maph (home, theatre, public schools)

[jeannie216]

what if someone has a lisp, do we cut them a break?

[TuborgP]

Let me think from reading the forum I have learned that many people relocating here want the best school and brightest teacher for their G/T child. They spend big bucks to get the house in the neighborhood they want ( often based on schools). They go to meet the teacher day and the teacher says welcome to Geometry I am your maph teacher. Hmmmmmmmmm time to visit guidance for a schedule change. You think?

[findingmesomeday]

Well, here I am in a town in MA with one of the best school districts in the state. On parents night, I can barely understand some of my kids' teachers because they are talking about report cahds, school pahking, taking turns at the bubblah, etc.

[saturnfan]

Now, don't venture into brooklyn NY if you have issues with accents:

I wuz born in the terlit at the corner of toidy toid & toid. My mama loined me everything I needed to moider English.

We left when dem bumz (Bkln Dodgers) left for Calif.

Wuz dat poifectly clear?

[tlh1005]

Let's not forget that "Maph" was HER interpretation of their pronunciation. I was born here and have parents who were born here on farms in Rolesville... pretty rural. We say "math".

Honestly I don't want to jump on your post but it certainly sounds like a dig to me. I find it hard to believe EVERYONE in one school would pronounce "math" in the SAME dialect.

[autumngal]

Originally Posted by tlh1005

Let's not forget that "Maph" was HER interpretation of their pronunciation. I was born here and have parents who were born here on farms in Rolesville... pretty rural. We say "math".

Honestly I don't want to jump on your post but it certainly sounds like a dig to me. I find it hard to believe EVERYONE in one school would pronounce "math" in the SAME dialect.

I agree friend, that is why I asked if they had a mathematical physics (maph) dept.
They all cannot be pronouncing it that way.....

[Redrover]

I agree with the poster who said that if you hear "maph" or "axe" at Walmart then you just ignore it. But college-educated teachers have an obligation to speak correct English and this in no way reflects on those with distinct regional accents. People from Boston just can't help saying cah and cahkey (my mother was from Boston and I was born in Cambridge) but "maph" doesn't fall into that category. I would be horrified if my child came home from school telling me that she had "maph" homework to do when I had sent her there saying math. It is the same carelessness of people who pronounce the state where Boston is located as MassaTUsetts.

[autumngal]

The OP was speaking about a school in the Wake County area of NC. Pronouncing math as maph is not a part of a dialect I have heard in 14 years of being here. It could be 1 person, yes I will give the OP that. Maybe a lisp, maybe from a diff region, but all of them pronouncing maph.......that seems a little well, unbelieveable.
And I was and still am hoping somebody else who went to that school night can tell us their version. Or a Native to help me understand this better.....do some pronounce it maph?
Nobody is disputing people pronouncing words differently in different regions of the USA and even within the same state.
That was not the OP's intention. That was just others having fun,

[lamishra]

I'm a native and "maph" is not a regional dialect from here, it's a complete mispronounciation of the word. It is possible it could be a speech disorder though, I don't know.

[Desdemona123]

Originally Posted by lamishra

I'm a native and "maph" is not a regional dialect from here, it's a complete mispronounciation of the word. It is possible it could be a speech disorder though, I don't know.

It could also just be someone hearing a different accent and thinking it sounds worse then it is.