Been dieing to ask this, but was afraid...

[Anonymous]

I only recently discovered that Mallet was pronounced "malay". Where I come from it's pronounced "Beyer Garret"

[Anonymous]

Who started this language anyway???
then again... a really good import here is "Have a Nice Day"... you can REALLY insult people with it.

I usually respond to "Have a Nice Meal" with "DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO"! It scares the.... out of young waiting staff ... until they see the grin... haven't worn my meal yet....

Try the place name "Quernmoor"... East of Lancaster... in four year I worked out that the pronunciation depends on the point of the compass and the day of the week.

Some bright spark manager decided that instead of "Sis/Madam" we should all use the customer's first name when we knew it (selling rail tickets)... went down a whole bundle with the "County Types" in the queue Monday morning. GREAT!!!!
One of them (now that I'm thinking about Bromley, Kent)... a VERY large VERY tweedy lady... demanded to know the reason for cancellations... the reason was a "lack of staff"... her response "I don't want to know about your short staff" raised a faint smile... she went ballistic... it might not have gone further if the new young lady manager (drool) hadn't fallen about laughing when she was told what the screaming row was about...

[Tracklayer]

QUOTE: Originally posted by tstage

bcauldwell,

Wye is pronounced just like the letter "Y". Fascia would be pronounced like "Fa-she-a": Fa as in "Fat", accent on the "Fa". That'll be five cents, please.

Tom

Tom, will you please stop charging people for information!. It just doesn't look good, especially when the rest of use aren't getting our cut out of it... ([:p])

Tracklayer

[Eriediamond]

Pro-non-see-ate-chun deepens on what side of the creek-crick yur-yer on!![(-D][(-D][(-D]

[cjcrescent]

Teffy;
Ah ben heering "Ima fixin' to (do something)" awl muh life.

Its not just Texas but just about universal in the South.

Only place I haven't heard it that much is in Florida. "But, except for the natives, there are so many Yankees there we don't consider it part of the South anymore." Late comedian Brother Dave Gardner.

[Anonymous]

If you hear "..I'm fixin' to do ...(something)" You can bet that person is from TEXAS.

Ahhh Golden Meadow LA. where one mile per hour over the speed limit gets you a ticket. The only place in the US and CANADA that I've seen a four lane by-pass loop and everyone driving 35 MPH. This loop has rice fields on both sides, it's not like it goes through a populated area. What do I mean populated area? Heck, I'm talking about Golden Meadow. But they now have a Wally World. Tell anyone in LA that you are going to Port Fourchon and they will tell you not to speed in GM. That's a great reputation!

[bogp40]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dgwinup

Toe-MAY-toe, toe-MAH-toe. Oh, never mind!

I have also heard fascia pronounced Fah'-C-yuh and Fah-C'-yuh. I often use 'face trim' or 'facing board' when talking, and fascia when writing. Let the other guy worry about pronunciation!

Having been born in the Bronx, NY, raised in northern New Jersey, schooled in Boston and now living in the Midwest, I've pretty much been exposed to quite a variety of pronunciations and regional dialects. I chose the 'high' road - my accent is so bland and diverse that most people can't tell where I'm from!

Fun and games with the English language!

Darrell, pronouncedly quiet...for now

And up heier, we Pahk cahs in Hahvahd Yahd.
Bob K. not fah from Boston

[jwr_1986]

It's funny. I just had this argument with my father about how to pronounce fascia. He insisted that it was said like face and I insisted it was pronounced like fascism. I finally got out the dictionary and it is a short a so it is pronounced like fascism and not like face. The reason the debate got started is because I no didly about wood working so he is going to be helping me at our club with constructing the fascia.

Jesse

[tstage]

QUOTE: Originally posted by cjcrescent

prr67,
These reason we say sir and ma'am to everyone is its good manners to, and as a sign of respect to our elders, be they one year or one hundred years older than we are.

Yes, sir...good manners! Having grown up in FL for the first 21 years of my life, that's the one thing I really miss about the south. That....and sweet tea. [:)]

Tom

[cjcrescent]

prr67,
The reason we say sir and ma'am to everyone is its good manners to, and as a sign of respect to our elders, be they one year or one hundred years older than we are.

Since everyone is telling jokes....Do you know the difference between a Yankee and a D**N Yankee.




A Yankee comes down south, visits and leaves...




A D**N Yankee comes down south and stays....

