how do you pronouce words?

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<p>Espresso/Expresso: espresso
Math/Maths: math
Soda/Pop: soda i’ve never said pop in my life
Often/Offen: both, depends
Aunt/Ant: ant
Pen/Pin: very different
marry/mary: the same
fairy/ferry: very different
Whorrible/Haribble: haribble
Stock/stalk: different
Cot/Caught: different
Dawn/Don: different
Aaron/Erin: different
Crayon=Crayon
Wern’t: two syllables
Pajamas: Puhjamuhs or pj’s
Our/Are: depends
Florida: Flarida
Missouri: Mizuhree (not Mizuhruh.)
Forest: Farest
Mirror: Meerur
Drawer: Draw
Long Island: thats how i say it…I live on long island and i’ve never heard anyone say lawn guy land unless they were making fun of it
Orange: areange</p>

<p>I’m from Long Island but spent 1st-5th grade in Georgia</p>

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Hahah yeah i’ve come to realize most people who have “long island accents” are really from Brooklyn/Staten island and moved to the island later, or sometimes south shore. </p>

<p>So many Americans can’t pronounce “Water”! We call it wodder or wodduh if you’re from parts of NY :D</p>

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<p>Our=HOUR, like, AO-ER. sometimes, rarely, I say ARE
Coupon= CUE PON</p>

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<p>AC-cess/ac-CESS: AC-cess</p>

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<p>Access? ACK-SESS. AS-ESS is a completely different word!</p>

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<p>Espresso/Expresso: expresso
Math/Maths: maff
Soda/Pop: soda
Often/Offen: offen
Aunt/Ant: both!
Pen/Pin: pen
marry/mary: same
fairy/ferry: same
Whorrible/Haribble: whorrible
Stock/stalk: same
Cot/Caught: same
Dawn/Don: sane
Aaron/Erin: same
Crayon=Crayon
Wern’t: one syllable
Pajamas: Puhjamuhs
Our/Are: different
Monk: monk, not munk
north = norf</p>

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<p>you all/ya’ll/you/you guys - you guys (for second person plural)</p>

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<p>Espresso/Expresso: Expresso.
Math/Maths: Math.
Soda/Pop: Soda. No questions there.
Often/Offen: Both.
Aunt/Ant: AUNT. Absolutely.
Pen/Pin: Different.
marry/mary: Same.
fairy/ferry: Different.
Whorrible/Haribble: Somewhere in the middle, more whoribble though.
Stock/stalk: Same.
Cot/Caught: Same.
Dawn/Don: Same.
Aaron/Erin: Slightly different.
Crayon=Crayon
Weren’t: two syllables
Pajamas: Puhjuhmuhs (all three syllables rhyme) or pj’s
Our/Are: Very very similar, hardly a difference.
Florida: Florida
Missouri: Mizuhree (not Mizuhruh.)
Forest: Forrest
Mirror: Meer-ur
Drawer: Draw (ish)
Long Island: Long Island
Orange: Or-ange. </p>

<p>Born in Boston, raised in Boston and S. New Hampshire. Even 1 hour outside of boston people say I have an accent. I’ve heard I say bag weird, anyone else? I think I elongate the vowel.</p>

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<p>Espresso/Expresso: expresso
Math/Maths: math
Soda/Pop: soda
Often/Offen: offen
Aunt/Ant: ant
Pen/Pin: different
marry/mary: different
fairy/ferry: very different
Whorrible/Haribble: whorrible
Stock/stalk: different (Stalk=stawk)
Cot/Caught: different
Dawn/Don: different
Aaron/Erin: different
Weren’t: two syllables
Pajamas: Puhjamuhs
Our/Are: same or different
Florida: Floor-ida
Missouri: Mizz-or-ee
Forest: Four-est
Mirror: Mirror (if said fast the second syllable may be dropped)
Drawer: Drawr (One syllable)
Long Island: Probably about “Lon Guy Land”
Orange: Or-ange
you all/y’all/you/you guys-you guys.
water: wodder</p>

<p>Location: suburbs of NYC. Born in Queens, all my parents and older family members were born and raised there.</p>

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Ah thank you. I saw this thread and the place to choose between “often” and “offen” pronunciations and was about to die. Haha. I’m glad someone cleared this up before I did.</p>

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<p>y’all= with family (southern american/foreign) (second person plural)
you guys= informal context/with friends
you= anywhere else</p>

<p>a bit of diglossia and register usage, eh?</p>

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<p>Not according to lexicographers…you effectively have free variation in allophony here. </p>

<p>Plus, “oft” is pronounced with the /t/. </p>

<p>And for a while I really thought there was an /l/ in “walk” and “talk”, only that it got obscured phonetically by the middle back vowels.</p>

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<p>I’m in Southern California so this is probably boring but oh well:</p>

<p>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)</p>

<p>I love this kinda stuff, haha.</p>

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<p>i’m curious about the pronunciation of Porsche. I’ve always said it as “porch,” but on the radio, I hear “por-sha”
What’s the most common way of saying it?</p>

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<p>I’ve only heard “porsh”</p>

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<p>My friends get the biggest kick out of me saying “saw-sage,” “dawg,” and “cawffee.” They tell me I sound like I should be from New York (I’m from Jersey). My best friend also says behgel instead of bagel.</p>

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<p>I think “por sha” is the non-American way of saying it.</p>

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<p>For some reason I add an “L” in the word “both”. It comes out as “bowl-th”. Saying it any other way feels really weird. My boyfriend constantly makes fun of me for it.</p>