How do youse talk?

[shmeep]

Grocery store and paLm for me.

When I was little, it seemed all the kids pronounced "wolf" like "woof." I caught on eventually and then made it my goal in life to correct all the other kids who were still saying it wrong.

It always jolts me when I hear some adults referring to Deaf people as being "death." You'd be amazed at how often I hear that. Sounds rather grim to me.

[kenina]

I'm embarrassed to admit this to shmeep, since she knows my husband, but I've heard him say "death" instead of "deaf"! He has language comprehension and pronunciation issues in general, so he gets a bit of a pass. But I tried to hammer the correct pronunciation into his head (in a nice way) when he said it wrong. It's like fingernails on a chalkboard to me! And along the lines of the "woof/wolf" disconnect, my husband says something like "code" instead of "cold."

[Eyphur]

carl1951 said:

Do you have: Auto Tags or Auto Plates?
Car Tags or Car Plates?

Later, Carl

I have license plates.

[bump]

Here's a Miami-ism, influenced by the large amount of Spanish spoken.

In Spanish, cemetery is cementerio (note the N). So a lot of kids grow up saying "cementery" because they think the English word also includes the N.

I did it for a brief time, but because I'm a real stickler for spelling, once I noticed that it didn't have an N, that was the end of that.

I can probably come up with a list of Miami-isms if I give it some thought. Some pronounciation issues come to mind:

• the L gets dropped or not pronounced enough at the end of words like "school" or "cool"
  
  
• "ch" sounds end up sounding like "sh" (example: chair sounds like shair);
  
  

Becky

[hoosier]

With spring here I happened to think of some of the names for the plants here such as "piney" for peony (we have 30+ in our yard alone!), "surprise lily" for summer amarylis (in catalogs I have seen them called 'naked ladies') and mangoes for green peppers (these I still call peppers!)

Also some pronunications include--
halla for hollow be it empty or the land feature
far for fire

We also call a potluck dinner a pitch-in dinner.

[spoony]

bjobsessed said:

I think it was ashatan who told me in a pm that she was going to go see what other Ron movies she could hire. We don't hire movies, we rent them.

We definitely hire them, not rent haha.

Also, car plates are licence plates, or regos (registration plates).

[bjobsessed]

We have license plate too.

[bjobsessed]

This has nothing to do with talking, but in Australia, do you drive on the left or the right side of the road? Which side does the driver sit on in the car?

We drive on the right and the driver sits on the left. When I was in South Africa, they drove on the left and the driver sat on the right. I was there for nine weeks and I didn't stop going to get in to the right side of the car until the end of the nineth week! I just couldn't remember that passengers had to sit on the "drivers" side.

[spoony]

Okay, I personally don't drive, but we drive on the left side and the steering wheel is on the right. So yes, every time people are in a car in an American film of some sort, they always look wrong haha.

[awlrite4now]

They drive on the left on Okinawa, too, and it was a real experience to learn to drive a right-hand drive car where you shift with your left. But fun.

Back to pronunciation...ever hear Japanese people sing English karaoke songs? Like: when they come across the word blind, it's like five syllables ... bu-ru-i- n-do. Or go into Ma-ku-do-no-ru-a and order a ba-ni-ra she-ku. Lot of fun to decipher Engrish phrases.

[Dreamfire]

bjobsessed said:

This has nothing to do with talking, but in Australia, do you drive on the left or the right side of the road? Which side does the driver sit on in the car?

We drive on the right and the driver sits on the left. When I was in South Africa, they drove on the left and the driver sat on the right. I was there for nine weeks and I didn't stop going to get in to the right side of the car until the end of the nineth week! I just couldn't remember that passengers had to sit on the "drivers" side.

Hi Darl!

I drive on the left hand side of the road and I sit in the right hand seat of the car. However, when we were in Las Vegas last we forgot it is diff there and on a long romantic drive in the desert we thought some guy was playing Chicken with us - na ah! Itwas US!
IN the city we had a policy - if in doubt, follow the car in front of you - they probably DO know where to drive!

[housemouse]

What about those wide roads with exits and on-ramps and no lights or stop signs?

Here in California they are called freeways. I have also heard them referred to as interstates and highways.

[dogma]

we call interstates interstates,, 4 lane roads highways,, two lane roads in the country - country roads,, and dirt roads are back roads

how about these words?
jagger
nebby

anyone know what they are?

[dogma]

shopping cart: buggy,, cart,, ? i grew up calling them buggies

[bjobsessed]

We call them shopping carts.

Is a nebby a nosey person? Never heard of it if it is. (dictionary ;D). Jagger wasn't there.

A nosey person is just nosey or sometimes a busybody although I never say that.