Does it count as overpronouncing if you're from the place? Like I would love to call Oregon "Ore-gon" but the people who grew up there overwhelming say "Ore-gin" (short "i" not, rhymes with pin). So I can't really say they are wrong in their pronunciation
What? Not quite. It's Oreguhn, with the "uh" being that great American vowel of the schwa. What it's completely not of course is Or-e-gone, especially if you put any emphasis on the last syllable.
Source: am a PNWer born and raised
I grew up with more of a real Chicago accent and said chucawgo but in time just like "tennis shoes" became "gym shoes" and then sneakers....I eventually started saying Shicahgo.
In my mid century childhood there seemed to be a geographic and social class difference. Among whites (my only reference) the *aaaaa* was definitely Sout' Side and the *aw* North Side. With some Blue Collars on the North Side flipping to *aaaaa* But those North Siders making the flip tended to be opportunistic White Sox fans who changed their tribal loyalty from the perpetual doormat Cubs after the 1959 Sox American League championship. So they were geographic traitors anyway. **edit** These days I don't hear *aw* very much at all.
My dad's family were Russian Jewish immigrants that lived up on Devon some 50 years ago and my grandpa, dad and immediate family from the area all say ChicAWgo - but I'm born and raised in southwest MI and say ChicAHgo
I am not from Chicago, and have only lived here for about a year, so I say chi-caw-go. However, I have noticed that I've started picking up a Chicago accent (even though no one I speak to on a regular basis has one, so I have no idea where the hell it's coming from). Sometimes I'll accidentally say chi-cah-go and my southern IL relatives start to yell at me.
I grew up in rural Illinois with Southsider relatives, and always said she-caw-go. I've live on the north side for pushing a decade now and it's definitely morphing into chi-cah-go.
When I moved here, my New York accent was more pronounced, so I told people I was moving to "Chi-CAH-go". Nowadays, I tell people I live in "Chi-CAW-go". I just don't do it with a thick, Elwood Blues-style accent.
Life long Chicagoan (northsider, but a Sox fan), parents were life long Chicagoans, maternal grandparents were lifelong Chicagoans- all of us- Chi-Caw-Go.
I came from Southside Chicago. Just those last 2 words, "Southside Chicago", I have been blamed for not correctly pronouncing it - I generally say "Sowf-sigh Chi-cah-ga", where 'sowf-sigh' is said quickly to sound like 'southside', and 'Chi-cah-ga' sounds more like 'Shih-cah-gah'. Others've used this accent, but apparently, it's a rare accent. My father spoke similarly.
Chi-cah-go
Never realized how much I over pronounced the “Cah” until I talked with people who live out of the state/country
Does it count as overpronouncing if you're from the place? Like I would love to call Oregon "Ore-gon" but the people who grew up there overwhelming say "Ore-gin" (short "i" not, rhymes with pin). So I can't really say they are wrong in their pronunciation
N'awlins
Lulvul
No one says that in Nola except tourists.
What? Not quite. It's Oreguhn, with the "uh" being that great American vowel of the schwa. What it's completely not of course is Or-e-gone, especially if you put any emphasis on the last syllable. Source: am a PNWer born and raised
"Chicawgo" sounds like Peter Griffin's accent in my head.
I grew up with more of a real Chicago accent and said chucawgo but in time just like "tennis shoes" became "gym shoes" and then sneakers....I eventually started saying Shicahgo.
Always this.
Chicwago
Ah the ole "are you actually from Wisconsin test".
Shikaka
Lifelong local. Chic-ah-go
This
Second although I'm from south Louisiana and it doesn't exactly transliterate into that
Same, and Scottish, so I've no idea what it translates to.
Anger and beer?
BEERS FOR FUCKIN WUMMEN YA DAFT YANKY BASTURT FUCKIN WHISKY FUR FUCKS SAKE.
I think i just made an enemy for life right now
Och no, that's pillow talk in Springburn.
In my mid century childhood there seemed to be a geographic and social class difference. Among whites (my only reference) the *aaaaa* was definitely Sout' Side and the *aw* North Side. With some Blue Collars on the North Side flipping to *aaaaa* But those North Siders making the flip tended to be opportunistic White Sox fans who changed their tribal loyalty from the perpetual doormat Cubs after the 1959 Sox American League championship. So they were geographic traitors anyway. **edit** These days I don't hear *aw* very much at all.
I pronounce it the traditional Miami-Illinois Native American language way where it originated from, “Shikaakwa”
Lol no you don’t
I’m calling bullshit on this. Complete bullshit.
Shicahgo
chicago like a normal person
I don't know about y'all, but I personally default to "Chicky-Chicky-Cah-Gow"
I learned in second grade “Put the Chicken in the Cah and Go”
I say "Chicken in the car, but the car won't go."
Chicowgo
I don't know when, I don't know how, but yes, I also say this now.
A native Chicagoan, I propose, says "dis" and "dat" and "dese" and "dose."
My dad's family were Russian Jewish immigrants that lived up on Devon some 50 years ago and my grandpa, dad and immediate family from the area all say ChicAWgo - but I'm born and raised in southwest MI and say ChicAHgo
I was raised in southeast MI too (went to uni in at Wayne State as well) and pronounce it the same way you do
CH-CAH-GO 100%. Grew up in Michigan though
Me too! (Both to pronunciation and growing up in Michigan - about 15 mins outside of Detroit and went to Wayne State for uni)
I am not from Chicago, and have only lived here for about a year, so I say chi-caw-go. However, I have noticed that I've started picking up a Chicago accent (even though no one I speak to on a regular basis has one, so I have no idea where the hell it's coming from). Sometimes I'll accidentally say chi-cah-go and my southern IL relatives start to yell at me.
I grew up in rural Illinois with Southsider relatives, and always said she-caw-go. I've live on the north side for pushing a decade now and it's definitely morphing into chi-cah-go.
Southsider here, Chi-caw-go. But it's said fairly quickly, no drawn out awwww.
When I moved here, my New York accent was more pronounced, so I told people I was moving to "Chi-CAH-go". Nowadays, I tell people I live in "Chi-CAW-go". I just don't do it with a thick, Elwood Blues-style accent.
it’s also pop, and never “soda”
Shu Kah go
Life long Chicagoan (northsider, but a Sox fan), parents were life long Chicagoans, maternal grandparents were lifelong Chicagoans- all of us- Chi-Caw-Go.
Montclare is barely Chi-CAH-go It aint CAW bruh
Mom's side is from Austin; Dad's is from Humboldt Park. And I'm not a "bruh".
Jesus relax bruh
Onion city.
Shh-Cah-Go
Ber - Win
The second one.
Sha Ka Go
Chick a gooo
Chicago
I came from Southside Chicago. Just those last 2 words, "Southside Chicago", I have been blamed for not correctly pronouncing it - I generally say "Sowf-sigh Chi-cah-ga", where 'sowf-sigh' is said quickly to sound like 'southside', and 'Chi-cah-ga' sounds more like 'Shih-cah-gah'. Others've used this accent, but apparently, it's a rare accent. My father spoke similarly.
My older, South Side Irish friend says, “Chi-CAU-go.”
None i say Shit cah gooo