THANKSgiving, ThanksGIVing, both interchangeably, or other? The national breakdown on that is
26.17%,
65.34%
08.01%
00.49%
Color coded maps of the regional distribution.
The national dialect survey, with about 50 "How do you pronounce...?" and 75 "What word do you use for...?" examples.
2 comments:
Wish they'd plotted color-coded ratios instead.
"Other"? Would that be ThanksgivING?
I was surprised to see not much of a regional pattern. That looks pretty random. I'm a first-syllable type, myself. I assumed it was a Southern thing.
I have trouble with words I read but rarely hear, especially if they have a "g" in them that could be either hard or soft. I was surprised to hear a lecturer the other day pronounce "panegyric" as "pah-NEH-jir-ik." I've never known for sure how to say that word (jeer or jire?), but I assumed the accent was on the third syllable, pan-i-JIR-ik, as I now see dictionaries also advise. "Hegemony" confused me for a long time, too. I see the recommended pronunciation is "heh-JEH-mony."
I pronounce "err" as "urr" rather than "air," but I'm starting to think I'm the only one. Is that regional, or archaic, or something?
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