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I can never understand what these idiots from the north are saying.



Travis

Boaz, (sweet home)Alabama pronounced BO-az.

Does the local hospital answer the phone...

" Picabo... ICU " ??

Friend of mine could never say "usurp."

It was always "UP-surp."

One of her many quirky pronunciations.

"Devast" for devastate, for example, or "odiferous" for odoriferous.

(No, I'm not referring to Greta van Susteren, who can't handle any word that has more than two sillybobbubbables.)

Walked into a pawn shop last week and the clerk addressed me as "Boss". He called me that all during our conversation. I am not the boss, my wife is.

There's an old story � possibly true � about an old rancher who found that some running-iron artist was extending his I-C brand to I-C-U.

He extended those further � to I-C-U-2 � and there were no more such revisions.

That is used by Islanders that work around this district, some Aboriginals have picked it up and some whites seem to be picking it up as well...it just sounds wrong.

For all intensive purposes, it's the same thing. Just sayin'..

The thing that grates on my nerves is when people use the local pronunciation of a town or city, when they don't live there and the pronunciation doesn't match their accent at all. It's like they are trying to be cool and prove that they went there once upon a time. I live well north of New Orleans and we pronounce it "New-Orlinns". Yankees will often say "New Orleens", which is fine, but trying to do the "N'awwlinns" like the actual locals say, that just irritates the hell out of me and sounds stupid. I know a girl who had family that lived in Norfolk for a short while. She'd pronounce it "Nahfock", or some bastardized way that the locals there probably said it. It sounded strange with her deep south accent, like she was obviously trying too hard to show that she was "in the know".

Yankees who say:

car-BINE as in vine instead of Car-bine as in bean; and Beauchamp as Bo-champ instead of Bee-cham.

"Catsup" and "crayfish" are also dead giveaways....

The southern accent seems almost impossible for actors.
I've often wondered why.

One that I've noticed recently is the growing tendency to pronounce cache "cash-ay."

Cache is "cash."

Cachet is "cash-ay."

Meanings are different, too.

"No problem" instead of "you're welcome". I can guarantee if there was a problem you would know about it.

Far more annoying than "clip" for "magazine".

Also, "for sell" instead of "for sale".

Prescott AZ, pronounced "Press-kit" by AZ residents. Confuses people.

A friend's dad growing up was always mis-pronouncing the word fathom. The worst part was, it was his favorite word. He would go on and on about what he couldn't fanthom. Hard to keep a straight face after awhile. We always found it more hilarious than irritating though.

I remember one of Col. Cooper's columns in which he stated that the correct pronucation of carbine was with the ine sounding like it does in wine. Me, I don't care how you say it.

Ernie

"For sell" kinda bugs me too. Couple that with "cash and carry" though and that's when I really get irritated.

It's funny what bugs people.

locals here with that name pronounce it the first way....

i never pronounce Sako right unless im paying attention cause there is a town a lil ways down the road called Saco(Say-co)

It's "Sock-oh", right? And if I'm not mistaken, Whelen is "Way-len". I hear various pronunciations on those two.

I grew up and live in rural south east Wisconsin. My hometown is Ixonia, pronounced igs-own-ya. Telemarketers could never get that right, and many stopped trying. I now live near Ixonia in Oconomowoc (oh-con-oh-mow-wok). Many times, again, unpronounceable by the aforementioned telemarketers. My great grandpa told me a story when I was young that the area was so named because an old Native American was walking through it many ages ago, became tired, sat down, and said, "I can no more walk." This same great grandpa would also say, if you listened hard enough, you could hear the Bark River bark... good old memories.

I sometimes find it funny that I'm the only only one who knows what a 'bubbler' is whenever I travel. And there's a good reason for it. Some light reading: The Real Reason Why We Call it a 'Bubbler' in Wisconsin