The inability to pronounce 3 consecutive consonants...

[trof]

Is this just a southern thing?
I here it a lot down here.

Shrimp becomes srimp.
Schlitz becomes Slitz.
That's all I can think of right now.

[Lars39]

1. jeat?

[Tangerine LaBamba]

6. No, jew?

[gmoney]

17. yont to?

[Tangerine LaBamba]

20. Rainin' out?

[trof]

23. And we could get into the whole 'fixin' to' thing.

;-)

[Tangerine LaBamba]

25. The answer to "rainin' out?" is

"It's startin' to stop"...............

:)

[trof]

30. I love it.

Spot on.

[suninvited]

29. oh, please, lets don't get into the fixin to thing

all my non southern friends make fun of me for that one.

All I hear from them is "what, is it broke"?

[EndersDame]

66. Some of my friends say " Finnin' "

[XemaSab]

90. 3/4 of the population of Oakland, CA says "finna"

:D

[MineralMan]

57. Amo go eat purty quick now.

[Xipe Totec]

83. I'm fixin to follow n/t

[hobbit709]

2. We call it Schitz.

[Xipe Totec]

3. I'm curious, how do you pronunce them?

[trof]

4. 'Prawns' and 'beer'.

:rofl:

[Xipe Totec]

5. Shrimp ain't prawns, and Schlitz ain't beer

I've had both shrimp and prawns, and I've had both Schlitz and beer.

They are not the same thang...

:evilgrin:

[trof]

11. 'Prawns'...yes and no.

In commercial farming and fishery, the terms prawn and shrimp are generally used interchangeably. In European countries, particularly the United Kingdom, the word “prawn” is far more common on menus than the term “shrimp”, which is generally only used in North America. The term “prawn” is also loosely used to describe any large shrimp, especially those that come 15 (or fewer) to the pound (also called “king prawns”). Australia and other Commonwealth countries including South Africa follow this European/British use to an even greater extent, using the word “prawn” almost exclusively.

However...
Prawns are Decapods, belonging to the sub-order Dendrobrachiata <1>. They are similar in appearance to shrimp, but can be distinguished by the gill structure which is branching in prawns (hence the name, dendro=“tree”; branchia=“gill”), but is lamellar in shrimp. The sister taxon to Dendrobranchiata is Pleocyemata, which contains all the true shrimp, crabs, lobsters, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prawn

My Brit friends refer to shrimp as prawns.
And a long neck Slitz is the beverage of choice in many rustic bistros in the South.
:-)

[Xipe Totec]

12. As I said, Shrimp ain't prawns, and Schlitz ain't beer

I've had 10-count prawns.

and I've had real beer. Even Lone Star beats Schlitz, and that's not saying much.

[XemaSab]

92. Not "praw-awns" and "bee-yur?"

:shrug:

[rrneck]

7. Mayonnaise

As in "Mayonnaise a lot of people here tonight."

[trof]

8. The 'suthrun' pronunciation would be 'mannase'.

Mannase a lotta folks here.

[rrneck]

14. LOL I was afraid

the yankees wouldn't be able to read it.

[Glorfindel]

9. Depends on which part of the south you're in

sometimes you hear "shr-ee-yump" and "Schl-ee-uts." Three syllables each.

[Bossy Monkey]

10. My last name is Dantzler. People tend to flee in terror rather than try to pronounce it.

"Dnatzler? Danzig?" Shoot, it's just "dancer" with an L in there. We should have kept the Swiss spelling, Densler. (Not that that would have helped if you're right about the 3 consecutive consonants thing.:))

[trof]

15. Yeah, I woulda said 'Danceler'. Try 'Derouen'.

My Cajun mother-in-law's maiden name.
I would have said it 'Duh-Roo-ANHN'
Anyway, that's as close as I can come in print to the pronunciation of the French city of Rouen, whence came the family many generations ago.

They pronounce it 'Durwin'.
:eyes:

[Tangerine LaBamba]

22. There is a small street north of the Gold Coast in Chicago -

it is named "Goethe."

Right.

Go-thee..................

[trof]

31. Versailles, KY...Vur-SALES.

[Bossy Monkey]

45. KAY-ro & San JOSE, IL n/t

[trof]

48. I knew about Kay-ro, but San JOSE? jeez

:shrug:

[trof]

49. Oh...Oh...Oh...Arab, Alabama. AYE-rab

NOT AIR-rub.
hee

[XemaSab]

94. Del Norte county, California

Dell norT. :banghead:

[KamaAina]

91. New Orleans owns mangled street names

a sequence of streets on the way uptown is named for the nine Muses of Greek mythology. Calliope becomes CAL-ee-ope, Terpsichore is TERP-sick-core, and so on. Meanwhile, Burgundy in the French Quarter and downtown is burr-GUN-dee...

