10 Words You Mispronounce That Make People Think You're an Idiot (LIP)

Re: 10 Words You Mispronounce That Make People Think You're an Idiot (LIP)

• wawajeanne

  January 2012

  LoveLossHopeRepeat:

  Baltimore-isms don't bother me so much, but DH chalks his giant list of mispronunciations up to being from Philly and they still drive me nuts. I counter that he's lived in Maryland longer than he lived in Philly, but it doesn't get me anywhere.

  I really need to learn to let things go.
  

  I call bullshits on your husband.  My mom grew up with philly/south jersey, but the only thing she hasn't managed to shake is Water (wooter).  And occasionally I'll hear her say pitcher for picture, but half the time she's doing it on purpose to be funny.

  He could stop if he wanted to.  He's just a poopy head.

  (says the girl who says worry and hurry to rhyme with fairy and can't seem to stop doing it consistantly no matter how much her husband laughs)

  
  
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• KatiesCats member

  January 2012

  wawajeanne:

  LoveLossHopeRepeat:

  Baltimore-isms don't bother me so much, but DH chalks his giant list of mispronunciations up to being from Philly and they still drive me nuts. I counter that he's lived in Maryland longer than he lived in Philly, but it doesn't get me anywhere.

  I really need to learn to let things go.
  

  I call bullshits on your husband.  My mom grew up with philly/south jersey, but the only thing she hasn't managed to shake is Water (wooter).  And occasionally I'll hear her say pitcher for picture, but half the time she's doing it on purpose to be funny.

  He could stop if he wanted to.  He's just a poopy head.

  (says the girl who says worry and hurry to rhyme with fairy and can't seem to stop doing it consistantly no matter how much her husband laughs)

    My mom grew up in Philly and has lived in the Baltimore area for over 30 years now.  She doesn't say "wooter," but she does have some Philly-isms.  Like, she says "Amurican" instead of American.  And "hurroin" instead of "heroin" (she's a nurse...we talk about these things).

  Also...now that I have lived elsewhere for a few years (grew up in Columbia, MD), I realize that my As are weird.  Like, I say "married" differently from everyone who's not from the east coast.  I say "maa-reed" and people here say it more like "mare-reed."  Am I making sense?  Same thing with the words "orange" and "horrible."  I pronounce the Os like "ah."  Many people here make fun of me.

  Also, fun fact: linguists will spot someone from the mid-Atlantic in an instant if he or she has three distinct pronunciations for "Mary," "marry," and "merry."
  

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• Ragdolls

  January 2012

  KatiesCats:

    My mom grew up in Philly and has lived in the Baltimore area for over 30 years now.  She doesn't say "wooter," but she does have some Philly-isms.  Like, she says "Amurican" instead of American.  And "hurroin" instead of "heroin" (she's a nurse...we talk about these things).

  Also...now that I have lived elsewhere for a few years (grew up in Columbia, MD), I realize that my As are weird.  Like, I say "married" differently from everyone who's not from the east coast.  I say "maa-reed" and people here say it more like "mare-reed."  Am I making sense?  Same thing with the words "orange" and "horrible."  I pronounce the Os like "ah."  Many people here make fun of me.

  Also, fun fact: linguists will spot someone from the mid-Atlantic in an instant if he or she has three distinct pronunciations for "Mary," "marry," and "merry."
  

  Guilty!!

  As for the weird "A" thing, my mother will never live down running around the day after our wedding looking frantically for the "peents" (I don't even know how to do it justice with phonetics) that she'd changed out of the night before.  Still no idea how in the hell she lost them in the first place.
  

  
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