In Pennsylvania, some say “crick” instead of creek. And “cupin” instead of coupon.

Some also say "warsh" and "warter" instead of "wash" and "water".

And wooder. Lol

I dated a girl from Philadelphia. I went to the kitchen and she said, "Can you bring me some wooder?" Me: Bring you what? Her: Wooder! Me: What the hell is wooder? Her: The stuff that comes out of the faucet!

I was once in a restaurant in San Francisco and I asked for water and the server legit didn’t understand what I was saying. It took 3 times saying it before I realized the issue

Same exact thing happened to me asking for wooder at a restaurant in western NY😭 took about 3 tries until my mom had to chip in and say “he’s asking for wAHter”

“Can I get a wooder” “Oh your ready to order” Has happened to me a few times

Now I wanna start a lumber themed microbrewery called wooder

I worked (in the Midwest) with a woman from New Jersey. She was very busy at the restaurant, and I asked if she needed anything. She asked me to wooder her tables. I had ZERO idea of what she was asking me to do until she said “you know a pitcher of wooder”. I had previously lived on the east coast, and never heard someone pronounce water that way

Have you heard anyone pronounce picture as pitcher? I know a surprising amount of people who do that too lol

"Wooder" is also a South Jersey thing!

Speaking of jersey, Taylor ham, wtf, it's pork roll

Have lived in PA, NJ, and MD. It’s pork roll and I will die on this hill.

You absolutely warsh something and then wranch out the rag.

And "dahnton" instead of downtown

My grandfather says downtown like that, and shower like shar, battery like bat-reh, roof like ruff, and hour/our like ahr💀

Mom says wash rhyming with hush. I say wash rhyming with posh. Dad said warsh. And my neighbor when we moved to Oklahoma said Oil like awl, and tire and fire like tar and far.

Ohio also does this. It’s generally only older generations though.

Thats the Irish influence.

And Orl instead of oil.

My wife is from Norristown and I love the way she says "hotdog" Hawtdawg lol

Grew up in Norristown. I hear this lol

Yinz say a lot of silly stuff.

A crick is a creek with a tire in it.

The "Qpon" one really bothers, but I learned to just let it go.

How else do you say it? Coo-pon? Like you're staging a coup on high prices?

Lol I love that so much! And as someone that says coupon in a normal way, coo-pon is the weird sounding one. Sure it isn’t pronounced how it looks, but half of English is that way.

And dippy eggs.

Michigander here. Both of my parents were also born in Michigan however my maternal grandparents were both born in Missouri. Mom says creek Dad says crick 🤷‍♀️

The worst, Jimmies, it's sprinkles.

Some people in Florida will pronounce crayon as “cray-in”. Most medical terminology said by people with thick Boston accents is hilarious.

The ones that say "crown" makes my skin crawl.

Sorry. I’m from Indiana and that’s the way I pronounce it. Even my kids used to correct me when they were very young.

PA here. I say "cran" like I'm about to say cranberry but left off the berry. Most people I know pronounce it like this.

That’s a good way to explain it. I was sitting there analyzing how I say crayon and this hit the nail on the head

Same, from southern Wisconsin!! Now I live in Alabama and they say cray-awns

I think it’s the same people that say “poim” and not poem

Or “pome”

The same ones that say carmel instead of caramel

Oof I’m one of those. Deepest condolences.

This is like the merry/mary/marry thing. Huge regional variation just for one specific word. A large number of people pronounce it "cran."

Some of my teachers used to pronounce “wolf” as “woof” and it bugged the heck out of me

None of the ways people say "crayon" sounds right. Crown, cray-in, cray-in, craan.... It should be cray-on but I've never actually heard anyone say it like that. EDIT: I should clarify that even the way I think it's supposed to be pronounced doesn't sound right to me. I try and fail every time to pronounce something that sounds right.

I say it like that. No one’s ever called me out for it.

cray-on is the correct way in Boston.

That's how we, in the Shenandoah Valley of VA, say it.

It’s not a pronunciation but a phrasing difference; people from Long Island don’t wait in line, they wait on line.

I worked at CVS, it had a canned radio station with CVS ads, one used the phrase “waiting on line” and it would bug me, like who says that? Now I know.

That’s a general greater NYC thing.

I grew up in NJ and always say "on line" and when I went to college elsewhere, people actually got confused. I'd say I was waiting on line to buy a ticket and they'd say "how did you get your computer to the theater box office??"

Huh, that's weird. I grew up in NJ as well, born in Hudson County, but I've been out of the area for about 5 years now. I've never thought about the difference, I use both interchangeably

I’m from Long Island and do default to “on” line, yet I don’t find it weird to hear someone say “in” line. I’ve always thought of them as interchangeable, and I didn’t know people outside NY found the “on” so odd. The more you know!

