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Older generation from Massachusetts would say something like: “I went to Demoulas and picked up some ahranjes. I like to serve them after suppah. The kids love em. It’s bettah than servin a hoodsie or whatevah else.”
You do realize that Nevada is a Spanish word and is properly pronounced Ne-vah-da. Just like San Antonio is properly pronounced Sahn Ahn-tohn-yo?
Do you say “Deh-twa” and “Sahhn-Lou-ee” or do you say “Dee-troyt” and “Saynt Loo-is”? Don’t cherry pick with me. No American ever pronounces Detroit in the proper French pronunciation and it doesn’t matter because it’s an American city now and that’s the way it goes. Do as the locals do even if it’s been butchered over the course of a few centuries.
You do realize that Nevada is a Spanish word and is properly pronounced Ne-vah-da. Just like San Antonio is properly pronounced Sahn Ahn-tohn-yo?
Place names in any country are pronounced the way the local people say them, in the same way that people's own names are pronounced the way they personally say them. If I'm speaking Spanish, the word "nevada" is pronounced one way; if I'm speaking English the place-name Nevada is pronounced another way.
It's very obnoxious when someone comes along and tells locals that they ought to be pronouncing their own place names in the way they are said in another language.
one weird thing I say is the first part of envelope as 'n-velope', most people seem to say 'on-velope' which sounds fancy to me.
Maybe I just picked up the pronounciation of the verb envelop.
one weird thing I say is the first part of envelope as 'n-velope', most people seem to say 'on-velope' which sounds fancy to me.
Maybe I just picked up the pronounciation of the verb envelop.
I noticed a a small child that my elementary school teachers said “onvelope.” I assumed it was a fancy teacher pronunciation because my parents (who were from Chicago and had good educations) did not say it that way nor did anyone else I knew who was not a teacher.
I noticed a a small child that my elementary school teachers said “onvelope.” I assumed it was a fancy teacher pronunciation because my parents (who were from Chicago and had good educations) did not say it that way nor did anyone else I knew who was not a teacher.
I say onvelope. My words / dialect probably pulls from Chicago more than Massachusetts, though it depends.
If I’m not mistaken, people in Massachusetts say onvelope more than envelope.
Some people also say "far-est." This should be illegal.
We do, or did, before I learned to self-correct, in my family except for my oldest sister who always said "forest". We don't know where she got the correct pronunciation from.
Similarly, we say "har-ible" for "horrible". My daughter dated a guy who used to make fun of her for that one.
And yes, by default, I will say "arnge".
We are from north Jersey, and we tawk funny sometimes.
But hell, I cringe at the people who say pin and pen and tin and ten the same way, or people who think "Shari's Berries" rhymes.
one weird thing I say is the first part of envelope as 'n-velope', most people seem to say 'on-velope' which sounds fancy to me.
Maybe I just picked up the pronounciation of the verb envelop.
Nope, most people I know say envelope. I have heard "ON-velope", though.
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