NoodleSoup said:

I looked coupon up in the dictionary, and it's in there as "koo" and/or "kyoo".

evenstar3 said:

My mum (I say 'mum') says 'mo' instead of 'no' sometimes. She'll be daydreaming and have her mouth fixed in just such a way that if I ask her a yes or no question and she says 'no' it comes out as 'mo' as her mouth is starting in the 'm' position. It's quite cute really.

bluesbaby said:

Ha ha!

ex: O'reilly

- dick-head

NoodleSoup said:

Ace said:

i bet the weird fucked-up state my accent gets into after a week or so in england would annoy you even more!

momentofbliss said:

When you watched 'Neighbours', did you say 'Rick Ilissi' instead of 'Rick Alessi'?

NoodleSoup said:

i have no idea what you're talking about ... didn't watch neighbours sorry

evenstar3 said:

You know, I never thought Californians had an accent, but when I hang out with 'em for several days, I find myself talking like them (at least I did - haven't been there in years).

When I worked as a waiter, I used to hate when people would ask for Italian dressing on their salads and put a long I in the first syllable.

But I shouldn't get too uppity about things like that. I've been known to pronounce "pen" and "pin" exactly the same. And I think I often pronounce "or" and "are" the same. If I'm typing really fast, I've even caught myself interchanging "are" for "or" in my writing.

momentofbliss said:

Ah, you were a 'Home And Away' kinda guy.

I pronounce either & neither as eye-ther & nye-ther.

Sometimes, though more in the past, I pronounced 'room' a bit closer to 'rum', like a very short 'oo' sound. And 'broom' too.

Ace said:

yeah, i never thought much of mine until i noticed it change.

NoodleSoup said:

you pronounce things in a lovely way

"costume" to me is something more like "coss-tee-oom" than "coss-toom," as most people i know say it.

evenstar3 said:

Thanks. I'm glad that I didn't pick up a Gloucester (Glarster) accent. Moving about a bit around the south of England when you're growing up is the key.

Protege said:

I think 'cos-tee-oom' (or cosschoom) is more the way Brits tend to say it. I say it like that or 'costyum' with that short 'oo' sound again.

Ace said:

And don't even get me started on sayings u guys (manily Americans) have never heard of
I was speaking to one the other day and he didn't know what drive me round the bend was

Ocean said:

'Tinny'

'stubby'

'stubby cooler'

And how the hell does one spell 'esky'??

'yute'??

Do you say 'sweet as...' and all those other '... as' sayings? When I was in NZ I heard it everywhere I went. That and 'bro' a lot. Do they say those in OZ?

Mall ---> Maul

Ball ---> Bawl

Dog ---> Dawg

Talk ---> Tawk

Coffee ----> Cawffee



A whole bunch of shit. I can't think of all of them, but my sister points it out to me all the time. I'm soo New York/New Jersey

I'm terribly southern/hickish with my pronunciations...

can't = caint
Albany = Albenny
water = wuhter
theatre = thee-ATER

the list could go on and on...
I'm a walking example of stereotypical southern dialect...

Carstle not cassel! (Castle)
Ga-raje not Garedge (Garage)
Reservwour not Resavor (Reservoir)

evenstar3 said:

do people actually pronounce it "cat-sup"? that's weird. i've never heard anyone say it that way. i always hear "catch-up", or more accurately, "kejjup", kinda said real fast like "ribbit" or "hiccup".



homophonaphobe edit
[Edited 9/29/08 20:47pm]

evenstar3 said:

That just reminds me of the joke Uma Thurman tells in PUlp Fiction!

Amaxx said:

I say 'carsul' too.

'garrij'

'rezuvwaa'

roodboi said:

i think it was well after i was out of college that i realized that "waller" and "wallow" were not two entirely different words, but that "wallow" was the correct pronounciation of "waller". it still feels weird to say "wallow".

Anxiety said:

You pronounce 'fhqwhgads' as 'foxyflawedhands'.

NoodleSoup said:

Yep esky! And ute
sweet as and yeah bro, choice bro blah blah are all kiwi sayings