Pronounciations

[Al B. Sure!]

aside from the whole aunt/ant thing, i've noticed dozens of different ways to pronounce day-to-day words.

when you use -ing on the end of verbs does it rhyme with 'in' or 'green'?

does 'people' rhyme with 'decietful' or 'cheap thrill'?

does 'water' rhyme with 'caught her', 'should her', or 'at her'?

does the day in sunday rhyme with 'stay' or 'be'?

got any more?

for me,
I say aunt, not ant
-ing like 'in'
people like decietful
water like caught her
sunday like stay

how about you?


thanks

[Sprayber]

Re: Pronounciations

Originally posted by Albert Speer
aside from the whole aunt/ant thing, i've noticed dozens of different ways to pronounce day-to-day words.

when you use -ing on the end of verbs does it rhyme with 'in' or 'green'?

does 'people' rhyme with 'decietful' or 'cheap thrill'?

does 'water' rhyme with 'caught her', 'should her', or 'at her'?

does the day in sunday rhyme with 'stay' or 'be'?

got any more?

for me,
I say aunt, not ant
-ing like 'in'
people like decietful
water like caught her
sunday like stay

how about you?


thanks

I pretty much say them like you do except that I do say ant. Sometimes, I'll prounounce Sunday as Sundy, leaving the "a" out of it.

Then again I sometimes say

Winda (window)
holler (hollow)
ain't
yunder ( over there )
fixin or a'fixin (I'm about to)
drectly (directly)
reckon (wonder)

[Lorizael]

It really bothers me that people say 'our' as 'are' all the time.

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by Lorizael
It really bothers me that people say 'our' as 'are' all the time.

You better not come down south then

[Sprayber]

One question. Does anyone here pronounce the "S" in Illinois?


I know people who do.

[DRoseDARs]

Speer, one thing: Take another look at how you spelled deceitful..."i" before "e" except after "c."

That rule gets me too, on occasion...

Nevada -> Nuh-va("a" as in apple)-duh is Americanized while Nevada -> Nay-vah-dah is proper Spanish pronuciation (unless you want to get into "d" as in soft "th").

[The Mad Monk]

ant
sin
peepull
caught her
stay


Here's one:
say "kitten"

do you pronounce the tt, or skip it (ki'en)

Everyone around here seems to skip it.

[DRoseDARs]

Wow, TMM you're right. Never noticed that before.

[tandeetaylor]

Originally posted by DRoseDARs
Nevada -> Nuh-va("a" as in apple)-duh is Americanized while Nevada -> Nay-vah-dah is proper Spanish pronuciation (unless you want to get into "d" as in soft "th").

The problem is that no one uses the full Spanish version, they say Nuh-vah-duh, which, I don't know about you, is like fingernails on the chalkboard for me. It's Nuh-vaaaaa-da all you Easterners!

[Inverse Icarus]

Re: Pronounciations

for me,
I say ant, not aunt
-ing like 'in'
people like decietful
water like caught her
sunday like stay

although, isnt it all prespective? what if i say deceitful differently than you?

[FrustratedPoet]

Re: Pronounciations

Originally posted by Albert Speer
when you use -ing on the end of verbs does it rhyme with 'in' or 'green'?

erm .... neither. I pronouce the G.

does 'people' rhyme with 'decietful' or 'cheap thrill'?

deceitful
( @ the psychological word association in these options!)

does 'water' rhyme with 'caught her', 'should her', or 'at her'?

caught her

does the day in sunday rhyme with 'stay' or 'be'?

I pronouce it both ways.

[Adagio]

How is the letter 'G' pronounced? That means, how it's pronounced when you're just refering to the letter. I've heard it two ways:

Gee as in the G in Gold
Djee as in the G in Gender

Originally posted by Sprayber
One question. Does anyone here pronounce the "S" in Illinois?


I know people who do.

I do, because it sounds funniest in danish

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by ADG
How is the letter 'G' pronounced? That means, how it's pronounced when you're just refering to the letter. I've heard it two ways:

Gee as in the G in Gold
Djee as in the G in Gender

We pronouce the letter by itself as a soft G - i.e. "Djee"
Children are usually taught to pronouce it as "Guh", though - because that the most common way to say it when it's at the start of a word. Like Gold.

Although of course it's a hard G at the end of -ing.

[Paul Hanson]

The local dialect where I live is the only one I know of where 'water' rhymes with 'at her', but even that's considered pretty antiquated. My grandad used to use it a fair bit and my dad did when talking to him, but that's about it.

[Kitschum]

English is a foreign language for me and I've tried to work the Suecisms out of my accent. While I was aiming for generic American, it might be that I'm attempting to speak a sort of amalgamate from all the English speaking world.

Anyway:
aunt as ant
-ing as in
people like (de)ceitful
water like caught her
Sunday like sundy

Also, kitten like ki-ten. I used to minimize the t-sound (ki'en, spaghe'ee), but I overheard a friend speaking like that and it sounded so animated that I decided it's easier to make it sound right by pronouncing a clear t. That might've made my accent more ambiguous though.