Are there any words that you pronounce in a way that seems weird to most people?
Are there any words that you pronounce in a way that seems weird to most people?
I've always pronounced the word "Southern" to rhyme with howthurn. I know most people say it like "suthurn" instead. I didn't realize that the way I pronounce it is considered weird until recently!
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The mountain range on the eastern side of the U.S. is the 'apple-at'chans'. At least nearly everyone from the southern end of them say it that way (source: I'm from there).
'Apple-ay-shuns' is just as strange as saying 'Nor-folk'. Immediate indicator of you're an outsider.
How do you pronounce Norfolk?
Ok, at least the Virginia version is 'Nor-fuck'. And some long time residents say 'Naw-fuck'.
Huh.
I'm from the PNW and I've always pronounced it Apple-Ah-Shuns.
For Norfolk... I'd basically pronounce that as Nor-Fuck.
Yeah, I'm saying a whole lot of people say it with a "shun" at the end. I blame the media and people originally trying to differentiate themselves from a perception of being an ignorant hillbilly. The hillbilly prejudice is much better now, but I was still personally encountering it even in the aughts. And the pronunciation has stuck because "that's the way you've always heard it said. "
Everyone who lives in those hills (with the exception of a few pockets of yankees) says it "at-chan".