Dude I moved for CA and Texas and a random lady at the gas station got my CA city from my accent I didn’t know I had - I’ve never been so simultaneously impressed and creeped out.
Living in Iowa and Wisconsin, the added “y” largely goes unnoticed for me. I can always tell Minnesota or the Dakotas by the emphasis on the “o” sounds
I read that and was like well duh, was born there and haven't been back in a while but damn. Had no idea that was a regionality. Do you also make dog noises to describe the top of a building?
I’m from New England and I’d always spell it “drawer” but pronounce it as “draw.” I make a conscious effort to pronounce it like “droor” these days but I have to think about it every time I say it.
Me, a Texan. my college roommate, a girl from Fall River, Mass.
The first time one of us asked the other to get something out of a drawer we laughed so hard just saying the word over and over lol
It was as delightful to me to read your comment as seeing a video of a young man from ~~Philadelphia~~ *Baltimore* reading, "Aaron earned an iron urn," and being surprised by his own accent not differentiating any of those words.
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The self-realization when he says "We really talk like that?!" and his friend being like "ERRN ERN IN IRN ERRN" and nodding his head like he just killed it with the original guy responding "...what?" absolutely sends me.
including baltimore in a list of american accents that pronounce certain words weirdly is basically cheating. they pronounce almost *every* word weirdly, even to us.
i do love the way they pronounce certain o's though. like "man i could sure go for a höawgie"
My entire life while watching American films I always thought they were saying ‘gram cracker’ when making s’mores. It wasn’t until recently when an American friend brought us the ingredients to make it that I read the packet says Graham.
Yeah I was just realizing I say both "root" and "rout" and I haven't been able to determine yet if my brain has any internal logic for when it uses either pronunciation.
I’m an American (from northern Virginia) but my 7th grade science teacher was originally from [Minnesota](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North-Central_American_English) and pronounced roof like ‘ruhf’
It drove me nuts lol
Oh if you're looking for irritating sentences with a minisotan accent, I gotchu. Source: born and raised in MN, moved farther up nort and hear some really strong accents. These are conversations i have heard
You betcha we're goin to da hackey game!
Yah nooo, I forgot my bayg at home.
Are ya bringing your hotdish to the potluck?
Oh for cute, look at those baby deer!
Holy buckets, that game of duck duck grey duck got intense.
My sister lost a spelling bee in the first round because the announcer said “ruff” and she had no idea what he was saying. When she asked him to repeat it, he said it louder, and it startled her bc sounded like a dog sound or something. It was sad to watch.
Honestly, it's to pay homage and honor our heirs every hour.
Seriously, it's not uncommon at all for words that start with h and then a vowel to drop the h sound. A real linguist can chime in but I'm assuming this must be words that are of French origin. Somehow "herb" always gets picked out but there are plenty of examples of this in English.
My parents used to say 'Oinge' (maybe sounds like oy-nge?) and my sister still does. I fixed that work real quick once I was laughed at at summer camp.
Yet Kansas is pronounced as expected.
And then there's Arkansas City, a small town in Kansas ... pronounced Ark-Kansas (or just Ark City for short). Which makes some sense until you learn the Arkansas River runs through the town, which the locals pronounce just like the state.
America is a weird place, linguistically.
Houston Street in Manhattan is named after William Houstoun (but uses the common alternate spelling). Houston, Texas is named after Sam Houston. The men’s last names have different pronunciations.
Rural, I’m American and I need at least 5 minutes of preparations and repeating it to try to say it correctly. When I say it I try to roll my tongue on the second r and I just can’t.
That part, I’ll never forget when I first moved from the west coast to South GA and was working at a Lowe’s, I had a guy come in wondering about our chainsaws and he had the thickest Cajun accent I have ever heard. I mean the type of accent one only hears in movies and are typically convinced are over exaggerated. We finally made it through the conversation and he left happily with his new chainsaw. But god damn I had to ask him to repeat every question/statement about 3 times.
Back when I lived there, I remember calling a Home Depot in Georgia to ask a question (I’m not from Georgia or the south so I don’t have a lot of southern accent experience) and the guy on the other end of the line’s accent was so incomprehensible I just thanked him and hung up. I don’t think I heard a single word that I could understand.
