Different word pronunciations?
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2016 11:32 pm
I have a question about word pronunciations. This is from my friends constantly telling me I say things funny. Anyway, I am from Western PA; I grew up here and live here to this day. I don't know if that has anything to do with it. None of my family says certain words like me.
I'll say "wooder" never "water", "worsh" not "wash", "see-rup" not "sur-up", I call what many people refer to as "pop", I say "soda". "Caught" is "cawt" (I think that's how you type it), "cawfee" and (sometimes "tawk".
(I've heard some in the Philadelphia area say wooder, and people in my area do say worsh.)
I have never met, that I remember, someone that pronounces words like I do (well, most of them). My question is, 1. Why do I talk different from everyone else? 2. Does anyone else say words like that/do you know anyone who does?
Sorry for the long thread, and if it's in the wrong place.
I'll say "wooder" never "water", "worsh" not "wash", "see-rup" not "sur-up", I call what many people refer to as "pop", I say "soda". "Caught" is "cawt" (I think that's how you type it), "cawfee" and (sometimes "tawk".
(I've heard some in the Philadelphia area say wooder, and people in my area do say worsh.)
I have never met, that I remember, someone that pronounces words like I do (well, most of them). My question is, 1. Why do I talk different from everyone else? 2. Does anyone else say words like that/do you know anyone who does?
Sorry for the long thread, and if it's in the wrong place.