Are we speaking the same language?

Rubber band

 

One thing that drives me nuts around here is that any word that ends in -ower is pronounced "ire" such as power = pire or tower = tire.
I also laugh because where my wife grew up in North Carolina, the stuff that comes out of your faucet is called "war-ter" and a make of car named after an Indian chief is a "Pony-ac"

 

A coach I knew who was born and raised in Pittsburgh but has spent most of the past 35 years in the Deep South did local Powerade commercials 10 years ago and pronounced it "PYRE-ade."

 

One tiny, unidentified village in America
still pronounces "No problem" as "You're welcome."

 

Boy, that one takes me back. Haven't heard anyone say it like that since I left my hometown.

 

Translating Southern to English can be a lot of fun ...

 

One difference I've noticed between the Northwest and the Midwest:

Most people out here don't pronounce the invisible "r" in "Washington."

 

Where I come from, to do laundry is to warsh your clothes.

 

Has this entire thread missed the New England dialect of pronouncing the letter R in most cases like it was an H?
As in "I'm going to pahk the cah in the gahage" (I'm going to park the car in the garage)

My favorite example of this dialect comes courtesy of a story my wife told me. She was born and raised in the Philly area but went to college in Massachusetts. Her freshman year roommate was from Maine. So one night during freshman year her roommate asks her "Are you going to the pahty (which my wife heard as potty) tonight?" The roommate had to ask a second time for my wife to figure out she was saying party not potty.

Also some of those New England slang expressions take some getting used to.
Like something that's really funny is a "wicked pissa"

 

malk

 

Could I hear any difference between the way you say pin and pen?