Me dear old grandmother, born, raised and lived her entire life in the Ozark Mountains, put an R in “wash.” It’s one of those quaint, fond memories I have. Not sure if I’ve ever heard anyone else do it.
Forget Tijuana. Few Americans can correctly pronounce Juarez.
It’s not wharEZ?
ETA…maybe with less “h”, like warEZ
hmpf. More ignorance fought, although I prefer how tumeric glides over my tongue. Turmeric is just ungainly.
Whenever I actually am in Juarez, I always hear the locals say it as HWAR-es.
Preach it!
“ice-cream”
Wow. I guess I don’t get out much. I’m surprised by the number of “sherbert” answers, because I always thought it was just a mispronunciation.
I pronounce it SHERb’t
Another long-time sherberter until I realized that everybody around me was adding an unneccessary ‘r’ (around 25 years old). Now, I annoy everybody by pronouncing it ‘correctly’ as sherbet.
This - with a really short, flat ‘u’.
Also, when I say it, I’m only ever talking about a kind of fizzy powdered confectionery product - because that’s more or less exclusively what the word means here in England.
Icy, usually-fruity desserts are sorbet - pronounced sore-bay.
I do tend to say, “Tía Juana” (& schwaed even) but isn’t “Juarez” |xwar 'es|?
Juárez, as the accent indicates, is pronounced HWAR-es, the E being a bit more like an English A; I tend to swallow the H a little, so it’s not heavily aspirated.
tixwɑnǝ
çwɑrƐz
As I said, that’s how I hear it from the locals, but when I say it like that to fellow Americans, even in Texas (especially in Texas?), they’ll look at me funny and go: “Hunh?” Then I say “War-EZ” in my best redneck voice, and they always get it.