Words that you pronounce correctly and no one else does

“I want you to know that my card is always current. I come to the library at least three times a week and my books are always returned promptly during regular library hours rain or shine. Who are you to judge me?!”

I say short-lived with the long "i" like a person and not a barbarous mutant! Lived, like lifed, but with a "v." I will not say it like "lived" with a short "i" and I will not stand for it in my presence!

When you have two c's together, it takes a "k" sound. Think of Success. Most mispronounce Flaccid as Flassid, when it's correctly Flaksid.

Correct pronunciations ( both accented on second syllable):

Futon = Foo-tone

Daikon = Die - cone

Forte

For FUCK'S sake --- can NOT ONE newscaster, local or national, say the word 'rural' right? It's always 'ROOL' . Don't get me started on the mouth-breathers who say 'Buh-unh' for 'button'. And similar words containing the letter 't'.

Offen not off-ten

It's hard for me to get my mouth around the word "rural," r6, and I'm not a newscaster. I hardly have a gossip circle. "Rory," which sounds almost the same, is also difficult. I grew up in New Jersey, near New York, and these are sounds I find it difficult to make without sounding like Fran Drescher.

Poosey

[quote] Also I say FEB RU ARY, not FEB U ARY.

Well, smell you!

“Pee Dant”

To-use-day, not Toozday

Primer -long I for a reader

Primer -short I for a paint job

Other way around!!! 🤓

Library, not liberry.

Bathroom not batroom. Bedroom not betroom.

This must be “Oh Dear’s “ post.

I want to know where OP is living, where they say "sam which"

I heard a woman on my (shotty) local NPR station today pronounce "Vasquez" as Vas-quez.

It's Vas-kez!!

You'd think people in central Florida would know how to pronounce a Spanish surname.

My brother always says "supposably".

Two of my favorites:

Real-uh-tor

Ath-uh-lete

Turns out "supposably" is a real word - didn't know that!

Impor'int

Impor-TENT

Impor-dant

Please kill me now.

r21 Real-uh-tor drives me nuts. Why do so many people mispronounce it?

Laundrymat instead of laundromat

Exquisite. Despicable. Lamentable. Accent on the first syllable in each case.

Eck specially instead of especially.

I love Sean Connery’s line in Marnie:

“InSURance is only pronounced INsurance in the South; and THAT’S WHERE YOU’RE FROM!!”

I say StreiSand, like sand on the beach because that's how she taught her fans. Not StreiZand with a Z.

R2, what are you on? It’s short-lived with the “ive” as in “give.”

R30.

R2 is also correct. It’s the first pronunciation, but like many words the “misspoken” version has become the more common one.

Ask vs axe. I can’t get over it.

Nobody I know says axe and about half my extended family is black.

R6 must be Jimmy.

But i have heard from Italian types:

Sangwidge for sandwich

Hug-hezz for Hughes

Step Hen for Stephen

Steefffen for Stephen

AOUN FOR Anne

Dorothy for Doherty

Liberry

Sherlock Holmeees (he was a real person, ya know)

Myral Streep

Seighnourey Weaver

I apologize to r2. I was wrong and he was right.

(I LOVE hearing other people say this to me and am hoping r2 does, too.)

I'm so tired of everyone replacing 'have' with 'of'. I thought it was only when people posted on message forums and social media - but now it's become part of every oral conversation. Everyone is doing this now and it drives me insane.

"He would of stayed home last night."

"I should of gone with you to dinner."

"You should of taken the highway."

bruschetta - the 2nd syllable is pronounced "skeh" not "sheh"

Turmeric - the accent is on the 1st (not the 2nd) syllable

Cumin - 1st syllable is pronounced "cyoo" not "coo"

[quote] Cumin - 1st syllable is pronounced "cyoo" not "coo"

Not when you're ready to shoot your load. You shout out to the other guy, "Oh fuck! I'm cumin (rhymes with humming) ! " Right before you shoot all over his face. I never shout "I'm cyoomin !"

ValenTINES Day, not ValenTIMES Day. I had a job interview once where the HR lady said that about five times and it drove me nuts. I politely smiled and nodded because I wanted the job. My inner voice was screaming though. 😀

When I hear "liberry" I want to give a good face slapping.

"Irregardless"

Don't pronounce the "t" in often. It should rhyme with soften.

