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Re: Random Thoughts
« Reply #180 on: November 10, 2011, 04:31:36 pm »
In the small town where I lived in PA apparently all short vowels are interchangeable. The pin/pen thing came up all the time, as did sket and skitch.
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« Reply #181 on: November 10, 2011, 04:52:20 pm »
all street names here are mispronounced in funny ways. And not always in an intuitive "Americans trying to pronounce French" way.

Have I told you guys the story about how my dad didn't realize his Boston accent was abrasive and weird to non-Bostoners/ that he even had "an accent" until he was in his mid twenties?

Some LA surfer bum laughed his ass off when he said "hi, can I get a lahge fry?"
The Boston accent is hard to transcribe. Think less JFK, more Clip and Clap.
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« Reply #182 on: November 10, 2011, 05:03:03 pm »
My BFF's parents are from Beantown. Her dad sounds just like Cliff Claven.
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« Reply #183 on: November 10, 2011, 06:08:23 pm »
PONSS duh LEE-yon

(a major thoroughfare that every new-to-towner calls PONE-say day lay-OWN)
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« Reply #184 on: November 10, 2011, 11:46:56 pm »
Quote from: Nabubrush on November 10, 2011, 03:38:28 pm
How would you say "couch"?

The street here is pronounced "cooch".

How would you say "glisan"?

The street here is pronounced "gleason".

I have twenty of these, at least. Street names here are weird.

Couch Street is pronounced that way because the guy it's named after's name is pronounced that way: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_H._Couch

Apparently they're mispronouncing Glisan, though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Glisan
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« Reply #185 on: November 11, 2011, 12:17:42 am »
And Naito Parkway.

It's named after the Naito family, they pronounce it NIGH-to, everyone else pronounces it NAY-to.

I had a door to door sales person correct me.   Fuck you door to door sales person.   
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« Reply #186 on: November 11, 2011, 12:20:15 am »
How-sten street, manhattan
Nor-fuck, Va.
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« Reply #187 on: November 11, 2011, 12:33:32 am »
Quote from: Arachno-capitalist on November 11, 2011, 12:20:15 am
How-sten street, manhattan

Yeah, how did y'all get that one so fucked up?

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Re: Random Thoughts
« Reply #188 on: November 11, 2011, 01:04:31 am »
Quote from: Victoria Waterfield on November 10, 2011, 11:46:56 pm
Couch Street is pronounced that way because the guy it's named after's name is pronounced that way: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_H._Couch

Apparently they're mispronouncing Glisan, though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Glisan

I don't care about any John Couch.
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Re: Random Thoughts
« Reply #189 on: November 11, 2011, 01:16:51 am »
Quote from: Nabubrush on November 11, 2011, 01:04:31 am
I don't care about any John Couch.

Not even for his singular skill at navigation of the mouth of the Columbia River?
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« Reply #190 on: November 11, 2011, 02:18:34 am »
Quote from: Nabubrush on November 11, 2011, 01:04:31 am
I don't care about any John Couch.

That sounds like a multi-user outhouse.
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« Reply #191 on: November 11, 2011, 04:19:26 am »
I used to live in Falls Crick (Creek) just outside of Do Boys (DuBois). I think we've already discussed Lan-cah-STIR vs. Lan-CAST-er
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« Reply #192 on: November 11, 2011, 04:23:12 am »
victoria waterfield are you secretly kate beaton.
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« Reply #193 on: November 11, 2011, 05:52:00 am »
My STL native coworker corrected me, that "Juniata" is pronounced "Juanita."

I couldn't decide whether he is right, because people in STL are dumb, or he is wrong, because he is mixing up the letters in his head.

I can never remember whether Lindell is "lin-DELL" or "lin-DULL."

Chouteau is show-tow. Gravois is Gra (like the sound in Gravel)-voice
Laclede is La-cleede.

Also, the area where Germans lived is called Dutchtown. Because, you know, Deutch.

(the area where the Irish lived is called Dogtown, so it could be worse.)

Also, in Saint Louis they call Mississippi water with a dead raccoon soaking in it "beer," and sell it to the rest of the country.

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« Reply #194 on: November 11, 2011, 06:12:02 am »
Quote from: Choop on November 11, 2011, 04:23:12 am
victoria waterfield are you secretly kate beaton.

Holy shit I wish

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