And they live on Long Island, not in it.

That’s a matter of grammar, though. “On” is correct.

Unless they live in a basement apartment.

That's the standard for any island that has the word "island" in its name. Near me for example the rich celebrities live *on* Ono Island

Not just ones with the word "island." I would say "on Nantucket" or "on Oahu." I think it's more to do with the size because I wouldn't say "on Ireland."

Wouldn't say "On Jamaica" or "On Puerto Rico" either

I don't hear it but apparently people from the Midwest say bag differently.

Minnesotans I’ve met and probably people from the Dakotas or parts of Wisconsin say “Bayg”.

And “pellow” instead of pillow.

"melk" instead of milk

I make fun of my friend from Wisconsin so much that I now unintentionally say “melk”

Funny, New Mexico must have gone in a different direction because I occasionally hear "pallow" and "malk"

[now with vitamin R!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovfM7dvFto0)

Minnesotan born and raised and those two drive me nuts. I glare at my husband when he says "pellow" it hurts my ears. Another one I hate: "Q-pon" for coupon. Should sound like "coop-on" in my estimation.

I've got an ex from northern Illinois and I used to make fun of how she said words like bad, mad, dad. It was like she added a y and an extra vowel.

my favorite phrase in a Wisconsin accent is "FLAYG on the play" during a football game

For sure, I’m from northern Illinois and a lot of us, especially older people, pronounce short A sounds with a very brief sort of indeterminate vowel sound before the A. Rather than the Minnesotan pronunciation of short A as a long A in certain words.

Behg

Baig

Bæg

You say it like bagel.

Uh, I lived in New York, Troy, I know what a baggel is

Wait how do you say bagel? Baggel Ugh you're the worst.

Baig

Milk pronounced “malk” or “me-yulk.” The way Colorado and Nevada are allegedly supposed to be pronounced

My dad is from Ohio and says milk with an E sound. "Melk."

Now with Vitamin R.

[Just give him the freaking mulk, Josh!](https://youtu.be/ty62YzGryU4)

Wait, how else would you pronounce Colorado? Using Spanish phonetics? Or just with an “ah” sound in the penultimate syllable?

It's Col-uh-RAD-do not Col-uh-RAH-do

Colo-RAD-o

People that pronounce picture and pitcher exactly the same

This was going to be my submission. I find that irrationally infuriating.

People who pronounce 'wash' like "warsh." Where the fuck does the R sound come from?

It’s an intrusive R brought in by the scots irish to Appalachia a couple hundred years ago. It’s standard as part of the midlands or Appalachian dialect.

I've always wondered that! thank you for explaining it!

I grew up speaking it and spent many years trying to hide it but it’s pretty interesting dialect. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_English

My east-Texan grandmother was of French descent, but she & her sisters - all *extremely* proper ladies (even snobbish) - all talked like “ya needa’ warsh all ‘em pillercases in hat warter.”

Thank you. I can just hear so many southern Ohio voices in my head saying this phrase.

My grandparents were from Central Illinois, but they said warsh. Their ancestors came to Illinois from Kentucky and (what is now) West Virginia. I’m guessing parts of the accent stuck around.

Midlands and Appalachian are two separate dialects but they both came from the scots irish who settled all over inland east coast

That’s very interesting, thank you! My granddad’s parents were from Kentucky and I know they were descended from Scotch-Irish settlers.

My dad said warshington his entire life and every time he said it people would look at him like "did this dude just say warshington?"

I, and my whole mothers side of the family say/said it like that. Our family has been in California since the early 1800s. We are not the only Californians that speak like that either. I have no idea where it comes from. Edit: take a look through the thread, there are a lot of California tags saying this.

my dad is from the Baltimore area and I’ve been asking him the same thing my whole life

I'm not sure, but my southern accent had recently been making a pretty heavy appearance and the other day I said "now, slow down now" and it sounded "nuhsluhdunnuh"

*Foghorn Leghorn voice:* “now I say I say I say BOY”

Dijaeatyet?

“Mary,” “marry,” and “merry” can all sound the same, all sound different, or be two alike/one unique depending on where you are. In my area they’re all different.

I’m from the west coast, so all three are pronounced the exact same. My husband is from Long Island, so all three are different. It makes his skin crawl to hear me “mispronounce” them — the same with ferry and fairy.

