Another "how do YOU say it?" thread (coupons, metropolitan area)

[Mightyqueen801]

Originally Posted by missRoxyhart

I don't even know where you'd hear it in New England. Anyway I say greasy with an s like it should be. The only time I think I've ever heard someone say greezy was when Spongebob said it once and it made me laugh because it sounded so weird.

Originally Posted by Bydand

I meant New England. Maine specifically. Idea was the exact word I was thinking when I said they tack an r on the end of a word. I wish I had a dollar for every time I heard "idear". Every thing that ended with an "a" got the r tacked on it seemed.

For Greazy, There were a few of the old timers that said it that way when I lived in a small town in Texas, and a couple friends who were raised very rural on the Alabama/Florida line. Other than those times the only other place I can recall hearing it was Spongebob as well.

ROFL, and I don't remember ever hearing Spongebob say it. I'll have to pay more attention and watch him a little more often.

[Mightyqueen801]

Originally Posted by Fred314X

I don't know where else in the US people speak that way, but I do know that in the New York metropolitan area, Long Island gets the nod! If you listen to Billy Joel's "Scenes from an Italian Wedding," he clearly tells the story of Brender and Eddie.

YES, good point. I have noticed that in that song.

But isn't it spelled "Lawn Guyland?"

[Mightyqueen801]

Originally Posted by DubbleT

I had to think about this. Neither one sounds wrong to my ears, but I think I usually pronounce it greasy, although if I'm with other people that say greazy I probably will say it the same way they do.
Warsh vs wash, my grandmother in IN by way of KY says warsh. I grew up in MI and say wash.

What about 'your, our, and I'm'?
Yer, are, and ahm?
or yore, hour and eye'm?

I say "yore" and "eye'm", but I grew up saying "are" for "our". I learned to correct myself when I was an adult and realized I was saying it wrong.

I think the one that catches my ear the most is when people don't distinguish between a short "e" and a short "i". As in when "pen" and "pin" both sound like "pin". I think it's mostly southern, though it may also be in some parts of the midwest. I even hear anchors say it on television--"More ahead on the Tin O'clock News."

[bushpilotwannabe]

Hmm... now that I think about it, I probably say it both ways. Neither way sounds weird to me, but I'm sure I pronounce it as an S more often than a Z.

[MrSykes]

coupon

'koo-pon' or 'kyoo-pon'

Most people I know (including myself) use the latter pronunciation, an awful lot use the former, which sounds goofy to me.

[bushpilotwannabe]

Originally Posted by MrSykes

coupon

'koo-pon' or 'kyoo-pon'

Most people I know (including myself) use the latter pronunciation, an awful lot use the former, which sounds goofy to me.

Coopins!

[missRoxyhart]

Originally Posted by Mightyqueen801

ROFL, and I don't remember ever hearing Spongebob say it. I'll have to pay more attention and watch him a little more often.

I tried to find videos but full episodes are really hard to find on Youtube lol. But I remember he said it to Plankton in the episode where they try to start a rock band together, the episode was Krabby Road.

But then in other episodes he says it the other way like when he works for Plankton and sings the song greasy spoon. And in another one where his spatula is broke and he gets a French replacement, the French character says greazy but that was because they wanted him to sound foreign and snooty. Lol, I'm 20 years old but I still watch Spongebob like everyday.

[Bydand]

Originally Posted by missRoxyhart

I tried to find videos but full episodes are really hard to find on Youtube lol. But I remember he said it to Plankton in the episode where they try to start a rock band together, the episode was Krabby Road..

The episode is right here. He says it around 2:57 into the episode. There is an ad from Nickelodeon before the cartoon.

My kids are hooked on Spongebob. which means I watch it also.

[debzkidz]

I usually pronounce greasy with a bit of a z sound, really either way sounds right to me.

wash does not have the letter "r" in it.

kyoo-pon is how I usually say it.

I was born and raised in Texas

[Optional Angel]

Interesting, I never thought there was another way besides "greasy". That's how I say it.

coupon is coo-pon
our is are
I'm is eye'm
your is yore
Wash is just wash lol

From Miami