How Do You Pronounce This Word?

[cabinetman]

I used the a sound rather that opie on the end. Like Kaliapi, might be a South Sacramento oki sound. All you midwesterner, East Coast people have accents anyway. Southerners and Texans well that is a different story.

Tom

An interesting perspective. I wonder how the 'tomato' and 'potato' controversy would fare.

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[BobSch]

An interesting perspective. I wonder how the 'tomato' and 'potato' controversy would fare.

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Let's call the whole thing off.


...being obscure again.

[TB Roye]

Here is another one. Almond, the nut. Out here even the growers can't decide where it is Almond or Amond. I think it is just where your form and in same cases you ethnic background.

Tom

[gsmittle]

Here is another one. Almond, the nut. Out here even the growers can't decide where it is Almond or Amond. I think it is just where your form and in same cases you ethnic background.

Tom

I think you're nuts.

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[cabinetman]

Here is another one. Almond, the nut. Out here even the growers can't decide where it is Almond or Amond. I think it is just where your form and in same cases you ethnic background.

Tom

We have Almond trees growing wild on our property and the nut called almond.
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[cabinetman]

We have Almond trees growing wild on our property and the nut called almond.
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Here is a picture (the green thing) for those that never saw an almond off the tree.
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[Tom Slick]

Here is another one. Almond, the nut. Out here even the growers can't decide where it is Almond or Amond. I think it is just where your form and in same cases you ethnic background.

Tom

And a third pronunciation sounds like am-mon

[TB Roye]

Tom

You are right I had the wrong spelling. English was always second language to me. Phonics was never my strong suit.

Tom

[RAFlorida]

Mike, your statement,

"When hearing the word pronounced only one way, and then finding out there is another way, is quite a revelation.", brings to mind the word "cabinet". I grew up in central Ohio and that word was pronounced with a silent 'i', as "cabnet". I then started travelling around the country far and wide and found that many people call it "cab'i'net". The short or soft 'i' is used! And the interesting thing is that there's many other regional dialects in word pronounciations. I always called a "creek" a 'crick'! Oh oh, look out for that person that plays the piano. It is spelled "pianist". That person can also be called a "PEE-ə-nist"; sounding very much like that part of a male body part! (thanks goes to "Philips Phile", a radio talk show in Orlando at one time.)
Blessed is the movie, "Cool Hand Luke"; "What we've got here is (a) failure to communicate", (credit to Wikipedia)
Roger, the one who always gotten the elishage language wronge!

[gsmittle]

"When hearing the word pronounced only one way, and then finding out there is another way, is quite a revelation.", brings to mind the word "cabinet". I grew up in central Ohio and that word was pronounced with a silent 'i', as "cabnet". I then started travelling around the country far and wide and found that many people call it "cab'i'net". The short or soft 'i' is used! And the interesting thing is that there's many other regional dialects in word pronounciations. I always called a "creek" a 'crick'! Oh oh, look out for that person that plays the piano. It is spelled "pianist". That person can also be called a "PEE-ə-nist"; sounding very much like that part of a male body part! (thanks goes to "Philips Phile", a radio talk show in Orlando at one time.)
Blessed is the movie, "Cool Hand Luke"; "What we've got here is (a) failure to communicate", (credit to Wikipedia)
Roger, the one who always gotten the elishage language wronge!

Here in St. Louis, we don't use a "fork". It's a "fark." And we "warsh" down our pizza with "teeeee" and the number after 39 is pronounced "farty." (Like my old Uncle Bill.) "Cardinals" is always pronounced properly, and "Cubs" is pronounced "I'm so sorry."

When I lived in Iowa, they didn't have "soda," they called it "pop," and I'd always turn around and look for my father.

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[BobSch]

When I lived in Iowa, they didn't have "soda," they called it "pop," and I'd always turn around and look for my father.

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It's pop up here, too.

[LCHIEN]

"Steem awr-guhn"

[cabinetman]

When I lived in Iowa, they didn't have "soda," they called it "pop," and I'd always turn around and look for my father.g.

It's pop up here, too.

I've heard it called "soda pop".

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[gsmittle]

I've heard it called "soda pop".

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Isn't Soda Pop one the characters in The Outsiders?

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[BadeMillsap]

For all of my formative years in Texas ... it was a "coke" ... didn't matter if it was root beer, cola, 7-up or cream soda ... we went to get "a coke" ... in the last few years I've heard it commonly referred to as either "a soda" or "a soft drink" ... but to me ... it's "a coke" ...