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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I'm fluent in both Spanish and English (obv). When speaking English, I'm conflicted on whether I should pronounce Spanish loan words in a shitty English accent like everyone else, or in a proper Spanish accent. So instead I pronounce them as horribly as I can.
Jalapeño is "yah-la-PEEN-oh". Fajita is "fa-JAI-tah". Quesadilla gets "QUAY-sah-dilah"
(As a joke of course)
Overheard in a pizzeria:
Customer: I'd like a quattro sta.. quattro shta... How do you pronounce it?
The Turkish and not Italian waiter: Shtuh gon ee (for stagioni)
Habanero is pronounced jabaññññero.
Once in a while, I’ll arbitrarily drop juh-LAP-in-oh in a grocery store, just to see who flinches.
My family is french/english and we like to do the same with french loan words
I like it!
Quesadilla looks like there's room to mangle it further:
KWEZZ-ah-dill-ah
or even
kwe-SADD-l'a
like there was saddle in there
You should go the Tralerpark Boys route for pronouncing jalapeño.
Yeah everyone knows it's kwe-SAD-il-uh.