Pronunciation clinic

[Alice28]

I know there are some that I am just not thinking of right now as all I can think of is the fact that whenever I go back to CA, my sisters try to think of clever ways to get me to say words with a long O or OW sound in them. (Their favs are boots, couch. boat and a few others.) Apparently I say them funny. And last time I went to dinner with my sister, I asked what kind pop they had and the waitress looked at me like I was speaking a foreign language. Dsis had to translate that I wanted soda.

LOL- I'm beginning to think CA is one of the fewer places that says soda. Even up here in Oregon, just a hop-skip, people say "pop" and it bugs me for some reason, even after 11 years of living here.

And I don't, like, have a dialect, you know? We Californians speak perfectly, fer sure.

 

[Candleshoe]

I think the secret to our success in marriage is that I can't understand a word he's saying half the time!

Wonder what Doc Phil would say about that. LOL.

 

[Candleshoe]

I'm a SOUTHWEST Texan born and raised. DH is a central Texan. My mom was a Yankee *g* from Ohio/Michigan and Dad was Puerto Rican. I have a nice blend of culturalisms in my family! It was always fun hearing dad and mom use different pronounciations. I sometimes forget who said it whichways.

one that sticks out is 'bouy' the cone-shaped thing floating in the gulf
Method 1: identical with Boy
Method 2: boo-ee

As a freshman we had a girl come down for a year from Chicago to stay with her cousins (very Fresh Prince getting her out of trouble before it really started, with out the whole mansion thing ) and wow did we all say things different from her!
Pan, Pen, Pin
Pan: her - was like Pond without the d
us - was like a flat A, rhymed with sand
pen: her - rhymed with sand
us - sounded identical to pin, short I sound
pin: her: sounded like Pen should sound. rhyming with when.
us: short I sound rhyming with sin.

lol. of course all my descriptions are probably off because everyone everywhere will pronounce 'pond' and 'sand' and 'when' and 'sin' differently!

 

[AnaheimGirl]

My MIL says "Italian", with a long I at the beginning. EYE-talian. I just don't get where that one comes from. It's not "EYE-taly", why would it be "EYE-talian"?

My SIL says "warsh" for wash. She grew up in Illinois, but none of the rest of the family say it that way. They always give her a hard time about that one, where did she pick that up?

Oh, and I'm with the other former Californian who has picked up the word "pop" for the more descriptive Coke, Sprite, Mt Dew or whatever it actually is. I've also noticed the word "freeway" disappearing from my vocabulary. Here it's the highway or the interstate. No one says freeway.

I've never in my life heard anyone say "suit" for "suite", whether that's a room or a set of furniture.

 

[buddy&wooz]

I don't usually have an opinion on how people pronounce their own name, but one in particular bugs me- the weather guy on CNN Sean McLaughlin. I would pronounce that with the Irish influence: shawn mick locklin. But he says seen mick lafflin.

Is that a more common pronunciation other places, or is it just him?

 

[PrincessPatty]

Hahaha this thread is great!! Everyone says that I talk so funny, here in Pittsburgh, we have our own speech, Pittsburgheese http://www.pittsburghese.com/ this will be very helpful if any of you plan on traveling here one day I also say pop, heel for hill, peel for pill. My ex-boyfriend was from NJ and all of his friends would just laugh when I spoke. Makes me very unique I think!

 

[AnaheimGirl]

LOL- I'm beginning to think CA is one of the fewer places that says soda.

See, this is funny. This isn't the first time I've read about Californians saying "soda", but I lived in CA for 30 years and never said soda, and don't recall anyone else saying soda. It was always "Diet Coke", "Pepsi", "Sprite", etc, whatever was actually on the side of the particular can. If you HAD to lump them all together, like pricing on a menu, they were called "soft drinks".

I wonder if this is a difference between northern and southern CA? I grew up in Orange County.

 

[Forevryoung]

Im from Lawnguyland and I go to school outside of Washington DC. Many of my friends are from Balmer (aka Baltimore).

My friends make me say words like coffee (cawfee) and dog (dawg). I go to the maul (Mall) all the time. It's soda not coke or pop where I'm from-

I'm a speech language pathology student so I study this stuff all (awl) the time

 

[WIcruizer]

I'm beginning to think CA is one of the fewer places that says soda.

I say soda...live in WI. But pop is fairly common, and I think most people everywhere knows the meaning.

 

[WIcruizer]

Can't forget my favorite. New Orleans is Nawlins. And they live there, so they should know.

 

[Crankyshank]

Southern MA and Rhode Island (pronounced Rowdyland) say soda as well.

 

[monarchsfan16]

New Hampshah says sodah

 

[kc73]

Maybe this is just a Texas "thang", but we don't say soda or pop, we say "coke" for sodas, pops, & soft drinks.

Example:

you say to your friend, "do you want a coke?"
Your friend answers, "sure."
You say, "what kind?"
Your friend says "Dr. Pepper"

And nobody thinks anything about it, that's just the way it is!

I moved to south Louisiana for a few years during school & it was a real challenge understanding "cajun" dialect...

Shortly after my arrival, kids at school would come up to me & ask me to talk. It was embarrasing. I'd say "What do y'all want me to talk about?" Then, they laughed. It was o.k., I laughed at them, too. They say "Come see" instead of "come here".

I'd pronounce barrell as: "Bear-el"
They say "Bah-rel"

My name is Kara, I pronounce it "Care-a"
They tried to tell me it was supposed to be "Kah-ra"

Fun stuff.

 

[Sparx]

I always said suit as in outfit. (I'm in TN). I say Coke for any kind of carbonated drink like that. Its car-mel to me. INsurance. I do say Sweet for a room though. as in Honeymoon Suite.

 

[txgirl]

I've lived in Richmond, VA all my life - I say in-sure-ance. DH is from the western part of the state and he says in-sure-ance. Drives me nuts! He also says the-ate-er

I've always said bedroom suit for a collection of bedroom furniture. A bedroom suite is the room you put the bedroom furniture in - like a hotel suite!

I do the same.

 

[ford family]

Ah we have such boring accents here, but at least they are not english!

No, sorry, cannot quite catch that. Would you mind repeating it, only more slowly.

ford family

 

[GEM]

Maybe this is just a Texas "thang", but we don't say soda or pop, we say "coke" for sodas, pops, & soft drinks.

Example:

you say to your friend, "do you want a coke?"
Your friend answers, "sure."
You say, "what kind?"
Your friend says "Dr. Pepper"

Nope, I grew up in Oklahoma and I now live in Arkansas. In both of those states, any sort of soft drink is called a Coke. I've never heard anybody say either soda OR pop!

 

[Sparx]

Yep, in New Mexico, it's IN-surance. New Mexicans also say ve-Hicle, pronouncing the H.

I mocked that and they mocked the way I say mirror--I say it like mear and they say Mir-ror.

Where are you from? I lived in Farmington for 10 years and before that, I lived at the Missile Range down at White Sands when my ex was in the military.

I'm worse than you, I say mear-ah lol

 

[ChrisnSteph]

Crayons! I pronounce it "cray-ons", and my dh pronounces it "crans". We're both So. Calif. bred, so I don't know where he gets it from. Drives me nuts.

 

[Micca]

Around here when people want to buy or sell a house they call a "ree' luh ter".
Some how they want to add a syllable to realtor.