Deep south, in fact.
Not in Georgia.
Well, they talk funny.
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.
‘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.
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.)
But how did you pronounce Gaylord when you lived in Detroit (and where did you go to high school?)
Every city is pronounced wrong in Ohio, so I wouldn’t be surprised to find the same there.
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.
[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]
Catawba as written presents no issue to me.
You mean, “Key-awn-say”?