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ToshoftheWuffingas
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Posted: Sun 08 Mar , 2009 4:27 pm
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'Ruff' is very close to how East Anglians would pronounce it. More accurately the vowel sound is the one used in 'the' when it's pronounced 'thuh' rather than 'thee'.

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Rebecca
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Posted: Sun 08 Mar , 2009 5:07 pm
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Not all Americans. :P I've heard roof pronounced many different ways. I say r/oo/f. But I've heard r/uh/ff on tv lots of times, plus probably some other ways of pronouncing it.

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Holbytla
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Posted: Sun 08 Mar , 2009 5:21 pm
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I've heard tell that some people pronounce idea as i-dear.
Don't believe it myself though.

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actually I wrote that wrong.
It is more like idee-ere

sort of anyway
'tis difficult to type it out

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Posted: Sun 08 Mar , 2009 5:43 pm
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Rebecca wrote:
Not all Americans. :P
Of course not, but it's one of those examples that people always seem to bring up, like with Canadians and "aboot".




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Posted: Sun 08 Mar , 2009 7:48 pm
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The st00pfidest word is "irregardless"... I have actually seen and heard people use this :P

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Posted: Sun 08 Mar , 2009 7:51 pm
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:oops:

Jude caught me.

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LalaithUrwen
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Posted: Wed 11 Mar , 2009 2:37 pm
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He always does. :hug:


I have a friend who says "irregardless" even though we've had discussions on how that's not really a word. :suspicious:

I say r/oo/f but have been known to accidentally say /ruff/. I switch between cr/ee/k and cr/ic/k, too. And r/oo/t and r/u/t. I blame this on my mom who is from Alabama, but it could just as well be my dad who is from Northern Ohio. He says chimeley for chimney. :Q

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Rebecca
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I say crick, but that just means it's smaller than a creek. :P I don't too often, though.

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Dawnnamira
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Posted: Wed 11 Mar , 2009 3:01 pm
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Yes, cricks are smaller than creeks.

And it's a r/oo/f.

I might admit that I'm technically from Kentucky now, but I will never talk like a native Kentuckian. :Q Well, not completely. Some things in this state you have to use the native word for. :Q

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Posted: Wed 11 Mar , 2009 6:34 pm
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Crick! Crick! :LMAO: That is too good!

Until I was about ten or something, I was absolutely convinced that 'chimley' wasn't just how you pronounced it, it was how you spelt it. I think that was just me though...

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LalaithUrwen
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Posted: Wed 11 Mar , 2009 6:40 pm
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No, it's not just you. If I remember what Bill Bryson said correctly, it was the way many English people pronounced it, which carried over to Colonial America. The East Coast eventually began pronouncing it as it was spelled. The earlier pronunciation survived over here in the frontier areas (Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, etc.) for quite some time, but was perceived as the backwoods' way of saying it. (It's always ironic how those things work, as chimley was the older way of saying it.)

In the same way, these "backwoods" pronunciations are often more closely related to the way Elizabethan English was actually pronounced. Even some of our current American pronunciations are more closely related to Elizabethan English pronunciations than current British English pronunciations.

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