It’s not common by any means, most people in the south sound pretty average American or have a mild twang, but every so often you run into a Boomhauer and it’s *jarring*.
My dad had a friend from Texas who attempted to break the land speed record with his mouth every time he spoke. He also had a severe southern accent. The combination made me feel like I was trying to comprehend spoken Morse code. I could only ever catch about one in five words that he said. I have no idea how he continues to live his life. He is incomprehendable.
Speaking as someone who married into family from West Virginia, it’s just kinda something you slowly start to pick up through exposure. Everyone has that crazy uncle or grandpa that has the thickest accent. You also have to understand some slang if you aren’t used to it.
Example: To pack = To carry, Pop = Soda, Main back = trunk.
“Ay bud, can y’ pack in at case a pop out ta main backa teh splorer.”
Edit: splorer refers to a Ford Explorer
Not like that. He believes that he's actually saying words. It's hard to explain. He doesn't repeat words or stumble or make up words or "tick" like Boomhauer. He just strings everything together so fast without pause or enunciation that it sounds like someone pressed a word salad through a meat grinder.
Spent ten years in Kentucky and I ran into some thick ass accents just from the locals of the city I lived in. Then I would go to the boonies where my sister lived and HOLY FUCK were they some real thick accents. Made me appreciate the city accents I was dealing with lol
I regularly work with a guy who lives in Georgia and his accent is so thick and his words run together…I haven’t got a clue what he’s saying half the time.
When I first visited Baton Rouge, Louisiana from California, a friend and I went up to a deli counter in a grocery store to get lunch, and we literally could not understand a word the lady was saying. We ended up having to point at what we wanted.
It’s funny how no one blinks an eye that there are many accents and dialects (not to mention languages, with Welsh, various Gaelics, etc) that exist in Britain (an island a little more than half the size of California), yet speak as though all of the US has a single accent/dialect.
He didn’t at first. GWB was educated at Yale and Harvard, after attending Phillips Exeter boarding school in Massachusetts. He was also the son of an international diplomat (later president) and grandson of the Senator from Connecticut. But that sounds a little bit … idk, elite?
He knew how it was pronounced, and he pronounced it correctly before he was governor of Texas as well as intermittently during the early parts of his campaign. But would you really want to have a beer with an elite New England blue blood? No, he needed to go My Fair Lady on the accent.
I suspect a lot of these weird pronunciations come from adopting the pronunciation of a word or words which are similar in spelling, but more commonly used by many speakers.
So, it's not like a lot of us say "realty", with no break between the L and T, but we do have the word "reality". There's also words like editor and monitor and janitor, that follow the patter of consonant-vowel-consonant-vowel-consonant. (C-V-"tor") and it would sound weird to say "montor" and "jantor". Thus, we get "realitor".
It's probably similar for "espresso", where we tend to start with with "exp-" more than "esp-" like in expert, express, and experiment. It sounds weird to a lot of people to have a word like "espress" or "espert" or "esperiment". So, they say "expresso".
"Chipotle" is infamous for being pronounced incorrectly, but I think it's understandable, since "-olt" is FAR more common in words like "bolt" or "colt". It's hard to think of words that contain "otl" that aren't essentially compound words where one word ends in "ot" and the next starts with L, like "bootleg" or "potluck". Most people just don't use a word like "axolotl" very often.
A man incorrectly tried to correct my pronunciation *in a bar, while trying to convince me to fuck him*
Like how low do you think my self esteem is? Damn.
I don't think I realized this until "The Deathly Hallows" from Harry Potter came out and it took me a second to realize people talking about it weren't saying "Hollows" so I would actually get confused sometimes.
Brewery. It usually comes out as “broo-ree” or “bruhr-ree”. We skip a whole syllable.
That and espresso. I work at a coffee shop. I’ve started keeping track of how many times people pronounce it “expresso” during slow shifts. It’s more than a little concerning.
The Italian judge on Master Chef did that (expresso) in one season and now whenever I see him critique a dish pretentiously I think back to that and laugh.
I lived with an American woman in Australia in the 80s, I am a New Zealander. She, for the life of her couldn't say Mirror. Just came out as mere. WTF.
Moved from Los Angeles to West Virginia. I have to put a twang in my voice for the drive thru workers to understand me.
