Linguistic patterns in Utah (question #68779)

[Marduk]

So is there anything that actually has the soft e? Only if it isn't a one syllable word?

[Zedability]

To me, the only one different is Craig.

[Cindy]

I don't think my pronunciations are entirely consistent, but I think this is generally how it goes:

No dipthong: peg, keg, beg, Meg, Greg
Dipthong: Craig, egg, leg

So, "Craig's leg" has matching vowels, but "peg-leg" doesn't.

[Yarjka]

For me, Craig is the same as peg, keg, beg, Meg (all with an 'eh' sound).
Egg and leg rhyme with an 'ai' sound.

[C is for]

I usually pronounce Craig with an 'eh' unless I've been listening and it's pronounced differently Sometimes that happens. I try to be sensitive to that since my name is often mispronounced in a similar way (i.e., I can tell they're talking to me even though they're saying it wrong).

At work today I had people pronounce "egg" and they all said it right except one, who said it "ayg". Poor guy. We're praying for him.

[Giovanni Schwartz]

So this evening at choir practice, our director told us "You can't sing well with Mormon accents! I want you to get rid of them!"

[Craig Jessop]

I'm so glad my name in real life has zero variations in pronunciation. Unless it does... (Marduk? You spell it weird, but they're said the same... have you heard any weird pronunciations?)

Just to spoil things, my real name isn't Craig, which I rhyme with Greg. But I say egg ayg. Pray for me.

[Katya]

I don't think my pronunciations are entirely consistent, but I think this is generally how it goes:

No dipthong: peg, keg, beg, Meg, Greg
Dipthong: Craig, egg, leg

I don't see any phonological pattern there. (Unless we throw out "Craig" and just go with frequency, which is boooring.)

[Giovanni Schwartz]

I'm so glad my name in real life has zero variations in pronunciation. Unless it does... (Marduk? You spell it weird, but they're said the same... have you heard any weird pronunciations?)

Just to spoil things, my real name isn't Craig, which I rhyme with Greg. But I say egg ayg. Pray for me.

Hey, mate. I'm sure we could come up with some way to mispronounce your name.

[C is for]

I'm so glad my name in real life has zero variations in pronunciation. Unless it does... (Marduk? You spell it weird, but they're said the same... have you heard any weird pronunciations?)

Just to spoil things, my real name isn't Craig, which I rhyme with Greg. But I say egg ayg. Pray for me.

Hey, mate. I'm sure we could come up with some way to mispronounce your name.

Funny.

[Marduk]

(Marduk? You spell it weird, but they're said the same... have you heard any weird pronunciations?)

I have not. My last name, on the other hand, is a different story....

[Craig Jessop]

I'm so glad my name in real life has zero variations in pronunciation. Unless it does... (Marduk? You spell it weird, but they're said the same... have you heard any weird pronunciations?)

Just to spoil things, my real name isn't Craig, which I rhyme with Greg. But I say egg ayg. Pray for me.

Hey, mate. I'm sure we could come up with some way to mispronounce your name.

You're sooooooooooo funny.

[Craig Jessop]

There's this girl in one of my classes who seems to have this weird obsession with pronouncing things "properly." She pointedly avoids the glottal stop, in the middle and at the end of words. It sounds stilted and awkward. Maybe that's just my Western American dialect speaking, but I wish she could allow herself to pronounce words like the rest of the world does!

(examples: Columbus wouldn'T yielD to the pressure of his so-ver-eignS).

UPDATE: It turns out this girl who drives me nuts IS THE PROFESSOR'S DAUGHTER. I'm glad I didn't make fun of her to her face now.

[Marduk]

Yeah, but is she hot? That's the important question.

[Katya]

There's this girl in one of my classes who seems to have this weird obsession with pronouncing things "properly." She pointedly avoids the glottal stop, in the middle and at the end of words. It sounds stilted and awkward. Maybe that's just my Western American dialect speaking, but I wish she could allow herself to pronounce words like the rest of the world does!

(examples: Columbus wouldn'T yielD to the pressure of his so-ver-eignS).

UPDATE: It turns out this girl who drives me nuts IS THE PROFESSOR'S DAUGHTER. I'm glad I didn't make fun of her to her face now.

What class is it? (I.e., does it have anything to do with language?)

[Craig Jessop]

Nah, it's a history class. It's pretty writing intensive, even for a history class, but it's not language based. As to her physical attractiveness, Marduk... I will refrain from comment. You never know who reads these forums, and ribald or disparaging comments are bad form anyway.

[Laser Jock]

This isn't Utah-specific, but in church the other day I noticed that several people said "foyer" as if there were an extra "r" in there—"foryer". It's not super-heavy, but it's definitely there. I find this interesting.

[Katya]

This isn't Utah-specific, but in church the other day I noticed that several people said "foyer" as if there were an extra "r" in there—"foryer". It's not super-heavy, but it's definitely there. I find this interesting.

Interesting! I wonder if that's the same phenomenon that gives us "warsh" for "wash."

[Yarjka]

This isn't Utah-specific, but in church the other day I noticed that several people said "foyer" as if there were an extra "r" in there—"foryer". It's not super-heavy, but it's definitely there. I find this interesting.

Interesting! I wonder if that's the same phenomenon that gives us "warsh" for "wash."

Or the person from Britain in my programme (see what I did there) who says "drawring" (I can't even write that one out--it's crazy how it's pronounced)

[Katya]

This isn't Utah-specific, but in church the other day I noticed that several people said "foyer" as if there were an extra "r" in there—"foryer". It's not super-heavy, but it's definitely there. I find this interesting.

Interesting! I wonder if that's the same phenomenon that gives us "warsh" for "wash."

Or the person from Britain in my programme (see what I did there) . . .

Heh.

. . . who says "drawring" (I can't even write that one out--it's crazy how it's pronounced)

That at least looks like it could be explained as an overgeneralized linking r (although it's intriguing that it occurs within the word).