Ungyuns/Onions

[rszdtrvl]

And can someone PLEASE tell me why Brett Favre is pronounced Farve?? This drives me BATDOO CRAZY!!!!!

 

[Soldier's*Sweeties]

And can someone PLEASE tell me why Brett Favre is pronounced Farve?? This drives me BATDOO CRAZY!!!!!

I never noticed it was spelled that way lol!

 

[Liberty Belle]

And can someone PLEASE tell me why Brett Favre is pronounced Farve?? This drives me BATDOO CRAZY!!!!!

Isn't that the French pronunciation? Kind of between a hard far-v and fah-v.

 

[mom2cookies]

one of my sisters says onion with a " g". Kind of like ugh yun. The other 3 of us aren't sure why as we all grew up together.
yeah!

 

[SpecialK]

Isn't that the French pronunciation? Kind of between a hard far-v and fah-v.

The French pronunciation would be closer to how it's spelled but with the French "r" in the mix. No where close to farve. That never made sense to me either.

 

[scbelleatheart]

The words that annoy me are mushroon, sal-mon and kil-basee. The phrase so many of the of the thirty somethings use is "Gotcha" after everthing you tell them and they "shoot" emails to people.

 

[Jennasis]

I know someone who says SCRIMP instead of shrimp. And I DETEST when people add a "th" sounds at the end of the word HEIGHT. It is not pronounced HYTH.

 

[design_mom]

I'm still trying to figure out how people say it without a little bit of g-sound in it. When you say the "un" part of onion, do you say it at the front of your mouth, or the back?

When I say "un" in words like UNDO or UNDERWEAR, I say it at the front of my mouth with my tongue near the roof of my mouth. But when I say "onion" it's near the back of my mouth, and my tongue isn't near the top. The G isn't conscious, it's just a sound that slips in between the "un" and "yun." ;-)

 

[maxaroni]

I know someone who says SCRIMP instead of shrimp. And I DETEST when people add a "th" sounds at the end of the word HEIGHT. It is not pronounced HYTH.

Or lenth for length. A cousin of mine said pitza for Pizza. An old boss said ziti (as in a zit e). Many relatives add the r at the end Linder for Linda. A friend says warsh. We are in south jersey but originally Roth jersey. I've heard lots of people around here say drawl for draw or sawl for saw.

 

[KristaTX]

I'm still trying to figure out how people say it without a little bit of g-sound in it. When you say the "un" part of onion, do you say it at the front of your mouth, or the back?

When I say "un" in words like UNDO or UNDERWEAR, I say it at the front of my mouth with my tongue near the roof of my mouth. But when I say "onion" it's near the back of my mouth, and my tongue isn't near the top. The G isn't conscious, it's just a sound that slips in between the "un" and "yun." ;-)

I think you've hit the nail on the head. I bet your description of tongue placement is what causes this. And yep, when I say it my tongue is placed like when I say "undo". Not like when I say "lung".

 

[Jennasis]

I think you've hit the nail on the head. I bet your description of tongue placement is what causes this. And yep, when I say it my tongue is placed like when I say "undo". Not like when I say "lung".

Ditto. Onion is said at the "front of my mouth".

 

[Soldier's*Sweeties]

Ditto. Onion is said at the "front of my mouth".

This made me think of my son. He's in speech therapy and the teacher tells him to use the ban of his mouth to make his "k" and "g" sounds. Sometimes he sounds like he's hocking a loogie! Lol

 

[Liberty Belle]

Ditto. Onion is said at the "front of my mouth".

Same here.

 

[ohiomom28]

And can someone PLEASE tell me why Brett Favre is pronounced Farve?? This drives me BATDOO CRAZY!!!!!

Me too!!!

 

[Goofyluver]

My MIL says warsher. I have no idea why you'd add an r to that word.

There was a lady at the dental office the other day that I overheard saying "mouthwarsh".