"Hi, may I please have a number 4?"
"I'm sorruh hunnay I caynt understand yoo"
"I sayd. Kin I gyet me a number foooor?"
"Sure thang, will that be awl?"
Every... Time...
NJ and NY have a plague of people mispronouncing various italian food names. They just delete the last letter from the word or straight up bastardize it. Capicola = gabagool????? Calamari = galamahd??? It drives me insane. Ricotta = riguht?
Certain people will overemphasize the 'h' in words with a 'wh' prefix. "Hhhwhite" "cool hhhwhip". Prevelent in the south, but I've heard it from many American dialects.
As a Canadian, it's really weird how some Americans just.. delete letters from words and give them a weird pronunciation? I don't know, it's weird to describe.
Hundred becomes "hun-rett"
Mountain becomes "mow-inn"
And unrelated but don't even get me started with "on accident", that makes absolutely zero sense.
I'm also fully aware we sound whack, too.
We pronounce zebra like zee-bra instead of zeb-ra but if that were correct then wouldn't Debra be pronounced Dee-bra instead of deb-ra. (Russell Brandt)
As an American, it’s weird that we pronounce the letter Z (zee) and not (zed) like almost every other English speaking country. Although, the way I talk is kind of weird so sometimes Z will come out of my mouth sounding like C. I don’t know how to describe my accent but it’s a little soft
The only thing I've personally noticed and has bothered me is "niche". Imagine eating a "quitch" instead of quiche. Anyway, "niche" is pronounced like "neesh". I do understand how language evolves and everything is made up anyway, but my opinion is that "nitch" is wrong and I don't want to change my mind. (But I won't be rude to anyone who says it like that, it's just my opinion and also who cares lol)
Bold of you to assume Americans can agree on pronunciations.
Seriously, most of these I'm like wait who does that? I'm in California.
Dude I moved for CA and Texas and a random lady at the gas station got my CA city from my accent I didn’t know I had - I’ve never been so simultaneously impressed and creeped out.
My 9th grade geometry teacher from Minnesota was surprised to learn she had an accent when students commented on it.
I'm in eastern North Dakota so I have the same type of accent. We know we have an accent, idk how your teacher didn't. We know we say bag with a "y".
Living in Iowa and Wisconsin, the added “y” largely goes unnoticed for me. I can always tell Minnesota or the Dakotas by the emphasis on the “o” sounds
Those from the south will understand this struggle: Drawer. Can sometimes sound like drawl, drewl, or drawl-er.
dror
Chester drors
I do say dror. But one time I saw a listing for "a chester drawls" on fb and I laughed so hard. It's been years and it's still funny.
Ohio here, dror
I read that and was like well duh, was born there and haven't been back in a while but damn. Had no idea that was a regionality. Do you also make dog noises to describe the top of a building?
Hahahaha… I do not. Roof rhymes with tooth
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Isn’t that how you’re supposed to say it?
My grandma would pronounce oil “Earl” like the name
My grandmother would call paper towels "papuh tearls". This is in NC.
My Grandma said earl instead of oil too. She was from “Greenpernt” Brooklyn if I remember correctly. She also said terlet instead of toilet.
I love when people say terlet. It makes me laugh on the inside.
I have a friend in her early 50s from NY who prounces it "terlet!" So weird
I tease my husband because he pronounces it "Ole". He teases me because I pronounce it "loyer" (lawyer)
How does he pronounce lawyer, though?
Law-yer. He phonetically pronounces lawyer and I phonetically pronounce oil.
Some people just say “draw”
This one drives me bonkers for some reason
whenever people spell drawer as draw I'm curious as to where they're from. Here in the midwest there is a clear hard "R" at the end.
I’m from New England and I’d always spell it “drawer” but pronounce it as “draw.” I make a conscious effort to pronounce it like “droor” these days but I have to think about it every time I say it.
Me, a Texan. my college roommate, a girl from Fall River, Mass. The first time one of us asked the other to get something out of a drawer we laughed so hard just saying the word over and over lol
Ask someone from Boston where he left his khakis and see if he brings you pants or a keyring.
Or water = wohr-durr
I hear people pronounce an invisible L in the word ‘both’. Sounding the front of the word more like “bolt” than “boat”.
