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A State of puzzlement
Posted: 06 Aug 2021, 14:38
by Airspeed
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" ?
Re: A State of puzzlement
Posted: 06 Aug 2021, 16:46
by Paul K
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.
Re: A State of puzzlement
Posted: 06 Aug 2021, 16:57
by Kevin Farnell
It's like Kansas is pronounced how its spelled but Arkansas is pronounced 'Arkinsaw'.
Kevin
Re: A State of puzzlement
Posted: 07 Aug 2021, 00:13
by nigelb
How about one we hear frequently in this area - "Merlun" for Maryland.
Nigel²
Re: A State of puzzlement
Posted: 07 Aug 2021, 07:06
by FlyTexas
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."
Brian
Re: A State of puzzlement
Posted: 07 Aug 2021, 07:23
by airboatr
I believe it all started with RP and went south from there.
Re: A State of puzzlement
Posted: 07 Aug 2021, 08:34
by Airspeed
airboatr wrote: ↑07 Aug 2021, 07:23
I believe it all started with RP and went south from there.
"RP" =
Re: A State of puzzlement
Posted: 07 Aug 2021, 08:54
by Kevin Farnell
Airspeed wrote: ↑07 Aug 2021, 08:34
airboatr wrote: ↑07 Aug 2021, 07:23
I believe it all started with RP and went south from there.
"RP" =
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?'.
Kevin
Re: A State of puzzlement
Posted: 07 Aug 2021, 13:58
by Airspeed
Kevin Farnell wrote: ↑07 Aug 2021, 08:54
Airspeed wrote: ↑07 Aug 2021, 08:34
airboatr wrote: ↑07 Aug 2021, 07:23
I believe it all started with RP and went south from there.
"RP" =
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?'.
Kevin
Well, youse lern sumfink evry day, eh?
Thanks Kevin
Re: A State of puzzlement
Posted: 07 Aug 2021, 15:15
by Tako_Kichi
Kevin Farnell wrote: ↑07 Aug 2021, 08:54
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?'.
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!''