Who pronounces Italian "Eye-talian"?

[pstokely]

Olive Garden regulars?

[eyewall]

1. I bet a much larger group pronounces Italy "Idilly".

[Angleae]

2. Carl Weathers (at least he did in Rocky)

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. Not me...

but I have a friend who calls the country IT-ly. No clue where that came from.

[HopeHoops]

10. Not much different from "Bal'mer, Mer-lin", and in MA "WOOStah" meant "Worchester".

[geardaddy]

15. But that's the correct pronunciation of the original, too.

Worcester = wuus-tər.

Just like Leicester = less-tə

Gloucester = glos-tər

[HopeHoops]

20. Yeah, and "Gloucester" sounds like a food ingredient you'd want to avoid.

Worcestershire sauce is known as "Woo-sta sauce" in MD. You eat a grinder and use the bubbler for water in NE, but you eat a a sub and go to the fountain in MD. I like the MA rule of the conservation of R's and A's. The dressa has drarwers.

And when I first moved to NH, I was completely confused. No matter what was going on, the person on the other end would say, "all set?" WTF? Then I figured out it was like adding "in bed" to fortune cookies...

It meant, are you ready to order? Do you need more beer? Are you ready for your check? Do you need change? Are you ready to check out? Do you need help finding something? Are you too fucking drunk to walk? Can you find your car? Was there toilet paper in the bathroom? Was your hotel room less than completely disgusting? I think you should leave now because you're being a complete asshole. If I just throw on a bunch of shit on this sub without paying attention to anything you asked for is that okay? (DiAngello's) You're car's stuck in a ditch filled with five inches of snow and it's not obvious to me that you need assistance. Should I call an ambulance while you lie there and bleed from your femoral artery? So, you've got weed? Need a beer? Want some blow? Gettin' laid tonight? Is this the right sports channel? Hey, Mista, you wanna meet my sista? I'm tired and the party's over and you're leaving, right? The copy machine needs another three reams of paper and a new toner cartridge and I've got an emergency meeting on selecting the new standard click pen for the office so you'll handle this right? Make coffee, damn it. I need a ride home, like right now. You'll fix my fucked up code for me within about 20 minutes, right? I've got an abandoned mange infested puppy of questionable heritage in the back of my Volvo and you'll take it, right? The boss wants a blow job, got it? We need to work all weekend. I just dropped a booger in your coffee but it will sink to the bottom so no problem. I-93 and Rt-3 are backed up for four hours because of snow. I need you to fly out to L.A. at 4:30 tomorrow morning. We know you're vegetarian, but all the pizza's we ordered were "the works". You're brakes are shot, the transmission is blown, and the entire exhaust system needs to be replaced. I fucked your brother. My car spilled oil all down the road so the entrance to your driveway is a little slick. I know there's four feet of new snow, but I need you in here in twenty minutes (on a 2-hour commute). I know the library routine can't calculate the square root of a perfect square, so just check if it's a perfect square and add more code to correct it (ACTUAL EVENT). My mom wants to fuck your brains out. Sir, I'm going to have to arrest you for marijuana possession. Let's get some porn movies and cheap beer and play "Brain Salad Surgery" while we watch it. Your meal completely sucked, and you were going to complain, and the service was beyond terrible, BUT... "All set?"

I'm just getting started on "All set?" It gets much worse.


Regional language is funny.

[geardaddy]

21. Haha!

I love your description of "all set?"

[HopeHoops]

23. You have to live there to appreciate it.

[geardaddy]

24. I went to college in Upstate NY

and there were quite a few New Englanders there. One of my roommates was from South Yarmouth on the Cape.

[OriginalGeek]

25. The first time I ever visited Portland Maine

Was to visit the Corporate HQ of a company I just got hired at to manage their warehouse in Florida.

I was touring the facility and struck up a conversation with an old guy up there and he said "Ayeah, I could tell you wha the Flahdah bah bcahz ya talk funneh."


!? We had a good laugh on that.

