Here “bus” is pronounced like “buzz” and I didn’t realise it was weird until I went down to Devon and it was a dead giveaway that I’m a Brummie lol

  • Almonds
    171·
    24 days ago

    Crayon: crown

    Caramel: CAR-mul

    Pecan: peh-CAWN

      • Almonds
        8·
        24 days ago

        Yes. It’s not very common and seems to occur where regional differences merge.

        • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
          9·
          24 days ago

          True, I’m just used to hearing either Cray-on or Cran (like cranberries)

          Also I know I struggle with colors sometimes… But I don’t see green or yellow on that map, just red and blue… Is that just me haha

          • Almonds
            3·
            24 days ago

            Green is in the northwest corner of Wisconsin.

            Yellow is honestly a terrible color choice for this map, because the pronunciation isn’t truly regional. I think it’s clustered along the edges of a few different red areas, mostly on the east coast and some Southern areas.

            I actually think the author’s note about it being a merging of pronunciation makes sense, because I was raised in a transitional Southern dialect but my parents both have an east Midland dialect

            https://aschmann.net/AmEng/#LargeMap