Nuke-u-lure -Nuclear/ Poosh the Feesh

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  1. Saying new-kew-lar instead of new-klee-ar is often just something people learn because it’s a part of their dialect. Some people are really bothered by the way they learned to pronounce it and correct it; some don’t, and in most cases it doesn’t say much about them. I know several very bright and well-educated people who say it the wrong way, and while I do a double-take every time I hear it, I’ve learned only to be bothered by it when I know it’s done out of plain old ignorance.
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  1. Saying new-kew-lar instead of new-klee-ar is often just something people learn because it’s a part of their dialect. Some people are really bothered by the way they learned to pronounce it and correct it; some don’t, and in most cases it doesn’t say much about them. I know several very bright and well-educated people who say it the wrong way, and while I do a double-take every time I hear it, I’ve learned only to be bothered by it when I know it’s done out of plain old ignorance.

  2. As far as strange pronunciations go, you might be interested in a few (out of the very, very many) common in Bawlmerese (Baltimore-ese, basically):

larnix (larynx)
erl (oil)
fitty (fifty)
hunnert (hundred)

I could go on, but I think you get the point.

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Be sure to do a good jorb.

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And the local store, the Ackame.

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my husband insists on saying “eye talian” drives me mad!!!

my grandmother always called it “i oh way” and a guy at work calls a syringe a sernge. explain that one! of course he is the same one that uses the word warsh.

i am guilty to tho, find myself saying “git” instead of “get”.

i know a few people that insist on adding the letter s to the end of certain store names such as “walmarts” and “kmarts”.

funny thing, tho, i was vehemently swearing up and down that people in minnesota ** do not ** sound like that movie “fargo”
and then i happened to be in the grocery store and heard someone sounding like kirstie alley in Drop Dead Gorgeous

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Well, I should say not. Fargo is in North Dakota! :smiley:

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If you say EYE-talian …chances are you say Missoura and Cincinatta…

I have a black friend (raised in Col. Oh.) who says BUB— as in
lightbub. I know that IS Southern.
Soil as in dirt = SOL///or SOLE