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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. |
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In general it's also very distracting when you're familiar with an area and an audiobook mispronounces place names. And back to colorful vernacular... My PA co-workers tend to say "you'ins" or "you'se" for "you all" while us Marylanders (mostly) tend to say "y'all" (must be that doggone Mason-Dixon line, hm?) |
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Hard to avoid sometimes with Fantasy.
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Sometimes it works out wrong though. David Weber actually gave Allyson Johnson the wrong pronunciation for Manticoran in his Honor Harrington series. Quote:
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A lot of fantasy authors (including the aforementioned Jordan) will have a glossary with a pronunciation guide. That doesn't always stop me from pronouncing it the wrong way in my head anyway. Karen Moning has pronunciation guide for Gaelic words in her Irish-set urban fantasy series. I was very grateful for that! |
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You can tell a Canadian narrator as every pause ends in eh.
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All of those mispronunciations would get me calling them rednecks. They sound awful. I don't get how Southerners (US) can get so many pronunciations just plain wrong. Not even just a little bit wrong, but a lot wrong. It's like they are from another planet.
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I live in New England but I'm not a native. (Thank you, jeebus.) A little girl I know thinks the way I say "Barbie" is hilarious. So she says "Barrrrbie" to me and I say "Bahhhbie" to her. Clearly, we're easily amused. |
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Pennsylvania is definitely not the South, despite certain parts of it being called "Pennsyltucky" sometimes.
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Haha... there's probably folks in the South who would think you're the one from another planet.
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I remember long ago reading some article that found that northern New England and certain isolated parts of the Southern United States had the highest occurrence of faithfulness to the original British pronunciation. I find that pretty fascinating.
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