I say Reese's Pieces, because I say it right. It belongs to Reese, it's Reese's, see the fucking apostrophe there? And it rhymes with pieces, doh. I have no idea why so many people think we here in the Midwest pronounce it any other way. I have never heard anyone in my whole fucking life call it Reesie's piece-ies. That's just illiterate, but, I guess there are a lot of idiots out there. I will admit that I was raised by hill people who called all brown carbonated drinks, Co'cola. (As one commenter said, the best Coke was Dr. Pepper. I totally get that. Do not get the lemonade reference to carbonation. Never heard it, ever.) No one mentioned 'Olyo' for maragarine. Oh, yeah, my grama would send me to the store because we were out of 'Oly' and I knew what to get. (Raleigh unfiltered smokes. Kidding..sort of.) I'd sing that flying monkey song from Oz all the way to the store, so I wouldn't forget. So, how do you pronounce Reese's and what other stupid words did your stupid family come up with?
This stupid text on these stupid posts..I hope it dies. In a fire. Blogger fucker.
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I apologize if any of this comes out funny, as it appears that my computer committed suicide out of pure ennui this morning. So I am posting from my phone, which sometimes appears to be possessed.
Anyway, I grew up with some weird -ass pronunciations. I think they should be discussed. :)
My dad used to call Chevrolets, "shiv-uh-lays ", and decals were pronounced "dee-kulls " with the emphasis on the first syllable.
My mom came over from Germany a year before I was born, so her accent was pretty thick when I was growing up. The first thing that comes to mind is the "gack "bowl. That's what we all grew up calling the big white enamel bowl that someone would run for when someone was barfing. It took me years to figure out that it was my mother's pronunciation of "gag ". She laughed so hard when I told her that. I think she didn't realize what it sounded like, and that it didn't really make any sense.
I am sure there are more, but that's what I think of first off.
Christina
Everyone called margarine butter. We called butter butter. It was all butter as far as we were concerned.
We call green onions "stick onions". I thought everyone did.
Christina, rest in peace computer. That sucks. Yeah, Shiv-ro- let or shiv-ro-lay. My aunt Bitch Face and my mother always called weeners, whinnies. Because...penis. They are so fucked up. And real 'whinnies' came in a can, marked Vienna. Jesus. They're retards, aren't they? We also ask if you're hungry by saying 'J'eet?' And everyone says 'catty-whompus' here, I think. That's like, a house next to you, but, at an angle.
Melvin, if we wanted butter, we had to milk the stinky cow and make it. Oly was fine by me. Gramma's cow was sort of weird and I never trusted her. Plus, you had to wash her udders and ass first. Gross. Not worth it. As a hyper kid, I'd rather chop wood or shovel snow.
Angie, never heard 'stick onions', they were just green onions, but, from now on, I will always think of them as stick onions.
Oh, and I love a German accent. Gak bowl is classic.
Only one way to pronounce the name of the candy, the right way. Butter is butter. The most variation I've heard I think is soft drink, soda, pop, etc.
How fun!
We always pronounced it "Riece's Pieces". & here's some more I remember:
Chewing gum was gum, but the gums in your mouth were "GOOMS".
The word BOAT has two syllables, "BOW-iT".
We said "OLEO" for margarine as well. And butter always stays on the counter, never in the fridge.
The letter W is "Dub-ya".
All carbonated soft drinks are "pop". It's only soda if it's club soda, or an ice cream drink.
All jeans were "Levis"
You don't MAKE supper, you "FIX" it. Also, supper is the evening meal, while dinner is lunch.
What's for supper? HotDish! basically, cream of mushroom soup, noodles, tuna, celery onions. (or tator tot hotdish, wild rice hotdish, turkey rice hotdish, etc...)
I'm Norwegian/German and grew up in rural S. MN. --There's a book written on our weird accent here, called "How To Speak Minnesotan". The movie Fargo is not far off at all.
Oh yeah. The movie Fargo is not far off many Canadian accents either.
We say Reece's pieces, and they are one of the few candies we have in common. Smarties are Rockets. M&M's are Smarties and come in way more colours. Butter is butter. Margerine is Margerine. Green onions are green onions or scallions. Canadian bacon is Peameal bacon. Soda is the white powder you put in baked goods otherwise it's pop. Sofas are chesterfields, we have car trunks or boots and engine bonnets. Older folks call napkins serviettes due to both their repressed attitudes (napkins are a feminine hygiene product) and French labeling on all packaging.
'J'eet? love that, wanna use it - it's like a whole new word to mean Are You Hungry?
My mother called margarine butter and butter real butter. As soon as I moved out on my own (17) I only bought real butter and called it butter. I effing hate margarine no matter how it's served.
My father (son of Norwegians who settled in Minnesota) calls his ankle-high boots 'booties', which pisses my mother off, cuz she thinks he's trying to be cute. But I call my ankle-high boots 'booties' too because it makes sense to have a separate name for them since they're half shoe, half boot. You gotta be careful what you say around my mother because cute anything is the target for her disdain.
What's weird about being Canadian is that almost all of our cultural influence was American. We pledged allegiance to the Queen and I still spell words the English way, and I felt all that, but apart from school and some traditional clubs, etc, magazines and tv were filled with American products, most of which weren't even available to Canadians back then. I was so frustrated to see Susan Dey modeling some really cool coat in Seventeen magazine only to find out NOBODY could get their hands on one and cross-border shopping was out of the question for me. That would have been a massive extravagance and way out of our budget.
When Americans tell me I have an accent I find it surprising because I'm so used to hearing them speak, but they aren't used to hearing Canadians speak so my accent stands out.
Blah blah back to work......
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