Folks can't speak worth a....
 

I'm sure we all have come across those who cannot pronounce words. Here it just seems as if some words are really meant to sound a certain way.

For instance:

shrimp is pronounced as swimp
street-screet
specific-pacific
sink-zink
voice-verce
oil-earl
milk-mirk

what the freak? :confused:
LMAO

What have you heard?

My mother, bless her country heart, says Kenturky for Kentucky. :D

question = kurshtun
window = windah
wash = wursh
cellular phone = celica fome
digital phone = digikul fome
hair = hure
purse = puwse

ROFLMAO :D

I hate it when...

Ask comes out as 'ax'.
It's mashed potatoes, not 'mash'.
It's old fashioned, not old 'fashion'.
2 cent? Please, there is more than one, it's 2 cents.

My other pet peeve? When someone says they 'conversate' or 'were conversating' with someone. You can converse with someone or you can engage in conversation. There is no such word as 'conversate'.

here-----her
strawberry----scrawberry
future----fruture
pickle----prickle
nickle---nurkle
penguin---pigwig.....no lie :eek:
sausage---sausish
help---hope.....that's two totally different words, so how is that possible
throat----thoat
cleaned----cleant or clint
search----such
touch---turch
steering wheel----stirring wheel
board---boad
strength---scrength
teeth----teef
Mitsubishi---Missabishi
Mississippi---Miss-Sippy
Massachusetts---Massa-too-sits
and the newest I've heard.....ANTHRAX-----AMTRACKS :rolleyes: :( :confused:

Ambamlamps = Ambulance
Wash = Warsh
Throw = Thow
Toilet = Tullet or Twalet
Bathtub = Bafftuh

My father, as smart as he is, cannot say Colorado to save his life. It comes out more like Cattaratta.

My mother is just as bad. Her favorite car is the Toyota CAM-RAY. I've tried to help her out by telling her that there's no second A, but she is convinced that I'm wrong and she's right.

My mom pronounces Sandwich=sammich. I used to try and correct her, but realized that it's ok to make mistakes. I mispronounce words myself, and I'm a college graduate, so it happens. I always sat Bank taylor instead of bank teller.

This is a funny thread. To this day, my mom has a hard time pronouncing:

Hundred - she says "hunjed"
Michigan - she says "Mitchigan"
Gorgeous - she says "gaugeous"

Growing up, I couldn't pronounce:

Strawberry - I said "scrawberry"
Street - I said "skreet"

Eventually, I grew out of it.

LMAO!
 

Speaking of sausage:

some people say:
saushi$ :eek:
soosasasit


I couldn't pronounce anything using 'TH:
In Kindergarten, I had to take speech for it. I can remember my drill with the therapist was..."this, that, these and those". I would say...dis, dat, dese and dose.

I had a gap, I couldn't help it and I still had my "baby teeth". :D

My turn:

hundred--hunnert
fifty--fitty
fixing (as in "fixing to do..")--fittin'
mother--mutter
killed--kilt
mother's house--mamanems (a contraction of "Mama and them's)
all right--a'ight
going to--gonna or gon'
there--der
that--dat
the--da
right--rat
get--git
don't know--dunno
fart--fawd
bathroom--bahfum (my niece when she was a child said it this way and it sounded like she was saying "bad fumes", so maybe she was on to something there).
about--'bout
earth--earf
equipment--equibument (Who are you, Mushmouth?)

nuclear--nu-que-lar (I actually hear US Senators on C-SPAN pronounce it that way. Hey, folx, don't vote on it if you can't pronounce it. I don't want my last few minutes on the planet mired in a syntax discrepency).

Georgia--Jojah
Missouri--Missourah
Ohio--Ahiyah
bowl--ball

OK, more later
RM

Oh, Classy Lady, as far as the toilet pronounciation, in New York it's pronounced TERLET.

same goes down here. :mad:


my late grandmother would say:

fire-faoh
tire-taoh
between-betwixt
in a while- in a reckly :confused:


government-gubment

OH MY GOSH!! I'm laughing so hard from these. I just have to add one more. My grandmother, rest her soul, instead of saying "rinse"....it would come out sounding like "wrench".

