I have a thing for accents, like I seriously wish I was Southern, because I think the accents are so darn cute. Alas, I am not, and though I do say y'all every once in a while and I pronounce my "a"s a little off, I really don't think I've got an accent.
Coke is a type of soda. If you want another type, you can't just go around calling them all Coke!
I say pa-jam-ahs
This one made me laugh out loud. Who the hell calls a crayon a crown?!
If someone told me to put my mouth near a "bubbler", I would not be on board.
Where does your dialect fall on these maps?
There are tons more of these over at Starcasm!
this had me cracking up! we do definitely call everything coke down here! :)
ReplyDeleteHAHA I've heard a few people pronounce "crayon" as "crown" and it irks me so much! One I didn't see (maybe it's in the actual article?) is a "buggy" or a "cart." You know, the thing you push at the grocery store. Here in southeastern KY we call it a buggy and I've heard of people thinking that's weird! I definitely have a southern accent, though. The biggest thing is the pronunciation of "i." Like, instead of pronouncing "right" as "ra-eet"- you know, actually pronouncing the "i" like you are supposed to- we do it more like "rah-uht." That's the only way I can think of to spell it! LOL. It's just drawn out, I guess. I get made fun of for that all the time!
ReplyDeleteI can't say crayon it always comes out as crown. No matter how hard I try. I can't say better either it sounds like butter.
DeleteWell... even though I don't have much of a southern accent, apparently it's a little more prominent than I thought.
ReplyDeleteand I definitely call them "crowns" ha. woops. I think it starts off as "cray-ons" but then I start talking fast and it comes out as "crown"
My roomie during my freshman year of college was from around Milwaukee, WI and she always called the drinking fountain a "bubbler". I still don't get it.
ReplyDeleteBAHAHAHAHAHA, I'm dying with these... We definitely just say "pop" up here. And much like you, I aspire to have a southern accent... So, I pretend I do... ;)
ReplyDeleteI say crown!
ReplyDeleteMy son in law says 'crown' for 'crayon'. I am from CT and say 'cran'. He grew up in TN. Every time I hear him say it, I have to stop myself from screaming. I'm sorry but it does not make any sense!
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DeleteI agree it makes no sense. Coastal SC here. I say Cray-ahh. One of my kids says crown. It stops me in my tracks. I have no idea where she picked this up.
DeleteI grew up saying "crown" and hearing other people say it. And I remember this, and thinking "that's weird that the same word for what a king wears is the word we use for these sticks we make pictures with." I definitely thought that when Jack and Jill went up the hill and Jack fell down, he broke the kind of "crown" that I was always breaking when trying to color inside the lines of the little lambs in my coloring pages in Sunday School.
ReplyDeleteI grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which doesn't test high for "crown/crayon" but my mom's family comes from the Houston area, which maybe does. I think this one is pernicious as a regionalism that won't quit, because the truth is, people rarely say the word "crayon" on TV. Quincy and Columbo were never hunting for the "Crayon Killer," and even Bob Ross wouldn't touch crayons.
(I bet Mr. Rogers used crayons a time or two on his television program, but given his glorious accent, he might have said it closer to "crown" than to "crei-ohun.")
Anyway, now I say "crayon," which I started doing as an affectation when I was a kid and started being able to read. "Crown" was just too different from "crayon" and so I began using the two-syllable pronunciation, and was shocked when others accepted it.
I had a similar experience with no longer pronouncing "celery" as "salary." Oddly, everyone seemed to say "salary" when I was a kid. Not sure what happened to all those people--maybe they died from not enough celery in their diet.
As for "coke" and "pop" and "soda," I grew up saying "pop" but switched to "soda" as a teenager because it just sounded classier. I vaguely recall hearing that the word "coke" could mean any soda, but only in contexts where it wasn't important what drink you actually wanted. E.g. "the water fountain is over by the coke machine," even if there were no "cokes" in the coke machine. No one would ever say "what kind of coke do you want?" and expect a wide variety of root beer, Sprite, Mountain Dew, and Pepsi answers.
ReplyDeleteWhat's not listed on this thing, and what my coworkers from up north claim is a thing, is "tonic" as a generic term for a soda. This might have been some kind of Bostonian or New England thing. I can imagine the Pepperidge Farm Remembers guy on a break at the recording studio, with his grandkids, and him saying, "grab yeh ol' fada a tonic theah out o' the ice box... the one nex' ta da bubblah!"
I say soda because If I asked for a pop when I was growing up, my mom would hit me. I say crown for crayon. People say I sound like I am from the Midwest or Boston... I get that a lot. But I have lived in Washington state almost my whole life. And have had six years of speech therapy.
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