How's Your Pronunciation?

[Heidi]

BunWat wrote: "There are definitely many Southern accents. I'm not even from the south and I can hear the difference between Tennessee and Georgia and Mississippi and Louisiana and South Carolina and ...

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Me too, Bun... I can tell the difference between the different regions of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee... and I kind of know the Carolina and Virginia and Georgia dialects even though I've never been there (well, a short visit to Charlotte is the limit of my experience there). Florida's not as easy - I think it's because it's a hodgepodge of people from all over who retire or transfer to that area.

[Heidi]

Even Arkansas has several different distinct dialects. :)

[Phil]

Cosmic Sher wrote: "Has anyone else grown up reading long-ass words from books but not knowing how to pronounce them? Sadly, I have too many examples of this. I still can't say differentiate without stumbling on my to..."

Ah, the southern Utah pronunciation. Like the town of Hurricane that they call, "HER-ih-kun," and those hairy spiders they call, "try-AN-chew-laz."

Did you spend time at Lake Pahl?

[Félix]

Good old Lake Pahl.

[[deleted user]]

Our new Prime Minister has been put under the spot light. I couldn't resist sharing this mispronunciation with you. I should point out, she is from South Australia, it excuses a lot. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6zkZ6...

[Phil]

Words that have bugged me in the past few days:

probly (sometimes shortened to prolly)

growshries

kewpon (used to get a discount on growshries)

uhliminate (too much debt? you can uhliminate it)

uhmagination

[Heidi]

WHERE IN THE HELL IS ANTHONY?!! I miss his British pronunciations. :)

[Brittomart]

My friends and I sometimes mispronounce things on purpose. Like, I say "ippod" instead of iPod because of an episode of House

[Phil]

Britt wrote: "My friends and I sometimes mispronounce things on purpose. Like, I say "ippod" instead of iPod because of an episode of House"

The episode with John Larroquette as a comatose patient whom House revives. The guy's son is dying and House thinks the dad may know something that could be key to figuring it out.

[Brittomart]

That's the one

[Phil]

I love swayve and deboner -- two of my faves.

Around here there's a town named Hurricane.

The locals call it HER-uh-kuhn or, sometimes, just Herkun.

I pronounce it correctly just to bug them.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Phil wrote: "Words that have bugged me in the past few days:

growshries
"

That one bugs me too. There is a whole segment of the population for whom s- or c- becomes sh. What shtreet do you live on? Shtrip off those wet clothes.