Here “bus” is pronounced like “buzz” and I didn’t realise it was weird until I went down to Devon and it was a dead giveaway that I’m a Brummie lol
I think “buzz” is used a lot to people near Manchester too.
People from Bolton (UK) get very defensive about the exact pronunciation of Bolton too. I heard this conversation several times between two colleagues:
Colleague 1 (c1): "... that's because you're from Bolton" Colleague 2 (c2): "It's not Bolton, it's Bolton" C1: "What? That's what I said, Bolton" C2: "No, you said Bolton, it's Bolton" C1: "You're saying the same thing, Bolton" C2: "No, Bolton" C1: "That's what I'm saying!" Me: "what. the. FUCK"If you’ve ever seen Brooklyn Nine Nine and Jake would say “Nikolaj” and then Charles would correct him saying the exact same thing, it was exactly like that, but saying “Bolton” instead.
Also I heard several people from Wigan say “A packet of crisp” and not “A packet or crisps”.
Also forgot about this one: I used to live in South Wales, and people would say “Premark” instead of “Primark”. They’d think I was the weird one for saying it like Primark.
For some reason almost every person in my city says “seen” where they should say “saw”. Drives me bananas.
The single syllable words “four” and “hour” are actually the two syllable words “fohwer” and “ower”.
The words “anything” and “nothing” are pronounced “owt” and “nowt”.
The word “the” is not pronounced “t’”, it is simply replaced with an unvoiced glottal stop. The word “t’” is thus, actually, short for “to the”.
E.g.
Goin’ t’ shop. Wan’ owt?
means
I’m going to the shop. Do you want anything?
We also pronounce “bus” as “buzz”, too.
We also use “was” and “were” the wrong way round and say “pants” instead of “trousers”. The rest of the country seems unaware of that last one, and will accuse you of talking American.
Where do people talk like that?
Port Dalhousie (dal-oo-sy) in St Catherine’s. When it should be port (Dal-how-sy)
It’s apparently the only thing named for that dude pronounced that way too, Dalhousie University as an example. Wiki page has an etymology section that has some suggestions as to why, it’d sound weird to me though pronounced the other way.
Boston accents are funny. When my mother says, “where are the cah-keys”. My dad and I always say, “your car keys or khakis?”
We recently moved to a new area and there is a nearby town called Monticello. The locals all pronounce it mon-tee-sell-oh and will correct you if you say mon-teh-chel-oh. Doesn’t quite fit the question cause I think the locals are insane for that 😅
Spaniards: Montitheyo
Bavarians pronounce Chemie, China, Chlor, and others with CH starting, with a K! KEMIE, KINA, KLOR!
Bavarians there is so much go hate about you!
How do you pronounce it? Schemie, Schina, Schlor?
Schlor? except that this one is in any case pronounced with hard K anything else seems ridiculous
I was looking up Bavarian dialect terms and found “fesch” (attractive/stylish).
Vindication for Gretchen Wieners! “Das ist so fesch!”
I pronounce Kraken phonetically - “krayken” - but the world seems to prefer “cracken”.
I moved to AZ and I can now tell who is from here and who moved in from out of state by how they pronounce the town name Prescott.
Prescott gets messed up more often, but Avondale is a trap also. I couldn’t figure out what someone meant when they pronounced Avondale like it started with the name of the MLM cosmetic company.
I’m told there are differences between “merry”, “marry”, and “Mary”, but I don’t believe it.
My ex got so mad because down here the boy name Don and the girl name Dawn sound about the same. He would yell no it’s not it’s DAAHN and DWAWN! But we don’t have that nasal Midwestern thing, it’s just Don and Daun.
In my area, “Don” is pronounced with the mouth wide, jaw open. Force a smile as you say it, and you should be in the ballpark.
“Dawn” is pronounced with the lips pursed. Kiss your grandmother on the cheek.
Depends where you are. Most in the US pronounce them the same, but they are all distinct in Philly for example. But we pronounce “berry” and “bury” the same.
I’m from NJ and Murray, merry, marry, and Mary are all distinct.
Berry is like merry and bury is like Murray.
I’ve lived in Philly and then the suburbs for a couple of decades now and have never noticed the berry-bury thing - I’m guessing it’s a South Philly thing? So do you eat straw’bury’s or do you ‘berry’ your dead pets?
I’m also from NJ, but I would be pressed to hear the difference between Marry and Mary tbh. The rest are all distinct though!
But I’m also told, when people find out I’m from NJ (online people), that “You don’t sound like you’re from NJ” so idk.
I was born here, so simply I must sound like someone from NJ cause I am! Logic.
Interesting! I think central, north, and south Jersey all have some distinctions in accent. Plus I think a lot of people have a pretty stereotyped idea of what New Jerseyans are “supposed” to sound like haha
Oh yes, people absolutely have an idea of what we’re suppose to sound like!
Once I start cursing like a sailor they go “oh okay yeah you’re from NJ” lmfao. I don’t curse nearly as much in text.
I get the rest, but how is “Mary” different?
Mary rhymes with fairy
That’s how I pronounce it. So now I’m even more confused! How is “merry” different? Because I pronounce that just like Mary.
Merry is like “meh” + “ree”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_vowel_changes_before_historic_/r/
Yes I would say “bury” like “berry”
I grew up in North Philly and South Jersey
It’s listed under Merry Murray merger in the wiki link
Houston the city and Houston the street.
Charlottesville Virginia has a road spelled Rio but locals pronounce it with a long I (rhy-oh). Bonus points, the name originated from the road being route 10, marked with signs that said R10, which eventually became Rio.
NY state has a town named Chili that is pronounced—I kid you not—with two long I’s. “Chai-lai”
There’s also a town named Charlotte pronounced “shar-LOT”.
I feel like these are tests to detect out-of-towners.
I recently saw a video where a woman pronounced “drawer” as “draw”.
In Australia they just straight-up spell it that way
What part? I have never heard an Australian pronounce it like that. Not even the bigans. Mostly people from Victoria but also plenty from NSW, SA, or WA.
In Canberra I worked with a few people who confused me with their talk of draws.
One area I’ve not been to.
… How would you pronounce it?
The woman at the beginning may say “draw”
Carpentry guru Norm Abrams always says “draw” too. “Let’s see how the draws fit…”
Was it 3x3Custom Tamar?
I don’t know what that is.
Oh she’s a woodworking YouTuber and drawers are made in woodworking all the time and she says “draw” as well.
Boiseans pronounce it boy-see, but everyone else pronounces it boy-zee. It makes it easy to tell who is from there
That’s the opposite of Quincy where the naives call it Quinzy.
I live in the U.S., and my state capitol is spelled Pierre, but pronounced “peer”.
I think that’s ths slur of familiarity, like how people in New Orleans call it “norlans”.
