Just how is it pronounced? (Charlotte, Asheville: move, best, area)

[sarahbryan]

Cuh-BEAR (like the animal) - iss.

[louiethe4th]

Eastern North Carolina (nor'carrlina)

Littleton = lull-ton
Wilson= wool-son

[SouthrnMama]

Originally Posted by sarahbryan

Cuh-BEAR (like the animal) - iss.

now see if you had not told me that, i would have been walking around saying cab-ah-rus, just marking myself a yankee. thanks

[SunnyKayak]

Originally Posted by SouthrnMama

now see if you had not told me that, i would have been walking around saying cab-ah-rus, just marking myself a yankee. thanks

Nothing wrong with being a yankee just people like me will just have trouble giving you directions lol. (see my above post on Gilead) hehe

Is this area you are heading if so some other names that might need clarification is Albermarle prounounced All bur mar l
Salisbury prounounced Saws bury
any city ending with ville is prounounced vul Thomasville = Thomas vul
Cherryville = Chur vul (from the thick dialect locals) or Chur a vul

[SouthrnMama]

I moved to concord last week, but thankfully we moved near to friends that can sometimes help me out. I lived by Salisbury in MD, we pronounced it Sawls-berry. I always thought I had a southern accent, but I guess it was just compared to my yankee friends

[NCDave]

Years ago Channel 36 in Charlotte didn't have a local news program (and was the only NBC affiliate in the nation not to have one). So they decided to start one, and I tuned in to the first broadcast. I don't remember what the lead story was but it was something going on in Saals-berry. I thought, why should I listen to people who don't even know how to pronounce town names tell me about what going on in my community. I switched to a different channel right then and didn't check back for the longest time. (I think most of their newscasters nowdays are more familiar with the area.)

Years ago a coworker from Michigan took a phone message for me. When I saw it I asked him about it. He said he had the woman repeat the city name and that's what she had said. He had written Sadville. I recognized the woman's name and knew she was from Fayetteville.

I grew up in Durham. It always irks me when people say Doo-er-um or D'yur-um. I've tried but can't say it the way they do.

I know a geographer who said that almost any place name with more than three syllables will be reduced to two syllables. Some names are slurred, but some are abbreviated. Thus near Louisville, Jeffersonville, IN is J-ville and Elizabethtown, KY is E-town. (But Elizabethton, TN is Eliza BETH ton, but that's another story.)

[jaynarie]

Are people really mean when you slaughter names? I will have a very hard time, if they are!
I have a VERY italian last name which is often screwed up, so I usually answer to anything remotely close. When I went to the Gaston County Schools Job Fair two weeks ago, I was placed in a group of six. 5 were called by first and last names, I apparently, only have a first name Plus, my first name is Jayna (Jane-uh like Dayna), so BOTH my names are typically butchered. You'd think it'd help me with my pronunciation, but NO! I am AWFUL!! Which, I guess will make me VERY lost when I move down to NC!
Around here (Michigan), people like to screw up Clio (kl-I-O, not cleo) and Port Huron. Or, Mackinac!
My ex-boyfriend was raised in Louisiana and Mississippi, and we would argue constantly about how to pronounce breakfast. He'd say "bre-fst", and I'd say brek-fist. I would lecture all the time how there is a K in the word! That you are "breaking your fast", blah blah. Glad it didn't work out, because we could have easily argued that for 50 years!

[NCN]

Originally Posted by ssdei38

I've only had experience with:

Wingate

I said Win-Gate....a gal quickly told me "who in the h-e double hockey sticks says that....it's Weengit....

And the peecan thing..you know...the nut...

Also, I've been in a banter with neighbors about the dinner/supper thing...it's funny now....I call out the door "time for dinner boys" and a couple neighbors yell back "it's SUPPER"......to which I answer "its dinner-supper time boys!!"

Actually, it would be nice if someone could tell me the difference in dinner and supper....really...i don't know!

In case you are not kidding that you don't know the difference, either dinner or supper is correct for the nighttime meal. It goes breakfast, dinner, supper or breakfast, lunch, dinner. Or in this day and time, probable brunch and dinner. Dinner is the biggest meal of the day. In Union County, the farmers probably have dinner in the middle of the day and have supper at night. My husband and I have breakfast, dinner, supper now; but we had breakfast, lunch and dinner when we worked outside the home. I know this only because I was brought up on the farm and we always had breakfast, dinner and supper and it didn't really matter which meal was the biggest. I don't remember using the word lunch until I went to public school.

[e2ksj3]

Originally Posted by louiethe4th

Eastern North Carolina (nor'carrlina)

Littleton = lull-ton
Wilson= wool-son

I've also heard it prounced "wilt-sin" ,lol

[NCN]

Originally Posted by marvinnative

You are right about the frozen biscuits...toss a little flour on your face and serve those frozen Pillsbury biscuits...

We used to say our Mother made the best corn bread in our county. About a third of her corn bread was actually flour. She also made biscuits the pour the milk and bacon grease in the "flour lake" and swirl them until the right mixture exists way. Then she chopped off a little piece of mixture, formed it into a biscuit and put in into a well greased pan. The pan held about 20 biscuits and most of them were eaten before sundown. A test for a good biscuit is whether it gets hard after it is cold. If it does, it has too much fat in it. Mom's were almost as soft five hours later as they were when she took them out of the pan. We loved to cut them open later in the day and make cucumber or tomato biscuits. She really liked it when self-rising flour came to the stores.

I tried Mom's way, but never could do it. I have a way to make them that to me tastes better than the store-bought pre-made ones. You may not think so, but here goes. Stir together 2 cups self-rising flour, one cup milk, 1/4 cup mayonnaise. I drop these in a 9x13 size glass pan that I have greased with whatever I choose at the moment--bacon grease or butter and sometimes canola oil. This mixture makes about 12 biscuits and as they cook they move toward each other and form almost square biscuits. I try to use as little fat as possible, but I gave this recipe to a friend and she said that she brushed butter on top after they had formed good in the oven. I like them without butter on top.

If you want fewer biscuits, use a smaller pan and 1 cup flour, 1/2 cup milk and 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise. I am sure you can use any other kind of shortening in the biscuits, but I find the mayonnaise stirs up more evenly.

Just remember this comes from someone who cooks like Debra on "Everybody Loves Raymond."

I use the same mixture for making dumplings. My mother made drop dumplings instead of rolled out dumplings. I think my dumplings are sometimes better than hers were, probably because I have waterless cookware. Cooking time is ten minutes with the top off the pot and ten minutes with the pot covered. Of course the liquid in the pot is boiling when I start dropping the mixture by spoonfuls into a dutch oven. Works for me.