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    Quote Originally Posted by Jen View Post
    I have a friend in Boston whose sister's name is Paula. She calls her sister "parlor". And she also calls a living room a "paula".

    I have known her 40 years and explained the error of her ways.......but she insists she's right. It's a true story. She also says that since a person "lives" in every room, that room we call a living room ......should be called a ......paula.
    Over 30 years later and I can't lose the accent. Especially if I talk too long or get tired.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jen View Post
    I have a friend in Boston whose sister's name is Paula. She calls her sister "parlor". And she also calls a living room a "paula".

    I have known her 40 years and explained the error of her ways.......but she insists she's right. It's a true story. She also says that since a person "lives" in every room, that room we call a living room ......should be called a ......paula.
    One of my favorite people on the planet is named Lara, with the two dots over the first A...you know? Dr. Zhivago's lover? Pronounced with a soft A like Lahra...but because she is from Boston, she introduced herself as Sara, but with an L (LOL)
    She doesn't use the double dots anymore but I still pronounce it that way, mostly because I was so psyched I got the classic movie reference that her parents intended

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    Quote Originally Posted by carolina73 View Post
    Over 30 years later and I can't lose the accent. Especially if I talk too long or get tired.
    I grew up in Texas. Both my parents had a Texas accent. But I went to college in Indiana and taught English in Texas, Washington State, Italy, and Alaska...........and thought I had better lose the accent to teach it right. So I did. My kids were all raised on the West Coast so they basically have no tell tale accent. They notice every little nuance that I thought I had lost though. I pronounce the number "ten" and a "tin" can the same. I can't fix that. I pronounce the name "Claude" and a "clod" of dirt the same. I did fix the "vacuum" to say both u's to prevent guffawing if I say "vac-yum". And there are a few others that my kids will announce when I do it. But I don't have a pronounced accent.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jigglepete View Post
    One of my favorite people on the planet is named Lara, with the two dots over the first A...you know? Dr. Zhivago's lover? Pronounced with a soft A like Lahra...but because she is from Boston, she introduced herself as Sara, but with an L (LOL)
    She doesn't use the double dots anymore but I still pronounce it that way, mostly because I was so psyched I got the classic movie reference that her parents intended
    Dr Zhivago is one of my favorite movies. So I know exactly what you mean.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Adelaide View Post
    I get confused by the people who say "Meh-hee-co" for Mexico when that might be how someone Hispanic would say it, but not an English speaker... We don't call Germany Deutschland, for example. What's up with that?
    In my neck of the woods, or more properly, desert, we seldom refer to Mexico as "Mexico". Here, we have "New Mexico" and "Old Mexico".
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    Growing up in Indiana, you can always spot the out-of-staters by the way they pronounce Terre Haute. For some reason outsiders tend to say "terra HUT", whereas no Hoosier will pronounce it any way but "terra HOTE" (rhymes with "note").

    Back in the '70s, after being stationed in California for a number of years, I was visiting my mother back in Indianapolis, and I told her I was going to visit a town about 25 miles up I-465 - I said I was going to drive to "Carmel" (car-MEL) and she responded, "No you're not". Pause, me puzzled. "You're going to CAR-mul" she corrected.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cletus View Post
    In my neck of the woods, or more properly, desert, we seldom refer to Mexico as "Mexico". Here, we have "New Mexico" and "Old Mexico".
    I don't know how closely it reflects reality, but in my favorite novel, Cormac McCarthy's 'All the Pretty Horses', which is set in the late '40s, whenever a Mexican says "Mexico" they are referring to Mexico City. They never seem to refer to the nation as a whole as "Mexico" but speak only of regions and provinces and of course the names of towns.
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    I pronounce it Terre Halt!
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    To all the Tennessee folk- how do you prononce the name.

    My wife is from Tennessee and her family prononces it TENasee. Knoxvllie they pronounce Knoxval.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Captdon View Post
    To all the Tennessee folk- how do you prononce the name.

    My wife is from Tennessee and her family prononces it TENasee. Knoxvllie they pronounce Knoxval.
    I pronounce it TEN a See, and Knox Veal
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