Here “bus” is pronounced like “buzz” and I didn’t realise it was weird until I went down to Devon and it was a dead giveaway that I’m a Brummie lol
Wash wahsh warsh Bag bahg beyg Oil oyel ohl
I lived in Louisville, KY briefly, and the official pronunciation is apparently “Luuhwuuhh”. You will be mocked if you get it wrong.
Not “loovul”? I need to brush up.
My kid got a worksheet on the long A sound. She got through most of them but was stumped on the “lobster”. I looked at it - Lobster, Crawfish, neither of those have a long A sound, what the heck?
Hours later it occurs to me.
OH, Craaay-fish? Who in the world calls them that? Nobody here. Where was this printed?
It’s “Zed” not “Zee”
Fellow member of the zed crowd!! When someone says “zee” to mean zed it often sounds like they’re saying the letter c lol
Everyone knows the song goes “ex, why, zed. Now I know my ABCs, next time won’t you sing with med”
wait that’s supposed to rhyme with the Z? It rhymes with the ‘me’ so it seems like it doesn’t need to rhyme with the Z
I said I know my ABCs, I didn’t say I know how to structure children’s songs. Next you’re going to expect me to be able to work AND be sober at the same time, SHEESH!
The song was written by an American so understandable that they’d do it with the wrong pronunciation.
Say Jay-Z
Jay-Z
I recently saw a video where a woman pronounced “drawer” as “draw”.
Was it 3x3Custom Tamar?
I don’t know what that is.
Oh she’s a woodworking YouTuber and drawers are made in woodworking all the time and she says “draw” as well.
The woman at the beginning may say “draw”
In Australia they just straight-up spell it that way
What part? I have never heard an Australian pronounce it like that. Not even the bigans. Mostly people from Victoria but also plenty from NSW, SA, or WA.
In Canberra I worked with a few people who confused me with their talk of draws.
One area I’ve not been to.
I mean, everybody in Canberra is from someplace else anyway so I wouldn’t expect any local special spelling for common words. Maybe I just got in with a pocket of queries weirdos 🤷
Carpentry guru Norm Abrams always says “draw” too. “Let’s see how the draws fit…”
I never noticed that with Norm but its likely a New England thing since the woman I heard was from Rhode Island.
As I live in the south I hear my “how are you all doing” morphing into “howya’lldoin” and there’s nothing I can do to stop it
Shades of Jeff Foxworthy and his southern words.
How do you pronounce oil?
I can never tell if my partner says gem or Jim. She had a moment the other day listening to her dad and looked at me and said holy shit this is what I sound like to you. She hadnt seen him in a bit
Try switching to “how dost ye doeth?”
Do you reply with “Fon” now? (How southerners pronounce “fine”).
Melbourne.
Now most will read that and go Mel bourn. But in Australia we say Mel Bin.
A really easy way to tell if someone isn’t an Aussie while there.
To pass as local I say the Mel part clearly and mumble bu or bun at random, depending on the mood. So MELBu
But the real test is all the mumbling variations of Straya, AUSTRAia, etc
It’s ironic Aussies don’t pronounce the R in Melbourne considering you add Rs to every other word!
They used them all up
I pronounced it like “Mel-born” until an Australian person corrected me lol. it’s like Gloucestershire but in Australia!
Gloss-ter-sher?
yup like gloss ter sheer
Just guessing, is that pronounced gloushtisher?
Is there a similar “tell” with how people pronounce Darwin?
Old gen x Australian here, and pretty much everybody I know pronounces it Mel burn.
When I was in school, I had a teacher who insisted on pronouncing the word “across” as “acrosst”.
No thank you! That one really bothers me for some reason.
Same as “eltse” for else, “foe-ward” for forward, “warsh” for wash, and “ayggs” for eggs.
And some people say “heighth” for height and I swear it’s just to fuck with me.
I moved to AZ and I can now tell who is from here and who moved in from out of state by how they pronounce the town name Prescott.
Prescott gets messed up more often, but Avondale is a trap also. I couldn’t figure out what someone meant when they pronounced Avondale like it started with the name of the MLM cosmetic company.
Boston accents are funny. When my mother says, “where are the cah-keys”. My dad and I always say, “your car keys or khakis?”
I pronounce Kraken phonetically - “krayken” - but the world seems to prefer “cracken”.
Charlottesville Virginia has a road spelled Rio but locals pronounce it with a long I (rhy-oh). Bonus points, the name originated from the road being route 10, marked with signs that said R10, which eventually became Rio.
NY state has a town named Chili that is pronounced—I kid you not—with two long I’s. “Chai-lai”
There’s also a town named Charlotte pronounced “shar-LOT”.
I feel like these are tests to detect out-of-towners.
Do the British and Irish dialect quiz. It’s really interesting to find out what words you use and how you pronounce them pinpoint where you grew up and where your family is from. I’ve got a mixture of London, Midlands and Devon and it’s bang on!
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/15/upshot/british-irish-dialect-quiz.html
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I was able to do it without any sign in
North-East Netherlands. Besides the dialect, every sentence is ended with the word “ja”, which means yes/yeah. It’s like saying “It rains, yeah”, or “Let’s take a look, yeah”. It’s also drawn long, like jaaaa. Also, a lot of nouns are ended with “gie” in the dialect, making it a diminutive.
Houston the city and Houston the street.