[dgwinup]

NEE-ther, NIGH-ther, EE-ther, EYE-ther.

Oh, let's call the whole thing off!

Fred Astaire

Darrel, still pronouncedly quiet...for now

[swknox]

Your always welcome to come back.... I have been all over the east coast of this great country and Delaware is the only state with a southern way of life but with a northern way of thinking. The only downside to living here now is being so close to D.C., Baltimore, and Jersey is now every weekend they turn this state and Ocean City Maryland into their a own personal playground. When the housing boom kicked into high gear they started buying up everything in sight. So now the cost of living here is sky high, you now need to buy 4 to 5 acers of land to build a single family home - we were lossing so much farmland that the state started this to slow down development but they are still comming and the only people it hurt was the long time residence in Delaware who have been here are whole life because we can't afford it. At this rate I'm planning on moving to West Va. if it gets much worse...

[Anonymous]

i moved from deleware to georgia about a year ago and i still can't get over that they prenounse dekalb county as dekab couny, oh and every person their wants you to address them as sir or ma'm, and i did not ever go to any school or speak to any adult that required me to address them as that in deleware and when i spent much of my time in pennsylvania

[jacon12]

QUOTE: Originally posted by tstage

It's Spanish...like the word "fajita" (fa-HEE-ta). The "j"s are pronounced like an "h" - unless it's followed by a "u"; then it's pronounced like a "w", as in the name "Juan" (Wan).

That'll be another 5 cents please...[:)]

Tom

I have a friend here in Georgia whose brother made a trip out to California last year. The brother called my friend Ebin and Ebin asked where he was. The brother told him he was in a town called San Jose, but he pronounced it San Joe-sy. Ebin told his brother not to show his ignorance while out there that the name was Spanish and the J was pronounced like an H. Then he asked him when he was coming home and there was a silence on the phone before his brother said he'd be back in Hune or Huly.
Jarrell [:D]

[tstage]

Let me give it a stab: YAW-gee-o-gay-knee? (Was I close?)

Tom

UPDATE:
After rolling the word around my mouth for the last 24 hours, I think I'd like to change the above pronounciation (pro-NUNCE-ee-a-shun) to Yah-guh-GAY-knee.

Where's Chip or Randy? They should know the answer to this one...

[doctorwayne]

While we're learning how to pronounce all these words, perhaps somebody, preferably from the area, could give me the correct pronunciation for the name Youghiogheny, as in the Pittsburg McKeesport & Youghiogheny. And is it the name of a town or a river? I'm just a curious New York Central fan from a place not too far from Trawna (Toronto).

[Anonymous]

Golden Meadow, Louisiana!!?? I didn't think anyone else in the world knew where that was! My father is from up the road in Larose. I spent many weeks there each summer at my Grandparents place .... on the bank of Bayou Lafourche. We would drive throgh Golden Meadow to get down to Grand Isle.

When my parents moved to Texas, and then to New Jersey, my father lost that accent. But as he grew old, he started to talk Cajon again, and my kids (his grandkids) didn't know what the heck he was saying sometimes. Lol.

Jim

QUOTE: Originally posted by capt_turk

And if you want to hear someone "really" twist the english language all out of shape, go down the bayou and listen to a bunch of cajuns talking. Hebert is pronounced A-bear, Bellinger is bull-long-jaa. Neutral is nutra. etc. Took me three years of living down the bayou to figure out what any of them were saying.
When I first moved down the bayou, Golden Meadow area, I worked in a machine/welding shop for awhile. One day an old man came in while the boss was away and started waving his arms around and jabbering away at about 90 mph. After about ten minutes he stopped and just looked at me. Thinking he had been speaking french, I said to him, " You're going to have to run that by me in english because I don't speak french." He looked at me funny and said " But chi, I been talk'en english me along yeah." Well, it was no english I had ever heard before. [(-D][:O]

[swknox]

HA HA well I know how to say Norfolk seeing how im only right up the road from there in Delaware. I love going across the chesapeake bay bridge and tunnel complex when one of those navy ships head out from norfolk... Give em hell guys. You just don't see to many spanish words like Cajon here in the mid atlantic. I have family in the south so I have no problem understanding the southern speech. You know how you can always tell where people come from most of the time by the way they talk... like the northeast or from jersey or new york... I have a boss who was raised in the Northeast (Mass. area) with the accent but also work and lived in North Caraliona 10 years... The accent is he has is one of a kind...

