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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

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[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

Boston area doesn't use "r".

The famous: "Can't pahk(park) your cah(car) in Havid(Harvard) Yad(yard)".

[–] TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 11 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Fellow member of the zed crowd!! When someone says "zee" to mean zed it often sounds like they're saying the letter c lol

[–] TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Everyone knows the song goes "ex, why, zed. Now I know my ABCs, next time won't you sing with med"

[–] southernbrewer@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

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!

[–] zout@fedia.io 2 points 3 hours ago

North-East Netherlands. Besides the dialect, every sentence is ended with the word "ja", which means yes/yeah. It's like saying "It rains, yeah", or "Let's take a look, yeah". It's also drawn long, like jaaaa. Also, a lot of nouns are ended with "gie" in the dialect, making it a diminutive.

[–] jjmoldy@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Elemen-tary or documen-tary

The tary pronounced like Terry. Apparently this is unusual outside of this region.

[–] underscores@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

So .... how else would you say it ?

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 3 points 2 hours ago
[–] 1hitsong@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

El a men tree

Doc you men tree

I also hear "el a men her ee" a lot.

[–] underscores@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago

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" ?

[–] Almonds@mander.xyz 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Crayon: crown

Caramel: CAR-mul

Pecan: peh-CAWN

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

So you pronounce crayon like a kings hat/ tooth repair?

[–] Almonds@mander.xyz 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Yes. It's not very common and seems to occur where regional differences merge.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Almonds@mander.xyz 2 points 1 hour ago

Green is in the northwest corner of Wisconsin.

Yellow is honestly a terrible color choice for this map, because the pronunciation isn't truly regional. I think it's clustered along the edges of a few different red areas, mostly on the east coast and some Southern areas.

I actually think the author's note about it being a merging of pronunciation makes sense, because I was raised in a transitional Southern dialect but my parents both have an east Midland dialect

https://aschmann.net/AmEng/#LargeMap

[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Southern Baden Württemberg: everything is followed by 'li'.

[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago

Please, we must have some examples of this.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

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.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Is there a similar "tell" with how people pronounce Darwin?

[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 hours ago

Old gen x Australian here, and pretty much everybody I know pronounces it Mel burn.

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

To pass as local I say the Mel part clearly and mumble bu or bun at random, depending on the mood. So MELBu

But the real test is all the mumbling variations of Straya, AUSTRAia, etc

[–] frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I pronounced it like "Mel-born" until an Australian person corrected me lol. it's like Gloucestershire but in Australia!

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 5 points 4 hours ago

yup like gloss ter sheer

[–] makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 8 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

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

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

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

Shades of Jeff Foxworthy and his southern words.

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

In the Maritimes, Dalhousie (the university) is pronounced: "dal-HOW-zee".

In Ottawa, Dalhousie (the street) is pronounced: "dal-HOOOOOO-ze".

I don't know why, but I find the Ottawa pronunciation really annoying.

[–] darksiderbun@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 minute ago

I’m newish to the maritimes. For a good while when we got here I thought it was supposed to be like “dollhouse” >.>

[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 2 points 4 hours ago

We pronounce d and t exactly the same way, so both sound like d to other people, but ofc we know from context which one is meant, always, therefore to us they aren't the same at all! :)

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Houston is not pronounced "hews-ton", it's "hows-ton"

Hues-ton here

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

In Iowa, USA:

  • The town of Buena Vista is pronounced “byoo-nuh vist-uh”
  • The town of Nevada is pronounced “neh-vade-uh”