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1. Daryl Scroggins on June 2nd, 2008 at 5:44 pm

   My grandparents always converted “ow” to “er”: “I got to go get me some minners to fish with”; “Somebody open a winder, the dog farted….”

2. Sheila Ryan on June 2nd, 2008 at 6:00 pm

   Renner will confirm that my Yankee mother pronounces my name “Sheilar”.

3. Mark Pittman on June 2nd, 2008 at 9:16 pm

   “Poi-tree.” That’s how my mother pronounces “poetry.” Mom’s from Kilgore.

4. Mike D. on June 2nd, 2008 at 9:56 pm

   You can tell the folks from my dad’s home town. New Smyrna is, of course, “NOO-sa-MER-na.”

5. Erin on June 2nd, 2008 at 11:42 pm

   I asked an almond ….farmer(?) why he called them ammonds, and he said that he calls them ALmonds when they’re still in the tree, but the harvested nuts are ammonds, because you harvest them by shaking the tree, and “it shakes the L out of them”.

   Hardy har har.

   (Um, and that IS a true story.)

6. Deron Bauman on June 2nd, 2008 at 11:44 pm

   Erin, did you ask my grandfather?

   He told me the same thing.

7. Erin on June 3rd, 2008 at 7:22 am

   Only if your grandfather is a California almond …grower(?) who also makes wine.

8. Michael Smith on June 3rd, 2008 at 7:28 am

   Grower. I think you’re right (as in Blue Diamond Growers).

   I’ve heard that very same explanation for the pronunciation.

9. Deron Bauman on June 3rd, 2008 at 9:10 am

   Grandpa is from California and his family does / did grow almonds, but he is out of the bidness.

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