How do you pronounce the following words? (home, suburban)

[mr roboto]

Originally Posted by lammius

*Horrible/Orange
Hahr-ible/Ahr-inge

*Lawyer
Law-yah

*Interesting
In-teh-rest-ing

*Route
Root

*Roof
Rue-f

*Oregon
Ah-re-gin (hard G, not like the spirit gin)

There's the jersey accent right there.

[aquest1]

Horrible: Horable;

Orange: Oringe

Lawyer: Loyer

Interesting: Intristing

Route: usually Rowt, but I hear Root sometimes.

Roof: Ruef

Oregon: Origan/Origun; We have a neighborhood in Richmond called Oregon Hill which is sometimes said "Orgun Hill."

Unrelated, my Grandmother from Ohio used to pronounce Wash/Washington as Warsh and Warshington. Wonder if that's a Midwestern thing?

[SeasonedNewbie]

Horrible (haw-ri-bull), orange (aw-renge)

Lawyer (Loa-yuh, loa-yer)

Interesting (in-tryst-in)

Route (rhymes with "scout")

Roof (rhymes with "spoof")

Oregon (aw-re-gin)

I clearly speak with an East Coast accent, even though I'm from Los Angeles.

[Noccidoggo]

Horrible/Orange - HARR a bul / ARE ange

Lawyer - LOY yur

Interesting - IN tur est ting

Route - ROOT

Roof - ROUF or ROOF (like tooth) but with an 'r' and an 'f'

Oregon - ARE a gahn

Now this is how I grew up pronouncing those words. I try to modify my speech after having moved around the country to sound like most of the answers from "standardized" American English, or to sound more "educated" but when I get tired, the old pronounciation roars right back.

[pdxMIKEpdx]

Portland Oregon here:

hoar-ah-bull (censored the first word I chose for "hor"!)

oar-enj

Law-ure

In-ter-rest-ing

Rowt (like out)

Roof (like tooth)

Oar-uh-gen

[Lycidas]

Horrible: Hor-uh-bull Orange: or-inj

Lawyer: Almost like lawl-yer without the second l. My southern accent's pretty thick, and I don't know how to type the exact sound I make at the beginning of the word.

Interesting: In-tresting

Route: rowt, rhymes with out

Roof: rhymes with poof

Oregon: Or-uh-gin, or sometimes when I'm lazy just organ.

[Italian (x)lurker]

loiah
interstin
rut (as in root)
ruf (as in roof indeed...)
oregon

[eschaton]

1. Harr-ible/ar-inge
2. loy-er
3. inner-esting (apparently not pronouncing the t is uncommon)
4. I say "root" for particular numbered roads. But I'll say "rout" if I mean a particular path someone takes.
5. Ruuf
6. Or-uh-gin

[mr roboto]

How the hell do you north easterners think that orange and horrible should be pronounced like that? Do you hear yourselves?

[Mightyqueen801]

Originally Posted by mr roboto

There's the jersey accent right there.

Except for the "law-yah". Contrary to what you learned from TV and movies, we pronounce our Rs.