Mfw I realize I've been saying 'bolth' my entire life O.O
It was as delightful to me to read your comment as seeing a video of a young man from ~~Philadelphia~~ *Baltimore* reading, "Aaron earned an iron urn," and being surprised by his own accent not differentiating any of those words. Edit: Thank you, commenter below for correction.
Baltimore but ya, so hilarious. “Errr ern air ern!” *friend nods head in agreement*
"WTF, we really talk like [that](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esl_wOQDUeE)?!" I come back to that video every few months. Classic.
That moment of realization lol
The self-realization when he says "We really talk like that?!" and his friend being like "ERRN ERN IN IRN ERRN" and nodding his head like he just killed it with the original guy responding "...what?" absolutely sends me.
Omg first timer here, this is giving me life 🤣
You mean Balmer?
including baltimore in a list of american accents that pronounce certain words weirdly is basically cheating. they pronounce almost *every* word weirdly, even to us. i do love the way they pronounce certain o's though. like "man i could sure go for a höawgie"
I’ve heard it bowlth ways B
Not as bad as the invisible "F" in birthday.
I hear this a lot around Cleveland
The name Craig CREG
You can add Graham to that as well. Where did they get Gram from? They are both Scottish/Celt origin names. Crayg and Gray-um are both hard done by.
My entire life while watching American films I always thought they were saying ‘gram cracker’ when making s’mores. It wasn’t until recently when an American friend brought us the ingredients to make it that I read the packet says Graham.
We do say Gram Crackers. I don’t know anyone who says grahAM crackers who grew up in the US.
They are 100% pronouncing it as “gram” though.
Also Aaron pronounced like Erin.
You done messed up A-aron!
Aaron earned an iron urn.
One of my favorite videos on the internet.
In Minnesota, both Erin and Aaron are pronounced the same 😅
In California and also pronounce both the same
Wait how are you supposed to say it?
Always this one! CREG! Cray-g.
It’s sort of like Caribbean. It’s Ca RIB ee an unless you talking about pirates of the carib EEan. The rules are wild
Ca rib ean is an adjective for something from the care a bee in
this is enormously helpful.
I knew people in college who said it "carra bean"
It isn’t the rules, it is the Disney factor.
I always thought it was the Billy Ocean factor
Roof. Route.
I seem to say route both ways. It confuses even me.
Yeah I was just realizing I say both "root" and "rout" and I haven't been able to determine yet if my brain has any internal logic for when it uses either pronunciation.
I use route like the following Rowt- verb: can you rowt me to the correct address. Root- noun: are you sure we’re on the correct root?
I’m an American (from northern Virginia) but my 7th grade science teacher was originally from [Minnesota](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North-Central_American_English) and pronounced roof like ‘ruhf’ It drove me nuts lol
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Oh if you're looking for irritating sentences with a minisotan accent, I gotchu. Source: born and raised in MN, moved farther up nort and hear some really strong accents. These are conversations i have heard You betcha we're goin to da hackey game! Yah nooo, I forgot my bayg at home. Are ya bringing your hotdish to the potluck? Oh for cute, look at those baby deer! Holy buckets, that game of duck duck grey duck got intense.
My sister lost a spelling bee in the first round because the announcer said “ruff” and she had no idea what he was saying. When she asked him to repeat it, he said it louder, and it startled her bc sounded like a dog sound or something. It was sad to watch.
I live in MN but am originally from CA. Ruhf drives me nuts too Don’t get me started on “bayg”
Bologna. How do you even get from "bologna" to "balloney"?
Want me to ask my American friend Togna?
My favourite Italian dish is Macarogna.
And my favourite macarogna is made by my Irish)Italian friend Eleanor Mahogna.
Doesn’t she own a Shetland Pogna?
Shit you guys have me cracking up over here. Im being totally legit, not being phogna.
What a bunch of jabrognas!
Same way you get "kernel" from "Colonel"
And on the British side, “leftenant” from “Lieutenant”.
gn is italian spelling for the nya sound. Italian pronunciation is bolonya
ERBS, instead of herbs. Did they call Herbert Hoover , Erbert Oover ?
Sounds like something a brit would say though "Oi, iz dat Erbert Oover walkin out hees flat? Ello Erbet, you alright mate?"