" Jew-el-ry," " not "Jew-lery." Even jewelers get it wrong.

The Jacksonville NFL team is the "Jag-wahrs," not " Jag-wires."

R19, it’s actually BAH-skez. So much for your superiority.

Native English speakers don't pronounce V as B.

It all began with Chaz Bono when America went “what the fuck?”

[quote]I never shout "I'm cyoomin !"

R39 - not even if you're wearing a chef's hat?

It's "Jag-u-ars." Didn't you ever see the car commercials?

Ex-cape. That drives me bananas.

"Acrost" the street. Eeek!

FFS, even Rachel says "Feb-u-ary" and "supposably." Makes me crazy. And I don't GAF what anybody says: "supposably" is [bold]not[/bold] a word.

Saturday Night Live, not "suh nuh luh."

[quote]I'm so tired of everyone replacing 'have' with 'of'. I thought it was only when people posted on message forums and social media - but now it's become part of every oral conversation.

When people are speaking, they are using the contraction of "should" and "have."

How would you pronounce "should've?"

[quote]Exquisite. Despicable. Lamentable. Accent on the first syllable in each case.

Where are you from, R26? The accents on for exquisite and despicable are on the second syllable per the Cambridge Online Dictionary.

OP lives in bumfuck.

Datalounge.

Not Day-ta-lounge

Sometimes it's not a case of right or wrong but rather the English language in a state of flux. I'm still a traditionalist with such "wh" words as had always been pronounced with an initial "hw" sound ("hweet" rather than "weet" for "wheat," "hwale" rather than "wale" for "whale," "hwat" rather than "wutt" for "what," etc. etc. etc.); but our numbers have been dwindling since about 1990. Still, neither side gets to "correct" the other.

R54 - I have to admit, I've backslid on "wh" pronunciation.

going to. Even highly educated, intelligent television "journalists" routinely say "gonna"

Chaise longue: shayz long not chase lounge!

Lackadaisical does not have an “x” in it!

There are probably 200 words I would pronounce more correctly, but I fear others resenting me for being smart and “pretentious” (a word that gets misused 90% of the time, but that’s a different subject).

"skrimps" for shrimp! For FUCK'S SAKES@!!!!!!

New-q-lar. I immediately lose all respect for anyone who pronounces nuclear like that.

You know somebody's from Connecticut when they pronounce "aunt" as "ahnt" and not "ant."

Wednesday is “Wed-Ness Day” not “Wends Day”. Can’t anybody read?

Director is not "DIE rector." I want to let those who say it know that vowels in English have more than one sound. I is not always pronounced as "eye."

It seems like a lot of you live in flyover hell.

Rool for rural? Tell me you’re a hillbilly without telling me you’re a hillbilly.

The one I hate, and many people make this mistake, is “route.”

It’s so often pronounced RAHW-t but it’s pronounced “root.”

The word rout is pronounced “RAHW-t” and has a different meaning from the word route.

Eye-ran — as in “bomb Eye-ran” or “fuck Eye-ran.”

R61 is ridiculous. There are tens of millions of people who say ahnt who ain’t from CT. —the rest of NE.

Not least among them are Black Americans in every part of the US.

Nuke-ular! Nuke-ular!

It's a fucking joke r66

I would of went to the liberry today if I'd of gotten around to it.

Hoegaarden

This thread is inherently racist and classist!

eSpecially - NOT - Xspecially

Turned - NOT TurnT

Learned - NOT - LearnT

Through - NOT - Thoo

Many don't even know how to spell much less pronounce a word properly. In addition, cursive writing is falling by the wayside as texting is the preferred method for communicating eSpecially for the younger set.

Cursive is archaic and shouldn't be taught anymore.

Some of you are getting mad at regional pronunciations.

[quote]Learned - NOT - LearnT

Learnt is standard in British English.

Bona fide, even the snobs here probably pronounce it wrong.

My Italian Grandma always said, "you wanna sangwidge?" And all my older cousins pronounced it that way, but I being a more refined person said it correctly.

Yeah but they also say “shite” r75. They’re ridiculous.

[Quote] My Italian Grandma always said, "you wanna sangwidge?"

I hope you administered vicious face slaps after this outrage.

And "arse," r78.

Moun-AN instead of mountain. Or Clit-AN instead of Clinton. Trump's moon-faced kunt KKKaroline does that. Drives me nuts.

