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« Reply #50 on: August 19, 2005, 10:18:55 AM »
It's a rogue accent.

Yes, she's from Utah. I'm not sure where she got it from.
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« Reply #51 on: August 19, 2005, 10:23:09 AM »
Weird. Does she pronounce any other vowels differently, or is it just the short a sound? Where are her parents from?
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« Reply #52 on: August 19, 2005, 10:32:47 AM »
Her dad's from Podunk, Idaho and her parents live right next to where her mom grew up (in Podunk, Utah).

Her family lived in Texas for a few years while she was still growing up. Maybe that's where it's from.
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« Reply #53 on: August 19, 2005, 10:34:23 AM »
I don't think so. That accent is characteristic of the Northern Cities Shift, which stretches from New England out to the Upper Midwest. Mackillian has it. :fear:

My only answer is that your wife is just plain weird. Of course, she married you, didn't she?
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« Reply #54 on: August 19, 2005, 10:35:36 AM »
You have a good point, Jon.
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« Reply #55 on: August 19, 2005, 11:06:44 AM »
That sounds more Chicagoan than New Englander to me.
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« Reply #56 on: August 19, 2005, 11:28:03 AM »
Actually, I think you're more or less right. The biggest centers of that particular shift are Chicago and Detroit, though it spreads out to Minneapolis and Syracuse, so I guess it's not really a New England thing. But I do know that Jamie does the a > ee-a thing.
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« Reply #57 on: August 19, 2005, 11:29:46 AM »
It's settled, then: Jamie is weird.
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« Reply #58 on: August 19, 2005, 11:31:27 AM »
Wow, I'm totally confused.

Are you talking about my wife? Or another Jaimie?
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« Reply #59 on: August 19, 2005, 11:33:46 AM »
Maybe we're talking about all Jamies. :P

I was specifically talking about mackillian, though.
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« Reply #60 on: August 19, 2005, 11:38:08 AM »
I get that with candy.  It may only be with back consonants.  It does not feel unnatural to say mayonnaise that way.  Though I doubt I would do that saying Brad.  (I was born in Maryland and grew up mainly by D.C.)
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« Reply #61 on: August 21, 2005, 05:13:07 AM »
I cannot say "processor."  And for some reason "word processor" is even harder than "food processor."  :blush:  

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« Reply #62 on: September 24, 2005, 12:01:37 PM »
Well for the longest time I couldn't say Laura right.  I would always say "Lara."  I also can't say Asterisk.

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« Reply #63 on: September 24, 2005, 09:34:07 PM »
Whenever I try to say my dad's insurance company - Horizon Blue Cross, Blue Shield - I can't. It's the Blue Cross that gets me every time.  

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« Reply #64 on: September 24, 2005, 09:40:15 PM »
I say everything correctly.  It's the rest of y'all that don't follow suit.
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« Reply #65 on: September 25, 2005, 10:04:04 AM »
Last night I tripped over the word etymological.  


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« Reply #66 on: September 25, 2005, 10:05:55 AM »
Pshhh.  That's an *easy* word to say...
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« Reply #67 on: September 25, 2005, 10:23:41 AM »
Well, it was uncharacteristic for me to trip over it. Maybe I was just tired. :)


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« Reply #68 on: September 25, 2005, 05:10:50 PM »
I tripped over it trying to read it.
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« Reply #69 on: September 25, 2005, 07:08:46 PM »
:lol:  


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« Reply #70 on: September 27, 2005, 10:01:44 AM »
For a while I had trouble with "georeference".  This was something of a problem at my last job, as I had to talk about georeferenced data fairly frequently.

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« Reply #71 on: September 27, 2005, 11:12:42 AM »
Quote
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Thinking back on it, several (bigger) words ending in "ology" or "ological" trip me up.  There's just something about how they flow.
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« Reply #72 on: September 27, 2005, 03:07:36 PM »
Some of them are tricky to pronounce. :)


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« Reply #73 on: November 15, 2005, 01:28:03 AM »
Specificity.  Cruel, cruel word.  

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« Reply #74 on: November 15, 2005, 09:09:06 AM »
Ottawa.

Now, I can pronounce it two ways, actually:

1. Ottawa (with the t)
2. Oddawa

The second is the way people expect it to be said. The first is the way I would prefer to say it because I happen to have learnt it that way. When people ask me where I'm from, there's always an internal struggle between Ottawa and Oddawa before something mangled comes out.

If I do say Ottawa, people always ask where, or repeat "Oshawa"? which is another Ontario city. Then I have to say Oddawa. No one expects the ts in Ottawa.

If I say Oddawa, chances are it'll be so mangled that I'll end up repeating it anyway before someone graciously translates and saves me from being more embarrassed than I already am!

It's a loosing battle and I think saying "the nation's capital" would be a little pretentious.