Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
I don't get pin and pen being pronounced the same. A story about this... When I was a child, the family was vacationing in North Carolina. My younger brother slipped on the deck behind the house and got a few splinters stuck in his foot, which of course upset him. My mother dropped everything and tried to remove the splinters. She asked a younger woman who was visiting with us (she was from NC, I think) if she could get a pin from the bathroom. The woman returned with a pen from the kitchen. I remember my mother looking at her like, "WTF am I supposed to do with that??" LOL Apparently, to this woman, you use a pin to poke or hold things together, and you also use a pin for writing.
Haha, sooo funny.
Quote:
Originally Posted by houstoner
That's really interesting that you pronounce "Mary" with a long a sound! I've never heard it said like that before.
Maybe we should ask how people pronounce "hair", too. I say it more like "hehr"... rhymes with "air".
Hair rhymes with air/bear/err/marry/Mary/merry.
Ian and Anne sound the same. And the "an" in "and" for that matter.
I don't get pin and pen being pronounced the same. A story about this... When I was a child, the family was vacationing in North Carolina. My younger brother slipped on the deck behind the house and got a few splinters stuck in his foot, which of course upset him. My mother dropped everything and tried to remove the splinters. She asked a younger woman who was visiting with us (she was from NC, I think) if she could get a pin from the bathroom. The woman returned with a pen from the kitchen. I remember my mother looking at her like, "WTF am I supposed to do with that??" LOL Apparently, to this woman, you use a pin to poke or hold things together, and you also use a pin for writing.
Lol I asked someone for a pen in Chicago and they thought I wanted a pin. (I'm from South Carolina)
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
