Pet Peeves Part 2: Electric Boogaloo

Don't be fewlish. You can't make coffee with whiskey instead of... well, now, wait a minute...

Experiment time!

Vasser.

Fer sher!

One that bugs me is the way advertisers pronounce "food."

It's "food," not "fewd."

Listen to the V/O on most commercials and you'll hear what I mean.

Tehhhwtulleh.

Well, that's probably actually a legal department thing.

When the scientists bust them that what they sell isn't technically "food", they can just say all along it was "fewd".

Yeah, I've notice accents have definately changed in sevnety years. Watch a film from the last ten years and comapre it to the accents from a '40s or '30s flick. The latter is decidedly more British sounding.

And exposure to media is what has been gradually homogenizing the "American" sound, which is why news anchors are trained in "Midwest."

The same thing happens with British actors. I remember Patrick Stewart mentioning that he had to be trained out of his Cockney accent when he began acting in London and picked up the BBC accent that foreigners are most familiar to listening to.

Obviously civilized people call it soda or sometimes a soft drink.

Is it true up in Beantown they pronounce Hirsch as though it's spelled Hush or Hosh? And Barton Button or Bahtin? Beaver as though it's spelled bee-vih? There seems to be no letter R in the Boston alphabet.

gul, & our other nuEngland WFers, feel free to weigh in on this.

Remember Mayor Quimby from "The Simpsons"?

"It's chow-duh! CHOW-DUH!"

Another pet peeve, & not just mine, are people who call Star Trek star track! Some do it out of ignorance of the TV show, others deliberately*, & some a little of both.




* I snarkastically call AbramsTrek star track!

"Paak ya caah in Haavaad Yaad."

Put it this way: Jay Leno has a light Boston accent.

Yeah, 'button' is 'buh-in'. I'm wondering if Noo Inglendehz also make phone kwohllz or if that's only Noo Yohkuhz.

I'm okay with "button," but "little" (lih-ul) and "bottle" (bah-ul) give me and a lot of NYawkers trouble. It's called a glottal click. If you've got it, you can't say it.

HA! I know people who called it "Star Track."
My step-dad pronounces the "s" in the state of Illinois!

Most annoying way of pronouncing is The Cleveland Show.
Instead of Maryland he says Mer (as in frankincense and myrrh)
or instead of "hair" he says her. Damn that wears on me!

And when Southerners say "acerns" sounding like burns
instead of "acorns" sounding like horns. Stop that shit!

Accents are fun. For a while when young, mine was VERY unusual. Learned to talk in the south, both parents NY'ers, did most of my growing up in Maryland. To this day, if I get really pissed off, my "milk tongue" comes out, and my accent becomes almost pure southern.

Many people around here pronounce it "wah-tah".

The islands have plenty of odd dialects, even for Maine in general.

Just saw a news report with a NYer who pronounced it "wodeh." O_o

Technically, you should though, as 'route' is a French word and correctly pronounced 'rhoot'. And since routers route network traffic to/from computers and teh Webz etc, it should follow the same pronunciation rules. At any rate, routers are but a tool to root around the web...

Oh, and the proper pronunciation of 'Confederacy' is 'kun-FED-rasseh.'

I druv my cah into the watuh and she got wet and wouldn't staht. Ayuh.

"Drink" or 'drank' as in "If you're goin' by the drink machines, could you pick me up a diet dew?"




"And a Reecey Cup if they got it."

:redneck:

depends if it's a franglaisism or not in the usage.

"I'm en route (rowt) on Route 75"

I have a Makita router...

People often say "woof" instead of "wolf"

Are you serious?

What is that all aboot anyway, eh?

22 years ago I spent a month in a little town outside of OKC working on an independent film, and in that month's time I picked up the biggest hick accent from working around all the other twangy hicks working on the film. It took me another solid month to kick it out of my system and talk normal again.

On that note, thank GOD I have not picked up the East Coast Joisey/New Yowk accent that predominates area. I'd rather shoot myself than say the following phrases to my West Coast friends:

"After I have my cawfey I'm gonna woak the doawg."

"Youz guys".

"Open the drowawr."

"Fughedaboutit!"

No, the correct pronunciation is "losers"