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mill for meal
dill for deal
fill for feel
vill for veal
Well, you get the picture. I'll leave out all the rest of the mispronunciations except for four of our states, Mass-a-too-setts, Ill-a-noise, Lose-e-ana, and Ha-why-ya. Ugh!!
mill for meal
dill for deal
fill for feel
vill for veal
Well, you get the picture. I'll leave out all the rest of the mispronunciations except for four of our states, Mass-a-too-setts, Ill-a-noise, Lose-e-ana, and Ha-why-ya. Ugh!!
And...
peel for pill
keed for kid
beel for bill
As in "Mah keed took a peel to fill better and I juss got the doctor beel."
Well, you get the picture. I'll leave out all the rest of the mispronunciations except for four of our states, Mass-a-too-setts, Ill-a-noise, Lose-e-ana, and Ha-why-ya. Ugh!!
There's nothing wrong with loozy-anna, a lot of people who were born there still say that (especially in North Looziana), and it was even more prevalent a few generations ago. Where do you think the brand of Luzianne Tea came from?
It seems to me that most people in North Carolina pronounce their state with five syllables, but people in South Carolina say only four syllables: South Ca'lina.
You can always tell an outsider in Wisconsin, who pronounce it wiss-consin. Local say wi-SKAHNsin. The S pronounces as if its part of the second syllable, not the first. It's a subtle difference, but people who are from there can always hear the foreign accent. Same for Milwaukee, which locals do not (or just barely) pronounce the L. Say it as if the three words are: Mew-wokkiwa-skonsin.
In Oregon, don't ever, ever say Oar-ree-gahnnn. It's pronounced like "Organ", with a slight vocal hitch between the R and the G.
Sault Ste. Marie and Sioux Falls are pronounced the same: SOO.
In Canada (while we're at it), the second T in Toronto is not pronounced. Newfoundland rhymes with "understand". Noofin-LAND. Now officially known as Newfoundland and Labrador, which is also stressed on the last syllable: labra-DORE.
Saint John, New Brunswick is NEVER abbreviated "St.", and the two words are stressed equally. St. John's, Newfoundland, is ALWAYS abbreviated "St.", and pronounced "s'n-JOHNS-noofin-LAND". The first and laslt syllables of Saskatchewan are de-stressed: s-SKATCHA-w'n. The capital rhymes with Vagina, don't be afraid to say Regina that way, nobody will laugh. Guelph, Ontario, is pronounced like GULF, but with a W in it: GWULF
The third syllable of Ottawa is held, like Ottawah, not sluffed off like Florida.
Montreal, in English, is MUNT-treal, but outside Quebec, most Canadians say MONN-treal. When speaking English in Quebec, it's kwebec, not the French kaybec, which would sound affected in English.
There's nothing wrong with loozy-anna, a lot of people who were born there still say that (especially in North Looziana), and it was even more prevalent a few generations ago. Where do you think the brand of Luzianne Tea came from?
It seems to me that most people in North Carolina pronounce their state with five syllables, but people in South Carolina say only four syllables: South Ca'lina.
You can always tell an outsider in Wisconsin, who pronounce it wiss-consin. Local say wi-SKAHNsin. The S pronounces as if its part of the second syllable, not the first. It's a subtle difference, but people who are from there can always hear the foreign accent. Same for Milwaukee, which locals do not (or just barely) pronounce the L. Say it as if the three words are: Mew-wokkiwa-skonsin.
In Oregon, don't ever, ever say Oar-ree-gahnnn. It's pronounced like "Organ", with a slight vocal hitch between the R and the G.
Sault Ste. Marie and Sioux Falls are pronounced the same: SOO.
In Canada (while we're at it), the second T in Toronto is not pronounced. Newfoundland rhymes with "understand". Noofin-LAND. Now officially known as Newfoundland and Labrador, which is also stressed on the last syllable: labra-DORE.
Saint John, New Brunswick is NEVER abbreviated "St.", and the two words are stressed equally. St. John's, Newfoundland, is ALWAYS abbreviated "St.", and pronounced "s'n-JOHNS-noofin-LAND". The first and laslt syllables of Saskatchewan are de-stressed: s-SKATCHA-w'n. The capital rhymes with Vagina, don't be afraid to say Regina that way, nobody will laugh. Guelph, Ontario, is pronounced like GULF, but with a W in it: GWULF
The third syllable of Ottawa is held, like Ottawah, not sluffed off like Florida.
Montreal, in English, is MUNT-treal, but outside Quebec, most Canadians say MONN-treal. When speaking English in Quebec, it's kwebec, not the French kaybec, which would sound affected in English.
Nice post...
When I briefly lived in WI, I too noticed that most natives didn't pronounce the "L" in Milwaukee; It's like "Mwaukeee, W-SCAAAN-sin"..
Of course, here in MA, our local favorite is Worcester, MA, which is pronounced "Woostah"...( I say "Wooster", but I don't have the Bostonian accent)
New Orleans street names are murder. A lot of them are French or Spanish origin, and you never know how much of the origanal language flavor they retain.
Tchoupitoulas = chop-it-TOO-lis
Carondelet = ca-ron-da-LET
Clio and Conti and Tonti and Iberville and Girod with long I.
Tulane = TWO-lane
Burgundy = ber-GUN-dy
Dauphine = daw-FEEN
Chartres = CHAR-terz
Orleans = oar-LEANZ
Simon Bolivar = SY-mun BAH-liver
Dryades = DRY-edz
Melpomene = MEL-pa-mean
Terpsichore = TERPS-i-coar
Baronne = ba-ROAN
Gravier = GRAV-yer
St. Roch = saint ROCK
Poydras = POY-drus
Freret = fer-RETT
Bellechasse = BELL-chase
Toledano = tah-la-DANN-o
Metairie = like MET-a-ree, or sometimes Metry.
A few Louisiana names are worth noting:
LaPlace = la-PLAHSS (no english word rhymes with it)
Natchitoches = NACK-a-tush
Tangipahoa = TANJ-pa-ho
Opelousas = AH-pa-LOO-sus
Maurepas = MOAR-a-paw
Bossier City = BOE-zher
Houma = HOE-ma
Thibodaux = TIBB-a-do
Plaquemine = PLAK-a-min
Atchafalaya = a-CHAFF-a-lye
Amite City - AY-MITT
Robert = roe-BAIR
mill for meal
dill for deal
fill for feel
vill for veal
Well, you get the picture. I'll leave out all the rest of the mispronunciations except for four of our states, Mass-a-too-setts, Ill-a-noise, Lose-e-ana, and Ha-why-ya. Ugh!!
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Originally Posted by blkgiraffe
Wait, there's a difference???
Uh, oh, must be one of those people who pronounce "pin" and "pen" the same way. For some reason that drives me NUTS. Same with "tin" and "ten". You hear it sometimes in an announcer's voice, as in, "More on this story on the Tin O'clock news."
Anyway, back to topic, you know the yellow property on the Monopoly board called Ventnor Avenue? I lived all my life in NJ but not until a friend moved to Ventnor City, just south of Atlantic City, did I know that it was pronounced "VENT-ner", not "VENT-nor."
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