How do you pronounce the word "Oil?"

[Misunderestimator]

I say: Oh-ill.

Not: Ohl.

Or: Oy-Yill.

Goddammit.


:D

[sundog]

1. flaming lesbian

[Misunderestimator]

3. ...

:spray:

[Aristus]

2. "Oy-uhl", the way God intended.

My grandfather, from Alabama by way of Texas, used to say: "Oaaaaaahhhhhhhullllllllllll". I'd never heard anyone take so long to say a one-syllable word.

[Misunderestimator]

4. I know!! Those damn texans take forever to say the weirdest words...

(speaking as a native texan myself) :)

[eyepaddle]

5. Oh-ill?

I've never heard ANYONE say oh-ill. Ooohhhhlll, Oy-il, and my one sylalable "oyl" but you are the first oh-ill!

[Misunderestimator]

6. Yeah... who knows why?

I had such an aversion to my own texas accent... I guess I came up with my own way of saying it. :D

[greatauntoftriplets]

7. Oyl...

As in Olive Oyl.

What other way????

:shrug:

[bridgit]

8. oy-ill...

:rofl:

[jonnyblitz]

9. url.

kidding. :P "oy-yill" actually. :hi:

[Misunderestimator]

11. LOL

"earl" :hi:

[Elidor]

10. Earl. dammit.

EARLL!!!!

Earl: n
1) That black shit you put in your engine to keep it from seizing up.

[Blue-Jay]

12. Rhymes with mohel.

Or "soil".

The mohel foiled my soiled boil.

[Misunderestimator]

13. Soil! Eureka!

Though I think it rhymes with mohel more than foil or soiled boil... :bounce:

[Floogeldy]

14. Nominominated.

Excellent post! ;)

[bigwillq]

15. Or-ill

I think that's how I sound.

[spacelady]

16. Ohl is how I hear it in the Deep South. I grew up with Oyall. n/t

[leftofthedial]

17. oh-uhl

just like it's spelled

[Shell Beau]

18. I am sure I say it wrong!

It is hard to spell it out the way I say it. I do NOT say Oy-ell! x(

[kick-ass-bob]

19. Texas-tea.

:P

[Shell Beau]

20. Black gold!

[kick-ass-bob]

25. bubblin' crude

:bounce::bounce:

[calico1]

21. oy-ill. One sylablle. Rhymes with "boil." n/t

[kick-ass-bob]

23. I know people who pronounce "boil" as

bowl.

:)
:hi:

[calico1]

28. Ha! I didn't even think of that.

Everyone doesn't say "boil" or "foil" the same way. :hi:

[displacedtexan]

22. I say Oy-ill, and I'm from Texas. My family says Awl, though.

I have an undergrad degree in Theatre, and Voice & Diction classes enabled me to hear how I sounded to other people.

It wasn't an attractive accent, y'all!

[DS1]

24. Oh-ill?

You pay more than anyone else for car repairs, don't you.

[AnarchoFreeThinker]

26. Oy-ill. But I'm a Mispronouncinator.

[datasuspect]

27. ernest borgnine

[formerrepuke]

29. "Earl"

[Hosnon]

30. "Ohl" when used in conjunction with "vinegar" (usually @ Subway) but "oyl"

when referring to the black stuff.

No idea why...