEE-uh-terr........theeATEer
barette = barr-ETT (though both syllables are almost stressed equally)....buh-RETT
often = OFF-en/OFF-in.............me too
guitar = gih-TAR..........me too, though for fun I CAN say GEEtar
shrimp = shh-rimp (said in one syllable)........me too
Missouri = mizz-ERR-ee - me too
wolf = woolf (as in foot)...........woolf as in wool with an f
root = rout (as in could)...........like hoot with an r

I say mirror as "MEER-err," .........me too

Do you pronounce route...........root

My mother is hilarious. On words like aluminum, cinnamon, and feminine, she doesn't know when to stop, so she'll say cinnamonamonamon and feminine she actually mispronounces too so it becomes fennimonamonamon. Cracks us up.

I had a science teacher that I remember saying "steer" for stir and smooth like smuuth.......like the old McDonald's commercial with the boy saying "me too" for everything his sister said, but he said it like tue.............ah, geez, I don't know how to type it.

I get made fun of a lot because I don't know where I got it, but I say dawg for dog and cawph for cough and so on. Everyone asks where I'm from!

 

[LadyBears]

salmon = SAM-min
almond = ALL-mind
pecan = PEE can (unless I was just just watching Emril - then it's Pee con
theater/theatre = theeATEer - only among my Mom, my DD & I when we goof around like we are doing something fancy/snobish. ( Kind of like saying Tar shay instead of Target). Otherwise it is always Theea-terr.
barette = BUH-rett, but sounds like bret
often = OFF-in
guitar = gih-TAR
shrimp = shh-rimp (said in one syllable)
Missouri = mizz-ERR-ee - me too
wolf = woolf as in wool with an f
root = like hoot with an r
mirror as MEER-irr
Missouri = Ma-ZERR-ee
vase = vace like mace with a v. Vaahhz is used, like above, only with my Mom & DD when we want to make it sound fancier than it actually is.


I love to play around with my DD. I always get her in hysterics when I say:
M&M's = M&M&M&N's
cinamon = cim-a-nin-e-nim
aluminum = a-loom-in-ooom-e-noom
However - I just do that when it is the 2 of us.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned LIBRARY
Library = LI - brer - ee NOT li-BERRY

I'm from between Boston & Providence, so I end up saying:

Car = caah
Park = paak
Weird = wei-id
corn - cawn
bubbler = bublah
coffee = cawfee
iron = eye-yen
Bruins = Broons
Rhode Island = Roe Dyelin
supper = sup-pa
store = stoa
calendar = cal-un-da
colors = cul-liz
party = potty
barbar = baba
peppers = pep-piz

 

[Aisling]

vehicle...is it vee-yi-cul or vee-hi(like the i in it)-cul ?

 

[VSL]

I think it's funny how the Brits say the word schedule.

Ske-jew-ahl
Oh, and vih-tah-min in the UK (rather than vie-tah-min).

You know, we should all meet up and talk about food... the confusion would be great

How about this:
How does everyone pronounce ibuprofen?
My mother says eye-BOOP-roh-fin, whereas my BF (and everyone seems to) says eye-boo-PRO-fen.

And route?
Jack Bauer and co. have me pulling my hair out when they say 'r-out' - it's 'root' here.

vase = vace like mace with a v. Vaahhz is used, like above, only with my Mom & DD when we want to make it sound fancier than it actually is.

It's the opposite here! 'Vahz' is the regular pronounciation, whereas 'vace' is the upper-classy way.

 

[lucas]

Vegetables = vega-TABLES

 

[brerrabbit]

I lived in Calgary for a while with my job and the British influence had a lot of people pronouncing schedule as "shedual", and process as pro sess. The best one was aluminum, it was pronounced al u minium.

 

[VSL]

I lived in Calgary for a while with my job and the British influence had a lot of people pronouncing schedule as "shedual", and process as pro sess. The best one was aluminum, it was pronounced al u minium.

How else do you pronounce 'process'?

We pronounce aluminium how we spell it... from georgina's link:
'The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) officially standardised on aluminium in 1990, though this has done nothing, of course, to change the way people in the US spell it for day to day purposes.'

 

[brerrabbit]

Process is usually pronounced pra- cess as opposed to pro sess. At least over here.

 

[VSL]

Oh yeah - but that's more of an accent thing I would think.

American accents tend to pronounce 'o' differently from British accents (US 'o' is wider). Maybe that's why you guys have 'mom' but we have 'mum' (and 'mam' in Wales). It's a little uncomfortable to pronounce 'mom' with a British accent.

 

[TruBlu]

You are not truly southern unless someone in your family says
waRsh (wash)! (This one drives me crazy!!! )

 

[lucas]

How about this one?
mayonnaise = my-nez

 

[Straitlover]

You are not truly southern unless someone in your family says
waRsh (wash)! (This one drives me crazy!!! )

You warsh the clothes and then rinch them out!

 

[ducklite]

Sam-men here, I think that's partly the NJ accent.

We also say Oh My "Gawd" when we "tawk" on the phone to our friend "Linder" and stand "on" line at the "Shore" while we wait for our "Caw-fee."

I've lost a bit of it down here in FL, but so many of my friends down here are from NJ/NYC that I doubt I'll ever totally be rid of the accent.

Anne