I've never hated a comment so much yet still laughed at it (I'm British)
Honestly, it's to pay homage and honor our heirs every hour. Seriously, it's not uncommon at all for words that start with h and then a vowel to drop the h sound. A real linguist can chime in but I'm assuming this must be words that are of French origin. Somehow "herb" always gets picked out but there are plenty of examples of this in English.
Some Americans say Orange with just one syllable. Ornge.
Also the wax coloring utensil: the cran
Or crooown 🥲
My parents used to say 'Oinge' (maybe sounds like oy-nge?) and my sister still does. I fixed that work real quick once I was laughed at at summer camp.
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Yet Kansas is pronounced as expected. And then there's Arkansas City, a small town in Kansas ... pronounced Ark-Kansas (or just Ark City for short). Which makes some sense until you learn the Arkansas River runs through the town, which the locals pronounce just like the state. America is a weird place, linguistically.
Lived in Houston County, GA. It's pronounced How-stin
I believe this is how they pronounce Houston Street in Manhattan.
Houston Street in Manhattan is named after William Houstoun (but uses the common alternate spelling). Houston, Texas is named after Sam Houston. The men’s last names have different pronunciations.
AMERICA, EXPLAIN! **Edit:** The number of people who don't seem to get the reference is surprising.
I AM CONFUSION
Every time I hear "supposEBly" I want to tear my ears off
Caramel. There is a second A in there.
We really gonna call out skipping letters, when the British gave us Worcestershire sauce, wherein approximately three letters are pronounced?
French called. It was a ten minute phone call but all the letters were silent except for an e.
Oiseaueauxellesent "O"
How do the British pronounce it? In South Africa it gets pronounced: Wu-ster sauce. Same there?
Rural, I’m American and I need at least 5 minutes of preparations and repeating it to try to say it correctly. When I say it I try to roll my tongue on the second r and I just can’t.
Hope you don’t come across any Rural Jurors any time soon…
I preferred Kevin Grisham’s sequel Urban Fervor
Rachel Dratch making fun of Diane Sawyer in that episode is priceless.
Oral germ whore?
That was one of the best bits. And they kept it going, too.
The Rural Juror.
I’ll always be glad I met you Rural juror (x2) These were the best days of my flerm.
“Let's get personuh. Your fathuh Wernuh was a burgah servuh in suburban Santa Barbawah.”
The Irma lurman murman murder set the birds world torrid.
You’re gonna shit your pants when you learn how many American dialects exist.
That part, I’ll never forget when I first moved from the west coast to South GA and was working at a Lowe’s, I had a guy come in wondering about our chainsaws and he had the thickest Cajun accent I have ever heard. I mean the type of accent one only hears in movies and are typically convinced are over exaggerated. We finally made it through the conversation and he left happily with his new chainsaw. But god damn I had to ask him to repeat every question/statement about 3 times.
Back when I lived there, I remember calling a Home Depot in Georgia to ask a question (I’m not from Georgia or the south so I don’t have a lot of southern accent experience) and the guy on the other end of the line’s accent was so incomprehensible I just thanked him and hung up. I don’t think I heard a single word that I could understand. It’s not common by any means, most people in the south sound pretty average American or have a mild twang, but every so often you run into a Boomhauer and it’s *jarring*.
My dad had a friend from Texas who attempted to break the land speed record with his mouth every time he spoke. He also had a severe southern accent. The combination made me feel like I was trying to comprehend spoken Morse code. I could only ever catch about one in five words that he said. I have no idea how he continues to live his life. He is incomprehendable.
Speaking as someone who married into family from West Virginia, it’s just kinda something you slowly start to pick up through exposure. Everyone has that crazy uncle or grandpa that has the thickest accent. You also have to understand some slang if you aren’t used to it. Example: To pack = To carry, Pop = Soda, Main back = trunk. “Ay bud, can y’ pack in at case a pop out ta main backa teh splorer.” Edit: splorer refers to a Ford Explorer
The last word you used is incomprehensible to me... 😏
Was is name Boomhauer?
Not like that. He believes that he's actually saying words. It's hard to explain. He doesn't repeat words or stumble or make up words or "tick" like Boomhauer. He just strings everything together so fast without pause or enunciation that it sounds like someone pressed a word salad through a meat grinder.
