Comments on: regionalisms

By: Deron Bauman

Deron Bauman — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:10:49 +0000

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

By: Michael Smith

Michael Smith — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:28:22 +0000

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

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

By: Erin

Erin — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:22:35 +0000

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

By: Deron Bauman

Deron Bauman — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 05:44:30 +0000

Erin, did you ask my grandfather?

He told me the same thing.

By: Erin

Erin — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 05:42:34 +0000

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.)

By: Mike D.

Mike D. — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:56:51 +0000

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

By: Mark Pittman

Mark Pittman — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:16:03 +0000

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

By: Sheila Ryan

Sheila Ryan — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:00:38 +0000

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

By: Daryl Scroggins

Daryl Scroggins — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:44:34 +0000

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….”