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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsCan you pronounce three consonants strung together?
'Three' is pretty easy (thurh-ree), but I noticed Jeff Foxworthy has a problem with 'Shrimp" in his commercial for whatever restaurant.
He says 'srimp'.
I've noticed that in other fellow southerners.
Shrimp becomes srimp.
Schlitz becomes Slitz.
Just wondered if anyone else has noticed or does this?
madamesilverspurs
(15,805 posts)I've heard that all over the country, can't say it's regional.
Skittles
(153,169 posts)instead of HAIR they will say HAY-ER
lastlib
(23,248 posts)The reason Arkansas girls tend to get pregnant so young? Takes 'em too long to say "Queee-i-uuut."
Oldie but a goodie.
trof
(54,256 posts)Well, it's actually high-uh.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,586 posts)She swears they sound the same to her.
a la izquierda
(11,795 posts)but my best friend, who is French-Canadian and didn't learn English until he turned 18, has a very difficult time with some English letter combinations. Three is "tree," thought is more like "thoth."
ETA: I'm originally from NJ, but I've lived all over the country.
Phentex
(16,334 posts)one hun-drit, two hun-drit, three hun-drit dollars
On Jeopardy, some people say two hunnert, four hunnert etc.
a la izquierda
(11,795 posts)But he's originally from the Bronx.
Callmecrazy
(3,065 posts)Instead of "water".
a la izquierda
(11,795 posts)I made a conscious effort to lose my accent. My mom says "Jennifah," "East Ruthahfuhd," an "ow-uh" (hour), but she also says "idear," "soder," and "brar."
greymouse
(872 posts)a la izquierda
(11,795 posts)trof
(54,256 posts)Dorothy was 'Dar-Tee'.
And it was 'deese, dem, and doze'.
Phentex
(16,334 posts)and Massa-too-setts.
Glorfindel
(9,730 posts)many of my neighbors back home in the southern Appalachians would say "waspers" for "wasps." And here's a doozy: "He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts." Try saying that 3 times very rapidly.
a la izquierda
(11,795 posts)annabanana
(52,791 posts)Amidst the mists and coldest frosts,
with stoutest wrists and loudest boasts,
he thrusts his fists against the posts
and still insists he sees the ghosts.
Glorfindel
(9,730 posts)The last two lines were in a Stephen King book ("It," I believe), and I just assumed he'd made it up.
begin_within
(21,551 posts)Iggo
(47,558 posts)I know a guy who can't say Sampras, though.
He says Samfras. Still three-in-a-row, just not the right ones.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Thanksgiving.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)I couldn't believe how many people had trouble figuring out how to write it. It was one of the things I gave back to my husband when I divorced him.
KentuckyWoman
(6,688 posts)Bubba is actually saying "srimp stew, srimp soup, srimp gumbo".
Yes it is kind of a southern thing but to be fair they add "r" on to a bunch of things. So they really just move the consonants around.
Winder (window)
Idear (idea)
Potater (potato)
My sister was in Georgia less than a year before she picked up "fixin" "buggy" and "mash".
Fixin' to do the laundry
Do we need a buggy (grocery cart)
Mash that light switch for me.
Within 5 years she automatically used "ya'll" and "all ya'll" correctly every time.
ProfessorGAC
(65,076 posts)We know a few families that were originally from Iowa. (One, two, three generations back.)
They do that too, with the "R". But, the one i really don't get is "warsh" when they are saying "wash". Every one of them does that. And not one of those families is related to the other ones.
KentuckyWoman
(6,688 posts)most people I know do. Confused the heck out of my cousin's Chinese wife.
ProfessorGAC
(65,076 posts)I found it odd with Iowans, 'cuz that ain't the south!
Callmecrazy
(3,065 posts)I always want to pronounce the "w".