Sad fuck 68

Arse is pure cringe.

🤠

So is cringe, r83.

No —cringe would be cringey

My Latin lover pronounces it deek

r82 maybe you should of gotten a sense of humor.

Biceps not bicep. Its a biceps muscle, not a bicep muscle.

It is vital to pronounce the p in “raspberry.” So few take the time.

My boss, a very educated man from Ohio, would say “leave it go” and “warsh” for wash.

Forte pronounced "fort" and not fort-ay as is commonly heard.

Pundint. There's no fucking N in that word.

[quote]Yeah but they also say “shite” [R75]. They’re ridiculous.

Maybe you're the one who is ridiculous, R78. You and R80 are the arses for criticizing English spoken in ... England! And the rest of the UK.

What part of the country pronounces button with distinct tees in each syllable? BUT-TON and each syllable gets equal stress.

I've heard that over the years from different people.

It pains my heart when I hear Rachel say the word air-ee-you-dite.

I say Ignominious as opposed to a lot of people who say Igno(moan)ious

[quote] Exquisite. Despicable. Lamentable. Accent on the first syllable in each case.

MAR-y!

for R26

When pronouncing "despicable," the main stress (accent) is placed on the second syllable, making it sound like "dis-PIK-uh-bull" or "dɪˈspɪk. ə. bəl". While the word can be pronounced with stress on the first syllable (DES-pik-uh-bull) in some rare instances, the second-syllable stress is the generally accepted and correct pronunciation in both American and British English.

Photographer. A shocking amount of people pronounce it "pher-tographer". I have no idea why they slip in that extra "R" in the first syllable. And once you hear it, you'll be surprised how common it is.

r57 Wet Leg supports your pronunciation.

Yes, R98 - we covered "despicable" and "exquisite" at R51.

I pronounce gyros "yee-row" as that's how it's said by the Greek food truck owner I buy them from.

[quote] I want to know where OP is living, where they say "sam which"

R18 Apparently in a kindergarten.

There’s a connect-tit-cut troll….who knew?

You're such a sad waste r104

Person who plays a Piano is a pee-AN-ist ... not PEE-uh-nist. That's reserved for urinators.

R64, The "ou" in Route is same as Routine and Coupon. If a Traffic Reporter said Rawt, they'd be fired.

Maybe the PEE-uh-nist is Euro-PEE-un, R106.

Rawt? Like Rot?!

I can't believe how many people incorrectly say 'Rabbit' and not 'Wabbit'.

[quote]Cursive is archaic and shouldn't be taught anymore.

Cursive has not been taught in elementary schools in decades. There's a movement in many of the school districts in my area to bring it back and teach it in grade 4 like it used to be taught. A few districts have passed it and are starting this school year.

When I worked at a University from 2014 - 2024, we were periodically sent reminders from HR to NOT write notes, instructions, assignments, etc. in 'cursive' because the students would not be able to decipher the writing. We couldn't even leave a hand-written note in cursive to a co-worker since many were students of the curriculum which didn't learn cursive (can't make them feel 'uncomfortable').

[quote]It is vital to pronounce the p in “raspberry.”

Says who? This is a case of consonant elision, a common feature of natural speech where sounds are dropped to make pronunciation smoother and faster.

P-elision occurs in words like raspberry, cupboard, and receipt, and dates back to the 16th century.

[quote]My Latin lover pronounces it deek

I love when Latinos say it that way - especially when they have an 8 inch boner looking at me. So cute and sexy.

Chile for child

Some of you are just being ridiculous now.

r115, don be a deek.

No more buttered scones for me, mater... I'm off to play the grand piano!

[quote]R61 You know somebody's from Connecticut when they pronounce "aunt" as "ahnt" and not "ant."

Black people seem to do this with “auntie” a lot.

Gravitas

[quote] Most mispronounce Flaccid as Flassid, when it's correctly Flaksid.

Wrong.

r111

Teaching cursive is now law in California.

R102 I was corrected by a Greek who taught me YEE-row and Moussaka is moo-suh-KAH, not moo-SAH-kah. Middle Eastern friend said Hummus is Hoomus, not Hum-mis.

No, r120: they are right. "FLACK-sid" is preferred, although "FLASS-sid" is acceptable.

ARCHY TECK

[quote] Says who? This is a case of consonant elision, a common feature of natural speech where sounds are dropped to make pronunciation smoother and faster.

