# Floor-i-duh, Floor-duh or Flahr-duh **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 12, 2011, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/floor-i-duh-floor-duh-or-flahr-duh/581658 "2011-05-12T15:25:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/floor-i-duh-floor-duh-or-flahr-duh/581658/21 "2011-05-12T19:39:37Z")
Floor-Duh. Learned to talk in Mare-Lin. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/floor-i-duh-floor-duh-or-flahr-duh/581658/22 "2011-05-12T19:46:02Z")
None of the above. 3 syllables, the vowels in the last two are both schwas. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/floor-i-duh-floor-duh-or-flahr-duh/581658/23 "2011-05-12T19:56:22Z")
_Flar-ri-da_ Not a native, but I lived in Jacksonville for 18 years. Of course, I’ve been told Jax is actually southern Jawja… ---
**Author:** ![kapri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4491bb/32.png) [@kapri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kapri)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/floor-i-duh-floor-duh-or-flahr-duh/581658/24 "2011-05-12T19:58:28Z")
None of the above. I live in Florida, and I say “Fla–rid-ah.” No one I know leaves out the second syllable completely and no one I know pronounces it the way any of the choices in the poll do. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/floor-i-duh-floor-duh-or-flahr-duh/581658/25 "2011-05-12T20:08:48Z")
Floor-dah. Lived here all my life. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/floor-i-duh-floor-duh-or-flahr-duh/581658/26 "2011-05-12T20:12:36Z")
Floor-id-ee-ah. When I was in high school, a kid I was babysitting for was all excited because her grandparents were coming up from “Floridia”. I corrected her twice, then figured, eff it, she’ll find out when she gets to school. But “Floridia” has stuck with me ever since. ---
**Author:** ![filling\_pages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9bd4f/32.png) [@filling\_pages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filling_pages)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/floor-i-duh-floor-duh-or-flahr-duh/581658/27 "2011-05-13T18:00:38Z")
I voted the last one, but it’s more like Flahr-i-duh with the middle syllable barely there. And I was born and raised in North Florida. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/floor-i-duh-floor-duh-or-flahr-duh/581658/28 "2011-05-13T22:27:03Z")
The way I pronounce it is more like FLAW-rih-duh than anything else. ---
**Author:** ![colonial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@colonial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colonial)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/floor-i-duh-floor-duh-or-flahr-duh/581658/29 "2011-05-13T22:40:50Z")
Flaw-rida. I’ve been there, I know people who still live there, and that is the frikken way everyone pronounces it who doesn’t have some kind of attitude or speech impediment. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/floor-i-duh-floor-duh-or-flahr-duh/581658/30 "2011-05-14T02:16:13Z")
Floor-id\<-\>ah, three syllables and the “d” \*kind of \*belongs to the end of the second syllable and the beginning of the third at the same time (which is not uncommon to how I’d like to represent any works spoken 'round here). ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/floor-i-duh-floor-duh-or-flahr-duh/581658/31 "2011-05-14T07:53:43Z")
I went with the closest, but technically, I pronounce it FLOR-ih-duh or FLOR-uh-duh. Floor is pronounced slightly differently than if it were spelled flore. It does not rhyme with, say, gore. And I don’t believe I have ever heard any American English speaker not make all unaccented /ɒ/s into [ə]s. If anyone can find or make a recording of the ih-dah or ah-dah pronunciation, I’d love to hear it. ---
**Author:** ![chizzuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/floor-i-duh-floor-duh-or-flahr-duh/581658/32 "2011-05-14T07:57:25Z")
I thought I said “Floor-i-duh,” with 3 definite syllables. But I just said it to myself a bunch of times and that second syllable is getting swallowed about 50% of the time, or I’m articulating it so briefly that it isn’t audible. Weird. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/floor-i-duh-floor-duh-or-flahr-duh/581658/33 "2011-05-14T12:29:35Z")
I’ve lived there and I’ve never heard anyone pronounce it with less than three syllables ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/floor-i-duh-floor-duh-or-flahr-duh/581658/34 "2011-05-14T12:36:35Z")
In Spanish floREEdah; in English FLOreedah. The only difference is the stress. I think the closest in the poll is the one I marked, floor-i-duh, but my version has an o and not an oo - I don’t think I’ve ever heard anybody use an oo (and I lived in Miami for 4 years). You people separate syllables in the weirdest places, I swear. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/floor-i-duh-floor-duh-or-flahr-duh/581658/35 "2011-05-14T13:38:41Z")
Flora-duh. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/floor-i-duh-floor-duh-or-flahr-duh/581658/36 "2011-05-14T13:48:44Z")
Us downstate crackers said Florda. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/floor-i-duh-floor-duh-or-flahr-duh/581658/37 "2011-05-14T14:09:33Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > In Spanish floREEdah; in English FLOreedah. The only difference is the stress. I think the closest in the poll is the one I marked, floor-i-duh, but my version has an o and not an oo - I don’t think I’ve ever heard anybody use an oo (and I lived in Miami for 4 years). You people separate syllables in the weirdest places, I swear. It’s that pesky American R. It is different at the beginning or end of syllables. Before an unstressed syllable, it is treated as the latter, rather than the former. The R in Florida is technically a vowel. Also, I believe many Americans pronounce boor and “bore” the same way. OOR == OR. Even in my dialect, the difference is only slight. If I said, “You are such a boor,” your probably wouldn’t know if I meant you were clumsy and rude or uninteresting and unexciting. Not that you are either, of course. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/floor-i-duh-floor-duh-or-flahr-duh/581658.md?page=1)