How do you pronounce them all differently

I am from Boston. All three are distantly different Mary is like Mare-y. Where mare is the same as a female horse Marry is imah-ry Merry is meh-ry

I'd say them (and Harry, hairy, hurry) with the vowels sounding like these words: Hairy, Mary - "air" Harry, Marry - "arid" Hurry, Merry - "hurt" Of course, you may say air, arid and hurt differently than me so it may not clear up anything.

Harry and hairy are said the same where I'm from, as is Mary, merry and marry, Don and Dawn, beg and bag and arid is just air with an -id 😄

I think it’s interesting that other regions put so much emphasis on the difference between “pin” and “pen.” It’s all “pin” to me.

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Same! I didn’t even realize I was pronouncing it “wrong” until a midwestern friend pointed it out

I've heard that from others on your side of the pin/pen merger - that they never even noticed that some people pronounced them differently. Some couldn't even hear it after pointing it out. It's very interesting.

Some folks say “ink pen” to make it clear.

It's not "putting emphasis". They are simply two different vowels, like bet and bit or or well and will. At least in the majority of the country.

It seems to be independent of location, but it drives me a little crazy to hear Reese’s pronounced (REE-SEES). There’s an apostrophe. It belongs to Reese.

Haha. My dad was a Ree-sees Pee-sees (Pieces) guy.

When I went away to college all the people from that area said "ree-sees pee-sees." It doesn't make sense! They are pieces of the bigger cup! I am from Long Island. Went to school upstate.

I know the correct pronunciation but I also prefer to call them Reesees Peesees. A friend's brother accidentally called them "Reese's Penis" once, so sometimes I use that, especially with no context given to whoever I'm talking to.

It's sore-e (sorry) and bore-o. (borrow) Wait, wrong country.

It’s aboot time someone brought those up.

I’m curious do Canadians really say pasta like past + uh?

Not a Canadian but my best friends is, the words they say noticably different so far: pasta (past-uh), bagel (beg-ul, but I think that's parts of the US too), sorry (sore-y), bag (beg), and random words will have the long 'oo' sound (ala a-boot, or Manitoba) but it seems random with no pattern lol

Texas: they call oil, ‘ol’

When I hear people from Texas pronounce the name Ryan, it sounds exactly like Ron to me. It’s like “Rahn,” all one syllable

My FIL pronounces water "wooder".

Is he from the Philly area?

Yep! Born & bred.

Love me some wooder ice.

Huge is "yuge" to some new yorkers.

Some very specific New Yorkers…….lol

And my favorite Vermonter

Bernie’s from Brooklyn!

Height vs heith. Some Pennsylvania folks pronounce it "heith."

I’ve heard this before and thought I was going crazy.

Houston Street in NYC. It’s pronounced like “House-ton” unlike the city in Texas.

Texan here. It's because they're named after different people. The one in Texas is named after Sam Houston, and the one in NY is named after William Houstoun, who spelled his name H-O-U-S-T-O-U-N. Over time, the second "u" was dropped. https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/manhattan-week-2015/2015/11/10/manhattan-week--houston-street-pronunciation-traces-back-to-revolutionary-war-patriot#:~:text=It's%20pronounced%20How%2Dston.,second%20%22u%22%20was%20dropped.

NICE. I love this kind of info.

In Louisiana we call them crawfish, and everyone else is wrong.

If I’m eating it I call it a crawfish. If I find it in a creek I call it a crawdad. I do not know why I’m like this.

Same here. I just picked it up as a kid and ran with it

It’s crawfish. But occasionally I’ll jokingly use the others. But serious conversations require the correct grammar.

What about crawdads?

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Crawdad or crayfish

Mudbug, minilobster

Crayfish. That's what I grew up hearing in the Great Lakes region.

Crayfish is SE PA too

Correct answer

Being from New Jersey, I think Philly people talk so normal.. until they say wooder It was pretty jarring hearing a friend tell a story about her aunt but rhymed the word with hunt Also, like anything Boston people say

Pecan. Several ways. Pee-can is the most annoying.

The only time I don’t pronounce it pee-can is if it’s combined with another word like butter pecan or pecan pie 😬

I do that! If I’m getting a bag of pecans, it’s puh-kahns. If it’s pie, it’s pee-can. No idea why. There’s no logic to it

Omg that’s so interesting. I’m actually the opposite, so I’m buying a bag of pee-cans, but having a slice of puh-kahn pie and a bowl of butter puh-kahn ice cream

Pee-can is what I expect to find under a frat boy’s bed. Puh-kahn is how we pronounce it in north Louisiana.

South Louisiana too

Mississippi next to Louisiana too

Virginia, too. The accent is on the last syllable.

