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08-23-2007, 09:14 PM
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This is totally unrelated to town names but it seems a lot of people pronounce realtor "ree-la-ter" rather than "ree-al-ter". Is that a NC thing? I'd never heard that pronunciation before.
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08-23-2007, 09:22 PM
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lol.. everytime we see or hear anyone mention it, me and my hubby always look at each other and say in our best alien voicees "I come to you from the planet Zebulon" We started doing that after the first time we saw the sign driving out the outer banks.
Sorry Zebulonites! It could be worse... you could live in Lizard Lick!
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08-23-2007, 09:24 PM
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If you head towards the foothills and Mountains you may encounter Boger City and it is pronounce Bow-gar
Cherryville depending on how deep the dialect is either pronounced Chur vul or chur uh vul
Then there is Beaufort and I always mess this one up Beaufort NC and Beaufort SC have total different pronounciations
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08-23-2007, 09:53 PM
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Having Fun with Kids in Durham North Carolina
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Originally Posted by SunnyKayak
If you head towards the foothills and Mountains you may encounter Boger City and it is pronounce Bow-gar
Cherryville depending on how deep the dialect is either pronounced Chur vul or chur uh vul
Then there is Beaufort and I always mess this one up Beaufort NC and Beaufort SC have total different pronounciations
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That last one is easy... Bow-fort is the correct way. They say Byoo-fort in that other state.  |
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08-23-2007, 09:54 PM
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Having Fun with Kids in Durham North Carolina
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Originally Posted by Indigoblue
This is totally unrelated to town names but it seems a lot of people pronounce realtor "ree-la-ter" rather than "ree-al-ter". Is that a NC thing? I'd never heard that pronunciation before.
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Yes. It's kind of like "nucular" energy. |
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08-24-2007, 05:34 AM
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It's not strictly a NC thing. I used to hear people in Texas say it all the time.
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08-24-2007, 09:43 AM
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Oh, here's another that I said wrong for ages... Forsyth County. Hint: it's not anything like the flowering bushes.
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I used to live in Forsyth County and it drives me crazy when people say it wrong! |
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08-24-2007, 11:30 AM
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give me that countryside
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Y'all forgot the most obvious one . . . good old Fuquay Varina, pronounced Few - Qway - Vuh - Ree - Na, I think |
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08-24-2007, 11:41 AM
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I used to live in Forsyth County and it drives me crazy when people say it wrong!
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How do you pronounce it? |
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08-24-2007, 11:43 AM
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