# It's GAYLORD! GAY- LORD! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 23, 2022, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940 "2022-05-23T16:03:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2022, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/61 "2022-05-29T19:42:31Z")
> [@california\_jobcase](#): > > Georgians do pronounce the L in walk, talk and salmon. [The ‘L’ in salmon](https://www.pronounceitright.com/pronunciation/salmon-10617) [is silent.](https://www.confidentvoice.com/blog/do-you-pronounce-salmon-correctly/) ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2022, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/62 "2022-05-29T22:15:42Z")
Deep south, in fact. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2022, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/63 "2022-05-29T22:53:08Z")
Not in Georgia. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2022, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/64 "2022-05-29T22:59:38Z")
Well, they talk funny. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2022, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/65 "2022-05-31T17:15:21Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > > [@california\_jobcase](#): > > > > Georgians do pronounce the L in walk, talk and salmon. > > [The ‘L’ in salmon](https://www.pronounceitright.com/pronunciation/salmon-10617) [is silent.](https://www.confidentvoice.com/blog/do-you-pronounce-salmon-correctly/) How do y’all pronounce ‘almond’? I was ridiculed once by a co-worker for pronouncing it ‘AH-mond’. I countered, do you pronounce the ‘L’ in salmon or yolk? According to him, that’s different. I looked it up and apparently both pronounciations are correct. I quizzed my family but they do pronounce the ‘L’ in almond, so I don’t know where I picked up the silent ‘L’ pronunciation. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2022, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/66 "2022-05-31T17:41:40Z")
> [@solost](#): > > How do y’all pronounce ‘almond’? ‘ALL-mund’. Although up in the Central Valley (or down in, nowadays) where they actually grow almonds, I was listening to an interview on NPR with the spokesman for an almond growers association or something like that. He kept pronouncing it ‘AM-in’. It took me a while to figure out he was talking about almonds instead of something called ammins. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2022, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/67 "2022-05-31T20:20:33Z")
Actually, “acks” for “ask” is a fairly old British pronunciation. Apparently, the “acks” speakers tended migrate to the Carolinas and Georgia (which is where a number of black people picked up the pronunciation). It has a lot more to do with where one’s ancestors lived than with any “laziness” among speakers. As for dee Troyt, when I was in high school (in Detroit), we used to mock folks who said DEE troyt as uneducated. (I have no idea whether education played a role in their pronunciation and I have lived away from Detroit for 40 years, so do not know what the more common local pronunciation is, now.) ---
**Author:** ![2\_More\_Bits](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2_more_bits/32/4148_2.png) [@2\_More\_Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2_More_Bits)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2022, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/68 "2022-05-31T23:20:50Z")
But how did you pronounce Gaylord when you lived in Detroit (and where did you go to high school?) ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2022, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/69 "2022-06-01T14:52:51Z")
Every city is pronounced wrong in Ohio, so I wouldn’t be surprised to find the same there. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/70 "2022-06-03T13:50:00Z")
> [@2\_More\_Bits](#): > > But how did you pronounce Gaylord when you lived in Detroit (and where did you go to high school?) I think my pronunciation of Gaylord probably sounds more like GAY lerd. High School was Sacred Heart, (long since closed and donated to WCCC), a college prep school with guys from all over Detroit and suburbs. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/71 "2022-06-03T17:48:18Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > In Ohio it’d LY-muh, not LEE-muh. [Coke to 69 too] Milan, OH. I come to it from the famous F1 track in the Italian town, so “Mee-LON.” Drives my mom crazy, where she and everybody else says “MY-lan.” And don’t get me started on how to say “Catawba”-try to say it as spelled and you sprain your lips. [Everyone says it as “Catabwa” to avoid the resulting plastic surgery] ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/72 "2022-06-03T20:44:33Z")
Catawba as written presents no issue to me. ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2022, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/73 "2022-06-14T14:01:45Z")
You mean, “Key-awn-say”? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940.md?page=3)