Do people from different regions pronounce the same words differently?

In the Harvard Dialect Survey, researchers found that the majority of people from these regions pronounced these words in the same way. People on the East Coast and in the South, meanwhile, tend to pronounce them distinctly differently.

Why do southerners pronounce ‘lawyer’ as ‘law’?

The researchers behind the Harvard Dialect Survey also discovered that while most Americans pronounce the word “lawyer” in such a way that the first syllable rhymes with “boy,” Southerners emphasize the “law” in lawyer so the first syllable makes a “saw” sound.

Do you sound differently when you say ‘marry’ and ‘fair’?

Most Americans will find that these words come out to sound exactly the same—but if you’re from big cities in the Northeast, then it’s probable that the way you sound out each word differs, with “marry” taking on the same vowel as “cat,” “merry” taking on the same vowel as “pet,” and “Mary” taking on the same vowel as “fair.”

What is an example of British cockney speech?

For example, a hallmark of British Cockney speech is dropping T’s in the middle of words. Instead of “getting a bottle of water,” you might be “GEH-ing a BAH-l of WAH-er.” Instead of “waiting for a letter,” you might be “WAY-ing for a LEH-er.” (2, 8) Notice that the T is always dropped on the non-stressed syllable in a word.

What does it mean when someone drops the G in ‘country’?

Someone who drops the “g” is tend to be thought of as colloquial, or country. We think of people who come from the country, and people who come from the country tend to have a different accent from those in the city.

Why do southerners pronounce the word ‘aunt’ as ‘Aunt’?

That’s because the English word originates from the French word for envelope, which favors the latter pronunciation. Some people, especially Southerners, see the word “aunt” and pronounce it no differently than the word’s homonym, “ant.”

Do most Americans drop their G’s?

But most Americans ‘drop’ their g’s (or really convert ng-final to n-final in present participles) whether Southern, New England, California or anywhere in between, in informal contexts. Newscasters and anyone speaking deliberately will attempt to pronounce it as ‘-ng’ (I don’t think this is restricted to the areas so far mentioned).