How do you say coupon?
Because I’m starting to think I’ve been saying it wrong my whole life.
Of course, my accent is pretty messed up. See, I grew up in Oklahoma, but I also lived in England for five years. So, while I used to have a bit of a twang (not much, but a bit), I also picked up a lot of words, phrases, and intonations from my British friends. I've been back in the US for nearly 15 years (my word, has it been that long?) and at this point I mostly have a pretty generic, non-region-specific American accent, but every once in a while something else sneaks in there and throws my speech patterns for a total loop.
So I'm conducting an informal poll, mostly for my own entertainment.
Do you pronounce leisure as "lee-zhure" or "leh-zhure"? How about apricot? "Ape-ricot" or "app-ricot"? Is Missouri pronounced "miz-ur-ee" or "mah-zur-uh"? How about Nevada? "Ne-vah-da" or "ne-vaa-da"?
I remember having discussions like this around the lunch table in high school. We were a diverse group, mostly Americans, but from all over the country. It got rather lively at times.
There’s really no point to this post, except that I’ve noticed lately that everyone around me is talking about this “couponing” craze, but they’re not “cue-poning”, they’re “coo-poning”, and I'd like to know who's weird, them or me.