In the Maritimes, Dalhousie (the university) is pronounced: "dal-HOW-zee".
In Ottawa, Dalhousie (the street) is pronounced: "dal-HOOOOOO-ze".
I don't know why, but I find the Ottawa pronunciation really annoying.
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I’m newish to the maritimes. For a good while when we got here I thought it was supposed to be like “dollhouse” >.>
I recently saw a video where a woman pronounced "drawer" as "draw".
Was it 3x3Custom Tamar?
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Desk draw
In Iowa:
- The town of Buena Vista is pronounced “byoo-nuh vist-uh”
- The town of Nevada is pronounced “neh-vade-uh”
In eastern MA, we have towns Berlin pronounced BERLin, Peabody pronounced PIBudee, Quincy pronounced QUINzee. I'm sure there's more I'm forgetting.
I'm told there are differences between "merry", "marry", and "Mary", but I don't believe it.
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I pronounce Kraken phonetically - "krayken" - but the world seems to prefer "cracken".
Bavarians pronounce Chemie, China, Chlor, and others with CH starting, with a K! KEMIE, KINA, KLOR!
Bavarians there is so much go hate about you!
We recently moved to a new area and there is a nearby town called Monticello. The locals all pronounce it mon-tee-sell-oh and will correct you if you say mon-teh-chel-oh. Doesn't quite fit the question cause I think the locals are insane for that 😅