Phonetically Speaking
 

Ok for all of you elocution experts out there, I can see ain't none uh y'all ain't eva bin ta 'Bama!:D :D :D
LOL!

annoying words often pronounced wrong!!!
 

anthrax being pronounced athrax ( by this country black woman i work with)
momma=mamuh
interest rate= interested rate ?????????
girl=gurl
soda water= sotah watah
saturday=sadaday
God= pronounced Gawd in most southern black churches!!
;)

I'm sorry grandma...
 

My grandmother always mixes her v's and w's.
For example...

willage instead of village
wegetable instead of vegetable
wiagra instead of viagra
Villiam instead of William(my grandfather's name)

Once I was in church and heard a minister give his topic. I am still stunned at what he said. His topic was supposed to be, "Will You Be A Witness For My Lord?" but instead he said "Vill You Be A Vitness For My Lord?" At first, I was like WT?, I giggled the entire sermon b/c I could not stop thinking about what he said his topic was.

I have heard this also...
Conshemplating instead of Contemplating

this may be off topic a little, but I heard this old woman (at a bridal shower) call a brassiere(bra for short)---->she said, "that's a purty gitty gatcher and bloomers." It took all I had not to laugh in her face.:D

Okay this has me laughing so hard I can't even think of the usual words that people mis-pronounce. I know I have always had trouble with the following words:

*sausage- sawsage
*orange- orgne
*Massachutes- Massachewtes.

Uh..Ex-squeeze me!
 

I've definitely heard "thoat" (posted by TE) & "wrench" (posted by Skeeliteful)...Laaaawd my folks in Ga! One thing that makes me really laugh is when my Grandma says "corch", instead of coach! And, she also says "roard", instead of road! Oh! And, what about V-C-Arra! :D I guess I have a problem pronouncing words too, like if I say "human", my sister swears I'm saying "hurman"...It doesn't sound like that to me, though. :confused:

Here's some more:


Usher -- Errsher
Birthday -- Burfday
Access -- Assess
Credit --Credic
Mexican --Messcan
Execute -- Essecute

I've also heard Anthrax pronounced Amtram :eek:

What did they say?
 

Fruit pronounced as "fruht"!!! :D ;) :p :p :p (inside joke, perhaps soror will post in her own defense!)

Throat pronounced as "throak" :p (her brother!)

Let me leave them alone before they get too upset with me and use some that I've heard in South Cack:

Street: "Skreet"
String: "Skring"
Children: "Churren" or "Chillen"
Orange: "Errnge", as in "Errngeburg", SC (Orangeburg) This one used to get on my last nerve!
Shrimp: "Scrimp"

Some of the older folks in "Ahia," (That's a state just South of Lake Erie) say...

Oil=earl
bush=boosh
wash=warsh or even woiche

People in my hometown of Columbus pronounce it C'lumbus. We also lived for a time in Balmer, Merlan (Baltimore) and M'waukee, WiSCONsin

In Balmer when you need an Amblance (ambulance) you call the POleese (Police).

Dang, some of y'all live in the COUNTRY, huh?!
 

My little sister used to say these two when she was younger:
Soda: Sodur
Crayon: Crown

I am DYING over here!!!

My grandmother used to say da reckly. It means directly. Like " I will be there directly."

How about people that can't speak PERIOD! :eek:

I watched a big fight this weekend on Showtime and the fighter who lost, man, I couldn't understand one single word that was coming out of his mouth..he must have got hit too many times in the head!

that's what it means? LMAO!

I just had a conversation with absolutely the countriest man on the planet

Here's more

Urnge = Orange
Praydant = President (I don't know how he got this one :confused: :confused: :confused: )
Ackatris = Actress
Grain = Green
Ull = Oil
Sharer = Shower
Bart = Bought

LOL!!!