[Bossy Monkey]

44. You met any Taliaferros from Georgia? Pronounced 'Tolliver' :) n/t

[UndertheOcean]

13. You know , people are not required to have the same accent as you

[trof]

16. And you're trying to pick a fight.

And I didn't come here for that.
I bet you talk funny.
:-)

[UndertheOcean]

18. No I am not . But I do have an accent , and it pisses me off when people treat

me like I am from Mars .

[Xipe Totec]

19. That's silly!

We all know you're from Under the Ocean!

:evilgrin:

[trof]

21. Funny, that never happens to me. Born and raised in Alabama.

I've traveled the world and no one has ever treated me like I was from Mars.
I've usually been treated very well.
Maybe it's something else...?
;-)

[Tangerine LaBamba]

26. And your Mom dresses you funny, too............

My goodness, the memory is a wonderful thing..............

[trof]

33. And you feet stink and you don't love Jesus.

I once heard this said, partly in jest:
"You're a lyin' sunuvabitch, your momma dresses you funny, your feet stink, and you don't love Jesus."
The speaker believed that his buddy was stretching the truth a bit about the size of a fish he'd caught one time.
:rofl:

[Tangerine LaBamba]

37. Ever listent to Billy Jo Shaver?

I'm a big fan of this guy - brilliant songwriter, great entertainer, travels a lot with Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys.

Shaver was the guy, as Campaign Spiritual Adviser, who gave Kinky his slogan: "If you don't love Jesus, you can go to Hell."

Love him..........................

[trof]

41. No, but I sure as hell will now. Thanks.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

43. You're very welcome -

you're in for a real treat.

And I just found this fabulous photo of Billy Jo and Willie Nelson, taken lots of years ago. Do these guys look like some kind of trouble?

And wouldn't you follow them anywhere?

[GOPisEvil]

28. Were you born without a sense of humor or was it surgically removed?

It's just a humorous thread.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

32. Where I come from, it's a humorous

tread.......................

[trof]

36. Thread-tread...Cajun?

My Cajun father-in-law could NOT say 'TH's.
Dorothy was 'Dorty'.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

39. East Central PA -

Appalachian mountains, where they just lead into the Poconos - lots of Eastern European immigrants, coal miners, and the first-generation kids learned English with Polish and Lithuanian and Slovak accents.............................

[trof]

47. No kidding?

I pass through that area on the way to Boston 2 or 3 times a year.
I'll have to stop and listen.

[trof]

34. Oooooo...DING!

[MicaelS]

24. That one that always gets me is Taliaferro

Pronounced Tol-uh-ver. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliaferro

BTW, in Texas ALL soft drinks are either called soda or coke.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

27. A beautiful Italian name,

and a lot of people have legally changed it to "Tolliver," something that always made my Italian father ache.

In New England, all soft drinks are "tonic," and in Ohio, at least the SW part where I lived, they were "pop."

[trof]

40. I know 'they' say it's ALL Coke in the south, but...

I grew up with 'soft drink'.
"You want some tea (iced, of course) or a soft drink?"
As opposed to a hard drink like likker.

[trof]

35. I knew a guy with that name and that's exactly how he said it.

Ha.

[Bossy Monkey]

46. Ya beat me to it. (I mentioned this upthread, but 45 minutes later.)

Great minds think alike, and all that.:) (I didn't see yours before posting mine.)

[trof]

38. HEY! Where are all the recs?

Jeez.
This turned into a fun interesting thread.
Or 'tread'.
:rofl:

[Tangerine LaBamba]

42. See -

Now it gets confusing...............

[Fire Walk With Me]

50. English pronunciation is listed in the dictionary.

The Sayowth does not speak English.

[trof]

51. Your phonetics are WAY off. It's Sye-auth.

As in "The Sye-auth shall rise again."
And I bet I'm more English than you are.
So there.
;-)

[Fire Walk With Me]

52. Perhaps it's that I've kept a safe distance for some few decades.

I bow to your pronunciation. :)

[trof]

54. I was gone for about 25 years.

And I damn near lost it.
I tried to.
The day after I moved back to Alabama my accent was back in spades.
I'm very comfortable with it now.

[Fire Walk With Me]

55. "The yella dawg DUer formerly known as 'trof'."

Mmm, I see. (puts Trof on "suspicious" list...)

[trof]

56. I've always been 'trof'. the retired old fart

I put that up when we had all the name changes.
;-)

[Odin2005]

61. Us folks here in Minnesohhhta speak svell English.

:)

[LanternWaste]

88. But we know how to bbq...

But we know how to bbq...

Let's see-- good barbeque and speaking plainly, or some kind of spam-like, cooked meat called bbq, but with flowery flourishes during the conversations...

