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
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.
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”
The song was written by an American so understandable that they’d do it with the wrong pronunciation.
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!
Boston accents are funny. When my mother says, “where are the cah-keys”. My dad and I always say, “your car keys or khakis?”
Crayon: crown
Caramel: CAR-mul
Pecan: peh-CAWN
So you pronounce crayon like a kings hat/ tooth repair?
Yes. It’s not very common and seems to occur where regional differences merge.
True, I’m just used to hearing either Cray-on or Cran (like cranberries)
Also I know I struggle with colors sometimes… But I don’t see green or yellow on that map, just red and blue… Is that just me haha
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.
Old gen x Australian here, and pretty much everybody I know pronounces it Mel burn.
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
It’s ironic Aussies don’t pronounce the R in Melbourne considering you add Rs to every other word!
They used them all up
The single syllable words “four” and “hour” are actually the two syllable words “fohwer” and “ower”.
The words “anything” and “nothing” are pronounced “owt” and “nowt”.
The word “the” is not pronounced “t’”, it is simply replaced with an unvoiced glottal stop. The word “t’” is thus, actually, short for “to the”.
E.g.
Goin’ t’ shop. Wan’ owt?
means
I’m going to the shop. Do you want anything?
We also pronounce “bus” as “buzz”, too.
We also use “was” and “were” the wrong way round and say “pants” instead of “trousers”. The rest of the country seems unaware of that last one, and will accuse you of talking American.
Where do people talk like that?
Bolton. Bury. Wigan. Perhaps other parts of Lancashire, also.
Houston the city and Houston the street.
I haven’t lived there in a while and I don’t pronounce it that way anymore, but where I grew up, water is universally pronounced “wooder”.
You from NJ?
Yep.
My wife thinks it’s funny that most words with a “t” in the middle, I pronounce as "d"s… Butter is budder, better is bedder, water is wooder, etc…
Also, creeks are “cricks”.
The creek/crick thing is very regional even within New Jersey.
We recently moved to a new area and there is a nearby town called Monticello. The locals all pronounce it mon-tee-sell-oh and will correct you if you say mon-teh-chel-oh. Doesn’t quite fit the question cause I think the locals are insane for that 😅
Spaniards: Montitheyo
Elemen-tary or documen-tary
The tary pronounced like Terry. Apparently this is unusual outside of this region.
So … how else would you say it ?
El a men tree
Doc you men tree
I also hear “el a men her ee” a lot.
I’ve noticed some people say “document-tree” now that I think about it.
Where I live it’s more like as you described but not quite “terrrry” but “Tuh-ree” ?
i doubt many people actually say it like the er in Terry. Deemphsized syllables like that tend to get the schwa.
What region? I’m pretty sure that’s standard.
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
Try switching to “how dost ye doeth?”
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
Boston area doesn’t use “r”.
The famous: “Can’t pahk(park) your cah(car) in Havid(Harvard) Yad(yard)”.
Sorry for the IG link
Here’s a Youtube link (couldn’t find a peertube link).
I love the guy who shows up and says “Ur ur a ur ur” and then just nods his head like he solved it.
Ha, yeah … can’t hear it.
MA has a bunch of weird ones. Worcester is pronounced Wooster. Haverhill is Haiveral. Gloucester is Glawster. Quincy is Quinzee.
It’s more Wusstah than Wooster in my experience.
It depends on if the speaker has a Boston accent or not. I don’t have a Boston accent so I say Wooster.
I don’t have a Boston accent (RI) and say Wusstah, as does everyone from the area (including surrounding MA) I’ve known.
I think “buzz” is used a lot to people near Manchester too.
People from Bolton (UK) get very defensive about the exact pronunciation of Bolton too. I heard this conversation several times between two colleagues:
Colleague 1 (c1): "... that's because you're from Bolton" Colleague 2 (c2): "It's not Bolton, it's Bolton" C1: "What? That's what I said, Bolton" C2: "No, you said Bolton, it's Bolton" C1: "You're saying the same thing, Bolton" C2: "No, Bolton" C1: "That's what I'm saying!" Me: "what. the. FUCK"If you’ve ever seen Brooklyn Nine Nine and Jake would say “Nikolaj” and then Charles would correct him saying the exact same thing, it was exactly like that, but saying “Bolton” instead.
Also I heard several people from Wigan say “A packet of crisp” and not “A packet or crisps”.
Also forgot about this one: I used to live in South Wales, and people would say “Premark” instead of “Primark”. They’d think I was the weird one for saying it like Primark.
Never been to Wigan before, so til people from Wigan don’t refer to a packet of crisps in the plural!
For some reason almost every person in my city says “seen” where they should say “saw”. Drives me bananas.
Same here except it sounds like “sin” instead of “seen” like “I sin a guy at the shop today”
Wash wahsh warsh Bag bahg beyg Oil oyel ohl