[HopeHoops]

35. I don't know if it's good or creepy, but I had no trouble interpreting that.

[OriginalGeek]

36. lol, I can't tell if I accurately captured his accent

but it was pretty similar to Fred Gwynne's in Pet Sematary.

[HopeHoops]

40. It was close enough. I read it seamlessly. Then again, I keep up with the accent.

I read "Non Sequitur" every day. Speaking of which...

[bluedigger]

31. Wicked good.

[HopeHoops]

37. Or Wicked Awesome!

[greatauntoftriplets]

28. In this friend's case, it's not a regional accent.

She's the only person I know who pronounces it that way.

[madmom]

42. I'm from an Italian family, we jokingly call ourselve It-lians.

[NewJeffCT]

4. I knew people from the southern NJ/Philly area

that said "Eye" talian. Not sure if it was something that this large family (aunts, uncles, cousins, etc) used, or if it was part of the regional accent. I think it was a little of both.

[calico1]

5. My seventh grade teacher.

She was a nun.

I grew up in NYC.

[bigwillq]

6. Someone that's not Italian

That's who.

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

7. Some people in NC

I heard it myself a few things, since I'm actually an eye-talian for realz.

[mikeargo]

8. Archie Bunker?

[HopeHoops]

9. "Ih-tal-yan". Then there's "EYE-tally-ins", which I've heard but don't use.

[Socal31]

11. Brad Pitt.

In Inglorious Basterds.

[barnabas63]

12. my 80 year old relative nt

[Brother Buzz]

13. Second, third generation Californian Italians

Especially the farmers and ranchers out in the big valley.

[bluedigger]

14. Me, when I'm ordering a sammitch.

[geardaddy]

16. Not me.

[Taverner]

17. Dumbass wanna be suburban rednecks

Same racist motherfuckers who think it's funny to call an Arab an "AY-RAB"

[pstokely]

26. Olive Garden's customer base in "real America"

nt

[a la izquierda]

18. Heard it a ton in the south.

Makes my skin crawl. I'm second generation Italian (among other things).

[Glorfindel]

19. Most likely the same people who say "EYE-RACK" for Iraq

[progressoid]

22. My Dad, in jest.

[trof]

27. Practically everyone in my home state. And a story:

A guy I knew in high school was a member (by birth and inclination) of our local mafia family (Birmingham, AL).

Some years after that he and a cousin/partner opened a drive-in restaurant. The 'curb boys' were all black youths. He told them "If anybody asks you where you're from, tell 'em Itly." The story got around and so, of course, most of the patrons would ask "Where you from, boy?" just to hear the answer.
FUN-NEE!

This was in the early 60s.

[Habibi]

29. Minnesotans.

[Odin2005]

46. I'm Minnesotan and I use the correct pronunciation.

[Habibi]

47. Then you are an exception, in my experience.

[RomneyLies]

30. The entire maternal side of my family

including my mother.

Thanks for the insult.

[Kennah]

32. Guy making fun of Vinci aboard ship about to invade Sicily in "The Big Red One"

[Arcanetrance]

33. My loving girlfriend

Because she knows it sounds like nails on a chalkboard to me she also pronounces the e at the end of provolone for much the same reason

[MrsBrady]

34. old timers in the Texas Panhandle

my grandfather used to say it that way.

[rug]

38. Eye do.

[MrMickeysMom]

39. People from Eye-talie?

Just a guess.... Either that, or some tooth pickin red neck friend of Jed Clampet.

MMM (Italian descent, so in defense, please bit me if you're insulted)

[Iggo]

41. Baretta.

Also pronounced it eye-tralian on occasion.

[Special Prosciuto]

43. Eye doo

Eye doo, some-a-times.

[Tsiyu]

44. Stunads

But my Italian Grandpa pronounced it that way for kicks, even though his family was from "Itly"

Italians can handle it, man. All the stereotypes keep on keepin' on and Italians just laugh more.

[Odin2005]

45. Same idiots who say "eye-rack" and "eye-ran"

[larocks4552s]

48. Uh, I don't

Can't say I know of any people who pronounce it that way either.