I live in Central Ohio.
My first wife’s family used to tease
me because I said -wash- not warsh.
If you say “warsh” you also say FEESH,DEESH,WEESH,DE-SEESION,POOSH,BOOSH AND NUKE-U-LAR.
I have read that this form of pronunciation started in Southern Ohio.
I love the fact that New England isn’t alone in odd pronunciation of words.
Are there other words out there that I would get a kick out of ?
My sister and I (raised in New Jersey) used to tease our mother (raised in Pennsylvania) because she insisted that the national symbol is an “iggle.” “No, mom, it’s a EEEEagle. Long E. EEEEE”
She (and all her family) also called a little brook a “crick,” but called a muscle spasm a “creek.” Whereas we knew you get a crick in your back, but you wade in a creek.
What are these words supposed to mean?
Fish, dish, wish, decision, and I don’t know about the last two.
Push, bush.
Here in central Indiana, I’ve heard:
After ya warsh, ya rench to get the soap out.
Mom, from rural Ohio, called that thing with 88 keys a pee-OW-no.
Al from Middletown calls it a pee-ANN-a.
You write with an ink-pin.
Ouch! You stuck me wit a PEE-un.
Poosh and boosh are occasional here, usually it’s push and bush.
We can say President of the United States here, not PreznyNigh’States, as some prominent politicos do.
A really big rain is a gully washer, but one farm boy I know says golly woosh.
AskNott
You have me howling…
I have heard all of those too.
When my dad was in the Air Force, he got roped into a heated debate over whether iron is supposed to be pronounced “eye-run” (like in “hey look at that eyeball with legs!”) or “ahrn” (like in “Schwarzenegger”).
When they asked him, he said he always pronounced it “eye-urn” (like in “what’s your weekly salary?”).
The local football team is the Fluffya Iggles.
E! A! G! L! E! S! IGGLES!
PS: you forgot about the ruff.
you guys have me cracking -up.
Klum-bus, Ahia— (Columbus ,Ohio)
Black street kids(in Columbus) said “ast” in the sixties-- Let me ast you —
TV has corrected that. Now they say ax.
Haygeno, how does your wife’s family pronounce “job”?
FEESH,DEESH,WEESH,DE-SEESION,POOSH,BOOSH AND NUKE-U-LAR.
That reminds me of when I was 11 years old, and my dad was washing the car. He sent me into the house for the deeshsoap, and I had no idea what he wanted. I’d lived with the man my entire life, and I still couldn’t understand him at times. He grew up in Indiana, but we moved around because he was in the Army, so his accent isn’t very noticeable. There are still a few words where is comes out, like when it’s time to warsh the deeshes.
My grandmother says doll as dall.
I have no accent at all 
(at least not that one, you betcha.)
That’s EX—
I was a child groom 33 yrs. ago.
Do you mean JAW-B ?
I have an old friend from Kentucky. --She— would say it that way. She would also say
TAR-ARN…(tire iron) .If her car wasn’t running she would say it was " tore-up "
My ex’s family were “Columbus Hillbillies”.
Not quite that country… at least 1 generation removed from the hills.
There are variations in the pronuncation of many words. Yes, I live in Boston where 1/2 = “harf” and when something is funny, you “larf”.
However, to pronounce “nuclear” as NOOK-YOU-LAR isn’t just a difference in pronunciation - it is just plain wrong. Look at the way it is spelled - NUC-LE-AR. So, where the Hell does that “you” come from? And where does the “LEE” disappear to?
It’s hard to believe President Jimmy Carter who was stationed on US Navy NUC-LE-AR submarines for many years still gave it the incorrect pronunciation. Also, George W Bush pronounces it wrong but it is not too tough to believe that. He also says “subliminable” - not an alternative pronunciation - it is just wrong.
Sorry, for a snooty Bostonian to be so adamant about this, but we do have an image to maintain. And as someone once said “In Boston, even the owls say WHOM”.
LOL
For some folks, nukular is just more comfterble to say.
I have a question:
Is it only Americanos from certain places who pronounce nuclear in the manner so reviled by many?
If so, how do the chemists, biologists and physicists from these places pronounce nucleus?
Nuke-u-lus?
I agree with Hobie. NOOK-YOU-LAR is an intolerable obscenity that must be eradicated !!! How far does a misprononunciation have to deteriorate until it is finally deemed unacceptable ?
For example, methyl alcohol must be the same as ethyl alcohol - just one letter different right? The difference is fatal as a matter of fact.
Oh, yes. The ruff.
And my Grandmom used to tell us to drink “pru-un” (prune) juice.
Put it out at the “curve”.
When you’re done with that, put it in the " zink "
