How do you pronounce "Mayonnaise?" (Page 1 of 2)

Yup, I'm an Okie.

Bubbler you fools!!

All I know is I cannot order pecan pancakes in Indiana without pointing at the menu.  For Okies, it is P-Kahhhhhn (1-3 h's is also acceptable).  In NWI it is Pee....wait for it....keep waiting...Kan.  I stopped trying and now just have coffee.

Interesting; I fit in with some of them, but not others.  I know I used to call it pop before I was stationed in Tennessee and Virginia for a while; I've been calling it soda ever since.  And I call it man-aze; it appears others may have been making fun of me behind my back for all these years...

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My name is Brett and I'm from New Zealand.
If I had a dollar for every time I have had this conversation In would be a rich man.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy1cOn5vGc4

My dad makes the best peek in pie.

what are you... oh you want a coke! what kind, Dr P, Pepsi, sprite?

I'm surprised that "hero" got its own color designator but "po-boy" didn't. You can see the big blank space over Louisiana.

"bow" as in take a bow, or "bow" as in bow-tie?

in truth, it should be boo...since that was the guy's name and all.  the update on the map suggests that Bowie MD is properly pronounced boo-ie there, too.

of course David Bo-E is more popular than Jim Boo-E is...so I'm not surprised most of the country chooses that version.

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this article was clearly written by a soda guy or a pop guy, since he thinks Coke is a brand name in the south. Coke is like Kleenex or Xerox, the brand name covers the entire market.

if it's fizzy and sweet, it's a coke. even if it's yellow, orange, red, or clear.

"I'm goin' to Sonic, y'all want some cokes?"
"sure!"
"what kind?"
"dr pepper"

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speaking of "y'all", i think that map is a little short sighted.

in most of oklahoma at least, y'all is reserved for addressing groups of people. it's literally used as the plural of you.
in other parts of the south, y'all can refer to just one person.

when a posse comes on your land, "what are y'all doin' here?" is a relatively valid statement.
when the sheriff comes on your land all by himself, "what are y'all doin' here?" is not....tho it's still common.

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i'm sad that ron white's favorite difference isn't referenced.

COO-pon, CUE/QUE-pon, or cooPin?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClQuI8ds_dg

(i can't see youtube at work , so hopefully this is the right link)

I used to work for AT&T wireless customer care serving the whole country, and people would constantly ask me where I was from, because I usually didn't sound anything like them and I clearly wasn't in India. When I'd tell them I was in Oklahoma, they'd invariably say  "no...where are you from?" I'd tell them I was from Oklahoma, and had lived here my whole life. "You have absolutely no accent," to which I'd respond "my mother thanks you for the compliment."

I'll slip into a Texas-like drawl if the situation warrants, but some people who don't know me start getting freaky when that drawl is paired with my typical lexicon and word speed. Apparently, people who grew up south of the Mason-Dixon line aren't allowed to know any big words that aren't in the bible and aren't allowed to think any faster than molasses.

Yes, I meant "Boo-wee".  "Bow (like bow and arrow) wee" is how the rest of the country says it.  ;-)

VA has this neat accent...I think it's called the Dominion accent.  I like very much to listen to people who speak it.  It sounds sort of like a very dignified Foghorn Leghorn.