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Originally Posted by btownboss4
Worcester- pronounced Wor-ches-ter by most people really pronounced Wo-ster
*and New Englanders Pronounce Aunt, Aunt not ant.
I grew up in MA, and and now living in Florida. I was talking to someone one time about Worcester, and they said, "I can tell you are from MA since you can pronouce Worcester correctly!!
Also - yeah Aunt... I never have said ant. To me, an ANT is a little annoying thing on the ground and an AUNT is your dad or mom's sister.
I grew up in MA, and and now living in Florida. I was talking to someone one time about Worcester, and they said, "I can tell you are from MA since you can pronouce Worcester correctly!!
Also - yeah Aunt... I never have said ant. To me, an ANT is a little annoying thing on the ground and an AUNT is your dad or mom's sister.
That one is just a difference in pronunciation, not incorrect. For the most part, the only people who say awe-nt are people from New England, most the rest of the country will say ant.
Helena, MT is pronounced hell-in-uh. Not hel-leen-uh.
Coeur D'Alene sounds like core duhlain. Three syllables. Not the other random pronunciations I've heard.
Oregon the state is "Organ" but Oregon, OH is pronounced Or-eh-gawn.
Toledo, Oh is obviously not pronounced the same as Toledo, Spain.
My tenth great grandfather was among the founders of Raynham, Massachusetts.
Funny, my tenth great grandfather was one of the 48 (IIRC) founders of Taunton! That said, after 3-4 generations they left MA, and lived in 5 other states over the generations, before I ended up moving to MA at age 12 (from the midwest).
not sure or whether its just cultural. my mom is from new orleans and she never does the thru your nose gnawlens pronunciation which is shoved on outsiders whenever they visit.
i dont know who started this stuff but not my grandparents nor my mom they are all from new orleans.
There is a town near the Continental Divide along I-40 in New Mexico that is spelled "Thoreau" as in Henry David. The people in the area, from Grants to Gallup at least, pronounce it "threw" (past tense of throw).
The one that bugs me is how easterners pronounce the State of Nevada and the Sierra Nevada (as in the mountain range in California). It is pronounced "na VAA da" and not "na VAAAHHH da." I've embellished the middle syllable because the pronunciation bugs me so much. This syllable should not rime with "aaugh" as the doctor tells you to do.
Some easterners (begins at the eastern fence line of Denver International!) insist that their version is correct in Spanish, which it is not, but neither is the "VAA" of the westerners. If we assume the easterners are correct then we need to pronounce "New Mexico," "New meh HE co." Then there is that state next door, named Texas, in Spanish it is "TAY hass." Now I find it funny that easterners try to tell westerners how to pronounce Spanish, the same ones that think Taco Bell is Mexican food.
One of the funniest mispronunciations I recall is when I lived in New Mexico. There was a local rancher that overgrazed his land and the public domain land he had a grazing permit for. He kept vilifying the "Sahara Club" for filing complaints with the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) for his grazing practices. I never corrected him as I kept expecting him to figure it out on his own. Besides it was fun just listening to it.
Damn those easterners! They're always dropping r's or adding or subtracting syllables. What are we to do with them?
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