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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #625 on: December 13, 2013, 11:55:06 AM »
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #626 on: December 19, 2013, 06:49:14 AM »
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #627 on: December 19, 2013, 09:38:38 AM »
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #628 on: December 20, 2013, 12:22:21 PM »
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Re: New column-type thingy
« 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".
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Re: New column-type thingy
« 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.
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Re: New column-type thingy
« 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. 
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Re: New column-type thingy
« 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.  

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Re: New column-type thingy
« 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.
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #634 on: December 22, 2013, 08:28:15 PM »
to me, AHN rhymes with dawn.
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Re: New column-type thingy
« 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.
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #636 on: December 23, 2013, 09:11:41 AM »
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.
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #637 on: December 23, 2013, 09:12:34 AM »
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.
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #638 on: December 23, 2013, 09:16:36 AM »
I'd definitely pronounce Smaug with a different vowel sound.
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #639 on: December 23, 2013, 10:04:50 AM »
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.
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #640 on: December 23, 2013, 12:17:02 PM »
I would either say cr[digraph]n or crey[schwa]n. 
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Re: New column-type thingy
« 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.
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Re: New column-type thingy
« 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.
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Re: New column-type thingy
« 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?
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #644 on: December 24, 2013, 11:00:32 AM »
Nope. It's a park strip to me.
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Re: New column-type thingy
« 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.
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« 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.
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Re: New column-type thingy
« Reply #647 on: January 07, 2014, 02:01:29 PM »
How old were you when you moved to Montana?
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« Reply #648 on: January 08, 2014, 05:34:41 PM »
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« 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.
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