Here's a few courtesy of my family in Louzana(Louisiana):


Year=ear
da reckly=directly
zanc=sink
frigidary/frigidaire=refrigerator
foam=phone
yern=yours
tb=tv
over yuh=over here
ernge=orange
car porch=car port
pop cone-pop corn

Most of the ones I know have been covered here except..

epitome----------epp-e-toe-ma

:mad: :eek: :mad: :eek: :mad: AAARRRGGGHHH! That drives me insane!

LMAO!!!
 

You reminded me of something. I've also heard people say:
*Graduation: Grad-oo-LA-shun

And that has nothing to do with being country--that's straight up ignorance--WITH NO CHASER!!

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Originally posted by HopefulProspective


I am DYING over here!!!

My grandmother used to say da reckly. It means directly. Like " I will be there directly."
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;)

No - that meant Your grandmother would be there or where ever she was going in a little while!!

Been there - heard that - seen it happen!!

Now Just for the Record............
 

Eve'ybody in Georgia doesn't talk like that - because I have a girlfriend from NEW YORK - who says


Horsepital - Hospital
Creak - Creek

And yes she was born and raised in New York!

It's all about the rollllllllllllling of the tongue!!!!!!:D

pronunciation story for you...
 

Hi All,

Hope y'all don't mind me butting into your thread like this, but I have a pronunciation story that seems fitting.

I worked as a waitress for a while last year, and had a couple in my section one day who really ticked me off!

The girl asked me for something and I didn't understand what she was saying, so I asked her to repeat herself. She did so, and I STILL didn't understand what she was saying. So I politely said "I'm sorry, I still didn't understand what you said. Would you please repeat it again?"

To this, the girl yelled "I want a SCRAW! Why is that so hard for you to get?" Then she yanked a straw out of my apron pocket and glowered at me until I walked away. Like it was my fault that she had poor grammar! ugh!

Anyway, thought y'all might find this amusing! I laughed about it later, but I was pretty upset for a while, especially since I wasn't left a tip. :mad:

LOL!!!!
 

Since I'm from 'Bama & the country, I've heard all of these 'nunciations.

Let me add K-Marks instead of K-Mart. When I was in college, I was a cashier at K-mart and I actually had this lady write a check to K-Marks. I still laugh about that.

Re: LOL!!!!
 

RIGHT!

Also, Wal-Marks (xs)

I work with seniors and a lot of them are from the DEEP south here are some of my faves:

Phlegm -- flem
jacuzzi-- caloogi
nacho chalupa----knocko calupa
Sybaris( you know the hotel chain)-----Sybarasis
my all time favorite:
Dialysis---Kidney 'chine

it's not only the seniors. i have a homemaker that's my age that swears "ignorancies" is a word.

I stand by the fact that betwixt is a word for between, but lets talk about the adding of 's on words
I want is not the same as I wonts
it's Wal-mart not Wal-marts
and
fish is not foosh
and my dad always used words out of context. he'd say "I'ma learn you something one day" Daddy: I'ma isn't a word and maybe one day you can teach me something

LOL. My grandma used to say that, too! One of my uncles still says it!

I forgot this one...
 

At an alumni meeting for my alma mater, one of my fellow alumnus referred to the collective as "a-loom-in-ni(what she really meant was alumni)." :o

This irritated the Sh@# out of me because she kept repeating it over and over again. Later on, I pulled her to the side and politely told her the way she said it was incorrect. The heffa looked at me and replied "a-loom-in-ni, alumni" was all the same and that everyone knew what she meant. :( :mad:

I attended a hair show and one of the platform artist had a narrator. At first I thought I heard the lady wrong, and I'm thinking to myself, "no she didn't just say that." True enough she repeated it over and over. She said the stylist is working in a PAT-TER-RIN. She said it so many times I wanted to jump up and say, http://www.plauder-smilies.com/person/director.gif IT'S PATTERN LADY.....PATTERN!!!! :mad:

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Good evening everyone!!!

ooh! ooh! I have a few!

wrekasto=record store
usher=ersher
business=bidness
sympathy=symphony
Tasha=Tarsha
Kimberly=Kimmley

and last, but not least:

ARCHITECTURE=ARJITEKCHER:eek:

OH MY!