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Originally Posted by copyrite
Y'all need to go listen to my favorite podcast "A Way With Words". There's lot of discussion on regional dialect and sayings etc.
It's interesting a word like
water
can be pronounced depending where you are
wahter
warter
wahder
warder
and that dropped middle t sound
wa er (sorta slurred together)
And one of my all time favorite mispronounced words...
segue
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In the Philadelphia area, it's often pronounced "wooter" (with the oo as in book).
I read somewhere that for the audiobooks of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, the author worked closely with the narrators to ensure that character and place names were pronounced properly. I read most of the series in paper and then listened to one in audio. Turns out I'd been pronouncing a few things wrong in my head as I read.