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[Preds]

Okay ... Can't resist ... How do you say Bear?  My grandfather said Bar and my other side said beer.  I say Beyer.

[chickenbutt]

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Preds wrote:

Okay ... Can't resist ... How do you say Bear?  My grandfather said Bar and my other side said beer.  I say Beyer.

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I would say it the same way that 'bare' sounds.   I don't know how you would show that phonetically...maybe 'behr'?  Rhymes with air.  

[SusieQ_2]

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@Preds wrote:

Okay ... Can't resist ... How do you say Bear?  My grandfather said Bar and my other side said beer.  I say Beyer.

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I agree with chickenbutt, it should rhyme with air.

If someone was calling a bear a "bar" or a "beer" that's exactly where it would send me...to the bar for a beer. But then, any excuse is better than none! 

[MyGirlsMom]

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@Preds wrote:

Okay ... Can't resist ... How do you say Bear?  My grandfather said Bar and my other side said beer.  I say Beyer.

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I pronounce it the same way as, bare.

[cherry]

When I first heard the word aluminum ,on a British soap, they said  Al you minny um.  I didn't know what they were referring to, for a few minutes

[chickenbutt]

That reminds me of a show I was watching yesterday.  This young woman had some pronunciations I'd never heard before.

Here was 'her'

Care was 'ker'

Fair was 'fer' (sounds like fur)

There were a few more like that, but I can't remember them now.    That must just be very minutely regional - I guess.

[pupwhipped]

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@chickenbutt wrote:

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@Preds wrote:

Okay ... Can't resist ... How do you say Bear?  My grandfather said Bar and my other side said beer.  I say Beyer.

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I would say it the same way that 'bare' sounds.   I don't know how you would show that phonetically...maybe 'behr'?  Rhymes with air.  

Yet again, what chickenbutt said.

[Yardlie]

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@Suhse wrote:

Route:

Tim started a paper route.  Pronunciation: root

Tim and his Dad have to route cables behind the computers station.

Pronunciation: rout

Agree?

Fun, no credit class for work, today.  All about the sometimes craziness of the English language.  

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@Suhse: I think it just depends on where you live. My brother and I used to have a paper route (pronounced "rowt.")

[AuntG]

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@Oznell wrote:

I enjoy stuff like this.  One of the things I love is that hubby pronounces it "rout" to rhyme with "shout" in both instances.

He also frequently says "roof" in which the "oo" sound is like book, not tooth.

I am thinking it is a Midwestern thing-- hubs is from Illinois.

Hugh Beaumont, the actor who played "Ward Cleaver" also said "roof" that way.  I think of it as a boyish, Midwestern, Tom Sawyer-charming accent.

I have a more generalized Great Lakes accent, in which we always said a "long o" (is that the proper term?) roof and route.

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Your husband and I say roof the same way; we are right.

[Sooner]

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@chickenbutt wrote:

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@Preds wrote:

Okay ... Can't resist ... How do you say Bear?  My grandfather said Bar and my other side said beer.  I say Beyer.

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I would say it the same way that 'bare' sounds.   I don't know how you would show that phonetically...maybe 'behr'?  Rhymes with air.  

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"If  you try to warsh a bar you'd better have your escape route (like "shout") picked out ahead of time.  You could try Route 66 (ROOT), but might better route (shout) yoursef thu (pronounced like "flu") that thar mail route (shout) that runs along Highway 44.   If you are gonna run away on foot, look out fer the roots of that old Oak tree.