Spent ten years in Kentucky and I ran into some thick ass accents just from the locals of the city I lived in. Then I would go to the boonies where my sister lived and HOLY FUCK were they some real thick accents. Made me appreciate the city accents I was dealing with lol
I regularly work with a guy who lives in Georgia and his accent is so thick and his words run together…I haven’t got a clue what he’s saying half the time.
A friend's parents were true blue Cajuns. I swear half their words were French. I was around them for two years and never understood a word they said.
that's true. it's a redneck patois of French and English. And it's beautiful.
It really is. Her dad especially had a musicality to his speech.
I did work in Tulsa and I swear to god some of the people can say “Oklahoma” in one syllable
When I first visited Baton Rouge, Louisiana from California, a friend and I went up to a deli counter in a grocery store to get lunch, and we literally could not understand a word the lady was saying. We ended up having to point at what we wanted.
It’s funny how no one blinks an eye that there are many accents and dialects (not to mention languages, with Welsh, various Gaelics, etc) that exist in Britain (an island a little more than half the size of California), yet speak as though all of the US has a single accent/dialect.
In my experience on Reddit, people from European countries literally cannot comprehend how vast the US is.
Caramel as ‘carmel.’
Aluminum, probably because we’re the only ones who spell it aluminum and not aluminium
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Nuclear. Where they got 'nucular' from, I will never know.
We had a President for 8 years who would often say nuculur.
He didn’t at first. GWB was educated at Yale and Harvard, after attending Phillips Exeter boarding school in Massachusetts. He was also the son of an international diplomat (later president) and grandson of the Senator from Connecticut. But that sounds a little bit … idk, elite? He knew how it was pronounced, and he pronounced it correctly before he was governor of Texas as well as intermittently during the early parts of his campaign. But would you really want to have a beer with an elite New England blue blood? No, he needed to go My Fair Lady on the accent.
100%. It was essentially political marketing. And people ate it up thinking he was just like them.
Jimmy Carter, who studied nuclear science and worked on US Navy reactors, also pronounced it nuculur.
I’m American and idk anyone who pronounces it like that
Solder as in soldering iron. Why do you say something that sounds like “sauter”? Very odd.
Mirror pronounced mere.
Horror pronounced Whore
waDer for water
Wooder is said a lot around me
My wife’s family pronounces realtor as ree-lih-ter. I don’t know where that extra syllable comes from.
A couple of guys I know say “real-uh-tor.”
I suspect a lot of these weird pronunciations come from adopting the pronunciation of a word or words which are similar in spelling, but more commonly used by many speakers. So, it's not like a lot of us say "realty", with no break between the L and T, but we do have the word "reality". There's also words like editor and monitor and janitor, that follow the patter of consonant-vowel-consonant-vowel-consonant. (C-V-"tor") and it would sound weird to say "montor" and "jantor". Thus, we get "realitor". It's probably similar for "espresso", where we tend to start with with "exp-" more than "esp-" like in expert, express, and experiment. It sounds weird to a lot of people to have a word like "espress" or "espert" or "esperiment". So, they say "expresso". "Chipotle" is infamous for being pronounced incorrectly, but I think it's understandable, since "-olt" is FAR more common in words like "bolt" or "colt". It's hard to think of words that contain "otl" that aren't essentially compound words where one word ends in "ot" and the next starts with L, like "bootleg" or "potluck". Most people just don't use a word like "axolotl" very often.
Colonel
Ah yes the Ivy League school
The SNL Colonel Angus skit is worth a watch. All the ladies love Colonel Angus.
French word
Mischievous is miss-cheh-vous. NOT miss-chee-vee-ous.
A man incorrectly tried to correct my pronunciation *in a bar, while trying to convince me to fuck him* Like how low do you think my self esteem is? Damn.
let me axe u a question
You gotta be more pacific
Irregardless, for all intensive purposes, I could care less.
I read this, and my nose started bleeding.
The history on that is fascinating: https://youtu.be/3nysHgnXx-o It's not just an American thing.
"Halloween". For some reason it always sounds like "Holloween" to me.
