Words That You Pronounce Different From How They Are Spelled

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06 Jan 2021, 3:14 pm

FleaOfTheChill wrote:

I'm from Michigan. It seems to me that people from this state butcher most words (myself included) mainly because we say them through a nasal-y filter. :lol:

seriously, it's like we talk out of our noses here.

Socks becomes saaks

Crayons becomes craanz

A lot of people around me say melk instead of milk. Also hunnerd instead of hundred. I do not.

Something else I find funny is how fast people talk here. Things like "Did you know" become one word, didjano spoken quickly, so the word doesn't freeze before it leaves our mouths or something.

Southern Ontario does that too. Our vowels don't follow the same pattern but for example:

Toronto - Tro'na
did you - di'ja

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06 Jan 2021, 3:37 pm

Throughout the English speaking world there is this one word sentence:

"Jeet?".

The response to the sentence often is: "Yes. We have eaten."

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06 Jan 2021, 4:15 pm

naturalplastic wrote:

Throughout the English speaking world there is this one word sentence:

"Jeet?".

The response to the sentence often is: "Yes. We have eaten."

As a nitpicker I'd spell that dj'eat but still, very well played.

Also, no, but I think it's time to ge'some grub.

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06 Jan 2021, 4:28 pm

"D'jeet chet? Yumptah?"

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06 Jan 2021, 4:31 pm

cyberdad wrote:

Worcester = Wooster (literally)

That's literally how it's pronounced.

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06 Jan 2021, 4:57 pm

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Schedule - Shedule (although I prefer to pronounce it as "schedule").

What is the difference between those two?

I, and most Americans pronounce it "sked-j-yule", or "skehdjawool". Always starting with an "sk" sound.

Rarely you hear someone say "shed-ja-wool" (with an sh sound instead of an "sk" sound). But thats only in movies with Brit characters, or when a real life person is joking around to sound humorously high fallutin' (always said with thier nose in the air).

Slightly different. Saying "shedule" is like pronouncing school as "shool".

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06 Jan 2021, 6:46 pm

Steve1963 wrote:

cyberdad wrote:

Worcester = Wooster (literally)

Worcester = Wuhstah

Raleigh wrote:

cyberdad wrote:

Worcester = Wooster (literally)

That's literally how it's pronounced.

Wait...isn't Wooster = Wuhstah?

Is this an American Vs Australian accent thing?

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06 Jan 2021, 6:48 pm

Joe90 wrote:

naturalplastic wrote:

Joe90 wrote:

Schedule - Shedule (although I prefer to pronounce it as "schedule").

Slightly different. Saying "shedule" is like pronouncing school as "shool".

For Australians we would pronounce these words as skool and skedule

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06 Jan 2021, 8:23 pm

Joe90 wrote:

naturalplastic wrote:

Joe90 wrote:

Schedule - Shedule (although I prefer to pronounce it as "schedule").

Slightly different. Saying "shedule" is like pronouncing school as "shool".

What you mean is that you give it a "k" sound.

You do just what I just got through explaining to you that I (and most Americans) do...which is to pronounce it "skedule".

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07 Jan 2021, 1:09 am

funeralxempire wrote:

Edna3362 wrote:

Flower = Plawer :lol:

Vibration = Baybreysyon.

Location: Guess.

Is it bad that I like paying attention to how foreign born co-workers say things just to see how sounds I take for granted are hard for other people? (because I know how many sounds I can't make for the life of me like rolled rs or that ch/gh spitting on the floor sound)

It is not bad. :twisted:

If anything, I observed the opposite. :lol:

And see if I could pronounce the unpronounceable.

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Edna3362 wrote:

Flower = Plawer :lol:

Vibration = Baybreysyon.

Location: Guess.

Mabuhay na ang Pilipinas!

Na??

How-- Oh my..!
But then gven the global situation, it does makes sense...

Aw, that gave away. :twisted:

You guessed it right. :wink:

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07 Jan 2021, 8:02 am

funeralxempire wrote:

spelled - spelt
butter - budder

Words that you pronounce the same as they are spelt:

spelt - spelt
butter - butter
:mrgreen:

I'm having trouble thinking of any actual good examples besides the obvious things like:

knee - nee
through - threw

I guess example is a good exam-pull though.
Or perhaps it's gud.

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