topic Re: Pronunciation in Q Talk

Pronunciation

AreYouSure — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 13:19:23 GMT

Here's another designer on today pronouncing "durable" as "dohrable". Seriously, "door"?

Re: Pronunciation

tends2dogs — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 13:28:45 GMT

Maybe she said adorable??

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x Hedge — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 13:54:47 GMT

Once again, a fellow poster points out the variety and complexity of pronunciation in this great, huge, wonderful country.

At least twice a year my parents packed us into the car and drove us to new destination points in other states.

As kids, we giggled at all the different accents, and the way people pronounced everyday words.

We'd talk with people each time we stopped the car, and we practiced talking as they did. The adults would laugh (with us) at our attempts to imitate their pronunciation. We also learned they thought WE sounded funny too.☺

BTW, door-uh-buhl is an acceptable pronunciation.

See below.

https://www.howtopronounce.com/durable

Re: Pronunciation

suziebee1 — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 13:55:59 GMT

Hey, where I live, we say wooder for water. Not everyone speaks the way the Dictionary says it should be pronounced.

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RespectLife — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 13:57:20 GMT

@AreYouSure wrote:
Here's another designer on today pronouncing "durable" as "dohrable". Seriously, "door"?

Really? SMH

And this is what bothers you?

Goodness! Where will we go after 11/2 to gripe about such inconsequential things?

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Mombo1 — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 15:53:38 GMT

@suziebee1 I am originally from Pittsburgh...they have some funny pronunciations too but I get a kick out of it. Go Stillers!

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Magicrat — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 18:18:09 GMT

So you must "red up the table" as my father, from Pittsburgh, always said.

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Tinkerbell3 — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 21:41:20 GMT

Here is another designer on today....

??????- Grammar???

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Gkhm — Sat, 09 Oct 2021 00:18:13 GMT

I have trouble with the younger ones trying to say the words button and cotton! There are absolutely no t's pronounced those words!

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maximillian — Sat, 09 Oct 2021 00:31:08 GMT

Can't understand much of anything Amy says. She needs speech lessons and a voice coach. And a job behind-the-scenes. And a very good salary, of course.

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x Hedge — Sat, 09 Oct 2021 02:02:07 GMT

@Gkhm wrote:
I have trouble with the younger ones trying to say the words button and cotton! There are absolutely no t's pronounced those words!

It's not an age. It's a location.

I say buh-nn and cah-nn (say it fast! )

I worked with a guy from a few states east. He pronounced the word drawer

"draw"

He was going to put the handle on the draw.

He repeated it and it still made no sense to me, until he held up the drawer handle.

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Sooner — Sat, 09 Oct 2021 02:09:59 GMT

None of us would understand anyone speaking English from a few hundred years ago or probably the early 1900's. What about the way the people in old movies from the 1938's talk?

Who knows how long we all won't be having different accents?

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Annabellethecat66 — Sat, 09 Oct 2021 02:25:00 GMT

Well...when QVC is on I'm usually doing one or two other things.

Hummm! Maybe that's why I'm always in a state of confusion?

Anyway, Mostly..I don't care what they say.

I just wish they'd find a better way to simplify the color names!

Good grief, I gave up trying to identify which garment is .....I'm thinking...give me a minute...I'm s l o w at night.

Phew! Here's what I want. Please just call the thing red, yellow, green, blue and so on.

There have been a lot of times I haven't ordered because I can't figure out the #@&$ color.

How about putting up on the tv what the colors are?

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J Town Girl — Sat, 09 Oct 2021 02:39:51 GMT

@Magicrat wrote:
So you must "red up the table" as my father, from Pittsburgh, always said.

I grew up near Pittsburgh and have fond memories of many of these expressions.. If company was coming my mother would always say "we have to red up the house".

I also remember when the streets were icy my parents would say it's very slippy outside.

It took me years to be able to say slippery instead of slippy.

I once had a co-worker who went back to visit her family in Pittsburgh and she brought me a T-shirt that was printed in Pittsburgh-ese. it was covered in all of the different ways that people from that area pronounce many words.

I'm on the west coast now but I love my "Stillers".

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sunshine45 — Sat, 09 Oct 2021 03:05:10 GMT

@suziebee1 wrote:
Hey, where I live, we say wooder for water. Not everyone speaks the way the Dictionary says it should be pronounced.

guilty as charged!

Re: Pronunciation

x Hedge — Sat, 09 Oct 2021 04:08:02 GMT

@sunshine45 wrote:
@suziebee1 wrote:
Hey, where I live, we say wooder for water. Not everyone speaks the way the Dictionary says it should be pronounced.

guilty as charged!

Is that pronounced with a long ō?

i say wah-der or wawe-der

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CalminHeart — Sat, 09 Oct 2021 11:15:04 GMT

Words are pronounced differently all over the country, all over the world. I can drive 2 hours south and hear an entirely different dialect. Let it go.

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Mombo1 — Sat, 09 Oct 2021 11:27:12 GMT

@Magicrat wrote:
So you must "red up the table" as my father, from Pittsburgh, always said.

@Magicrat Oh yes...we always "red up the house". My brother liked to go fishing in the "crick". 🤗

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Group 5 minus 1 — Sat, 09 Oct 2021 12:26:29 GMT

Hows about bagels and roof?

Re: Pronunciation

sunshine45 — Sat, 09 Oct 2021 13:06:20 GMT

@x Hedge wrote:
@sunshine45 wrote:
@suziebee1 wrote:
Hey, where I live, we say wooder for water. Not everyone speaks the way the Dictionary says it should be pronounced.

guilty as charged!

Is that pronounced with a long ō?

i say wah-der or wawe-der

@x Hedge

more like "wood-r"