Folks can't speak worth a....

[SFactor]

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!!!!!!

[dzrose93]

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.

[Mz. Sports Luva]

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.

[AKA2D '91]

Originally posted by Mz. Sports Luva
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.

RIGHT!

Also, Wal-Marks (xs)

[vanda]

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.

[landa29605]

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

[AKAtude]

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."

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

[aprilzeta]

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)."

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.

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, IT'S PATTERN LADY.....PATTERN!!!!

[tudibuk]

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

OH MY!

[blueberi1920]

The one thing that really works my nerve is when people mispronounce carry . It is not pronounced curry

Oh yeah and it's louis vuitton not lewis batton!

[#1 Leading Lady]

The letter R pronounced R-ra

I also dislike when people interchange singular and plural words

Ex:

I need to brush my teefes.

My feets hurt.

[intheknow]

My two favorites that I hear on a regular basis are

seen or saw- seent
looked - look-did

Ex. I seent a girl that look-did a mess!!

Whenever people mispronounce stuff like this, the only thing I want to say is please look-did in the dictionary and you'll seent that these words don't exist!

An absolute Ebonical (yes, I invented that word!) mess!!

[AKA2D '91]

Originally posted by intheknow
My two favorites that I hear on a regular basis are

seen or saw- seent
looked - look-did

you MUST reside in the South. (don't answer)

every-ere
prescription-'scripton
again-ah-GAIN (you know when folks try to speak "proper")

[AKAtude]

Originally posted by AKA2D '91



you MUST reside in the South. (don't answer)

every-ere
prescription-'scripton
again-ah-GAIN (you know when folks try to speak "proper")

LOL. Maybe this is another Southern one:

Out here - out cha