For some reason almost every person in my city says "seen" where they should say "saw". Drives me bananas.
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In Iowa, USA:
- The town of Buena Vista is pronounced “byoo-nuh vist-uh”
- The town of Nevada is pronounced “neh-vade-uh”
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I haven't lived there in a while and I don't pronounce it that way anymore, but where I grew up, water is universally pronounced "wooder".
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Elemen-tary or documen-tary
The tary pronounced like Terry. Apparently this is unusual outside of this region.
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Melbourne.
Now most will read that and go Mel bourn. But in Australia we say Mel Bin.
A really easy way to tell if someone isn't an Aussie while there.
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My kid got a worksheet on the long A sound. She got through most of them but was stumped on the "lobster". I looked at it - Lobster, Crawfish, neither of those have a long A sound, what the heck?
Hours later it occurs to me.
OH, Craaay-fish? Who in the world calls them that? Nobody here. Where was this printed?
Boston accents are funny. When my mother says, "where are the cah-keys". My dad and I always say, "your car keys or khakis?"
Crayon: crown
Caramel: CAR-mul
Pecan: peh-CAWN
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I'm told there are differences between "merry", "marry", and "Mary", but I don't believe it.
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It's "Zed" not "Zee"
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As I live in the south I hear my "how are you all doing" morphing into "howya'lldoin" and there's nothing I can do to stop it
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North-East Netherlands. Besides the dialect, every sentence is ended with the word "ja", which means yes/yeah. It's like saying "It rains, yeah", or "Let's take a look, yeah". It's also drawn long, like jaaaa. Also, a lot of nouns are ended with "gie" in the dialect, making it a diminutive.
Charlottesville Virginia has a road spelled Rio but locals pronounce it with a long I (rhy-oh). Bonus points, the name originated from the road being route 10, marked with signs that said R10, which eventually became Rio.
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Bavarians pronounce Chemie, China, Chlor, and others with CH starting, with a K! KEMIE, KINA, KLOR!
Bavarians there is so much go hate about you!
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I lived in Louisville, KY briefly, and the official pronunciation is apparently “Luuhwuuhh”. You will be mocked if you get it wrong.
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When I was in school, I had a teacher who insisted on pronouncing the word "across" as "acrosst".
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We recently moved to a new area and there is a nearby town called Monticello. The locals all pronounce it mon-tee-sell-oh and will correct you if you say mon-teh-chel-oh. Doesn't quite fit the question cause I think the locals are insane for that 😅
Houston is not pronounced "hews-ton", it's "hows-ton"
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Southern Baden Württemberg: everything is followed by 'li'.
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I moved to AZ and I can now tell who is from here and who moved in from out of state by how they pronounce the town name Prescott.
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