It's "Zed" not "Zee"

Crayon: crown

Caramel: CAR-mul

Pecan: peh-CAWN

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".

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

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.

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?

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 😅

Boston accents are funny. When my mother says, "where are the cah-keys". My dad and I always say, "your car keys or khakis?"

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.

Elemen-tary or documen-tary

The tary pronounced like Terry. Apparently this is unusual outside of this region.

I'm told there are differences between "merry", "marry", and "Mary", but I don't believe it.

Boston area doesn't use "r".

The famous: "Can't pahk(park) your cah(car) in Havid(Harvard) Yad(yard)".

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!

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.

When I was in school, I had a teacher who insisted on pronouncing the word "across" as "acrosst".

I lived in Louisville, KY briefly, and the official pronunciation is apparently “Luuhwuuhh”. You will be mocked if you get it wrong.

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.

I pronounce Kraken phonetically - "krayken" - but the world seems to prefer "cracken".

Houston is not pronounced "hews-ton", it's "hows-ton"

Do the British and Irish dialect quiz. It's really interesting to find out what words you use and how you pronounce them pinpoint where you grew up and where your family is from. I've got a mixture of London, Midlands and Devon and it's bang on!

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/15/upshot/british-irish-dialect-quiz.html

Houston the city and Houston the street.

The single syllable words "four" and "hour" are actually the two syllable words "fohwer" and "ower".

The words "anything" and "nothing" are pronounced "owt" and "nowt".

The word "the" is not pronounced "t'", it is simply replaced with an unvoiced glottal stop. The word "t'" is thus, actually, short for "to the".

E.g.

Goin' t' shop. Wan' owt?

means

I'm going to the shop. Do you want anything?

We also pronounce "bus" as "buzz", too.

We also use "was" and "were" the wrong way round and say "pants" instead of "trousers". The rest of the country seems unaware of that last one, and will accuse you of talking American.

Southern Baden Württemberg: everything is followed by 'li'.

Port Dalhousie (dal-oo-sy) in St Catherine's. When it should be port (Dal-how-sy)

Wash wahsh warsh Bag bahg beyg Oil oyel ohl

I think "buzz" is used a lot to people near Manchester too.

People from Bolton (UK) get very defensive about the exact pronunciation of Bolton too. I heard this conversation several times between two colleagues:

Colleague 1 (c1): "... that's because you're from Bolton"
Colleague 2 (c2): "It's not Bolton, it's Bolton"
C1: "What? That's what I said, Bolton"
C2: "No, you said Bolton, it's Bolton"
C1: "You're saying the same thing, Bolton"
C2: "No, Bolton"
C1: "That's what I'm saying!"
Me: "what. the. FUCK"

If you've ever seen Brooklyn Nine Nine and Jake would say "Nikolaj" and then Charles would correct him saying the exact same thing, it was exactly like that, but saying "Bolton" instead.

Also I heard several people from Wigan say "A packet of crisp" and not "A packet or crisps".

Also forgot about this one: I used to live in South Wales, and people would say "Premark" instead of "Primark". They'd think I was the weird one for saying it like Primark.

I live in the U.S., and my state capitol is spelled Pierre, but pronounced "peer".

Boiseans pronounce it boy-see, but everyone else pronounces it boy-zee. It makes it easy to tell who is from there

We pronounce d and t exactly the same way, so both sound like d to other people, but ofc we know from context which one is meant, always, therefore to us they aren't the same at all! :)

In the Maritimes, Dalhousie (the university) is pronounced: "dal-HOW-zee".

In Ottawa, Dalhousie (the street) is pronounced: "dal-HOOOOOO-ze".

I don't know why, but I find the Ottawa pronunciation really annoying.

I recently saw a video where a woman pronounced "drawer" as "draw".

Desk draw

For some reason almost every person in my city says "seen" where they should say "saw". Drives me bananas.

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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