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[Lindsays Grandma]

@KKJ That teacher should not have been allowed to teach until she learned how to.  Her pronunciation of the word "wash" was wrong.

[RealtyGal2]

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@chiclet wrote:

It is silly for something so unimportant to bother you but every time I hear it pronounced   Buh on    leaving out the t's,  I cringe.  At first I thought it was just really young people but I hear it on others too. 

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I know it sounds odd, but in some parts of the country that is how it is pronounced. You would think that if someone is a professional host that they would work to illiminate regional accents and peculiar pronunciations by working with a voice coach.

[RealtyGal2]

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@on the bay wrote:

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@candys mine wrote:

It's definately not Buh-On.  it's Buh-In.

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@candys mine 

lol! I hope you meant this to be funny because it is!

and yes, just no! No, there is no "buh on". No, no to any regional thing people lol! It is button in the finest Queens English lol! and there is no exception ok? Ok.

And @Carolina925,

I think we are sisters!😄 

Wait! I do say it without the tt's! I mean say it everyone. Do you really say it with the tt's pronounced?!

If you do, you know youj are weird right, unless you're from England lol!

and I can say that-my Uncle is.

But still I don't say it like a certain host-its more like a very quick bu..n,

coh..n, isn't it?

I'm SURE you will all agree with me!! 😄

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No, I do not agree. Button is pronounced just as it looks, including the t's. My father ws a speech professor and he always used to say: "enunciate" and speak more slowly.

[Johnnyeager]

As long as I can understand what the speaker is saying, I'm fine with the pronunciations.

Be they accents, drawls or impediments, all is copacetic as far as I am concerned. 

[77yangya]

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@Johnnyeager wrote:

A current host also says "impordant", but what the heck.

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Yeah, right.  but duh, wat da heck?  LOL!!!  Just goofing.  Not on you but on how people talk...

[77yangya]

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@Carolina925 wrote:

@Group 5 minus 1 , my ex used to say "wheelbar" for wheelbarrow and "barpit" for borrow pit; it took me forever to realize what he was saying. In my southern speak, I always inadvertently add syllables so my wheelbarrow ends up something like "wheeyellbaoro". Differences make the world go 'round, right?

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I would say wheelbarrow and someone once said, no, it's wheelbarrel!  LOL!!!!

Love your posts, Carolina925!

[shaggygirl]

And it's not HOLLOWeen it's Halloween......like the man's name Hal.

[CalminHeart]

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@walkingal wrote:

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@CalminHeart wrote:

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@Group 5 minus 1 wrote:

I think what you are talking about is geographic differences. I always use the example of the word "roof"?  Is it "ruuf" or "rooof"? I have lived in difference areas of this country and I am always amazed at this.

How do you say "bagel" and I could go on and on. 

And as a target of those that comment it hurts my feelings.

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I agree.  I can drive 2 hours south and hear a whole different way of pronouncing words.

My dad has a PhD in English/Lit and History. He always said it's not nice to criticize someone else's pronunciation, grammar, etc because words are said differently in different parts of the country.  He said it's always better to be kind and accept people as they are.

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@CalminHeart  Of course it isn't nice to criticize someone's pronunciation.  But I think here we're discussing people who are in the public eye, who work in communications.  I don't hear news anchors, game show hosts, commercial actors, narrators, and so forth speaking with a regional dialect.  

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There is a big difference between a news anchor and a host on tv shopping. One has been trained in journalism and speech and most hosts have not.  

[on the bay]

 @shaggygirl , said: "And it's not HOLLOWeen it's Halloween......like the man's name Hal."

 @shaggygirl Now, you know it is Holloween!😁

But to say All Hallows Eve, then it is pronouned as it is spelled🤓

Spooky!

[violann]

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@Lindsays Grandma wrote:

@KKJ That teacher should not have been allowed to teach until she learned how to.  Her pronunciation of the word "wash" was wrong.

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"Midland dialect". I'd hate to think how many gifted teachers from whom I've learned would have been expunged if they weren't allowed to speak as they learned from infancy.

Formal English is a beautiful way of communicating, but if we let ourselves get too caught up in the rules, we can wind up with an exclusive and less communicative system driven process, rather than "plain talk". There really is a difference between "wrong" and different". My comfort level is a combination of some of each.