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Tante Shvester · « **Reply #625 on:** December 13, 2013, 11:55:06 AM »

Ooh! More pictures of scantily-clad women on that site.

Irregardless:Regardless::Inflammable:Flammable

Discuss.

Porter · « **Reply #626 on:** December 19, 2013, 06:49:14 AM »

Dude. That was a frikkin' awesome article.

Jonathon · « **Reply #627 on:** December 19, 2013, 09:38:38 AM »

Thanks!

Jonathon · « **Reply #628 on:** December 20, 2013, 12:22:21 PM »

The pronunciation of Smaug

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #629 on:** December 22, 2013, 01:30:55 PM »

I don't pronounce Smaug" as "smog", but I don't pronounce it Tolkien's way, either. I'd say it "smawg". But then, you probably can't hear the difference between "marry", "merry", and "Mary", or between "bought" and "bot".

Jonathon · « **Reply #630 on:** December 22, 2013, 01:54:48 PM »

I can hear the difference when someone who distinguishes between them says those words, but I don't distinguish between them myself and have a hard time saying them differently.

pooka · « **Reply #631 on:** December 22, 2013, 07:49:31 PM »

I was tripping out on Merry vs. Mary during the Christmas program at Church today.

pooka · « **Reply #632 on:** December 22, 2013, 07:55:03 PM »

Is it a different sound in Now and flower?

Holy crap that gave me deja vu.

eta: Sputnik tells me he meant flour, not flower. Now my 3% is really swimming.

Annie Subjunctive · « **Reply #633 on:** December 22, 2013, 08:16:15 PM »

The dialog quiz thing that's going around asked whether I pronounced crayon like cray-AHN or to rhyme with dawn. I had no idea how to answer because to me, AHN rhymes with dawn.

rivka · « **Reply #634 on:** December 22, 2013, 08:28:15 PM »

Quote from: Annie Subjunctive on December 22, 2013, 08:16:15 PM

to me, AHN rhymes with dawn.

*runs screaming*

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #635 on:** December 22, 2013, 09:05:45 PM »

Now and flower (and flour) all have the same consonant sound to me.

To me, crayon does not use the same sound as dawn. I guess it would if you'd say "Don's early light," but I don't pronounce dawn with the same sound as don. I think people from the heart of the country would, though.

Jonathon · « **Reply #636 on:** December 23, 2013, 09:11:41 AM »

Quote from: Annie Subjunctive on December 22, 2013, 08:16:15 PM

The dialog quiz thing that's going around asked whether I pronounced crayon like cray-AHN or to rhyme with dawn. I had no idea how to answer because to me, AHN rhymes with dawn.

The quiz is based on an old dialect survey, and the original survey has a lot of problems with questions like that. It's really inconsistent, especially when it comes to questions involving the caught/cot merger.

Jonathon · « **Reply #637 on:** December 23, 2013, 09:12:34 AM »

Quote from: pooka on December 22, 2013, 07:55:03 PM

Is it a different sound in Now and flower?

Holy crap that gave me deja vu.

eta: Sputnik tells me he meant flour, not flower. Now my 3% is really swimming.

I'm not quite sure what you're asking, but now, flour/flower, and Smaug should all have the same vowel.

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #638 on:** December 23, 2013, 09:16:36 AM »

I'd definitely pronounce Smaug with a different vowel sound.

Porter · « **Reply #639 on:** December 23, 2013, 10:04:50 AM »

Quote from: Annie Subjunctive on December 22, 2013, 08:16:15 PM

The dialog quiz thing that's going around asked whether I pronounced crayon like cray-AHN or to rhyme with dawn. I had no idea how to answer because to me, AHN rhymes with dawn.

I had the exact same problem.

pooka · « **Reply #640 on:** December 23, 2013, 12:17:02 PM »

I would either say cr[digraph]n or crey[schwa]n.

Annie Subjunctive · « **Reply #641 on:** December 24, 2013, 09:15:44 AM »

I had a babysitter when I was little who pronounced it to rhyme with crown. I thought that was the weirdest thing ever and thought maybe she didn't actually know what crayons were.

Jonathon · « **Reply #642 on:** December 24, 2013, 09:30:39 AM »

My dad pronounces it cran, as in cranberry. I had no idea what he was saying the first time I heard him say it.

BlackBlade · « **Reply #643 on:** December 24, 2013, 10:57:08 AM »

So that quiz pegged me in either Salt Lake City, Milwaukee, or Madison WI. I think it determined that potato bug was the nail in the coffin for SLC.

I'm not surprised, but I'm fairly certain I've called things in Utah certain things and been told that's not what they are. Did anybody here call the grass between the sidewalk and the road a berm?

Jonathon · « **Reply #644 on:** December 24, 2013, 11:00:32 AM »

Nope. It's a park strip to me.

pooka · « **Reply #645 on:** December 24, 2013, 02:01:45 PM »

I didn't grow up with a term for that. That may be because we didn't have a sidewalk from the time I was in 1st grade up.

Annie Subjunctive · « **Reply #646 on:** December 24, 2013, 03:50:19 PM »

Yeah, I never had a word for that but I grew up in a Colorado town with no sidewalks.

Porter · « **Reply #647 on:** January 07, 2014, 02:01:29 PM »

How old were you when you moved to Montana?

Annie Subjunctive · « **Reply #648 on:** January 08, 2014, 05:34:41 PM »

pooka · « **Reply #649 on:** January 12, 2014, 06:25:06 AM »

I live in the mid atlantic until I was 17, and we moved to Utah, and I thought it only referred to these odd things in Salt Lake where you have curbed grass in the middle of the road. My grandma called them Parkings.