how do you pronouce words?

Aerienne
Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:22:56 +0000

I’m in Southern California so this is probably boring but oh well:

Espresso/Expresso: “Expresso”
Math/Maths: What is maths? (“Math”)
Soda/Pop: Soda
Often/Offen: Offen, but the second “f” is “hard” similar to a t.
Aunt/Ant: Aunt and Ant.
Pen/Pin: P-“eh”-n; p-“in”.
marry/mary: Ma-ree (same)
fairy/ferry: Just different tone
Whorrible/Haribble: hore-ih-bull
Stock/stalk: Sto(a)-k; sta-k (slightly different)
Cot/Caught: k-ought
Dawn/Don: Just my tone is different
Aaron/Erin: Air-on
Weren’t: One “syllable”
Pajamas: pa jam ah’s
Our/Are: Same
Florida: Floor-da
Missouri: Mizz-our-ree
Forest: four-ehst
Mirror: mee(r-)er
Drawer: d(a)-rawr
Long Island: “Long” (g)“island”
Orange: Orn-g)e)
We say “you guys”
water: wah-ter
Coupon: q-pawn (q like the letter name)

I love this kinda stuff, haha.