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What pronunciations of words bug you? Like regional/country variations?


Here's my list.

Australia - night. Some say this through their nose. Something like "nyeh-t"
America - Tuesday. I like it as 'chews-day' not 'twos-day'.
America - Opportunity. Similar thing. I like 'opporchun-ity', not 'oppor-tune-ity'. (i notice this is a region by region thing.)
America - Nokia. It's actually meant to be 'KNOCK-ee-ah', but they say "no-KEY-ah"
England - Room. I say "roo-em", they say "ra-um" (hard to write phonetically.) They say something similar with roof.
Ireland - Three/Third/Tenth - anything with TH. They don't pronounce TH, it's just a T for them. My aunt (from Ireland) recently said it was her 'tent' year in a job. I pictured a tent. Her son when he was little told me he was the 'turd smartest in his class'. I said "so you're the turd?" and he said "yes." (I'm cruel.)
New Zealand - more or less all of their words bug me. They use very sharp vowels, sort of like the words are cut in their length. They swap vowels too. So Jess is like "Jahss". The blacks there have a more musical way of speaking, which I actually like. It sounds very friendly.


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Thank you! Thank you! I’m from around that area, Kissimmee, FL. And it’s Lake Tohopekaliga
Not Lake Toho! I may not know how to spell it, but I can pronounce it!


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Are you one of those “pioneer” families? Those that claim to be one as long as it was pre-Disney. What a laugh! Very sad thing happened to a fisherman’s paradise...Disney. In fact The Rat ruined everything! Florida became a parking lot. Someone once said the yankees found us, so they moved to Florida to escape the taxes, crimes, liberal government, etc. Wasn’t long before they were complaining “This isn’t how we did it up north!” And Florida was forever changed. My husband was born and raised in Cowtown.

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Of course, curiosity is killing me. If you’re from Cowtown my husband more than likely knows your family. He knew everyone back then.

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No, Kissimmee is Cowtown...Silver Spurs Rodeo

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No pronunciations bug me. I love hearing the different ways cultures speak

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I agree🌞

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I'm from Massachusetts and the New England accent bugs the hell out of me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8Vjd_hdYYw

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Padeen, does it bug you when people pronounce Massachusetts Mass a too sits?

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Off the top of my head, one that bugs me is when people pronounce "Alzheimer's" as "all-timers" or "old-timers." Another one is when people pronounce "ask" as "axe." Oh, and when people say "bob wire" instead of "barbed wire." I heard that one a lot growing up, living in an area with lots of farms.

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Or duck tape, lol

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That too!

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I thought the people who call it old timers were joking.

I love duck tape! 🤓

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That's what I believe, too.

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I'm sure some of them are, but I have heard people call it that in a serious way, like they genuinely thought that's what it was called.

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I've never heard someone say it in a serious way, but I'm certain you have. Kind of funny. Now I'm wondering if people who say all-timers are mixing the two and coming up with a new word. And it's spreading 🙀

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Haha, who knows. Wouldn't surprise me. XD

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Doesn't bug me at all and i'm not english native.

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As sunnyday says above, no pronunciations bug me. Rather, they fascinate me as reminders of the rich tapestry which is the human race. I do find some amusing though:

England: "Con-TROV-esy" instead of "Controversy"
Ireland: "It's Tree Tirty in te afternoon." (one of my favorite countries)
Maine: "And that's BAH-HABA below us." (a quote from a pilot on an arial tour of Arcadia National Park)
Boston: "Wicked awhsom!"



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I don't know why it bothers me, but also I commented on it on the Santa Clarita Diet board.

Reel-a-tor for realtor.

Extra syllable is not needed.

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nucular for nuclear

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I said that once, and someone asked where that extra A came from.

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I’ll add those who say “inner-net”, I want to hear the T! Same goes for those who drop the T for teen, as in eigh-EEN”.

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