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most everyone i know pronounces water kind of like "wahter" but my mother and grandmother say "wutter". anyone else hear people say it that way?
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Wutter
The pronunciation of water as wutter appears to be exclusive to the Delaware, Philadelphia/South Jersey region.
I'm sure I used to say it that way until I moved to the south 26 years ago!
I'm sure I used to say it that way until I moved to the south 26 years ago!
wutter
My family started in King of Prussia, outside of Philly where you did you woorsh with wutter. We moved to northern PA and weren't allowed to go to the wutter fountain in school....we had to ask for the WAH-ter fountain.
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We drank Wawduh
Where I come from, the old aristocracy calls H20 "wawduh". Most other folks say, "worder."
This is a word that has a great deal of regional variation and one we should consider for the next reincarnation of the test.
This is a word that has a great deal of regional variation and one we should consider for the next reincarnation of the test.
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Wudder we talkin' about
We too said "wudder" in SE PA. I only scrubbed this habit upon enrolling in a broadcasting school where they ironed out our accents and in the process pointed such things out (seems to go along with 'color', pronounced "KYUH-ler").
This would be homonymous to that standard Fluffya (Philadelphia) greeting between strangers, "Wutter you lookin' at??"
But I suspect our King of Prussia neighbor must have had Pittsburgh blood in the family- no one around our area ever did a "warsh". Either that or King of Prussia must be further west than the map indicates
This would be homonymous to that standard Fluffya (Philadelphia) greeting between strangers, "Wutter you lookin' at??"
But I suspect our King of Prussia neighbor must have had Pittsburgh blood in the family- no one around our area ever did a "warsh". Either that or King of Prussia must be further west than the map indicates
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