[net.nlang] Regional Pronounciations

mp@ganehd.UUCP (Scott Barman @ Univ. of Ga.) (03/30/84)

I have been told that if you run into a New Yorker, ask him/her to pronounce
the word "beserk".  If that person is from Brooklyn, like myself, they
will pronounce the 's' like a 'z', as in "bezerk".

I am wondering how it is pronounced in other areas.


Scott Barman
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barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin) (04/01/84)

There is no such word as "beserk".  Perhaps you mean "berserk".
However, your point is correct: I am from Long Island (and my parents
grew up in Brooklyn) and I pronounce it "berzerK" or sometimes "bezerk".
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			Barry Margolin
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dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman) (04/02/84)

mit-eddie!barmar claims there's no such word as "beserk".
Well then, who is responsible for the Beserkeley Software Distribution?

:-)

Dave Sherman
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magi@deepthot.UUCP (David Wiseman) (04/02/84)

From Southwestern Ontario: berzerk

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pab@utah-cs.UUCP (Peter Benson) (04/04/84)

To cover a few things

I was always told that in the south (alhough I have never lived there)
"coke"" (notice the lower case and quotes) meant any carbonated sweet drink
(like "pop", "soda", or "tonic" in other places).  When I lived in suburban NYC
and suburban DC it was always "soda".  Here in Utah it is unversally "pop" to 
natives.
Grinders, hoagies, subs, &c. are not native to here so all those names are
used. 
We do have Yeeros (that's how they spell it here. some other ways too)).  I 
haven't seen it anywhere else but there are several greek fast food 
drive-ins here.  Some are very good.

I only say "greezy" when I want to stress how disgusting and slimy it is.

When you get one item at the grocery store do they say "you want a sack?" or 
"you want a bag?".  Its a sack here.

I lean toward "sewer" for a male seamstress.  No one else uses it, but it 
looks good in print.

I love the idea of a breakfast food, or paranoia map of the United States.
Someone should be able to get a grant to do that in eighteen colors.

I certainly wouldn't take grammar lessons from anyone over the net but I do 
enjoy the ridiculous discussions.

wmartin@brl-vgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) (04/04/84)

Re: Coke vs. Pop vs. Soda, etc.

This regional difference must be recognized by people in the trade;
we just got new (generic) soft-drink/carbonated-drink vending machines
installed in our building, and I noticed that they DON'T say "soda"
or "pop"; they say "COLD DRINK" -- not "drinks"; sounds sort of
Japanese-English, actually...

Anyway, I guess that makes the machines universal, without requiring
changing the front panel wording.

Will

hrs@houxb.UUCP (H.SILBIGER) (04/04/84)

In the Midwest it's "route" (rhymes with out) while in the
East they say "root".

ljdickey@watmath.UUCP (Lee Dickey) (04/14/84)

 > In the Midwest it's "route" (rhymes with out) while in the
 > East they say "root".
 
In the Ottawa valley these two words, "out" and "root" rhyme.

And the words  "elm"  and  "film"  each have two syllables.

-- 
  Lee Dickey, University of Waterloo.  (ljdickey@watmath.UUCP)
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jmrobson@watdaisy.UUCP (Mike Robson) (04/14/84)

<aut pax aut bellum   will somebody tell me the story about these first lines?>

   Thanks for the info aboot pronunciation of route etc. but please clear
up the confusion in my mind at least by reference to some pair of words
aboot which there is no disagreement. Do we all distinguish between
"shoot" and "shout"?

		Mike Robson.

julian@deepthot.UUCP (Julian Davies) (04/16/84)

Representing pronunciations.  We need a standard transliteration
or representation for the International Phonetic Alphabet into ASCII.

jc@inmet.UUCP (04/21/84)

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inmet!jc    Apr 19 15:04:00 1984

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This reminds me of the story of the Scotsman visiting some relatives in
Canada.  One day they all went out for a picnic at a nearby park.  There
was a huge animal standing in the lake.  To his question "What's that
strange-looking animal?" they answered "Oh, it's just a moose."  He then
said "Och, if that's a moose, I'd sure hate to see one of your rats!"

[Oops!  Maybe this should of gone to net.jokes; I couldn't resist.]

                                      John M Chambers [inmet!jc]

mcdaniel@uiuccsb.UUCP (04/30/84)

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uiuccsb!mcdaniel    Apr 16 23:47:00 1984

/**** uiuccsb:net.nlang / watdaisy!jmrobson /  2:49 am  Apr 15, 1984 ****/
                                . . . Do we all distinguish between
"shoot" and "shout"?
		Mike Robson.
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Depends on how bad the guy's breath is.  :-)  (sorry -- couldn't resist)