It was a joke. No one says “rasp-berry.”

In most of New England we pronounce aunt as "ahnt." We also pronounce route as "root," at least in Boston and northward.

In the song, "Get your kicks on Route 66" it's pronounced "root."

The "root" pronunciation is actually more common, but in the NYC area it's "rowt."

Van Gahhhhhhhhhhghk

Brits, Russians and the French pronounce Mama and Papa with stress on the second syllables. It's important to know that when reading Dickens, Tolstoy and Flaubert.

When I order a French cruller from Dunkin', the employee will often repeat it back with the wrong pronunciation, as if I am the one in error. Of course, because I have good manners and also do not want my cruller and coffee tampered with, I do not correct them.

It's kruhl-er, not kroo-ler, unless you're in England and then it is kruhl-ah.

Try this link instead.

You would not *believe* how many academicians pronounce "academia" as "academy" or simply don't know the difference.

At Dunkin'’. It is a crellah. Wicked crellahs.

Phrases I pronounce correctly- Champing at the bit NOT Chomping on the bit.

Moët & Chandon, according to an employee, should be pronounced “Moe-et” with a hard T, not “Moe-ay” à la franćais.

She said Moët was a Dutch word, not French. So unless she was full of bull, I pronounce that bubbly correctly.

Same with the Belgian chocolate made by another Dutchman

Cal eh boat.

Hard t.

NeckLACE. It's not neckless.

OP you need to get yourself a spray bottle and fill it with water and when anyone pronounces a word wrong, spray them in the face and shout at them with the correct pronunciation. Soon you will no longer have a problem with people pronouncing words wrong.

It sort of works on the same principal as the "Oh Dear" does here, and you see how well that works.

“Butt.”

I make sure to hold onto and extend the two “t”’s when I draw it out.

[quote] NeckLACE. It's not neckless.

Where on earth do you encounter your proposed pronunciation?

Poosey eez pronounce well bye me, be bestest Varist Letty!

[quote] Forte pronounced "fort" and not fort-ay as is commonly heard.

The two syllable version is a standard pronunciation and is frequently viewed as the preferable one.

This may be the prissiest thread to ever priss on DL. On another note, I really hope the Neck LACE thing was a joke. Please tell me that was a funny ha ha.

We live for priss here at the DL R143!

[quote] Cumin - 1st syllable is pronounced "cyoo" not "coo"

Both are standard. Cooking is more common in America than in England, I believe.

Cumin was originally pronounced COME in. However, maybe because of the sexual word that is close, the U has become a long U for most English-speaking people.

Fortay and Fort originally had different language derivations and were pronounced differently according to the meaning that was wanted, but fortay has long won out. Fortay (forte) is Italian and means LOUD, Fort (forte) is French and means strong, usually in the context of someone's strength in a particular field. Fortay when used to mean strong is sometimes called a hyperforeignism, in which people try to go for the more foreign-sounding version assuming it is correct. Actually, cumin above is sort of the same.

Classical radio announcers have to work overtime to learn the correct pronunciations of the names of composers and sometimes of performers, because how they are spelling in English has no bearing on their actual pronunciation. (Wagner ( Vahgner), I'm looing at you).

We usually drag out epiTOME and HyperBOLE in these discussions. However, I'd say most people say those correctly when speaking except when they're reading a prepared speech or something, and the spelling trips them up.

Spelled^

[quote]Fortay (forte) is Italian and means LOUD

Forte means strong in Italian. When it's used in music, it means loud (strong).

Flaccid = FLAK SID

I axed you to take me to the liberry.

r148, I do know that, but forte pronounced the Italian way came into English via music. After all, we have a perfectly good word for strong. (STRONG)....LOL. But we don't use English words for directions in music. For those, we use Italian and thus every child who ever studied a musical instrument is taught that forte means loud. . I guess one could argue that "loud" in music is closely related to "strong" in music, but strong is not quite as specific to volume.

Now it's a moot point, because as mentioned above, forte pronounced the Italian way has by and large supplanted the French pronunciation among English speakers.

True r148 and r151 but in American we say FOR-TAY when referring to someone's area of strength or expertise, as in, sight-singing is not my fortay.

cun TESSA.

Sorry I wasn't more clear. It's used the same way in Italian.

"la cucina è il suo forte"

Cooking is his strong point.

