The Documentary Debate

[jpeka65844]

Here's my Kansas pet peeves:

rilly instead of REEE-ALLY (really)

warsh instead of wash

shur instead of shoo-ure (sure)

 

[mdvlprof]

Cairo, Egypt
Cairo, WV - like the syrup - Karo

Versailles, France
Versailles, KY - Ver Sails

 

[safetymom]

http://www.pittsburghese.com/glossary.ep.html?type=nouns Pittsburgh had its own language.

 

[Dustin]

In my 4 years of film school I never once heard "Document-airy." In my world it's "Docu-MENT-ary." The only time I've heard people say it like Kevin is when they refer to a "documentarian." I have to say it shoc ked me when I heard it on the show. But it sure was funny.

 

[tammyroo]

We live in the Shenadoah Valley in Virginia for about 10 years and they had some great ways to pronunciate different towns/cities.

Staunton=Stan-ton not Staw-ton like the outsiders say it

Buena Vista= Buuna Vista not like the Spanish Bwaena

the best for last..

McGaheysville=McGakeysville anyone see the K in that word?? I never did.

I loved it there, wierd pronunciations and all.

 

[chaoscent]

I'm from Philly and we don’t have an accent? I do eat I eat churry or strawburry wooder ice and pee-kann pie. I do say Yo & youse guys and when I don't go to Disney, I vacation down the shoore. I order my Cheese steak, whiz, wit. I drink xpresso, not espresso, Mary and merry sound the same, and we go to the Acame (not the Acme). LOL Penny

 

[SamSam]

Here's my Kansas pet peeves:

rilly instead of REEE-ALLY (really)

warsh instead of wash

shur instead of shoo-ure (sure)

I am definitely guilty of WARSH, I simply can't say it any other way. DH has given me grief over this for over 35 years, but I'm not changing. I warsh my clothes, I warsh my hands....however, I do say Washington, not Warshington.

 

[jpeka65844]

I am definitely guilty of WARSH, I simply can't say it any other way. DH has given me grief over this for over 35 years, but I'm not changing. I warsh my clothes, I warsh my hands....however, I do say Washington, not Warshington.

Good to hear, SamSam! I went to WASHburn University and even our PRESIDENT called it WARSHburn.

 

[KimStaR]

Anyway, I didn't clearly appreciate how differently commons words were pronounced until this class.
He wrote 3 words on the board: Mary, merry and marry, and said how many people in the room pronounce these 3 words differently? I thought duh! of course they are all pronounced differently. Yet I was one of only 2 people in the class of about 20 students to raise my hand!!!
Wow!

That is funny and true! I say them differently.

 

[roomthreeseventeen]

Born in Jersey.

I was in high school before I realized the word crayon could be pronounced with more than one syllable.

 

[jimmiej]

One Word...

Peh-Kahn

That's how we say it in Texas!

 

[Michele]

He wrote 3 words on the board: Mary, merry and marry, and said how many people in the room pronounce these 3 words differently? I thought duh! of course they are all pronounced differently. Yet I was one of only 2 people in the class of about 20 students to raise my hand!!!

I've been trying since I read this yesterday to figure out how these could sound different.....I give.

 

[msteddom]

Dude! You guys all talk toe-tally weird!- love Southern California

 

[PinkBudgie]

Dude! You guys all talk toe-tally weird!- love Southern California

It's up to us Californians to protect the English language since we seem to be the only ones who cans speak it without an accent.

My dad is from Washington state and he always says warsh. It used to drive me nuts as a kid. The odd thing is, his parents didn't say it that way, but my mom's mom said warsh and my mom says wash. I was thinking it was a Washington thing but I guess not. Don't know where it came from.

We can also bring out the soda or pop question (soda is the correct answer, of course)

And then if we want to split the state of California, SoCals always put a "THE" in front of their freeways. If you ask them how to get somewhere they will say, "You take the 5 to the 10 and over to the 30..." Up here we say "You take 101 to 580..." Oh yeah, and their restaurants always have "Frisco Burgers" but up here no one calls San Fransisco "Frisco".

I actually find it very interesting that different areas of the same country pronounce things so differently and use different words. Fascinating subject to me.

 

[wdwscout]

Born in Jersey.

I was in high school before I realized the word crayon could be pronounced with more than one syllable.

That was another thing I learned in Indiana. We were playing some kind of a game one night, and the clue was a one syllable name of a round fruit. The answer was orange!!!! I had never, ever heard anyone try to pronounce that word in one syllable.

I've been trying since I read this yesterday to figure out how these could sound different.....I give.

I'll try to write them phonetically... if anyone else who pronounces them all differently has a better way to show this- please add to my explanation.
Mary- mair-ee
Merry- meh-ree
Marry- maaah-ree

Another example he had was caught and cot (also pronounced differently where I come from)
caught- cawt
cot- caht

Linguistics = Fascinating!!

 

[rtobe]

I'm from Philly and we don’t have an accent? I do eat I eat churry or strawburry wooder ice and pee-kann pie. I do say Yo & youse guys and when I don't go to Disney, I vacation down the shoore. I order my Cheese steak, whiz, wit. I drink xpresso, not espresso, Mary and merry sound the same, and we go to the Acame (not the Acme). LOL Penny

now heading for a tastybreak

 

[*NikkiBell*]

What about Drakes Cakes?

 

[WaltD4Me]

It's up to us Californians to protect the English language since we seem to be the only ones who cans speak it without an accent.

My dad is from Washington state and he always says warsh. It used to drive me nuts as a kid. The odd thing is, his parents didn't say it that way, but my mom's mom said warsh and my mom says wash. I was thinking it was a Washington thing but I guess not. Don't know where it came from.

We can also bring out the soda or pop question (soda is the correct answer, of course)

And then if we want to split the state of California, SoCals always put a "THE" in front of their freeways. If you ask them how to get somewhere they will say, "You take the 5 to the 10 and over to the 30..." Up here we say "You take 101 to 580..." Oh yeah, and their restaurants always have "Frisco Burgers" but up here no one calls San Fransisco "Frisco".

I actually find it very interesting that different areas of the same country pronounce things so differently and use different words. Fascinating subject to me.

My dad says "warsh!" Drives me nuts too. He is from southern Ohio and his mom, dad and sister all say "warsh" too.

And of course the correct term is Pop! So much more fun to say than soda!

 

[chaoscent]

Soda & Hoagies at my Tasty break and then I will warsh up.

 

[SamSam]

Soda & Hoagies at my Tasty break and then I will warsh up.