Folks can't speak worth a.... - Page 4

AKA2D '91 · #46 11-11-2001, 09:24 PM

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Originally posted by AKAtude

LOL. Maybe this is another Southern one:

Out here - out cha

wait!

out here- out CHere!

out of you- out CHA!

holD up- holE up!

Steeltrap · #47 11-11-2001, 10:39 PM

Pomegranate = pomagram. I still do that.

AKA2D '91 · #48 11-11-2001, 10:42 PM

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Originally posted by Steeltrap
Pomegranate = pomagram. I still do that.

what?

pronunciate please. LMAO

(remember that from Martin?)

much-merch

Steeltrap · #49 11-12-2001, 01:12 AM

Soror, when I was a little girl, I pronounced pomegranate "pomagram." That's all that meant.

lil_sunshine · #50 11-12-2001, 08:19 PM

I have a few...

1. My grandmother was born in the South and she'd say, "bootiful" (WTH?? ) (beautiful)

2. I also know some people who say, "Yop!" WTH is up with that?? (It's yep or yeah, however you wanna say it)

3. My Spanish professor last semester used to say, "Past participial." (WTH??? ) He meant past participle. I hated trying to correct him because he'd keep saying, "Past participial." Damn!!!

4. My mother's former co-worker would say:
fillum (film) and ammonia (pneumonia) Double damn!!! All this from an Italian woman with a Bachelor's Degree in Art History (I see that education doesn't help everybody. )

But wait, people! I think this one takes the cake:
5. aminals (animals) Now really!!!

That's all I can think of for now.

korkscru · #51 11-12-2001, 11:26 PM

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU to the person who came up with this HILARIOUS thread. I thoroughly enjoyed every last response. I can't remember when I laughed so hard.

You never can actually imagine how COUNTRY you sound until someone else brings it out. I'm from South Carolina and I KNOW that I have many moments of being absolutely country (and I'm a college-educated woman also). It's almost like speaking another language at times. When I'm around certain people (like my family who actually understand what I'm saying), I just completely relax with correct pronunciation and what not. But when I'm around my supervisor, director, SOME co-workers, and other agencies, then my language changes.

It's good that we can laugh at this. If the truth be told, EBONICS (which is what we now call it) is basically part of the African-American culture. And, if you think about it, it's not so bad. It's DIFFERENT (and that's a good thing).

lil_sunshine · #52 11-13-2001, 12:42 PM

Hey korkscru, how was your birthday? Did you get my message? Just wondering.

skywalker20_99 · #53 11-13-2001, 01:01 PM

I CANT STAND IT when people say "urnion" instead of onion. I can be quite "country", but that one irritates me to no end.

vanda · #54 11-13-2001, 06:13 PM

I have a co worker who no matter how many times I try to correct her on the sly, insists on saying prudentials instead of credentials!

nulook · #55 11-15-2001, 09:02 AM

Here are more.

1. Fo sho---for sure.

2. bowy--boy

3. nuttin'--nothing

4. dat good--that's good

4. I've noticed that here in Richmond, many people say "won't"---like "He won't at home when he was supposed to be"---instead of wasn't.

5. dat dey---that there (go figure)

6. gimme---give me

7. wannna---want to

8. lemme---let me

I'm talking to my daughter now so that something else will slip out.

sweet angel · #56 11-15-2001, 02:53 PM

ohmigosh! Ya'll are clownin'

I got one for ya'll...my dad and I were driving through chicago (pronounced chi car go...

) and he was going on and on about how the "amtrak" was killing people and how it sho' was a pity (he's so country

)... I thought he was talking about the train. This man ment anthrax!

others:
chirch=church
skirmp=someone thought that was the plural of shrimp...
pronouncing the h in herb
moonster=monster (my lil' neice

)
teef=teeth or toof=tooth
eyeron=iron
expurrence=experience
lawd hammercy!
chile=child
I could probably go on and on...

Ideal08 · #57 11-15-2001, 03:07 PM

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Originally posted by SFactor
Creak - Creek

What's the difference?

Ok, I see I mispronounce some stuff. I say WARSH instead of wash. I really don't see anything wrong with it, lol. Warsh my hair, warsh my clothes, etc., lol.

I also say:

Buhtato - potato
Buhjamas - pajamas
babydial - babydoll (everyone in cleveland says it like this)
beel - bill (and all the rhyming words: hill, pill, etc.)
grandpaw - grandpa (I KNOW I'm not alone on this one)
bafroom - bathroom

fughgerator - refrigerator (fugh as in ugh, lol)

Other stuff I've heard...

Cincinnatuh - Cincinnati (RM, how you forget that one??)
peeza - pizza (courtesy of my Grandpaw)
bursh - brush (also courtesy of Grandpaw)
Sairday - Saturday (compliments of my Daddy)
nan - ??? (my father used to say this, too.. not nan before...)

#1 Leading Lady · #58 11-15-2001, 03:33 PM

counch instead of couch

orangich instead of orange

antenner instead of antenna

remoke controller instead of remote control

wadder instead of water

#59 11-15-2001, 06:38 PM

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Originally posted by sweet angel

pronouncing the h in herb

As a matter of fact herb can be pronounced with or without the h. I can't stand it with the h though. Martha Stewart says herbs and it works my nerves.

Another country word:
Pronouncing the "w" in sword.

vanda · #60 11-15-2001, 07:30 PM

I don't know if its been posted before, if it has sorry! We all know someone that says Liberry instead of library! And when I was in college and we studied Hamlet, why was grown folks up in there calling it Hamilton????!!!!