50 People Tell Us Which Word Their State Always Mispronounces | Culturally Speaking

Missourians often mispronounced according to other people words like quarter which we say quota and wash often people will just stop talking to me and say can you say that again [Music] what word does the state of Alabama mispronounce when we talk to people every other word in our sentence instead of window we might say winter I will say well Dale is obviously rodeo tank instead of can't I don't think there is a word that we mispronounce do North Carolinians mispronounce it or do we say it the correct way a lot of words in eat are like pretty straightforward like it's hard to mess up the name Utah people would say like water water there's not a hard t there's a lot of D's in there what are you supposed to say me like water water water its water water not water water anything with an R we usually mispronounce you gotta pack the con javed yawn get it outta quad for some chowder idea we say we put an R at the end of it so it becomes AI dear my dear because of my idea they say amber let's new killer caramel coffee pin Salman the word southern I guess the proper way to pronounce southern southern people from southern Delaware have a slightly more southern accent I'm from Cincinnati so I tend to have a Southern drawl I think people in Texas mispronounced the word ol instead of oil a lot of people say old big bag flag or like anything with a long a your bagel they go back old it goes back back well thank there we go when you put in GPS and you here with GPS s versus way you say are different things well North Dakota isn't North Dakota as much as its north people often mispronounced Boise Boise Norfolk Virginia like Natha Illinois most people say it Illinois's organ everybody on the East Coast says it's Oregon it's not it's Oregon I don't know what people are doing people from my state often pronounced Nevada people say Nevada okay the most popular word that's probably mispronounced is Nevada it's a Spanish word probably which is supposedly supposed to be pronounced Nevada there's a big debate about whether the state of Arkansas is Arkansas or Arkansas crayon some people say crown in Arkansas like they just change it to CRO W in it's fine we know over talks about wagons instead of leggings and then any word with a T in it we're gonna drop it Mountain mountain I guess is but we say mountain I really doubt that there's anyone that really takes the time to say mountain or button that just sounds weird sometimes I'll say it's code outside or you'll say war Schrag you heard that a lot my mom used to always say that she was gonna go wash the clothes and sometimes we travel to Washington so if there's a word that gets mispronounced into Washington it's Donette be from the older generation and it's Wersching tip and all the young uns we say it's Washington people from Hawaii might sometimes speak in what's called pigeon which is kind of a slang we use on the islands I'm an Hawaiian pidgin might sound like hi Brian going here lost today going these can add me to ha hungry bar hungry any time I talk people say you sound like from you from New York so uh it vary from word to word so I don't know which particular said word that people always say that we sing wrong in Pennsylvania a whole saying is often mispronounced or it's just shortened to make it easier you be the judge but instead of saying did you eat you ask someone gee if someone's last name is RI CH ard it's Rashard it's not Richard and if someone's last name is HERV ERT it's a bear not Herbert and there's a lot of a bears and reef sharks in Louisiana so maybe that's my answer [Music] you

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Id: EzLDFRioTHY

Length: 4min 16sec (256 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 13 2020