[Anonymous]

Railroading_Brit, I was born in Neath, lived for 3 years as an infant in Port Talbot and then moved to the states where I've resided for 23 years. Nice to run into a fellow Welshman...

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by fiverings

It's "KALM-bock", unless you want to use the German pronunciation. Unfortunately, English doesn't have a sound to duplicate the terminal "ch" in German.

Okay, you guys carry on for a while without me. I'll be sitting in the waiting room. Or maybe waiting in the sitting room?

I've been pronouncing it as I would a similar word in Welsh... We have the word "bach" meaning "small" so it comes out as "calmbach". Then again, I have to deal with road signs directing people to "Canol y dref" (town centre) and telling them to "Yldwch" (Give Way/Yield in US signage). Add in a few place names like Machynlleth and Llangollen and you can spot the tourists - they're the ones with no clue where they are!

[Anonymous]

And if you want to hear someone "really" twist the english language all out of shape, go down the bayou and listen to a bunch of cajuns talking. Hebert is pronounced A-bear, Bellinger is bull-long-jaa. Neutral is nutra. etc. Took me three years of living down the bayou to figure out what any of them were saying.
When I first moved down the bayou, Golden Meadow area, I worked in a machine/welding shop for awhile. One day an old man came in while the boss was away and started waving his arms around and jabbering away at about 90 mph. After about ten minutes he stopped and just looked at me. Thinking he had been speaking french, I said to him, " You're going to have to run that by me in english because I don't speak french." He looked at me funny and said " But chi, I been talk'en english me along yeah." Well, it was no english I had ever heard before. [(-D][:O]

[tstage]

[(-D][(-D][(-D] This is a completely inane [D)] thread!...I LOVE IT!!! [:D]

Tom

[Anonymous]

It's "KALM-bock", unless you want to use the German pronunciation. Unfortunately, English doesn't have a sound to duplicate the terminal "ch" in German.

Okay, you guys carry on for a while without me. I'll be sitting in the waiting room. Or maybe waiting in the sitting room?

[davekelly]

QUOTE: Originally posted by tstage

QUOTE: Originally posted by howmus

Neither... It's a Krick! Sheeesh, this thread has gotton to be as much fun as teaching 6th. graders how Cow Bells got their name. (They were used in Eastern Europe to identify whose cows were who's. They had to use them because their horns don't work!) (Did you know that the English Horn came from France? Not only that, the French Horn is English in origin!) OK, I'll Quit...... [:D]

...and why is you you park in a driveway and drive on a parkway? And on it goes...

Tom

And stuff sent via motor vehicle is a shipment while when sent by ship it's cargo.

[RMax1]

You missed Homasote!

Rmax1

[Dayliner]

QUOTE: Cajon pass on the Santa Fe I thought for a long time was pronouced like it was spelled

Me too. I spent years thinking was was "Cajun Pass". Never bothered to ask how it had got so far west, though.

And this inquiring mind has always wanted to know, how do you really pronounce "Kalmbach"?

[tstage]

QUOTE: Originally posted by howmus

Neither... It's a Krick! Sheeesh, this thread has gotton to be as much fun as teaching 6th. graders how Cow Bells got their name. (They were used in Eastern Europe to identify whose cows were who's. They had to use them because their horns don't work!) (Did you know that the English Horn came from France? Not only that, the French Horn is English in origin!) OK, I'll Quit...... [:D]

...and why is you you park in a driveway and drive on a parkway? And on it goes...

Tom

[selector]

QUOTE: Originally posted by howmus

QUOTE: Originally posted by Ibflattop

its just like in Indiana, is it a creek or a creak??????? Hummmmm I think I will got back downstairs and Switch some Turnouts!!!!!!!! Instead of .05 Cents, just pay me in a # 5 Kadee coupler!!!!! HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE Kevin
I have to be different!!!!!!

Neither... It's a Krick! Sheeesh, this thread has gotton to be as much fun as teaching 6th. graders how Cow Bells got their name. (They were used in Eastern Europe to identify whose cows were who's. They had to use them because their horns don't work!) (Did you know that the English Horn came from France? Not only that, the French Horn is English in origin!) OK, I'll Quit...... [:D]

And St. Patrick was actually a Scot!!!

[Anonymous]

Surprised nobody's mentioned that city in Kentucky called "LEW-a-vul."

Or MR's birhthplace: "Muh_WAUK-ee."