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Sounds of QC - Now With More Accents
calenlass:
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=pecan
Also, possibly assimilated by the French and then re-appropriated back into English. The french word is "pacane".
De_El:
I'm still trying to catch up to listen to all your fun voices. This is just reminding me how much I love to hear recordings of people talking, I don't even know what it is.
Did the meme thing:
http://vocaroo.com/?media=v8v01ZXA7fHgwRLiR
One word not on the list that I know splits some people is the pronunciation of the English word "either," which some people say "aither" and some people say "eether." I guess in American English, saying "aither" is somewhat uncommon? I dunno what the regional divide is, but my girlfriend called me out on it a while ago.
SirJuggles:
Eck I always end up getting worked up over discussions about "either".
To me, ee-ther is the correct pronunciation. It also sounds completely stupid. It's just... for some reason I feel like "ee" is not a phoneme that should start a word like that. In my head it looks like "-ther", where the - is a sewing needle sticking out of the front of the word. It's too sharp and un-word-y.
So I say "eye-ther", even though I feel like that's not the accepted way of saying it.
-wow I'm sleepy and I probably sound absolutely crazy.
Jimmy the Squid:
Only a little. My pronunciation of it tends to shift depending on context. Like, when referring to two options, I'll say "ee-ther" but when I'm saying, for example "I'm not doing that, either" then it is "eye-ther".
Inlander:
Yeah it's not really an accent thing, people with the same regional accent could pronounce either and neither differently from each other - so it doesn't really help illustrate accents/dialects like the words on that list do.
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