Words that we pronounce in an odd way
 

Ever notice that there are words that we pronounce in odd ways.

I am not talking about words that have weird spellings that are not pronounced the way they are spelled like "laugh".

I am talking about words that are spelled and their pronunciation is not queastionable yet we often pronounce them in an odd way.


Here is one. Say it to yourself a few times and listen to how you say it.

<font size=4>Only</font>

Do you say

only or olny?

In less I am paying really close atteation I say olny.

What do you say?
What words have you observed are like this?

EGG AAAG
MILK MELK
ROUTE AS IN ROUTE 66 OR ROUTE AS IN RHYMES WITH GROUT
IS THIS WHAT YOU MEAN?

WHY AM I YELLING?

OH MY GOD IM ON FIRE.

Milk - Melk is a really good one.

Why are you yelling?


So do you say only or olny?

Olny? That's a first for me. I can't recall ever having hearing olny before.

I can't say Massachusettes. It sounds more like massoftwoshits. And when I say pen (or ten) it sounds more like pin (or tin).

i've never heard olny in my life.

pin and tin is a southern drawl.

i hate when people put the accent in best buy on best instead of buy

or when people put the accent on the IN in insurance instead of on the SUR
inSURance. NOT IN surance.

i hate that for some reason.

i hate when my tivo misses CHiPS

1 word = Oregano

I'm from the UK but this word confuses me so much I can't help but say it with an American accent...

help!

Sure: I say it as Shoo-wuh.

It's weird, and quite frankly confuses me. I think it was a bad habit I picked up from one of my old teachers...

Also I can't help but say 'Skellington' instead of 'Skeleton'. Just 'cause it's more fun to say that way XD

Say the word "both" out loud. A lot of people pronounce it like "bolth".

Same with "stove". A lot of people pronounce it as "stolve".

say l.l. cool j out loud.

i do it three or four times a day

sometimes i scream it on the bus stop

other times i say it quietly to myself and smile sheepishly

You know what I find annoying?

when people pronounce schedule like shedule. As if they would say, hey I will see you at shool tomorrow.

I say "Bra" Like the word brawl.

Same as "draw" I say drawl

You dissing Captain Jean-Luc Picard? Hmph...

people in southern indiana oft say wash as warsh.

i had friend who had a friend who would say far-tar.
translation: fire tower

i have another hoosier friend who sez lots of words funny, like:
code = she means cold, "i have a code."
toad = she means told, "i toad you so!"

my brother says bat-tree for battery. (weird)

i'll be back when i think or more. or will i?

I dont think I have an accent, but my cousins from Baltimore say I pronounce milk "meelk".

I was wondering earlier today, why do british people pronounce aluminum "aluminium"? Or at least the guy I heard anyway..

sometimes when im alone i talk to my freckles.

they dont answer.... but i talk to them

This one's name is steve.

crayon pronounced crown or ornery pronounced onery, both bug me.

It bugs me when, instead of saying "two or Three", people say "a couple three" Wouldn't that mean two sets of three or six total. Maybe I'm just too nit picky

Creek (as in the body of water) = "crick"
One hundred = a hunert
+
my various colloquialisms, such as
rooching (rhymes with Butch), meaning fidgeting. As in; "Will you stop rooching around?"
Brutzing (rhymes with foot), meaning crying or whining. As in; "Ah, quit your brutzing."

Worcester, MA

Gloucestor, MA for that matter

It really bugs me when people pronounce sorry as surry. I don't know what would cause someone to do that

I do that Caz, and I have no idea why..... I think it's from watching Ghostbusters to much, because that's how Dan Aykroyd says sorry.

Worcestershire (sauce). Show me the sadistic bastard who came up with that one!

Nobody has mentioned nuclear (Nookyoolar) yet?

nor how the B-man pronounces terror.

I absolutely HATE when people say Nuh-Tour and Muh-Tour for Nature and Mature. I know people who say one correctly and the other wrong. It makes no sense!

wtf @ you people's ways of saying things.
I've never heard ANY of them said those ways.

Iggles, Stillers, Warsh, Ebensburgh, Giant Iggle, all in a 5 minute conversation

I pronounce Dayton as Day'n

Home Depot. How do you pronounce it? My brother says depot with a short e, as in let or pet. This drives me crazy. I pronounce it with a long e, as in street or keep.

Norfolk
I find it mildly amusing that some people over pronounce the "l" to avoid saying nor-fuck.
I like nor-fuck.
nor-fuck
nor-fuck!
NOR_FUCK!

what's with the silent H in human? Do people say ospital or ouse? Why then is it uman being?

I pronouce th as f, like some people from GB do.
And I'm not from there or anything.
So it's like "So what to you fink?" or "I went on frough wif him".
I think I got it from The Streets.

People around philadelphia say "wooder" instead of water...really odd

I usually say ofTen and goverNment. Yes, I say those oddly silent letters. Other things that sound weird...liberry for library, and HERb for hERB, wool for well, purdy for pretty, meer for mirror, raw-in for rotton...

Not me, but people I know:
women - wemen
milk - melk
tooth - toof (and all words end with "th")

Um, so, when the commercials for Best Buy, put on by the company, put the emphasis on Best and not Buy, you cringe? I don't know anyone who says Best BUY. *shrugs*


Nobody mentioned these:

Ernge = Orange

and when people drop letters: stawberry or wuth (for worth).

And just for the record, nu CYOO lar drives me absolutely batshit.

I have a friend who says 'demon' 'deemind'. I have another friend who points that out every time he does.

In the part of the world I live in the word
"ice" often sounds like "ass"

We Pittsburghers have a dialect all our own. :) It would take days to go through everything. There is even merchandise, like books and t-shirts and stuff, with "Pittsburgh-ese" all over it.

Go ahead <b>rhaevyn</b> no lack of time here.

duplicate post sorry