How do you pronounce words?

[Kate]

After watching John's latest video on tiggerrific orange ruins, it got me to thinking: "How many ways are things pronounced?" (He pronounced "orange" like "or-nge", while I pronounce it like "aw-ran-ge", and my Oma (german grandmother) pronounces it like or-ahnge.) Nerdfighters live all around the world and in many different regions, so there must be a million different ways we pronounce words.

I can't think of any other words though.

How do you pronounce the word "orange", and what other words can you think of?

[Laurel]

I know what you mean about the kansas thing. What bothers me sometimes is when people from kansas and missouri say miss-oar-a instead of miss-oar-ee for missouri. I don't know why, but it's just a pet peeve of mine. :)

[Kate]

I pronounce orange like...

O (as in "hOt") - ren - j

As for the old "bath/grass" thing, I am a "baa-th" / "graa-ss" person.

[Madi]

I say "oh-range soda" and "oh-range juice", but I say "or-nge" when just talking about the fruit.

[Rosianna]

I also say is-yous instead of is-shoes when I'm saying issues.

[Michelle]

I think I say it orn-ge
to the person who was talking about how to say Bagel, Bay-gel vs Baa -gel a few years ago I said it one way when my friend said it another, she tried to get me to chage to the other so now I apparently say a weird hybrid between the two. I still can't hear the difference to say my life though
Another wierd one is Garage, People where I grew up say something like gr-ha-ge but where I go to school ga-raw-ge is more common

[Laurel]

I say garage very odd. I don't even know where I picked it up, but I say gay-ridge.

[JessG]

My mom pronounces milk as malk (where I say mihlk) and tiger as tay-ger (I say tie-ger). I have no idea where she got it from, but it drives me nuts!

I'm Canadian, so I tend to notice differences between Canadian and American pronunciations... roof (long o's) vs. ruf, root vs. rowt (for route)

On the same line, I find it really amusing to hear people say things like "sneakers" (runners to me), "sofa" (couch to me, chesterfield to my grandma), and "soda" (pop).

Strange how we all speak the same language, yet interpret it so differently.

-Jess

P.S. I found this in a wikipedia (whi-kee-pedia :P) and I couldn't believe it... When writing, Canadians will start a sentence with "As well", in the sense of "in addition"; this construction is a Canadianism.
Really? Do Americans (or others outside Canada) really not start sentences with "as well"?

[Ellie]

I saw or nge
my sister does a thing I think of as weird instead of spi der she says spy der, my mom also says pen and pin exactly the same as pin.
also roof is the long o's and route is like root also with long o's
and the canadian american difference, for me at least I don't care if it's sneakers or runners or tennis shoes I call them all shoes unless they're boots. it's a couch and that fizzy drink is a pop (if you mix it with ice cream and chocolate syrup then it's a soda)

also syrup I say it like sir up but I know I lot of people say it like sear up

[Dominique Jade]

i say "orange" like
orng,
and i say "crayon" like
cran,
"sorry" like
sourie
i make the o sound way to long
"mirror"
mur
"care"
cur
i kinda make sure u here the o haha
idk
=]

[Rebecca]

"oh-ringe"= Orange
Jirr arff- Giraffe
Glasse- Glass... Some people say it like Glarse
year- Ear

i have a strong valleys accent hehe..

[Sara NoH]

I apparently put the emphasis in funny places in multisyllabic words. I pronounce it frusTRAtion, and other people pronounce it FRUStration. Here in Las Vegas they aren't called tourists, they're called tore-ists.

[Cimawr aka Sionnach Dhu aka Sarah]

Huh. I''ve never heard frustration pronounced any way BUT with the emphasis on the second syllable... "frus-TRA-tion" - however I do hear *frustrated* pronounced as FRUS-trated.