It probably did enter English via French, so you're correct there. Oddly enough, when you consult French dictionaries online, you don't see "strong point" as one of the uses, at least not in the first 20. It seems to have entered English via French but taken on a meaning that wasn't common in French. Weird.

[quote]The "root" pronunciation is actually more common, but in the NYC area it's "rowt."

Not on "root" 22 in New Jersey, my root to getting to the city years ago. Nowadays, I think people take I-80 or I-78. N.B., not "the 80" or "the78" the way they say it in LA.

I think the general consensus is that route (ROWT) is the method by which you reach you destination ((go past the church with the steeple, make a left there and then continue on under the train trestle), whereas the named highway that you would use would be route (ROOT) 66. That being said, lots of people have missed that memo through the years.

Even for a gay website this is all really anal.

Do they ever say sang-which?

r156 A ROWT also means a defeat and I hear so many history podcasters saying someone got "rooted" when talking about battles. Makes me wince every time.

Or the other day, I heard a history professor who teaches medieval(!) history at the University of Vienna pronounce "fief" as "Fyfe." And of course he's an American.

Bry cheese

Reprise has always been pronounced re-PREEZ. Frank Sinatra created a record label with the name. Now I 'm hearing re-PRIZE.

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

"Long-lived" and "short-lived" with the long i in the noun "life" (which those terms are built on), not the short i in the verb "live."

Strei-SAND

or

STREI-send

R164 already covered way upthread.

R161 I never knew Sinatra started that label. I knew he recorded for them in the 60s and 70s but never knew it was his label. Who else did he get to record on the label - or was he the only one ?

Does some queen really go around emphasizing "neck-LACE?" "Oh what a lovely neck-LACE?" Seriously?

The common pronunciation is more like "neck-liss" than "neck-less." Regardless, words are not always pronounced the way they are spelled, which a mistake that dumb people often make.

Neck LACE is an incorrect pronunciation according to all the dictionaries I have consulted. It's not only weird, it's wrong.

Have we discussed JEWELRY?

jool-ree

jew-la-ree

joo-el-ree

Is jewlery made by Jews?

I'm in Rhode Island, a state which was primarily settled by Native American tribes (as was all of southern New England) and villages, towns, neighborhoods and streets still prominently carry those names. It's also a state with a large population of Italian settlers from the late 1800s - mid 1900s.

I say that because it's always fun to watch the new 'Midwestern journalists' fresh out journalism school being tossed on camera to butcher every single town and neighborhood, as well as every popular Italian surname. I don't fault them, I fault the producers and writers for not going over these names and pronunciations with them before the broadcast. Spell them out phonetically if you have to so these fresh-faced Irish kids can pronounce it nearly correctly.

My favorite is when they come to the surname 'Romano' - pronounced 'Ro- mahn- o'. Even Bonnie Franklin pronounced it correctly for nine seasons of ODAAT.

The reporters today pronounce it ' Roman - O' , as in 'Crime boss Al Roman-O was arrested today..."

Watch these same kids butcher the CT tribal name 'Pequot' (they commonly say Peck-you-hot' ) when discussing one of New England's most popular resort casinos, 'Foxwoods', owned by the tribe.

Sorry, but no one but scientists and prisspots will pronounce the name of the planet " Your -ah-nus."

In Philly I commonly hear "route" as both "root" and "rowt". I think "root" is more urban and "rowt" more suburban/rural. Both pronunciations are common. The only time I hear these pronunciations fixed to specific meaning is when referring to an electric or electronic "router", it's always "rowter" and never "rooter."

R165, along with Frank ... Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Captain Beefheart, The Kinks, The Beach Boys, and Fleetwood Mac.

Communication is the basis of pronunciation.

The only time I had a miscommunication on a strange level was dialectally.

I was an 8-year-old boy from Chicago going to the 1965 World's Fair in New York, and my dad scheduled it to coincide with a reunion of his WWII Navy shipmates. At Check-In for the hotel, there were directions to the reunion hospitality room. Once we checked in, my dad went to the room and my mom took us to the hospitality room.

We were greeted by a lovely NYC woman who after giving us Tang and cookies ask me if

I WAS GOING TO THE POTTY?

My mom looked at me, looking to her for guidance.

The woman repeated, ARE YOU GOING TO THE POTTY, as if Tang were a powerful laxative.

