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.
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I recently saw a video where a woman pronounced "drawer" as "draw".
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.
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Boiseans pronounce it boy-see, but everyone else pronounces it boy-zee. It makes it easy to tell who is from there
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I live in the U.S., and my state capitol is spelled Pierre, but pronounced "peer".
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Southern Baden Württemberg: everything is followed by 'li'.
Houston is not pronounced "hews-ton", it's "hows-ton"
Hues-ton here
Wash wahsh warsh Bag bahg beyg Oil oyel ohl
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! :)
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” >.>
In Iowa, USA:
- The town of Buena Vista is pronounced “byoo-nuh vist-uh”
- The town of Nevada is pronounced “neh-vade-uh”
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