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That's the result of an accent, I think. Some New Yorkers add an R where it is not needed. Not sure if people from any other areas tend to do it.
My mother grew up in Maine, and when I was a kid, other kids teased me for saying ideer - for idea. I said it the way my mom did. She even moved to California when she was around 12, I think. She had me when she was 19. By the time I was in middle school, though, she'd worked on getting rid of her accent because she didn't like to be teased.
Funny, I hadn't thought about that since I was a kid.
I'll throw in a pronunciation that makes locals smile, and that's in the Portland, OR area regarding the word "Willamette." Looking at it, you'd think to say it the French way, Will-uh-MET. But, the locals say Will-AH-mutt. With the AH pronounced like "cat."
Sounds so hillbilly LOL, but that's how they say it
I've told that native Washingtonians don't say it that way, but I've heard it from people up in Washington in different parts of the state(maybe it's more a working class thing)? It does sound awful though.
Yeah, like I said, I mainly only hear it from Idahoans. I've never heard it from a WA native, working class or otherwise. It literally makes me cringe when people throw that "r" in there.
not all of us talk like that... I personally hate it when people stereotype us to speaking like a stupid hick. I say Teh-x-ah-ss.
I don't think there is a particular way to pronounce, some say car-ah-mel some say care-ah-mel... at the end of the day nothing changes, nothing has been solved. Sure it inconvenient to have your state be mispronounced but its not going away anytime soon.
You can argue over how it is going to be pronounced and the argument won't ever end, anyways half of these names are of Spanish and French origin anyways and we mispronounce them... why should we care if we pronounce them right now if we never did in the first place?
IF you want to say it correctly say it how it supposed to be said, us english speaks tend to butcher people's languages... I mean it crazy how off we can be with translations... like
Lisbon-Lisboa
Peking-Beijing
Taipei-Taibei
Munich-Munchen (idk I don't know this one)
Guangzhou-canton (how the heck did we get this one???)
Anyways you get the point, I will try my hardest to correct my horrible(according to the above ) Texas pronunciation but that doesn't mean everyone else will...much less try and and care... It one of those things you can try to change but would be better off getting used to.
I never understood why we say Munich, which is in Bavaria, in Germany.
It's actually Munchen, in Bayern, in Deutschland. Not even close
People have given me guff for saying ne-VAH-da and colo-RAH-do, but then they insist on calling my home state New YORK, when it should be pronounced New YAWK.
Double standards ;-)
Should Americans call Paris, par-EE, or Vienna, VEEN?
I think both ways of saying Colorado are ok. Except when people from the south call it "Colla-radah". Sort of like they'll say "Ha-Wah-yuh" for Hawaii.
I don't get why people in Louisville, KY insist that outsiders pronounce in their screwed up way. I me, I've had someone correct me and ask me to say, "Lou-uh-vul" back to them. Uh... no. I'm not from there, so I'm not going to try and mock the accent.
I think both ways of saying Colorado are ok. Except when people from the south call it "Colla-radah". Sort of like they'll say "Ha-Wah-yuh" for Hawaii.
I don't get why people in Louisville, KY insist that outsiders pronounce in their screwed up way. I me, I've had someone correct me and ask me to say, "Lou-uh-vul" back to them. Uh... no. I'm not from there, so I'm not going to try and mock the accent.
About how you say southerners say Colorado, that's just an accent thing. They can't help it. I think a lot of this comes down to accents rather than intentional or ignorant mispronunciations.
I noticed during primaries that many newscasters (most from the east) were pronouncing the state of Nevada as Ne-Vah-da with the Vah sounding like the a in "saw" or law". :[/b]
LOL. To me, "VAH" does not rhyme with "saw" or "law". That would be Ne-VAW-da, and I've never heard anyone say it that way.
I HAVE heard people say "lah" for "law", though...
I had a friend who was born and raised in a small town in Ohio who used to put the "r" in Washington. I don't know how that came about. She also pronounced Vancouver as VAN-couver with the emphasis on the first syllable rather than the middle as most do. But then again she used to do that when she pronounced the word UM-brella.
I noticed during primaries that many newscasters (most from the east) were pronouncing the state of Nevada as Ne-Vah-da with the Vah sounding like the a in "saw" or law".
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LOL. To me, "VAH" does not rhyme with "saw" or "law". That would be Ne-VAW-da, and I've never heard anyone say it that way.
I HAVE heard people say "lah" for "law", though...
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) Texas pronunciation but that doesn't mean everyone else will...much less try and and care... It one of those things you can try to change but would be better off getting used to.
