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Here "bus" is pronounced like "buzz" and I didn't realise it was weird until I went down to Devon and it was a dead giveaway that I'm a Brummie lol

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[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Southern Baden Württemberg: everything is followed by 'li'.

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[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Port Dalhousie (dal-oo-sy) in St Catherine's. When it should be port (Dal-how-sy)

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

It's apparently the only thing named for that dude pronounced that way too, Dalhousie University as an example. Wiki page has an etymology section that has some suggestions as to why, it'd sound weird to me though pronounced the other way.

[–] svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The single syllable words "four" and "hour" are actually the two syllable words "fohwer" and "ower".

The words "anything" and "nothing" are pronounced "owt" and "nowt".

The word "the" is not pronounced "t'", it is simply replaced with an unvoiced glottal stop. The word "t'" is thus, actually, short for "to the".

E.g.

Goin' t' shop. Wan' owt?

means

I'm going to the shop. Do you want anything?

We also pronounce "bus" as "buzz", too.

We also use "was" and "were" the wrong way round and say "pants" instead of "trousers". The rest of the country seems unaware of that last one, and will accuse you of talking American.

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[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

We pronounce d and t exactly the same way, so both sound like d to other people, but ofc we know from context which one is meant, always, therefore to us they aren't the same at all! :)

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In the Maritimes, Dalhousie (the university) is pronounced: "dal-HOW-zee".

In Ottawa, Dalhousie (the street) is pronounced: "dal-HOOOOOO-ze".

I don't know why, but I find the Ottawa pronunciation really annoying.

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[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (12 children)

I recently saw a video where a woman pronounced "drawer" as "draw".

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

The woman at the beginning may say "draw"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PVal8Fy7CM

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Carpentry guru Norm Abrams always says "draw" too. "Let's see how the draws fit..."

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[–] chunes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Boiseans pronounce it boy-see, but everyone else pronounces it boy-zee. It makes it easy to tell who is from there

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

That's the opposite of Quincy where the naives call it Quinzy.

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I think "buzz" is used a lot to people near Manchester too.

People from Bolton (UK) get very defensive about the exact pronunciation of Bolton too. I heard this conversation several times between two colleagues:

Colleague 1 (c1): "... that's because you're from Bolton"
Colleague 2 (c2): "It's not Bolton, it's Bolton"
C1: "What? That's what I said, Bolton"
C2: "No, you said Bolton, it's Bolton"
C1: "You're saying the same thing, Bolton"
C2: "No, Bolton"
C1: "That's what I'm saying!"
Me: "what. the. FUCK"

If you've ever seen Brooklyn Nine Nine and Jake would say "Nikolaj" and then Charles would correct him saying the exact same thing, it was exactly like that, but saying "Bolton" instead.

Also I heard several people from Wigan say "A packet of crisp" and not "A packet or crisps".

Also forgot about this one: I used to live in South Wales, and people would say "Premark" instead of "Primark". They'd think I was the weird one for saying it like Primark.

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[–] sibannac@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Wash wahsh warsh Bag bahg beyg Oil oyel ohl

[–] Two_Hangmen@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I live in the U.S., and my state capitol is spelled Pierre, but pronounced "peer".

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I think that's a common type of slur that comes from familiarity, like how people in New Orleans call it "norlans".

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