My roommate pronounces it that way too. Vermont born. Lived in Mass and Maryland. He has a few others. Calls the grocery cart a "buggy." A few more I can't recall right now.
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When we lived in TX everyone called Crayons "crowns". Drove me insane when both my kids started saying it - I would make them practice saying cray-ons til they switched back.
Calling a Pepsi 'coke' I can handle. Calling a 7up 'coke' is just insanity.
After college I waited tables at a restaurant with mostly travelling business clientele. I quickly became a 'soda' person out if efficiency after going up 'pop'.
I got Des Moines, Minneapolis, and Rockford. Pretty accurate considering I grew up in NW Iowa, spent 5 years in Ames, and the past 17 in the NW suburbs of Chicago.
My older relatives and in-laws from Iowa say the days of the week like "Fri-dee" instead of Friday.
Anyone else hear this?
Anyone else hear this?
Madison, Rockford, Milwaukee and I currentlylive in one of them. Unless Dubuque was an option, I doubt they could get much closer. I had no idea what a frontage road was until I moved to a city so I wonder how it might have changed had I modified for things I knew pre college only.
I got Rockford, Aurora, and Toledo. Grew up in the QC. Most differentiated one was pronouncing cot and caught differently which had most similar hotspots in Chicago and St. Louis. My mom's parents grew up in St. Louis and my dad's in Chicago. Very interesting.
I feel, say, and still hear in my head "wens-day". So even quicker.
Who pronounces the first r in February? How does that even sound. It's my birth month and I'm skipping that nonsense.
edit: now I'm realizing I have trouble speakin 2 consonants in a row when they are an odd pair that lies on each side of a syllable.
edit: now I'm realizing I have trouble speakin 2 consonants in a row when they are an odd pair that lies on each side of a syllable.
Portland (OR), Madison (WI) and Houston.
These things struggle to peg me accurately...or maybe they DO peg me? I've lived in California (x2), Texas, Washington (x2), Florida, Kansas, and here. My accent is mostly non-descript midwestern unless I'm "tarred" (then it's ALL Texan) - but my idioms come from all over the country.
These things struggle to peg me accurately...or maybe they DO peg me? I've lived in California (x2), Texas, Washington (x2), Florida, Kansas, and here. My accent is mostly non-descript midwestern unless I'm "tarred" (then it's ALL Texan) - but my idioms come from all over the country.
