Tore-nament or ter-nament?: The other March Madness discussion.

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<p>Another who loves regional accents. Listening to interviews with coaches and players has been fun for me :)</p>

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<p>Ternament. Didn’t think I had an accent until I moved to southern California and people knew i was from Chi-town. (I haven’t heard that since I left.) :)</p>

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<p>Ter. Born in the Midwest, home of the best broadcasters.</p>

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<p>Ter-na-ment</p>

<p>Born in Iowa.</p>

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<p>Well, in my OP, I said, Tore-nament, but I could have easily said, rhymes with “poor”. Don’t poor and tour (or tore or pour or pore) all rhyme?</p>

<p>And my Tore-na-ment is North Jersey, though I grew up down the Shore (but with NYC parents.)</p>

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<p>Merry rhymes with berry. Mary rhymes with scary. Marry rhymes with carry.</p>

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<p>Tour and poor? Like a tour that you go on? No. The rest, yes. Tour is two-er.</p>

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<p>Reddoor, they’re pronouncing merry, berry, marry and carry all the same. I know, crazy!!</p>

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<p>In New Jersey, you go on a tore, not a tu-er.</p>

<p>But when I was in Michigan, everything I said was wrong.</p>

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<p>PG, I have fought the marry, merry fight here for years. If they don’t hear it, nothing I say has ever made a difference. i’ve tried met, mat, or bet, bat. etc. Since my D’s name is (full disclosure) Kerry, this has been an unending source of frustration for me. (It’s NOT Carrie!)</p>

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<p>Not us - we go on a tu-er, lol.</p>

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<p>It’s ter-nament and tu-er. From the final arbiter of all things (wikipedia):</p>

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<p>Boom. Done.</p>

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<p>Whenever I hear ternament, I think of Archie Bunker asking for the terlet paper.</p>

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<p>Hmm, Kitty. must be the North Jersey thing. I live there now, but i’m not OF here.</p>

<p>I grew up in a town that celebrated its 300th anniversary when I was 6. No one in the Midwest had ever heard English then. So obviously, we pronounce things right, not the Midwest, MyLB!:D</p>

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<p>I’m with DonnaL. Born and raised in Queens where tour rhymes with poor. I also took French in school, so tour rhymes with poor there too.</p>

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<p>Thanks for causing me to laugh out loud!! :)</p>

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<p>I’m from Virginia, and I say ter-nament. But my dad, more from rural Virginia, said “tyoor-nament.”</p>

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<p>I’m with DonnaL - also raised in Manhattan, and say tour as in poor. She’s right, we have no accent. :)</p>

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<p>I have lived in New England for 30 years, but my midwest accent remains. I say ternament; I also don’t hear the difference between merry and marry or close and clothes. The only midwestern regionalism I’ve abandoned is that I no longer say “pop”–I say “soda”.</p>

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<p>There was a time, Bromfield, when you would have learned to say “tonic” (and been understood)</p>

<p>I say “turnament” - the O is silent (MA origin)</p>