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Do "dawn" and "don" rhyme? (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter Radical Larry
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Only read this last page. So b-fred did the 'fbgcapella' video?
roadkill1292
Footballguy
Pond and pawnd are pronounced the same.That's the problem. These guys pronounce a small body of water "pawnd."
Ditkaless Wonders
Footballguy
Red Don - "Wolverines!"
I see potential hilarity if some of you wre running a male/female escort service and you had escorts named Don and Dawn.
I see potential hilarity if some of you wre running a male/female escort service and you had escorts named Don and Dawn.
dickey moe
Fingerpicker
Look, morons:
From dictionary.com
From dictionary.com
and
It's settled. Suck it!
Ignoratio Elenchi
Footballguy
Cunk
Footballguy
What? You don't? I picked one up at CVS the other day. Came with a free water bottle.
jplvr
Footballguy
I always use: What does a dog say? What keeps the rain out of your house? The answers shouldn't sound the same.I ended up with a Midland accent on the test.
Doug B
Footballguy
Me, too, despite living all my life in the Deep South (but almost all in the New Orleans metro). Here's their description of the Midland accent:
The don't take vocabulary into account, however.
jplvr
Footballguy
Or spelling.
I did grow up in Birmingham and lived my entire life in the South. Pickles might possibly state otherwise, but I've been told I don't have much of an accent. I do have some words/phrases which would give it away, but I'm talking generally, of course.
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Ignoratio Elenchi
Footballguy
Apparently lots of people pronounce "law" as "lah".
zander_s
Footballguy
And lawyer as liar but that is a different conversation!
jplvr
Footballguy
lah-yer? Is that how some pronounce it?Also, from that questionaire to determine accents, what people pronounce Mary, merry, and marry differently? Edit: I just changed the one answer from my previous set of entries to "They all sound differently" and it pegged me as being from the Northeast, namely New York, Connecticut, or Rhode Island.
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Harry Manback
Footballguy
Harry Manback
Footballguy
What American accent do you have?
Your Result: Boston
You definitely have a Boston accent, even if you think you don't. Of course, that doesn't mean you are from the Boston area, you may also be from New Hampshire or Maine.
This thing owned me.
Your Result: Boston
You definitely have a Boston accent, even if you think you don't. Of course, that doesn't mean you are from the Boston area, you may also be from New Hampshire or Maine.
This thing owned me.
bostonfred
Footballguy
What the hell? I figured my Don would sound like your Don, but your Dawn would be the long islandy sounding doe-uhn. That's something I've heard plenty and it sounds terrible. But you're saying that you pronounce dawn and lawn like I do, but pronounce "Don" differently? I'm completely shuked here, no shtick.Doug B said:
Ignoratio Elenchi
Footballguy
I can't imagine people would pronounce any two of those the same way, let alone all three.
Harry Manback
Footballguy
Mary and marry = the sameMerry = different, a little upset that wasn't an option.
roadkill1292
Footballguy
Your Result: The Midland
"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.
I knew that my GBs from western Pennsylvania couldn't pronounce an "o" right but at least they generally have the good graces to be a little embarrassed about it, not like some others in here.
"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.
I knew that my GBs from western Pennsylvania couldn't pronounce an "o" right but at least they generally have the good graces to be a little embarrassed about it, not like some others in here.
Harry Manback
Footballguy
Ignoratio Elenchi
Footballguy
Mary rhymes with dairy.Marry rhymes with Larry.Merry rhymes with cherry.None of those rhyme with each other.Mary and marry = the sameMerry = different, a little upset that wasn't an option.
Harry Manback
Footballguy
I agree 100% but...I think were going to be talking past each other here. Larry and dairy rhyme to me.Mary rhymes with dairy.Marry rhymes with Larry.Merry rhymes with cherry.None of those rhyme with each other.Mary and marry = the sameMerry = different, a little upset that wasn't an option.I can't imagine people would pronounce any two of those the same way, let alone all three.
cstu
Footballguy
Once again, they all rhyme.Mary rhymes with dairy.Marry rhymes with Larry.Merry rhymes with cherry.None of those rhyme with each other.Mary and marry = the sameMerry = different, a little upset that wasn't an option.
Ignoratio Elenchi
Footballguy
OK Helen Keller.Once again, they all rhyme.Mary rhymes with dairy.Marry rhymes with Larry.Merry rhymes with cherry.None of those rhyme with each other.Mary and marry = the sameMerry = different, a little upset that wasn't an option.
fatguyinalittlecoat
Footballguy
"Straw" will be pronounced in the sequel.
Ignoratio Elenchi
Footballguy
Ignoratio Elenchi
Footballguy
So, for those who disagree with Rudnicki, do you hear the differences but disagree that he's pronouncing the words correctly, or do you just not hear the difference?
FatMax
Member
Once again, they all rhyme.Mary rhymes with dairy.Marry rhymes with Larry.Merry rhymes with cherry.None of those rhyme with each other.Mary and marry = the sameMerry = different, a little upset that wasn't an option.
DaVinci
FairTaxguy
Mr. Pickles
Footballguy
And what's with pronouncing the "g" in "long?" I thought that was a Long Island thing.
FatMax
Member
Your Result: The West
Your accent is the lowest common denominator of American speech. Unless you're a SoCal surfer, no one thinks you have an accent. And really, you may not even be from the West at all, you could easily be from Florida or one of those big Southern cities like Dallas or Atlanta.
Repost of the link for those just checking this out.
http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_american_accent_do_you_have
Your accent is the lowest common denominator of American speech. Unless you're a SoCal surfer, no one thinks you have an accent. And really, you may not even be from the West at all, you could easily be from Florida or one of those big Southern cities like Dallas or Atlanta.
Repost of the link for those just checking this out.
http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_american_accent_do_you_have
bostonfred
Footballguy
I really can't imagine that you pronounce them as differently as you're implying. They're exactly the same word.
bostonfred
Footballguy
I agree with all of these statements except the last one.
Ignoratio Elenchi
Footballguy
I really can't imagine that you pronounce them as differently as you're implying. They're exactly the same word.
I would never confuse one of those three words with either of the other two. They are clearly three distinct vowel sounds. No one answered my earlier question, maybe you can? When you watch Aaron's video, do you hear the differences but disagree that they are the proper pronunciations, or do you not hear the differences?
Mr. Pickles
Footballguy
bostonfred
Footballguy
First, you ARE saying doe-uhn. That's the only way I can phonetically describe the linguistic malfeasance perpetrated by the upstate New York turned Chicago influences onto the tin ear that thinks you're saying the words "long" and "dawn" correctly in that video.
Second, what you say as "Don" sounds like you're a kung fu student shouting DON! as he bangs the side of his hand on a piece of wood. I can't imagine that you have any friends named Don anymore.
Third, and perhaps most importantly, you seem to have circled "wrong" instead of "long".
Thorn
Footballguy
That was the only question I really couldn't answer. To me, Mary and marry sound the same, but merry sounds different. There was no option for that. It said I was midland even though I'm from the northeast.
bostonfred
Footballguy
I absolutely hear the differences, and I believe that that accent is wrong.
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