I'm gonna haffa go wit the gewd bbq...

[pokerfan]

53. I can't image how they must mangle

Cthulhu!

:shrug:

[SoxFan]

58. "HUCK-a-bee"

[Inchworm]

59. We are evolving. Sorry Yanks!

I mean.. hell.. ya'll failed to migrate and bitch about the winters. Some dogs just don't hunt.

:patriot:

[Odin2005]

60. "sh" is a single consonant symbolized by a digraph.

It's a sound-shift, not a sound dropping.

[nini]

62. My last name begins with 3 consonants

and I am amazed at how many people stumble over it. It's on syllable and pronounced just like it's spelled. Those 3 letter just throw folks.

[RushIsRot]

63. I am southern and have no trouble pronouncing a word as it's

written.

[Kali]

64. I have "ltschl" in the middle of my last name

can you tell it's German?:P ends in a hard "g" too:rofl:

[XemaSab]

95. My friend is named Tschudi

And no, hardly anyone gets it on the first try. :P

[HopeHoops]

65. You can' easily tell someone who didn't grow up near Balmer, Merlan

They don't know how to pronounce "Balmer, Merlan" (that's about the best phonetic spelling I can come up with - there's an accent to it that is also required but not easily communicated in written form).

[CTyankee]

67. not 3 syllables together, but can't anyone outside of New England say "Worcester" correctly?

If you're from outside New England, tell me how you pronounce it!

[Kutjara]

68. "Wooster."

But then I'm from Old England.

[CTyankee]

69. We actually have a "Wooster Square" in New Haven.

I was thinking about the MA city...

[Kutjara]

70. I still pronounce it the English way.

It's my tiny refusal to accept the Colonial hijacking of my language. ;)

[CTyankee]

72. We say "wooster" for Worcester. I haven't met a New Englander who doesn't.

It's all those "colonials" outside of New England that are murdering your mother tongue here!

[Kutjara]

73. I lost count of the times a tourist asked me the way to...

"Glow-chester" Square when I lived in London. I'd always bite my tongue and helpfully point them in completely the wrong direction.

[CTyankee]

74. "Gloster" is my pronunciation. Is that OK? nt

[Kutjara]

76. Perfect. n/t

[CTyankee]

77. I thought so! Easy, isn't it? nt

[Kutjara]

78. Now for the advanced-level test:

Cholmondeley

and

Featherstonehaugh.

[CTyankee]

79. I would pronounce the first one "chumley" but I never heard of the second one.

Wild guess: "festonah".

[Kutjara]

80. Believe it or not: "Fanshaw."

There was a cabaret act a few years ago called the "Chomondeley Featherstonehaughs," but both are actually towns in Southern England.

Sometimes I think the Brits just make this stuff up specifically to confuse people.

[trof]

85. Close. It's 'wuss-tah'.

[hedgehog]

81. Wooster! But I cheat, since I used to buy Worcester valves.

[last_texas_dem]

71. The "srimp" thing may be contagious...

My dad has always pronounced it that way, despite saying every other word with the "sh" sound correctly. I think it's something he picked up in childhood from hearing others say it, and it just kind of stuck. Maybe it is the three consecutive consonants thing...

I don't suffer from that particular affliction, but I do pronounce words with the "hou" or "hu" sound as "yoo" (rather than "hyu" or whatever...)- which is something that even most of my fellow southerners mock me for!

[JitterbugPerfume]

75. I get a thicker accent

when I am in the South. I do not know why.

Folks around here ask me if I am from Ky , and that is funny because both of my parents were from Somerset , and half of my extended family lives there.

[hedgehog]

82. My accent is all over the place depending on whom I'm talking to.

I spent time in Akron and Lancaster, Ohio so I have more than a touch of West Virginian. I'm short a mess of vowel sounds; are is the same as our, Merry, Mary and marry are all the same words, right?

I have some of my grandparents' brogue and slip into that if I'm with Irish speakers more than a few mintues.

[trof]

86. I'm a lingual chameleon too.

I tend to start sounding like people I'm around.
My southern accent came back big time when I came back to Alabama.

[KamaAina]

84. In N'awlinsese "shrimp" becomes "swimps"

and you have Abita with your po'boy, not Slitz.

[trof]

87. N'awlins accents sound close to Brooklyn/Bronx to me.

I read an explanation about that a while back but I forget what it was.
:eyes:

[XemaSab]

89. Sounds like Confederacy of Dunces

The explanation was that N'awlins was settled by the same people who settled the New York area. :shrug:

[trof]

93. John Kennedy Toole. Loved that book.

Have to read it again.

[XemaSab]

96. Ask someone in California's Central Valley how the word "almond" is pronounced

:banghead: