Boston accents are funny. When my mother says, "where are the cah-keys". My dad and I always say, "your car keys or khakis?"
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Port Dalhousie (dal-oo-sy) in St Catherine's. When it should be port (Dal-how-sy)
We recently moved to a new area and there is a nearby town called Monticello. The locals all pronounce it mon-tee-sell-oh and will correct you if you say mon-teh-chel-oh. Doesn't quite fit the question cause I think the locals are insane for that 😅
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
also no need for the 's', sounding out should initiate on the back of the tounge/larynx, if that makes sense
I was looking up Bavarian dialect terms and found "fesch" (attractive/stylish).
Vindication for Gretchen Wieners! "Das ist so fesch!"
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'm told there are differences between "merry", "marry", and "Mary", but I don't believe it.
My ex got so mad because down here the boy name Don and the girl name Dawn sound about the same. He would yell no it's not it's DAAHN and DWAWN! But we don't have that nasal Midwestern thing, it's just Don and Daun.
In my area, "Don" is pronounced with the mouth wide, jaw open. Force a smile as you say it, and you should be in the ballpark.
"Dawn" is pronounced with the lips pursed. Kiss your grandmother on the cheek.
Depends where you are. Most in the US pronounce them the same, but they are all distinct in Philly for example. But we pronounce "berry" and "bury" the same.
I'm from NJ and Murray, merry, marry, and Mary are all distinct.
Berry is like merry and bury is like Murray.
I've lived in Philly and then the suburbs for a couple of decades now and have never noticed the berry-bury thing - I'm guessing it's a South Philly thing? So do you eat straw'bury's or do you 'berry' your dead pets?
I get the rest, but how is "Mary" different?
Mary rhymes with fairy
That's how I pronounce it. So now I'm even more confused! How is "merry" different? Because I pronounce that just like Mary.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_vowel_changes_before_historic_/r/
Yes I would say "bury" like "berry"
I grew up in North Philly and South Jersey
It's listed under Merry Murray merger in the wiki link
Interesting!
I pronounce Kraken phonetically - "krayken" - but the world seems to prefer "cracken".
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.
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".
Oddawa? Torono?
Is the thing on top of a house called a roof or a ruff?
Lol, I'm here sounding it out and it sounds between ruff and woof...
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