October 2010 Weddings
Megan & Chris
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Caramel or Carmel?
Our local McDonalds has a big huge sign that scrolls different mesages. Right now, it's advertising "carmel mochas" - I don't believe that is a proper spelling, but anyway...it got me thinking...
Do you say caramel or carmel?
And another one - pee-can or pecan?
Any other ones you can think of?
(I realize this is a totally random post)
Megan & Chris
Re: Caramel or Carmel?
Carmel
P-cahn
Wash or warsh? Bag or beg? Milk or melk?
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I say caramel...but I always pronounce additional letters that other people don't necessarily pronounce. Like elementary - when I say it, you hear every letter, unlike most everyone else I know.
I also say pecan (when I hear pee-can, all I can think of is When Harry Met Sally - Sally repeats after Harry - "But I would be proud...to partake...in your pecan pie").
Megan & Chris
I say carmel and pee-can
What about:
Orange - Orange or Arnge?
Lever - Lee-ver or with a softer e - leaver?
(I realize I suck at writing things phonetically)
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It's funny...some of these (like milk vs. melk) would never have occurred to me being from where I am from. I think accents in various parts of the country bring out interesting differences.
My mom pronounces onion with a "g" - like ong-ion. It's weird. If anyone is from upstate NY - is that familiar to you? No one else in our family does it (and they're all from there), so I think it's just my mom!
Becca - don't worry - my phonetic spelling of pecan was just pecan!
Megan & Chris
Caramel and pee-can. I always associate, right or wrong, pecan with the American south.
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I get ripped on for wooder all.the.time instead of saying wahhter or however you people say it lol
Funny...I always thought the opposite. And I only think this because I've known a few people from here (Texas) that say pee-can...and I figure I only say pecan because my parents do, and they're from NY.
Then again, my husband, who does have a bit of a Texas accent, says pecan as well. So there goes my theory!
Another one - most people in Texas call soda "Coke" - even if they're referring to Dr. Pepper, Sprite, or any other sort of soda. I say soda, but I know this one has huge regional differences...
Megan & Chris
car-mul
puh-cawn
wash
milk
orng
leh-ver
wah-ter
@Megan: A lot of people from Oklahoma also just generalize it with "coke" and also instead of like tissue, we'll say Kleenex or whatever.
I just thought of days of the week too. My great aunt always said mon-dee, toos-dee, wends-dee, thurs-dee, fri-dee, satur-dee, sun-dee.
We also have some towns in Oklahoma that most people wouldn't know how to pronounce. Like, we have a Miami, but it's pronounced My-Am-Uh.
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I think it's definitely regional.
A few years ago I did a road trip to MS for Katrina Relief and we stopped at McDonalds. A girl in my group (from Northern WI) asked for a "beg" (instead of bag, another bad phonetic speller here) and it took 5 minutes and 2 workers to realize she was saying "bag". Lol
MIL says "warsh" and it drives me crazy for some reason. Then again, his family also calls a vaccuum a "sweeper".
I've heard the "Coke" generalization thing also, although not commonly in the mid-west.
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I say carmel and pee-can, Orange, Milk...I can't remember the others.
I do make fun of DH, his family is from the mid-west and so every so often he'll say begel instead of bagel. Then again he makes fun of me for saying
q-pons instead of coupons.
Wait, what? How else do you say coupons if not q-pons???
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Some people say "Coopons", other say Q-Pons.
I'm a Q-Pon gal!
I had a co-worker that refused to acknowledge what I was saying until I said it "correctly."
Carmel & Pee-cawn.
What about almonds?
I've heard some say "aamands."
I have never in all my days heard someone say "coopon" WTF?
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Lol thanks for clearing that up. Yeah see that's how I feel about it too.
I say it basically like awl-munds
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This. And bag, q-pawn, all-munds.
Puh-cawn.
Caramel.
Coopon.
All-munds.
Whore-crux.
Anddd I say coopon.
I say caramel, pee-can, wrash (it's awful, I know!), q-pon, and arnge. Apparently I also say ink pen instead of just pen and I pronounce 'pen' and 'pin' the same way and it drives Jason nuts but I really can't hear the difference.
Yeah, people use Kleenex a lot instead of tissue. I used to, but now I say tissue. I don't know what changed!
And My-am-uh - that's silly! Houston has a suburb called Humble, but the H is silent, so it's pronounced umble. I always though that was silly, too!
Megan & Chris
Begel. That's funny.
I agree with everyone else and say q-pons is the appropriate way to pronounce it! Coopons has always bugged me for some reason (sorry Kearstin!).
In my opinion, I say all of these correctly...haha!:
wash, bag, milk, orange, leh-ver, wah-ter, q-pon, awl-mond
Oh - and I say drawer (as in the thing in your kitchen that you keep utensils in) like draw-er, not droor. Apparently that's wrong.
My husband says cimanon and cimena and I think it's adorable.
Megan & Chris
Me too!
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And I've definitely heard something like "beg-gull" around here on the usual
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Some stuff is definitely regional. DH is from New Jersey and he says "Sangwich" (sandwich) and "Wuter" (water). I make fun of him so much for it, and one time a waiter even said "wait what do you want?" when he ordered water. I cracked up.
side note: it's really funny to just scroll through here and see everyone trying to type out how they say things. I just LOLed.
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car-mul
puh-cawn (actually, I have an odd hybrid-ish accent, and it usually comes out more like pick-cahn)
wash
milk
orng (again, an odd one...when I say it, it's more Or-inge)
leh-ver
wah-ter
And I do say "coo-pahn", but not "coopin"...that only reminds me of the Ron White monologue:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovk4JNw3hAk
Another one that sets my teeth on edge is February. I can't stand it when people say "Febyooary". There is an "R", people! It's Febrooary.
Tisha, the Oklahoma town that used to just kill me was Chickasha. It was forever and a day before I could remember to call it Chick a shay. I always wanted to say Chick a shaw, and when my dad came to visit, he called it Chi Kasha.
Some other Oklahoma towns that most people probably can't pronounce:
Calumet
Gotebo
Okarche
Vici
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My hometown is often mispronounced. It's Moline, "Mo-lean", but often said "Mo-line" which makes it sounds hickish, which is funny bc in some aspects it is now compared to Chicago
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Calumet = Cal-You-Met
Gotebo = Go-Tea-Bow (like bow and arrow)
Okarche = Oh-Car-Chee
Vici = Vv-eye-Sigh
Missing our little turkey.
Estimated Due Date 11/13/12 | Natural Miscarriage 4/17/12
Megan & Chris