Yet Another Pronunciation Spinoff: Water

[cdndisneymum]

Wah-ter
Canadian.

 

[ronandannette]

I say WAHder, with the t pronounced more like a d.

Exactly like this and it comes out of a tap, or occasionally a public fountain.

 

[North of Mouse]

Wa wa.

This is what we said as babies, and what we taught our kids also. Now, it's worter (deep south), from a faucet.

 

[ols386]

Wah-der

 

[Meriweather]

wah ter

 

[E&Cmom]

Like it is spelled

Wa- ter like otter

 

[luvsJack]

Like otter. And faucet whether inside or out.

 

[BCDisneyFanatic]

Water like otter. And tap.

 

[Caseheidi]

Another Water like otter here, and it is almost always a faucet. I live in the Great Northwest.

 

[Liberty Belle]

I say wah-ter, which is how it was said in Michigan where I grew up. Many people pronounce it that way, as well, in Kentucky, but in some of the smaller towns you hear "war-ter."

 

[Liberty Belle]

Water like otter. And tap.

You made me realize my pronunciation is somewhere between "wotter" and "waugh-ter" (wotter would rhyme with otter and waugh-ter would rhyme with daughter).

Oh, and it's a faucet to me. I've heard "spigot," but it sounds very country and old fashioned to my ears.

 

[L&Lfan]

I find it hard to believe so many Americans actually pronounce the T in water so distinctly. That sound very affected to me. Maybe if I were looking at the word by itself (as on this thread) and being asked to pronounce it I would say "wah-ter. But in actual speech, it would come out more as wah-der. Do most people really say boTTle of waTer? I doubt it...

 

[BCDisneyFanatic]

I find it hard to believe so many Americans actually pronounce the T in water so distinctly. That sound very affected to me. Maybe if I were looking at the word by itself (as on this thread) and being asked to pronounce it I would say "wah-ter. But in actual speech, it would come out more as wah-der. Do most people really say boTTle of waTer? I doubt it...

LOL...it actually comes out boddle of waTer when I think about it!

 

[Lilacs4Me]

Wadder when I am not thinking,

WAT-er when I am.

A lot of people tend to change the T sound to a D in my part of the midwest. So, a boddle of wadder. lol

It comes out of the tap or faucet, but if I have to say spigot, I say spig-it.

 

[nikkistevej]

I'm from "Baldimore" LOL (Baltimore Md) and I say wood-er. My mom is from Tennessee and she says wah-der.

 

[jt'smom]

I say it like otter with a w, but now after reading this thread, I'm sitting here saying it over and over and it sounds different each time.

 

[msjprincess]

Like this video

Funny thing, I looked for a video of a NYer saying water and the woman in the video saying water happens to be a former co-worker.

 

[Wendy31]

On St. Patrick's Day, my daughter & I ended up on Youtube researching Irish accents... which led us down a 2-hour accent rabbit hole.

And we found Amy Walker...

Here she is doing a tour of American accents:

 

[Wendy31]

And here she is going from Standard British all the way to Seattle:

 

[Dizneefamily+4]

I'm a WAH-der. And growing up in Northern Illinois, we got our water from the faucet and drank it from a drinking fountain or water fountain. Here in Wisconsin, they get their water from a spigot and drink it from a BUBBLER. Lord I hate the term bubbler!