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Post by Phosphor Glow on Jan 2, 2011 12:16:35 GMT -5
So I decided to make this out of sheer curiosity. I come from the midwest, Kansas specifically, but I moved to Georgia about a year ago. Since then, my fiancee and my friends around here have all given me shit for how I pronounce measure, and other words.
I happen to pronounce it "may-sure", while they pronounce it "meh-sure". I don't think either of us are wrong, it just comes down to dialect. So I'm curious as to how you guys all pronounce it.
Feel free to provide any other words that are pronounced differently in different places, too. I just think the whole dialect thing is interesting.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Jan 2, 2011 12:23:24 GMT -5
Meh-sure. But then, I'm also from the South.
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Post by Milkman Norm on Jan 2, 2011 12:28:59 GMT -5
I've never heard any body pronunce it may-sure
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Jan 2, 2011 12:30:09 GMT -5
Meh-sure. But then, I'm also from the South. You're not from too much further south than I am, though. Weird.
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Post by Young Game on Jan 2, 2011 12:31:18 GMT -5
I pronounce it "Hey. Let's see how long this is."
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Post by aka Cthulhu on Jan 2, 2011 12:37:34 GMT -5
Sukat. When I'm speaking in English I'd pronounce it as meh-sure.
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Jan 2, 2011 12:43:04 GMT -5
No option for "Meh-shah"?
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Post by Brain Of F'n J on Jan 2, 2011 12:49:20 GMT -5
No disrespect, but "may-sure" sounds like something a rich schmuck would say. Like the same kind of snobbish prick who pronounces "schedule" with "sh" instead of "sk".
Jed Shaffer ~I knew someone who said "cassette", but replaced the S's with Z's. No joke.
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Post by Square on Jan 2, 2011 12:50:35 GMT -5
It's mes-hure
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2011 12:57:27 GMT -5
mez-yure
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Post by AFN: Judge Shred on Jan 2, 2011 13:00:39 GMT -5
Yeah that would be how we say it round this parts.
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Post by Square on Jan 2, 2011 15:47:43 GMT -5
What kind of French do you speak?!
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Post by Wolfpack Bitch on Jan 2, 2011 15:55:37 GMT -5
meh sure from the 'Burgh
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Jan 2, 2011 15:56:21 GMT -5
Usually "meh-shoore".
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Post by Free Hat on Jan 2, 2011 16:02:19 GMT -5
"Meh-sure" obviously. Come on, nobody says "may-sure."
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Post by Legion on Jan 2, 2011 16:14:35 GMT -5
No disrespect, but "may-sure" sounds like something a rich schmuck would say. Like the same kind of snobbish prick who pronounces "schedule" with "sh" instead of "sk". Jed Shaffer ~I knew someone who said "cassette", but replaced the S's with Z's. No joke. Yeah, cos all Brits are snobbish pricks cos we pronounce schedule that way? As a regional variation I would imagine you could pronounce anything any way, as long as it wasn't just you doing it; if it is just you, or even just your family, you're saying it wrong.
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Post by Square on Jan 2, 2011 16:16:53 GMT -5
No disrespect, but "may-sure" sounds like something a rich schmuck would say. Like the same kind of snobbish prick who pronounces "schedule" with "sh" instead of "sk". Jed Shaffer ~I knew someone who said "cassette", but replaced the S's with Z's. No joke. Yeah, cos all Brits are snobbish pricks cos we pronounce schedule that way? As a regional variation I would imagine you could pronounce anything any way, as long as it wasn't just you doing it; if it is just you, or even just your family, you're saying it wrong. No we're not, but using that smiley doesn't help your case
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Post by Marvelously Mediocre on Jan 2, 2011 16:17:27 GMT -5
meh-sure.
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Post by Legion on Jan 2, 2011 16:21:11 GMT -5
Yeah, cos all Brits are snobbish pricks cos we pronounce schedule that way? As a regional variation I would imagine you could pronounce anything any way, as long as it wasn't just you doing it; if it is just you, or even just your family, you're saying it wrong. No we're not, but using that smiley doesn't help your case Oh, clearly not all Brits are, but I am, so I shall continue to roll my eyes. I just like that being a snobbish prick is rather elite and didn't want people to think ALL Brits were, so that I was less self-important.
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Post by "Hollywood" Cactus Matt on Jan 2, 2011 23:32:49 GMT -5
Another word that has a different pronunciation based on where a person is from: wash.
Some people say "warsh." And it's weird to me, how I live in Michigan - which, last I checked, was in the north - and there are a lot of people around here with legit Southern accents. They're the ones who usually say "warsh."
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