Yeah, what she said.
:dubious:
Pork you pine
Pork you pine. Never heard porky-pine before that I’m aware of, but I can see where a blending of the two might exist such that it’s indistinguishable.
Pork you pine.
Never heard it pronounced any other way.
Some of the characters from the dictionary.com page didn’t paste in to your post properly, making that pronunciation misleading. On the dictionary.com page, there is a schwa after that ‘y’. So, they are actually endorsing a pronunciation something like “pork - yuh - pine”.
Porkey-Pine?
(I’ll have to look it up next time I’m at the li-berry, it must but some kind of
am-in-al.)
Pork ya pine.
I’ve hear porkey pine and pork you pine.
But I grew up with pork ya pine.
I always pronounced it “platypus.”
Pork - you - pine. I’ve never heard any other variation.
The subject of porcupines comes up a lot at your work?
Ha ha, “Thompson have that Porcupine report on my desk by 3:00 or you’re fired!”
I would say porky pine if I ever said it but I don’t. Also, I would say it fast so no one would notice how stupid it sounds.
I just turned to my husband and said, “How do you say the name of the mammal with the quills.”
He said, “Hedgehog!”
I said, “The other one.”
He said, “Porkypine.”
And then I laughed. He’s from Kentucky.
Like most people I know, I say “porkypine.”
And y’all can kiss my grits.
“Pork-cue-pine.”
I’m from California.
Concubine.
All right. Pork-you-pine. Though I actually have heard people say porkypine. I don’t personally like it, or associate it with sharp knives, but if the dictionary says so, well, what more can I say? (Except that the dictionary also has the word “ain’t”… shudder)
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Grew up in SouthEast PA, and I say porkypine. Everyone I knew said porkypine, and if it were a not too bright thing to say, my mother would have made my life a misery, so I’m thinking it’s standard there. [hi-jack]My best friend as a very small girl was called DANI-elle by her family. My mother insisted I call her dan-YELL. To this day, I wonder how anybody can tell somebody else how to pronounce their name. I know what the standard, correct, whatever, french pronunciation is. But it was HER name! Could the mother and father who gave it to her pronounce it wrong? I think, by definition, they can’t![end hi-jack]
I say it in my head as ‘por-cue-pine’, but if I were to say it out loud I would almost assuredly say ‘por-key-pine’. I guess that’s what I get for living with hicks.
I usually say por-cue-pine. When I’m being silly, I will say porky-pine; however, I do that knowing it’s a deliberate mispronunciation.