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[CalminHeart]

It doesn't bother me how someone says insurance or any other word. There are so many regional pronunciations and they're all ok. 

So many people have posted comments in the past about mispronounced words. That bothers me more. 

[JoyFilled Warrior]

Well, to my mind, I dont see it as a matter of mispronouncing. Just seems like differences in pronunciations, often based on different localities. 

    I find the differences exciting - a kind of "getting outside ourselves," & what we've been used to knowing.

[shoesnbags]

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@Carolina925 wrote:

I'm southern and have never said or heard anything other than inSURance...or inSHORance

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If I were any further south, I'd be in the Gulf of Mexico/America and I say inSURance, along with my friends and neighbors.

[Zhills]

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@smoochy wrote:

inSUREance. Here in the south they say INsurance

But I also say CEEment, TEEvee, GREEN beans

I'm from the Midwest now living in Florida

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That's Southern enough....we'll keep you!  Put some taters in those Green beans!

[stevieb]

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@Carolina925 wrote:

I'm southern and have never said or heard anything other than inSURance...or inSHORance

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Me too, in-sure-ance. Never heard anyone stress the first syllable, though I have no doubt it happens.

[Sakuya]

In SUR ance.

I have noticed that some people drop the words "to be" in a sentence. Example: "This needs to be washed." Some will say it as "This needs washed." I just surmised that people say things differently depending on where they grew up.

Soda vs pop
Couch vs sofa
Drinking fountain vs bubbler
Front room vs living room

[CalminHeart]

I don't think I emphasize any part of insurance. I come from one of the insurance capitols of the country and never heard much difference between syllables. 

There are countless regional pronunciations so it might well be said differently around the country...and that's ok too.

[Hoovermom]

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@Zhills wrote:

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@smoochy wrote:

inSUREance. Here in the south they say INsurance

But I also say CEEment, TEEvee, GREEN beans

I'm from the Midwest now living in Florida

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That's Southern enough....we'll keep you!  Put some taters in those Green beans!

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I'm a born and bred Southern woman and have never talked like this...............

[haddon9]

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@Sakuya wrote:
In SUR ance.

I have noticed that some people drop the words "to be" in a sentence. Example: "This needs to be washed." Some will say it as "This needs washed." I just surmised that people say things differently depending on where they grew up.

Soda vs pop
Couch vs sofa
Drinking fountain vs bubbler
Front room vs living room

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@Sakuya Sort of like the ever present "Down the shore".  Everyone says this in NJ & SE PA.

[shoesnbags]

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@haddon9 wrote:

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@Sakuya wrote:
In SUR ance.

I have noticed that some people drop the words "to be" in a sentence. Example: "This needs to be washed." Some will say it as "This needs washed." I just surmised that people say things differently depending on where they grew up.

Soda vs pop
Couch vs sofa
Drinking fountain vs bubbler
Front room vs living room

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@Sakuya Sort of like the ever present "Down the shore".  Everyone says this in NJ & SE PA.

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@haddon9  @Sakuya I see this a lot on these forums and had never come across it before.  Seems to be Pennsylvania and surrounding areas from what I can tell. Dropping the "to be" kind of drove me crazy when I first read it, but now I'm just used to it. I never see or hear it anywhere else but here on the QVC boards, though. Language is so fascinating!