Quirks of Speech

[Kings&Hooves14 616]

Do you--or does anyone in your family--say common words in way that is different from others with your/their accent?

For example, my grandmother says "warsh" instead of "wash." My mom says "draw" instead of "drawer."

 

I hope this topic isn't too similar to the Ever made up your own weird words? thread in General Discussion; I think this topic is different enough to deserve its own thread.

Edited October 1, 2016 by Kings&Hooves14

[AmarisNsane 2,730]

Well, I never notice any strange quirk in my speaking but I've been told that I say "pinch" weird, pronouncing it as "peench".  So many people would bring it up that I'd just begin typing it as such, if only jokingly.  That is to say that I would spell/type it as "peench" as opposed to how its proper spelling. 

[Lisa 5,553]

Yay, this thread gives me a chance to show off my knowledge of the phonetic alphabet.

 

I've developed a more British accent in my family for some reason. We're fully Australian, but apparently I tend to pronounce words more posh than others. I'm fairly sure I got it from my two English teachers from Year 3, Year 6 and Year 9. Both of them had that modern Received Pronunciation accent of English, so they spoke with clear enunciation. 

 

I'd say I still have an Australian accent, but it's more posh than the average Australian. It's most noticeable with words such as "Dance." Most people pronounce it in Australia with the near-open front unrounded 'æ.' /'dæ:ns/ (Which is probably the standard American way of saying it). But I've learnt from my teachers to pronounce it as /'da:ns/ or "Dah-nse" (Probably the standard English way of saying it). This goes for other words like it as well such as "chance," "France," "stance." 

 

tl;dr I talk more posh than Australian

Edited October 1, 2016 by Holiday

[Dreambiscuit 10,091]

My mom speaks with some Canadianisms, like saying 'oot' or 'aboot' instead of 'out' and 'about' and that sort of thing. She's from French-Canadian descent so there's reason for it. No one else in the family does that though. 

Words that vary widely over my whole family are 'Crayons' and 'Almonds'. My dad pronounces crayons as 'crains' and I pronounce it 'crans.' Almonds are pronounced ALmonds (with a short A as in in 'Animal') by my dad, I pronounce it 'AHmonds' and my mom and brother pronounce it 'awlmonds'. I don't think there's a right or wrong way of doing it, really. 

Edited October 2, 2016 by Dreambiscuit

[backpon 320]

To an outsider much of my speech seems to be garbled weirdness. For example: Sometimes when I am impressed I'll say: "Dim sum!"(that's a long 'dim') as in "damn son!". I forget how I got to that. Sometimes I'll announce that I'm "Shaking a tower", a simple reversal of "taking a shower". "It's all good" turns into "issall goodman" with the "man" pronounced "mun". Sometimes while confused I perform skat: "skebedoppop!". When I leave home I'll tell my brother "Imma Spaghet", not "I'm leaving". I can't even list all of them because them all because I use them so often it's become natural.

[KatonRyu 1,033]

My girlfriend's grandma speaks a blend of Dutch and German, which tends to leap over to my girlfriend whenever she's been with her grandparents for a while. It's very interesting, because whenever she speaks German she mixes Dutch in as well.

[ARagY 1,152]

Neither of my parents speaks our common language 'natively', so I got to hear them occasionally talking very strangely, well at least more strangely than me. They speak accented generally with very "quick" vowels. Some vocab that doesn't exist gets mixed in with laziness.

[backpon 320]

My mom speaks with some Canadianisms, like saying 'oot' or 'aboot' instead of 'out' and 'about' and that sort of thing. She's from French-Canadian descent so there's reason for it. No one else in the family does that though. 

Words that vary widely over my whole family are 'Crayons' and 'Almonds'. My dad pronounces crayons as 'crains' and I pronounce it 'crans.' Almonds are pronounced ALmonds (with a short A as in in 'Animal') by my dad, I pronounce it 'AHmonds' and my mom and brother pronounce it 'awlmonds'. I don't think there's a right or wrong way of doing it, really. 

Funny thing, Live so close to the US-Canadian border that Washingtonians around here are indistinguishable from B.C. canadians, and vice versa. So l live in america but still use "aboot" "soory" and the like

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I wish I knew someone with a massively different accent to me so they could point the quirks of my speech, because then I could massively over-emphasise them. Alas, I don't. But people have pointed out that my sister doesn't pronounce the t's in kitten, like ki'en. Consonants aren't that important anyway.