<p>Everyone in my family says “Tore-nament” (from New Jersey).</p>
<p>But i’ve heard differently while listening on the radio and TV.</p>
<p>How do you pronounce it and where are you from?</p>
<p>(On the other hand, it’s Ter-niquet, not Tore-niquet. No points for consistency here.)</p>
<p>Tour is pronounced “tore” in my book but what do I know…</p>
<p>We say ter-nament. And we are born and bred Jerseyans. North if that makes a difference.</p>
<p>Neither. I pronounce “tour” to rhyme with “poor.” (I’m from New York City – Manhattan, specifically – and, accordingly, have no accent whatsoever. I just pronounce things the way they’re supposed to be pronounced!)</p>
<p>I’ve lived in the upper midwest, the middle midwest, deep south, southern California, and Hawaii, and had never heard it pronounced tore-nament until we moved to mid-Atlantic area ten years ago.</p>
<p>Everywhere else it was too-rnament or ter-nament.</p>
<p>I think I pronounce it torn-a-ment.</p>
<p>Lived my whole life in the south. We say tern-a-ment.</p>
<p>Ternament. Michigan accent.</p>
<p>Ter-na-ment even though this is not how it is spelled.</p>
<p>Tore-Jersey born and bred</p>
<p>tore na ment</p>
<p>I say tour and that most easily glides to ter.</p>
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<p>Me too. :)</p>
<p>I’m from CT near NYC. We distinguish vowel sounds</p>
<p>From NY originally so I say tore na ment. When I first lived in California decades ago, I had a conversation with someone about how to pronounce, Mary (her name) merry and marry. She pronounced them all the same. I pronounced Mary long a, merry short e and marry with a short a sound. We worked in a library and so we looked up the pronunciation in a dictionary and she was shocked to see the pronunciation guide supported my pronunciations. </p>
<p>I love regional accents.</p>
<p>They ARE all the same! Despite the corrections from my mother ;)</p>
<p>Born in Western Pennsylvania- it was and still is tore-na-ment for me. But our friends in Indiana say ter-na-ment as did our neighbors when we lived in Michigan. It drives me crazy because one of my kids picked up the ter-na-ment pronunciation in spite of my efforts to correct her :)</p>
<p>Wow, (re: post 14) I pronounce merry, marry, and Mary exactly the same 
Do you mean merry rhymes with furry? So marry rhymes with starry? That would no work here :)</p>
<p>We’ve done this before. Say mat. Say met. They dont rhyme. Now say mat-ree. Met-ree. They don’t rhyme. Now, just drop the t. Mah-ree, meh-ree. Neither sound like “mare” as in the horse, and neither sounds like starry. </p>
<p>East Coast born and bred, but I’ve always said tournament as ter-nament and tourniquet as ter-nakit.</p>
<p>In my neck of the woods we have a tuna-mint. Which is how the locals pronounce the Masters golf tournament. You also have to clench your jaw a bit when you say it. 
It’s the same time as the end of March madness so I thought I could sneak it in here.</p>
<p>A tuna-mint sounds like it tastes really awful. :eek:</p>
<p>ternament, here.</p>
<p>All my mary’s sound the same.</p>
<p>Chi-town.</p>