Is this one of those local things, like the place in southern England, spelt "Home", which the locals insist is "HUME" ?
A State of puzzlement
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A State of puzzlement
The other day, they were interviewing a lady from Missouri, and she pronounced her State "misery", no ooh in the middle
Is this one of those local things, like the place in southern England, spelt "Home", which the locals insist is "HUME" ?
Is this one of those local things, like the place in southern England, spelt "Home", which the locals insist is "HUME" ?
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One evening many years ago, in the bar of a Heathrow hotel, I got chatting to a Colonial oil man who kept saying Lousy Anna, instead of Louisiana. What he didn't realise was that after the twentieth time of saying it, he was no longer funny.
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It's like Kansas is pronounced how its spelled but Arkansas is pronounced 'Arkinsaw'.
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How about one we hear frequently in this area - "Merlun" for Maryland.
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Fortunately, it's difficult to mispronounce Texas. 
But that doesn't stop people from having fun with it. Many years ago in a gents in the state of Oklahoma I read the following on the wall. "Here I sit my cheeks a-flexin' giving birth to another Texan." 
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But that doesn't stop people from having fun with it. Many years ago in a gents in the state of Oklahoma I read the following on the wall. "Here I sit my cheeks a-flexin' giving birth to another Texan." Brian
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I believe it all started with RP and went south from there.
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The only 'RP' that I'm aware of is received pronunciation, the very posh English accent which most Americans think all English people speak with. In truth, virtually no-one speaks like that. For example, RP may use the greeting 'I say, how are you?', whereas in the Black Country where I was born and brought up you'd likely hear 'Awroight, 'ow am yer?'.
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Well, youse lern sumfink evry day, eh?Kevin Farnell wrote: ↑07 Aug 2021, 08:54The only 'RP' that I'm aware of is received pronunciation, the very posh English accent which most Americans think all English people speak with. In truth, virtually no-one speaks like that. For example, RP may use the greeting 'I say, how are you?', whereas in the Black Country where I was born and brought up you'd likely hear 'Awroight, 'ow am yer?'.
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I was drug up just a few miles north of ya where the common phrase was 'Aye up, at owrate?' to which the normal answer would be 'Arr, a conna complain!''Kevin Farnell wrote: ↑07 Aug 2021, 08:54For example, RP may use the greeting 'I say, how are you?', whereas in the Black Country where I was born and brought up you'd likely hear 'Awroight, 'ow am yer?'.
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