<p>
</p>
<p>In parts os Massachusetts it’s a grinder only if it’s toasted in a hot oven. A cold sandwich of the same shape is a sub.</p>
<p>VillageMom, is your MIL from Texas? I noticed the dropped "H"s when I lived in SE Texas. Houston was “You-ston” and my favorite, Humble was “umble”.</p>
<p>I’d never heard of a “pony keg” until this thread. I’ve seen a few of those “drive-thru” liquor stores, but none of them are the kind of place I’d dare to pull into.</p>
<p>Dancersmom,
I have always said y’all and now that I’m in Michigan people ask, “Oh, are you southern?”. I explain that no, technically I’m a Yankee but since you can swim from Cincinnati to Kentucky that explains why I say y’all.</p>
<p>Imagine my surprise today to learn that Kentuckians don’t say y’all! So from where do I get that?? Turns out I’m a poser. :p</p>
<p>I grew up saying pop but now I go with soda pop so as to make everyone unhappy. “It’s just soda!” “It’s just pop!” Well, okay, but it’s never a bubbler, who are those people out East? And how on earth does Coke represent Sprite, 7Up or rootbeer?</p>
<p>Being a Cincinnatian of German descent, I appreciate you knowing that “please” means “excuse me”.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>No, she has always lived in Dayton or Cincinnati, Ohio. So it looks like we’re back to my theory that she’s just trying to annoy me.</p>
<p>My kids crack up when we visit family in Illinois and people use the expression “Yous guys”.</p>
<p>Also, my H & MIL are the only 2 people I know from rural Illinois who pronounce the word envelope as “ahn” vel ope.</p>
<p>Former Pittsburgher here. In western PA, people say “yinz” or “yinzers” instead of “you guys” or “y’all.” Other unique western PA regionalisms include:</p>
<p>Tire iron = pronounced “tar arn”
Downtown = pronounced “dahntahn”
Rubberband = gumband
Slippery = slippy (“Be careful, it’s slippy outside.”)
Thorn bush = jagger bush
Jerk = jagoff (“That guy is such a jagoff!”)</p>
<p>FallGirl, I pronounce the word envelope as “ahn” vel ope, also, as does everyone I know.</p>
<p>12rmh18, I have an aunt from Pittsburgh. I was always confused when she would request " Yinz red up the table, please"</p>
<p>Pizza, my mom says the three (Mary, marry, and merry) all differently, too. She has a British pronunciation to a lot of her words without the accents (if that makes sense). She’s tried to correct my pronunciation since I was little but alas, my Michigander accent won out and they’re all the same to me :p</p>
<p>Two things I’ve noticed since moving south. A Shopping cart is a Buggy. Display is DISplay.</p>
<p>So if you say ahn-velope do you also say ahn-t instead of a-nt?</p>
<p>I have lived so many places I tend to pronounce at random. Ahn-velope, in-velope, cara-mel, car-mel, but-ton, butt-un…those maps didn’t predict much, but fun.</p>
<p>I admit I hesitate to pronounce roof in public since I’m in an accent neutral area… “roof” like woof? Closer to rough?
Poem like po-em or like poyem?</p>
<p>^ Neither. It’s like pohm. 
</p>
<p>My partner says ahn-t. No one else he knows does but somehow he just picked it up. Drives me a little bonkers.</p>
<p>I would write a pohm to my ahnt and put it in an en-velope. My sister who lives on Lon Gisland is an ant to her h’s kids, but an ahnt to mine.</p>
<p>I have a friend from Pittsburgh who says that the grass needs cut. I say it needs to be cut or less frequently needs cutting. </p>
<p>She also says that kids make a draw-wing, I say draw-ing. And she says cameras once used fill-um.</p>
<p>And speaking of draws, how do you pronounce that thing in your kitchen that pulls out? I say dr-or, and often hear draw, but I’ve only heard draw-er from people whose first language is not English.</p>
<p>dragonmom, we say ahnvelope, but that woman married to our uncle is our “ant.” In my family, we call my aunt (ant) Aint Jenny. and my great grandmother was Aint Jo. But Aint is only used as a title. Goodness, I never thought about how weird that sounds!</p>
<p>Snowme,</p>
<p>LOL, interesting!</p>
<p>I would write a po-em to my ant and put it in an ahn-velope. I have noticed here that ahntie is often used by local African Americans - most others say ant.</p>
<p>We typically say, “That grass needs mowin’”</p>
<p>I say draw-ing. And film has one syllable.</p>
<p>We say dr-or for the thing in the kitchen that pulls out. But my husband’s underwear are also dr-ors. LOL! :)</p>
<p>Oh, MusicMom, Aint is a title here too, but only for the older ladies from the Eastern part of the state. Just because that’s what they’ve been called for years. Everyone else is an ant.</p>
<p>This is fun! So interesting to read all the different ways to pronounce a word. I have lived primarily in the deep south, now in MD, but was in Bar Harbor recently and asked if a shirt I was looking at would “draw up.” The lady in the store said “What?” and gave me a look like I was crazy, it was a funny moment :)</p>
<p>Fascinating!</p>
<p>My husband and I recently had a discussion about “my mother’s sister.” I am from Arkansas - where “aint” is a title, such as “Aint Millie.” But, I usually say “ant.” H, from Minnesota says “ahnt”. He doesn’t know if that is because of Minnesota or because both of his parents are non-native English speakers. We always giggle because his mom sounds like Arnold Schwarzenegger when she says “Caul-ee-for-nia.”</p>
<p>Here’s another regional difference: My dad was from Colorado and he always insisted that the wild dog (coyote) was called a “kye-oat”, while everyone else I know says “kye-oat-ee”. I looked it up on the internet and found out that “kye-oat” was a Western state thing.</p>
<p>Being from Michigan, pop is pop. Soda is ice cream with pop poured over it. Coke is a brand name of pop.</p>
<p>I didn’t say soda or pop or coke…though coke itselfwas often called co-cola.
A carbonated beverage would be “do you want a drink?” In our world, a “drink” referred to a soft drink of any variety. Maybe soft drink just got shortened to “drink”. </p>
<p>All aunts were called aint. I’ve noticed younger generations now say ant. </p>
<p>I say Mary and merry the same but marry rhymes w/ Barry. </p>
<p>I call that the big road w/ speeding cars “the interstate”. </p>
<p>I’m fr. northeastern NC with roots in tidewater VA. Any words with “ou or ow” in the middle come out different… down = doan around=a-roan out=oat…a mixture of lower VA and the high toider accent of NC’s Outer Banks.</p>