Where is wash pronounced warsh

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Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. April 19, Neal Whitman PhD is an independent writer and consultant specializing in language and grammar and a member of the Reynoldsburg, Ohio, school board. Follow Facebook Linkedin. You May Also Like Grammar Girl. Modal Auxiliary Verbs. If I do that' I'll also ask her about independent research from hers that addresses this.

If I hear form her, I'll post it here. PeterShor - Dr. Johnstone replied with a less certain answer about Scotch-Irish origin than the cites I gave above would indicate. She referred me to a colleague, Dr. Michael Montgomery. I'll update if I hear from him. Barbara Johnstone is a former student of mine at the University of Michigan, and currently she knows more about English in Pennsylvania than anybody else.

Show 8 more comments. Stanton D. Stanton 21 1 1 bronze badge. Featured on Meta. Now live: A fully responsive profile. Linked Related You've been here most of your damned life. Say it right, ferchrissake. Post by Bob » Fri Jun 24, pm Okay..

Michington is just wrong. They used to do that in Baltimore, too. Now I try not to worry about it. What I find more interesting is the difference between the way locals and non-locals pronounce place names.

This stuff doesn't bother me. I find it interesting. Post by Blackhawk » Fri Jun 24, pm I don't know about Kansas, or Arkansas or Tennessee, but I can guarantee that out here in rural Indiana, warsh is pretty standard. Likewise, anything with 'ish' is pronounced 'eesh'. We get 'Warsh the deesh that had the feesh'. When I moved from Nevada to live with my grandmother when I was eight, it took me quite a while before I could even understand what she was saying.

Warsh up, then git the deesh of Oleo and the mangos, please. Sort of. Black Lives Matter. Post by Teggy » Fri Jun 24, pm Mostly I find differences in pronunciation amusing, but there is one that kind of gets to me, "heigth" for "height". My girlfriend and her family says it - I don't know where it originates from, but her father grew up in Michigan. Problem, is, it's technically correct we looked it up so I can't say it's wrong! My mom grew up in Brooklyn and says some things pretty funny, but not really in a Brooklyn way.

For example, she says "spatchler" for "spatula". Always make fun of her for that. Nothing in Boston ever seems to be pronounced like it's spelled. I live in "Wall-tham" Waltham , which I assume anyone else would pronounce "Walthum". But who knows, really. Everyone speaks differently and it's hard to pinpoint exactly how someone is supposed to say things. Pronounciation and language evolve all the time. Post by Rumpy » Fri Jun 24, pm I think it's because people tend to move around a lot and when they see a name, they'll tend to speak it literally the way it's spelled, and then others will be within earshot and hear that and so on Post by Sunderer » Fri Jun 24, pm My favorite is "exasterbate" for exacerbate.

Puts a smile on my face every time. Post by killbot » Fri Jun 24, pm rTrhrerrrer rirsr rnror rRr rirnr rwrarrrsrhr.

Post by sgoldj » Fri Jun 24, pm I think its the extra "r"s from New England where they "pak the cahs" and use "khakies" in the ignition. Post by yossar » Sat Jun 25, am My grandma's from central California, and says "warsh".