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
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.
Wash wahsh warsh Bag bahg beyg Oil oyel ohl
It’s “Zed” not “Zee”
Say Jay-Z
Jay-Z
Fellow member of the zed crowd!! When someone says “zee” to mean zed it often sounds like they’re saying the letter c lol
Everyone knows the song goes “ex, why, zed. Now I know my ABCs, next time won’t you sing with med”
The song was written by an American so understandable that they’d do it with the wrong pronunciation.
wait that’s supposed to rhyme with the Z? It rhymes with the ‘me’ so it seems like it doesn’t need to rhyme with the Z
I said I know my ABCs, I didn’t say I know how to structure children’s songs. Next you’re going to expect me to be able to work AND be sober at the same time, SHEESH!
“X, Y, Z, now I know my alphabet so I can keep it in my clever head”
Elemen-tary or documen-tary
The tary pronounced like Terry. Apparently this is unusual outside of this region.
What region? I’m pretty sure that’s standard.
Central New York. I’ve been called out on it many times by people from other places.
Both the US and UK pronunciations on this site are different from how we say it here. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/english/elementary
But where do you put the emphasis?
Most people pronounce it doc-you-MEN-teh-ree. Are you saying you pronounce it doc-you-men-TERRY?
I think it would be closest to say that the emphasis is on both the men and the tary. I wish we could post audio clips on here, I’d just record myself saying it. Doc-u-MEN-TARY.
So … how else would you say it ?
“Militree”
El a men tree
Doc you men tree
I also hear “el a men her ee” a lot.
I’ve noticed some people say “document-tree” now that I think about it.
Where I live it’s more like as you described but not quite “terrrry” but “Tuh-ree” ?
i doubt many people actually say it like the er in Terry. Deemphsized syllables like that tend to get the schwa.
Port Dalhousie (dal-oo-sy) in St Catherine’s. When it should be port (Dal-how-sy)
It’s apparently the only thing named for that dude pronounced that way too, Dalhousie University as an example. Wiki page has an etymology section that has some suggestions as to why, it’d sound weird to me though pronounced the other way.
Crayon: crown
Caramel: CAR-mul
Pecan: peh-CAWN
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
Got any cricks nearby?
Ah yes, the coloring company, crow-la
Southern Baden Württemberg: everything is followed by ‘li’.
Please, we must have some examples of this.
‘Le’ works too.
My doctor has an Impfung-Eckle (vaccination corner) and a Laborbänkle (lab bench).
No…li
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.
We pronounce d and t exactly the same way, so both sound like d to other people, but ofc we know from context which one is meant, always, therefore to us they aren’t the same at all! :)
Boston area doesn’t use “r”.
The famous: “Can’t pahk(park) your cah(car) in Havid(Harvard) Yad(yard)”.
Sorry for the IG link
Here’s a Youtube link (couldn’t find a peertube link).
I love the guy who shows up and says “Ur ur a ur ur” and then just nods his head like he solved it.
MA has a bunch of weird ones. Worcester is pronounced Wooster. Haverhill is Haiveral. Gloucester is Glawster. Quincy is Quinzee.
It’s more Wusstah than Wooster in my experience.
It depends on if the speaker has a Boston accent or not. I don’t have a Boston accent so I say Wooster.
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?
Bavarians pronounce Chemie, China, Chlor, and others with CH starting, with a K! KEMIE, KINA, KLOR!
Bavarians there is so much go hate about you!
How do you pronounce it? Schemie, Schina, Schlor?
Schlor? except that this one is in any case pronounced with hard K anything else seems ridiculous
I was looking up Bavarian dialect terms and found “fesch” (attractive/stylish).
Vindication for Gretchen Wieners! “Das ist so fesch!”
I haven’t lived there in a while and I don’t pronounce it that way anymore, but where I grew up, water is universally pronounced “wooder”.
You from NJ?
My wife thinks it’s funny that most words with a “t” in the middle, I pronounce as "d"s… Butter is budder, better is bedder, water is wooder, etc…
Also, creeks are “cricks”.
Is the thing on top of a house called a roof or a ruff?
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.
Do the British and Irish dialect quiz. It’s really interesting to find out what words you use and how you pronounce them pinpoint where you grew up and where your family is from. I’ve got a mixture of London, Midlands and Devon and it’s bang on!
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/15/upshot/british-irish-dialect-quiz.html
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