Finally, my mom repeated, looking directly at me, do you want to go to THE PARTY/

I exhaled. My mom laughed, explained my horror to our guest, and we all had a good time at THE POTTY. It was my first time out of Chicago and I learned to listed to meaning as opposed to the simple stringing of words.

[quote] Cooking is more common in America than in England, I believe.

Meals are eaten raw in England, then?

R170, a real bone of contention around here is the pronunciation of Pawtucket with a heavy PAW- whereas the locals pronounce it "Puh-TUCK-it."

R176 I love the 'newbies' on the news who pronounce it 'paw-ticket'. In a few weeks they'll be reporting from the 'Skitch-wit' art festival.

State names people mispronounce:

Oregon is "Or-ee-GUN," not "Or-ee-GAHN."

Colorado is "Kah-luh-RAD-oh," not "Kah-luh-RAH-doh."

Nevada is "Nuh-VAD-uh," not "Nuh-VAH-duh."

I like R156 menluvinguy's explanation of Route. I never thought about it, but I think that's what I do automatically

The two pronunciations of "route" are because of regional differences.

R178, thanks for the correct pronunciations of those states.

ERA - Many say Eh-RUH. Especially in broadcasting, Eh-RUH is heard as Error. EER-uh is preferred. With "The governor's EH-ruh," listeners think you're talking about his mistake. The laundry detergent is pronounced EER-uh.

I just want to amplify R43. "Off-ten" seems to be growing these days, but the silent T isn't just less pretentious, it's the way the word was always pronounced until some people started getting anxious about whether their listeners (another silent T) knew they could spell.

Lingerie isn't Lon-ZHU-ray, it's Lan-zhu-ree.

Not in American English, it’s not.

Picayune is pronounced pick-ah-YOON. As in, Good Lord, what a picayune thread this is.

Shoo-toe,

NOT Show-tow.

The L in almond is ALWAYS silent.

It drives me, well, nuts.

R188. Do any of you bother to check a dictionary when you make these pronouncements?

I constantly hear people say pacific instead of specific, expresso and going through the emotions instead of motions and I want to hit them

People from Albany NY say Melk instead of Milk and I want to hit them.

Forgot "Both are Correct" and "both are acceptable." Every word has a "preferred" pronunciation used by educated people, regardless of region of US.

189 , I don’t give a shit about variants added to accommodate American idiocy.

PREFER-able or pre-FER-able?

I love how every grammar troll makes up their own rules, and then tries to enforce said made up rules despite what the dictionary says.

PRE-TEN-TSCHOUS

[quote]Forgot "Both are Correct" and "both are acceptable." Every word has a "preferred" pronunciation used by educated people, regardless of region of US.

That might be the snottiest thing I've ever read on here. Some of you need Jesus.

I tease a friend from Iowa who MAYsures before hanging PITCHERS on the wall.

"Dictionaries? HA! I decide what the proper pronunciation is, and all of you must follow my dictates or suffer my wrath!"

Shandy shells sheeshells at the sheeshore!

OP, do you also pronounce Greenwich "Green Witch"?

[quote]Moun-AN instead of mountain. Or Clit-AN instead of Clinton. Trump's moon-faced kunt KKKaroline does that. Drives me nuts.

Oh, she would.

She radiates pig-faced white trash. Total garbage person.

Epenthesis is the linguistic process of inserting an extra sound to a word to make pronunciation easier, usually by breaking up difficult to pronounce consonant clusters into syllables. Vowel epenthesis (anaptyxis) is the adding of a schwa sound.

Children still mastering tongue control tend to do this ("buh-lue" for blue, "fil-uhm" for film, for example), as do English language learners from Spanish speaking countries ("eh-stairs," "eh-school").

But I wonder about those adults who say "ath-uh-lete" and "real-uh-tor" and "jewel-uh-ry." Do they have difficulty with consonant clusters or is this just the way they learned the words?

I once worked with a guy who did the above and also could not say "business" or "Disney" without adding the extra schwa sound: biz-uh-ness, Diz-uh-ney.

What boggled my mind was another co-worker, from upscale Philadelphia, who kept adding extra sounds to simple monosyllabic non-consonant cluster words like "mine" (my-uhn) and "time" (ty-uhm).

When we were kids we always said something was MY-un! if anyone was trying to take what belonged to us.

Vase - vays not vahz

You don’t slide into first bahz or pack your suitcahz.