My Word

[klaatu]

Pop or Soda?

Is your S silent in Illinois?

Do you throw an A or a long E at the end of Missouri?

Sausage ... do you replace the middle S with a Z?

Do you replace the double z with tsa in Pizza?

Do you pronounce New Orleans .. Neworleans or New Orleens?

reggatta or ricotta?

Arab or A Rab?

 

[Gaffer]

Pop or Soda?

pop

Is your S silent in Illinois?

nope

Do you throw an A or a long E at the end of Missouri?

E

Sausage ... do you replace the middle S with a Z?

nope

Do you replace the double z with tsa in Pizza?
pete za

Do you pronounce New Orleans .. Neworleans or New Orleens?
new orleens Those from that area call it norlens

reggatta or ricotta?

huh

Arab or A Rab?

raghead

louieville or lu-a-val?

 

[uscitizen]

It is Nawlins.

 

[Damocles]

Pop or Soda?
Pop. Soda is bubbly water that tastes oddly of salt.

Is your S silent in Illinois?
Yes.

Do you throw an A or a long E at the end of Missouri?
Long E

Sausage ... do you replace the middle S with a Z?
No.

Do you replace the double z with tsa in Pizza?
Yes.

Do you pronounce New Orleans .. Neworleans or New Orleens?
It's Naw'lins...


reggatta or ricotta?
Ricotta

Arab or A Rab?
Arab...

 

[Thorn]

Same as Damo except for New Orleans (New orlins).

The first "r" in February and in temperature is not silent.

The "t" in "often" is silent, however, as it is in "listen".

I've heard someone say "greezy" for "greasy"; it's like fingernails on a chalkboard.