Here “bus” is pronounced like “buzz” and I didn’t realise it was weird until I went down to Devon and it was a dead giveaway that I’m a Brummie lol
Boston accents are funny. When my mother says, “where are the cah-keys”. My dad and I always say, “your car keys or khakis?”
As I live in the south I hear my “how are you all doing” morphing into “howya’lldoin” and there’s nothing I can do to stop it
Shades of Jeff Foxworthy and his southern words.
How do you pronounce oil?
I can never tell if my partner says gem or Jim. She had a moment the other day listening to her dad and looked at me and said holy shit this is what I sound like to you. She hadnt seen him in a bit
Try switching to “how dost ye doeth?”
Do you reply with “Fon” now? (How southerners pronounce “fine”).
I lived in Louisville, KY briefly, and the official pronunciation is apparently “Luuhwuuhh”. You will be mocked if you get it wrong.
Not “loovul”? I need to brush up.
Charlottesville Virginia has a road spelled Rio but locals pronounce it with a long I (rhy-oh). Bonus points, the name originated from the road being route 10, marked with signs that said R10, which eventually became Rio.
NY state has a town named Chili that is pronounced—I kid you not—with two long I’s. “Chai-lai”
There’s also a town named Charlotte pronounced “shar-LOT”.
I feel like these are tests to detect out-of-towners.
I moved to AZ and I can now tell who is from here and who moved in from out of state by how they pronounce the town name Prescott.
Prescott gets messed up more often, but Avondale is a trap also. I couldn’t figure out what someone meant when they pronounced Avondale like it started with the name of the MLM cosmetic company.
I recently saw a video where a woman pronounced “drawer” as “draw”.
Was it 3x3Custom Tamar?
I don’t know what that is.
Oh she’s a woodworking YouTuber and drawers are made in woodworking all the time and she says “draw” as well.
Carpentry guru Norm Abrams always says “draw” too. “Let’s see how the draws fit…”
I never noticed that with Norm but its likely a New England thing since the woman I heard was from Rhode Island.
The woman at the beginning may say “draw”
In Australia they just straight-up spell it that way
What part? I have never heard an Australian pronounce it like that. Not even the bigans. Mostly people from Victoria but also plenty from NSW, SA, or WA.
In Canberra I worked with a few people who confused me with their talk of draws.
One area I’ve not been to.
I mean, everybody in Canberra is from someplace else anyway so I wouldn’t expect any local special spelling for common words. Maybe I just got in with a pocket of queries weirdos 🤷
… How would you pronounce it?
For some reason almost every person in my city says “seen” where they should say “saw”. Drives me bananas.
Same here except it sounds like “sin” instead of “seen” like “I sin a guy at the shop today”
When I was in school, I had a teacher who insisted on pronouncing the word “across” as “acrosst”.
No thank you! That one really bothers me for some reason.
Same as “eltse” for else, “foe-ward” for forward, “warsh” for wash, and “ayggs” for eggs.
And some people say “heighth” for height and I swear it’s just to fuck with me.
I pronounce Kraken phonetically - “krayken” - but the world seems to prefer “cracken”.
My kid got a worksheet on the long A sound. She got through most of them but was stumped on the “lobster”. I looked at it - Lobster, Crawfish, neither of those have a long A sound, what the heck?
Hours later it occurs to me.
OH, Craaay-fish? Who in the world calls them that? Nobody here. Where was this printed?
North-East Netherlands. Besides the dialect, every sentence is ended with the word “ja”, which means yes/yeah. It’s like saying “It rains, yeah”, or “Let’s take a look, yeah”. It’s also drawn long, like jaaaa. Also, a lot of nouns are ended with “gie” in the dialect, making it a diminutive.
Southern Baden Württemberg: everything is followed by ‘li’.
Please, we must have some examples of this.
No…li
‘Le’ works too.
My doctor has an Impfung-Eckle (vaccination corner) and a Laborbänkle (lab bench).
Crayon: crown
Caramel: CAR-mul
Pecan: peh-CAWN
Ah yes, the coloring company, crow-la
Got any cricks nearby?
So you pronounce crayon like a kings hat/ tooth repair?
Yes. It’s not very common and seems to occur where regional differences merge.
True, I’m just used to hearing either Cray-on or Cran (like cranberries)
Also I know I struggle with colors sometimes… But I don’t see green or yellow on that map, just red and blue… Is that just me haha
Green is in the northwest corner of Wisconsin.
Yellow is honestly a terrible color choice for this map, because the pronunciation isn’t truly regional. I think it’s clustered along the edges of a few different red areas, mostly on the east coast and some Southern areas.
I actually think the author’s note about it being a merging of pronunciation makes sense, because I was raised in a transitional Southern dialect but my parents both have an east Midland dialect
Desk draw
In the Maritimes, Dalhousie (the university) is pronounced: “dal-HOW-zee”.
In Ottawa, Dalhousie (the street) is pronounced: “dal-HOOOOOO-ze”.
I don’t know why, but I find the Ottawa pronunciation really annoying.
I’m newish to the maritimes. For a good while when we got here I thought it was supposed to be like “dollhouse” >.>
