I pronounce Kraken phonetically - "krayken" - but the world seems to prefer "cracken".
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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.
Houston the city and Houston the street.
I moved to AZ and I can now tell who is from here and who moved in from out of state by how they pronounce the town name Prescott.
I'm told there are differences between "merry", "marry", and "Mary", but I don't believe it.
I recently saw a video where a woman pronounced "drawer" as "draw".
Carpentry guru Norm Abrams always says "draw" too. "Let's see how the draws fit..."
Was it 3x3Custom Tamar?
Boiseans pronounce it boy-see, but everyone else pronounces it boy-zee. It makes it easy to tell who is from there
That's the opposite of Quincy where the naives call it Quinzy.
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".
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".
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!
When I was in school, I had a teacher who insisted on pronouncing the word "across" as "acrosst".
My kid got a worksheet on the long A sound. She got through most of them but was stumped on the "lobster". I looked at it - Lobster, Crawfish, neither of those have a long A sound, what the heck?
Hours later it occurs to me.
OH, Craaay-fish? Who in the world calls them that? Nobody here. Where was this printed?
I lived in Louisville, KY briefly, and the official pronunciation is apparently “Luuhwuuhh”. You will be mocked if you get it wrong.
Not "loovul"? I need to brush up.
I live in the U.S., and my state capitol is spelled Pierre, but pronounced "peer".
I think that's ths slur of familiarity, like how people in New Orleans call it "norlans".
Do the British and Irish dialect quiz. It's really interesting to find out what words you use and how you pronounce them pinpoint where you grew up and where your family is from. I've got a mixture of London, Midlands and Devon and it's bang on!
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/15/upshot/british-irish-dialect-quiz.html
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I was able to do it without any sign in
Wash wahsh warsh Bag bahg beyg Oil oyel ohl
Boston area doesn't use "r".
The famous: "Can't pahk(park) your cah(car) in Havid(Harvard) Yad(yard)".
Crayon: crown
Caramel: CAR-mul
Pecan: peh-CAWN
Elemen-tary or documen-tary
The tary pronounced like Terry. Apparently this is unusual outside of this region.
What region? I'm pretty sure that's standard.
Central New York. I've been called out on it many times by people from other places.
Both the US and UK pronunciations on this site are different from how we say it here. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/english/elementary
I'm from South Jersey, and that's how most people pronounce those words there.
So .... how else would you say it ?
"Militree"
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.