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I'm from Southeastern NC - everyone says Sun Drop.
....even if they're referring to a brown soda, like coke or dr. pepper?
I'm from Southeastern NC - everyone says Sun Drop.
I guess I should think of context -
The usage could be different if I said "I'm going to get a soft drink" versus "May I have a soft drink." In either circumstance I'd say Sun Drop instead of soft drink or Coke. I think the idea of referring to it as a Coke is really a brand loyalty thing. Most people prefer Coke, so they say Coke. I prefer Sun Drop so that's what I instinctively say. It just happens that at home, a lot of people do the same thing.
I'm from Southeastern NC - everyone says Sun Drop.
my mom is from Maryland and adds an "r" to the word "wash" so she warshes dishes and visits Warshington DC. I've never heard anyone else do it so I'm thinking that maybe my mom is just a freak.
I'm from Southeastern NC - everyone says Sun Drop.
So you don't say "read" and "red" the same? Different vowels. What about "feat" and "feet." Or even better "fir" and "fur." Or "so" "sew" and "sow."
where are you from?
The first two examples are multiple vowel combinations, so they have their own separate rules. Fir and fur are an i and a u, which are different (and much more similar in most contexts) then the e and a in the merry/mary combo. So and sew are generally the same, sow is different.
We used to say the Devil is beating his wife where I grew up in North Carolina.
we did too
Another one of these is the pronunciation of "forward." Some people drop the first "r" for some reason. I don't get it.
defs on "warsh" and "warter" hear that a lot along with "dorter" for daughter in Charleston, SC area
and I knew some kids in Winston growing up who said "roin" (rhyming with groin) for the word "ruin."
yeah, 'roin' as well as "oll" (for oil) and 'boll' (boil) ...but it's not a straight 'o' sound in there, it's more guttural, i just don't know how to spell the sound.