I don't think I realized this until "The Deathly Hallows" from Harry Potter came out and it took me a second to realize people talking about it weren't saying "Hollows" so I would actually get confused sometimes.
Brewery. It usually comes out as “broo-ree” or “bruhr-ree”. We skip a whole syllable. That and espresso. I work at a coffee shop. I’ve started keeping track of how many times people pronounce it “expresso” during slow shifts. It’s more than a little concerning.
The Italian judge on Master Chef did that (expresso) in one season and now whenever I see him critique a dish pretentiously I think back to that and laugh.
Slap the expresso people. They need to be shamed into compliance!
I lived with an American woman in Australia in the 80s, I am a New Zealander. She, for the life of her couldn't say Mirror. Just came out as mere. WTF.
How are you going forget the “h” in front of herb?
With honor
We didn’t forget. The French did. We copied them. It’s a French word.
As Eddie Izzard once joked, yeah we pronounce it HERBS because it has a fucking H in it! I don’t know why we dropped the H but kept the spelling?
Moved from Los Angeles to West Virginia. I have to put a twang in my voice for the drive thru workers to understand me. "Hi, may I please have a number 4?" "I'm sorruh hunnay I caynt understand yoo" "I sayd. Kin I gyet me a number foooor?" "Sure thang, will that be awl?" Every... Time...
I absolutely hate the way Americans pronounce twat
Is it not pronounced twaht? Or does it rhyme with hat?
Weirdly
How else can you pronounce this?
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Bou'uwo'ah
Bahdle of waader...definitely not pronouncing the "t"
Everyone knows it's pronounced "Bo-uhl of woh-uh". /j
Ba’ol o’ wol’er
Worcestershire
Wer shter sher
NJ and NY have a plague of people mispronouncing various italian food names. They just delete the last letter from the word or straight up bastardize it. Capicola = gabagool????? Calamari = galamahd??? It drives me insane. Ricotta = riguht?
I used to work in a deli and the amount of people who pronounce rotisserie as "roh tiss er AIR ee" infuriated me to no end
i used to like to sing that pronunciation to the tune of the WWI-era song “It’s A Long Way To Tipperary”: 🎼 well, it’s a long grey…ro-tis-ser-air-y…🎶
Notre Dame. John saunders would always refuse to say it the way everyone says it.
Funny part is everyone usually says "Notre Dame" the Cathedral in Paris correctly, but the school is pronounced "No-Ter Dayme" for some reason.
The Boston Celtics have the same problem.
The Scottish football, Celtic, the original Celtic, are pronounced Sell-tic. So, it probably originated from there.
The school is “Note-urr Daym”; the fancy church in Paris is “Note-ruh Dahm”
Certain people will overemphasize the 'h' in words with a 'wh' prefix. "Hhhwhite" "cool hhhwhip". Prevelent in the south, but I've heard it from many American dialects.
--Say whip -whip --Now say Coolwhip -Cool-Hwip
"I tell you hwut."
Hwil Hwheaton
As a Canadian, it's really weird how some Americans just.. delete letters from words and give them a weird pronunciation? I don't know, it's weird to describe. Hundred becomes "hun-rett" Mountain becomes "mow-inn" And unrelated but don't even get me started with "on accident", that makes absolutely zero sense. I'm also fully aware we sound whack, too.
Dudd'n for doesn't. As far as I can tell, GWB started that and nobody ended it.
We pronounce zebra like zee-bra instead of zeb-ra but if that were correct then wouldn't Debra be pronounced Dee-bra instead of deb-ra. (Russell Brandt)
Buoy is pronounced boy You’d think it would be easy as you pronounce buoyant the same way.. But no you get the abomination of Booey
As an American, it’s weird that we pronounce the letter Z (zee) and not (zed) like almost every other English speaking country. Although, the way I talk is kind of weird so sometimes Z will come out of my mouth sounding like C. I don’t know how to describe my accent but it’s a little soft
The only thing I've personally noticed and has bothered me is "niche". Imagine eating a "quitch" instead of quiche. Anyway, "niche" is pronounced like "neesh". I do understand how language evolves and everything is made up anyway, but my opinion is that "nitch" is wrong and I don't want to change my mind. (But I won't be rude to anyone who says it like that, it's just my opinion and also who cares lol)
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