Pronounciations

[Solly]

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

Ant
in
deceitful
Caught'er
Sundih (last syllable is like the the "i" in pin)

[Frankychan]

The best instance of this is at work.

I asked manyh ppl how to spell "uncatalogued". My manager said that how I spelled it was "old skool" cause I used a "u" in my spelling. Anyway, it turrned out that my "old skool" spelling and her way was correct.

[Cruddy]

What gets me going is the Aussie (maybe NZ too) way of pronoucing pen, pin and pan.

To me, they all sound the same!

Caribbean (also some regional English) say "bockle" instead of "bottle".

In the UK, one way to distinguish a southerner from a northerner is the word "bath". Northern usage is much shorter, with a "ba" sound like a sheep makers. Southern is more like "borth".

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by Cruddy
In the UK, one way to distinguish a southerner from a northerner is the word "bath". Northern usage is much shorter, with a "ba" sound like a sheep makers. Southern is more like "borth".

I think a clearer way to explain it is that northerners tend to pronouce "bath" phoentically, whereas southerners pronouce it "barth". Both ways are correct.

[Q Classic]

both "ont" and "ant" feel weird for me. i'm used to using the korean term, so.

people rhymes with deceitful
water rhymes with cauter (dropping the -ize)
*day rhymes with stay.

-ing --> "in"
window --> "window"
holler --> "holler"
ain't --> "aint"
yonder --> "yonduh"
directly --> "directly"
wonder --> "wonder"
reckon --> "rekin'"
atlanta --> "etlannah"
kitten --> "kit'n"
missouri --> "missurrah"

[Paul Hanson]

Originally posted by FrustratedPoet


I think a clearer way to explain it is that northerners tend to pronouce "bath" phoentically, whereas southerners pronouce it "barth". Both ways are correct.

Don't be daft. Everyone knows the northern way is the right way.

[Ecthy]

question from a foreigner: aren't "ant" and "aunt" 2 completely different words?

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by Paul Hanson
Don't be daft.

I think you meant "darft" there, old chap.

[Solly]

Do southerners also call paths "porthes"?

What about how you shorten the phrases "isn't it", "could not" and "did not".

Personally, "isn't it" either comes out as "int it" or "innit".

"Could not" which most people shorten to "couldn't" actually sounds quite rude how I would say it...

"Did not" gets shortened to "dint".

[Ecthy]

Could someone explain me what that ant/aunt bull**** is about?

[Dauphin]

The major pronunciation difference I notice between north and south England are words like graph, staff, bath, laugh....

I would pronounce the 'a's as an 'are' sound, but many pronounce the 'a's as you would in math(s).

[Siride]

Could someone explain me what that ant/aunt bull**** is about?

It's about people seeing it spelled "aunt" and thinking it should be pronounced "awnt" instead of the "ant". At least that's the only good explanation I can think of.

[Dauphin]

And where are the wav file attachments.

[Boris Godunov]

All I have to say is that the word is "pronunciation," not "pronounciation."

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Boddington's

"Did not" gets shortened to "dint".

When I contract to "didn't it" it ends up sounding like "deer net".