Mispronouncing…

[Vegas Gamblers]

Milk

I say Melk

The wife says Milk

She grew in Oak Creek, me in Milwaukee.

[huffinpuffin2]

@Vegas Gamblers wrote:

Milwaukee.

Mwawkee? 😳

[sandlanders]

My grandma was from upstate New York, and she always said (for words like fog and dog) “fahg” and “dahg” while we (from northern Illinois) would say “fawg” and dawg”. It was funny hearing her overly emphasize our way of saying those words. She would probably “lahg” her cache finds, while we “lawg” them.

But I don’t know how she said bagel because I don’t ever remember having bagels with her.

[Timberline Echoes]

Creek
Coupon
Root
Grocery

How do you say them????
TE

[RSplash40]

@huffinpuffin2 wrote:

@Vegas Gamblers wrote:

Milwaukee.

Mwawkee? 😳

According to Alice Cooper in Waynes World its

Meee – leee-waah-kaay Algonquin for “the good land”…

[HeliDood]

I was not aware of that.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105793/quotes?qt0405518

[sandlanders]

@Timberline Echoes wrote:

Creek
Coupon
Root
Grocery

How do you say them????
TE

Let’s try:
“creek” to rhyme with “speak”
Q-pon
“root” to rhyme with “foot”, unless it’s “root, root, root for the home team” (rhymes with “boot”)
gro-shree

[labrat_wr]

bubbler : bubble-er or bub-lur?

Wash : with or without the “r” sound?

Ask : as-k or ax-k?

This could easily cross to the pet peeves thread 😀

(disclaimer: No offence intended by any of this as I am sure that I mispronounce lots of things.)

Disclaimer : Always answering to a higher power.

[furfool]

What about calm? Do you pronounce the “l” or not? I don’t, my wife does. She drives me nuts every time she says it that way.

[sandlanders]

@labrat_wr wrote:

bubbler : bubble-er or bub-lur?

bubbler or drinking fountain

[Astro_D]

How about…. twenty?

Do you pronounce the second ‘t’ or not? (I do).

[glorkar]

@Timberline Echoes wrote:

Creek
Coupon

How do you say them????
TE

Creek is like squeak, except in city names where it sounds like stick (sometimes)
Coupon is troop (you know, like chicken coup)

@AstroD-Team wrote:

How about…. twenty?

Do you pronounce the second ‘t’ or not? (I do).

Depends on if I’m lazy or actually want to pronounce it 🙂

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