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My dialect is confusing to some people. I was speaking to a Californian friend over Discord and I pronounce the word "Southern" in a way that she didn't realize what word I was saying until I clarified that to her, and she was like "yeah, that's definitely a different way of saying it". Another word that trips some people up is "decals"!
I have a similar issue but it comes from a childhood of heavy reading but not understanding how dictionary pronunciations worked. So I ended up making a lot of mistakes on how certain words I read were pronounced. My parents were not well read people and they didn't use those kind of words in common speech. Color me shocked when I got to college and people would laugh at how I said words like "subsequently" which I would pronounce with emphasis on it being derived from "sequence" so I pronounced the second half of the word like the word sequence... which is not correct. I still mispronounce a lot of words like that regularly.
I had the same thing for a while when I was little, so I can relate hehe. I remember getting a dictionary for my birthday because I had a phase where I was into books. No worries!
Same. Not that I am particularly known for talkativeness (the term "selectively mute" is often used to describe me, which many here think is facade-ish because they don't realize is more associated with anxiety than autism), but I have Pacific heritage and it shows in what amounts to a Kiwi accent. People either...
And then they will proceed to ask me to pronounce silly words for them. ~~Apparently "should" is not pronounced like "shit".~~
Based on someone's instruction, I once tried a kind of voiceover tech for fixing communication, and that only blew up in its own way, people thinking it felt "ungenuine".
Aw yeah New Zealand! I often have trouble telling Australian and New Zealand accents apart though, they sound really similar to me. Love Australian and Kiwi accents!
So I am from the northern US. I was speaking to someone from the southern US and they said the word "cement". I had to do a double take and think hard about what they were saying. To me, it sounded like she was saying "semen". I am basically a child and thought it was hilarious.
"Deckles" or "Dee-cals". What's your method? Dee-cals for me.
"Deckles" and it rhymes with "speckles"!
You forgot "day-Kals", stress on the second half. #ohCanada
How do you pronounce "southern?"
South-ern, with the "sou" rhyming with "how"
So, like, the normal way, then?
Ew