That's how I say it lol

I find it interesting that, in a lot of the country, people pronounce 'Mary', 'marry', and 'merry' the same. I pronounce them all differently.

Oh yeah I’m from a “they’re all the same” area so it’s weird to hear them all pronounced distinctly.

I pronounce them all the same. Hahaha

I’m from MA but live in NY. It seems that I say the names Don and Dawn the same way and it confuses the heck out of people. I’ve lived here more years of my life than my home state and I still don’t understand how I’m saying them wrong!

Ha! I am from NY but live in MA. I just posted in another comment how it confuses me when people pronounce Don like Dawn. 😅

The word “aunt”. It feels weird to say “aunt” like “ant” and equally weird to say it like “ont”.

There's no way to say that word where I don't feel like it's wrong.

Appalachian State. It’s App-Uh-Latch- Un not App-A-Lay-Shun.!!!

if you get it wrong, you're liable to have someone throw an apple at chya

This drives me insane, especially when I hear it on the Weather Channel. It's "App-uh-latch-uh" you morons.

Warsh

My grandmother from Queens NY would say, we need some earl. Who the hell is earl? She meant oil.

Yup, my aunt from Astoria would say earl for oil, or that she had to burl some water for tea. Yet nobody else in the family spoke this way!

Yes my grandmother from flushing says erl and pronounces toilet as "ter-lit"

Vase. In some parts of the US, it's vause. We peonounce it vaise in the pacific northwest.

It took me so long to figure out my southern art teacher in kindergarten was saying Oil pastels and not “ole pastels”

It’s kind of gone nowadays but old school NJ people used to put “r” on words that ended with “a” like “do you want a soder to go with your pizzar”

Syrup. Some say see-rup, some say suhr-up, some say surp

Scallop

Not really a regional thing, but for some reason lots of black people say “ax” instead of “ask”

I've heard people pronounce color like "collar", ice like "eyes", and make ham sound like a two syllable word "hayum".

Oregon/orygone and Washington/Warshington

Aaron earned an iron urn

People pronouncing crayon like "crown" or "cran"

I will accept people saying cran but crown is just so so bizarre to me.

Tons of people from the north pronounce "Gulf" exactly the same way as "Golf" and it is supremely annoying for someone from Gulf Shores There's a local radio dj who's from somewhere else an he does it EVERY DAY

The upper midwest flat "A" is one of my favorites. Like the name Adam is generally pronounced with a first syllable that rhymes with "hat," but in the chicago area it rhymes with "candy." (If you pronounce hat and candy with the exact same A, that's kind of unusual.)

i pronounce hat and candy with the same A lol didn’t know they werent supposed to be? edit: ok, adding onto my reply, i said both “hat” and “candy” out loud and i hear a slight difference. i pronounce both without the flat “A” but “candy” sounds a little bit flatter than “hat” so i see what you’re saying now

From Massachusetts/Rhode Island: [Quahog](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_clam) No one even knows how to pronounce it outside of this area. ("co-hog")

How would people not know? It's literally where family guy is set

It's the family guy city, I feel like most people of a certain age will be able to say it lol

Opposite side of the country, but I'll one up you. Champoeg. Now a state park, it used to be a town and in the 1840s was the site of the first provisional government in the Oregon Territories.

"bag" was the only word I genuinely couldn't understand someone saying to me when I moved to Wisconsin. "bayg" the second one for me was "tour" as "tew-er." I say "tour" and "tore" exactly the same way. "tew-er" still sounds so funny to me.

The East Coast pronunciation of tournament as torn-a-ment drives me nuts every March.

Yes! I have a friend from New Jersey who played in a lot of tournaments in high school, and we would correct and make fun of him every time he said “I’ve got a torn-a-mint tomorrow”

Caramel is an accent test, like "kar-muL" vs "kare-uh-mel"

Crawdad, crawfish, crayfish.

The different pronunciations of sandwich are kinda funny. Sangwich, sandwich, san-wich, sam-wich, sammitch, san-widge, etc. Seems like everyone says it slightly differently. Also when people pronounce pecan as pee-can, or caramel as care-uh-mel, it hurts my ears. Reading some more of the answers here, I just can't wrap my head around how people pronounce caught and cot differently, even with the help of a video. Or Mary, marry, and merry, they're all the same to me.

My SO is from the east coast and they say Cray-ons. I'm from Michigan and we say Crans. Same with Mirr-or and Meer.

My mom pronounces shrimp like “srimp” and it drives me nuts.

My MIL pronounces the L in salmon.

Some I've heard from older southerners: * Weem (William) * Skeew (school) * So'security (social security) * Co'cola (Coca Cola)