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Post by dahuffy on Jul 9, 2010 21:28:19 GMT
Just pass the hore doovies. No, it's the "whore's dee vowers" ;D
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Post by Kimby on Jul 12, 2010 13:48:36 GMT
Nope, that's Beverly Hills that got it right, not Los Angeles. It's all one megalopolis to me - I don't differentiate between the subunits of the big city. But technically you are right, K2.
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Post by Kimby on Jul 12, 2010 13:49:37 GMT
Most horribly mis-pronounced word, IMO, the Greek "gyros". It's pronounced "j-eye-row" here in Oklahoma. I say "yar-o" I pronounce it "year-O", but that's probably wrong too.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2010 18:31:40 GMT
Most of the French would call them 'giros' if they didn't call them 'doner kebabs' or 'souvlaki' instead.
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Post by Kimby on Jul 18, 2010 19:10:30 GMT
(Must be lunch time - all of those words have me salivating equally!)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2013 20:30:36 GMT
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Post by Kimby on Jun 8, 2013 22:45:32 GMT
The growers in California say Ahhmons. I suspect everyone else pronounces the L and the D.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2013 4:14:29 GMT
It drove me crazy when we moved to California that everybody said carmel instead of caramel.
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Post by Kimby on Jun 9, 2013 16:51:52 GMT
It's "Carmul" for me, too, and I grew up in Wisconsin.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2013 17:05:16 GMT
I was also surprised to see that the teenage tradition of redecorating trees and yards with toilet paper is only called "rolling" in a very small area. It always seemed like such a natural name to me.
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Post by Kimby on Jun 9, 2013 17:35:48 GMT
TPing is what we called it. Never heard of "rolling"
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2013 17:41:25 GMT
Well, if you look at the map, it appears that a grand total of 3 states call it "rolling."
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Post by htmb on Jun 9, 2013 17:58:20 GMT
If we are describing an act of doing something in the future or the past we would say,
"They are going to TP Joe's yard" or "They TP'd Joe's yard"
But if we are talking about the recipient we usually say, "Joe's yard was rolled last night" or "Joe got rolled"
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2013 18:25:53 GMT
Oh, you Floridians don't know if you are northerners or southerners!
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Post by htmb on Jun 9, 2013 18:39:41 GMT
In the larger cities of north Florida you don't hear much in the way of a southern accent, but get out into the rural areas and it sounds much like south Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. Plus, living in a university city, the average citizens of Gainesville tend to be fairly educated and very diverse.
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Post by ssander on Jul 10, 2013 19:56:27 GMT
Re: almonds
My family always pronounced ammonds -- with the "a" sound rhyming with "rap".
After college in Berkeley, and with my wife being from the Bay Area, I switched decades ago to ahl-monds, with the "a" rhyming with the first syllable of "follow"
SS
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 11, 2013 23:35:52 GMT
ahl-monds, with the "a" rhyming with the first syllable of "follow" That's as it should be. We say "stay calm", not "stay camm", so why not almonds? And pecans! Why say it so it sounds like what you'd wee-wee in at the camp site? Puhcahns is so obviously correct.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2013 5:52:34 GMT
One of the biggest shocks of my childhood was when there was a commercial on television using that other incorrect pronunciation of pecan.
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Post by patricklondon on Jul 12, 2013 9:01:33 GMT
Erm.. only with American vowels. In the UK, the first vowel of "follow" is a short flat vowel, as in "hot", "top", "on".
But it's definitely AHmonds (with some, but not a lot, of voicing of the "d").
Now then, about the way some North Americans say "meer" for "mirror".......................
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Post by htmb on Jul 12, 2013 12:18:22 GMT
At night I put my head on a "pilla."
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Post by mossie on Jul 12, 2013 14:10:21 GMT
Was it not George Bush who called himself a "merkin"
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Post by htmb on Jul 12, 2013 14:13:07 GMT
That's because he grew up in Texas where they tend to have rocks in their mouths and chew their words. ;D
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Post by mossie on Jul 12, 2013 18:41:33 GMT
And I thought he had made a very clever pun on his name
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Post by htmb on Jul 12, 2013 23:29:58 GMT
I personally would not use the word "clever" to describe anything when referring to our former president.
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