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How do you say coupon?
"COO-pon". although our vowel sounds are sort of shorter. um. :)
Seems like a lot of those maps aren't geographically specific.�� Dialects aren't as regionalized anymore as people have moved around and television has caused whatever dialect they choose to be the nationwide norm.
I hear people do that somtimes with other stuff. Like "if he goes swimming on a full stomach he'll drownd."
I actually say it both as COO-pon and Q-pon. I also use both NEE-ther and NIE-ther. It all depends on the situation and how my mouth decides to spit it out. :)
Also I do it with either. For me it tends to go along these lines: "Gray is NEEther black nor white." "NYEther do I."
Gordondon son of Ethelred
· 21 years ago
I usually say cue-pon but I think I see coo-pon on occasion.
Melinda J. Beasi
· 21 years ago
My instinct is to say Q-pon. That's how we say it where I'm from. My husband mocks me so much about it, however, that I try to say COO-pon when I can remember.
COO-pon. According to me. For my mother, however, it's Q-pon.
I also say water like practically everyone else. But for her, and for many Philadelphians, it's wood-er or woot-er. Oh, and what are the deli products you put on sandwiches? Cold cuts, sandwich meat, or lunch meat? 
danced with Lazlo
· 21 years ago
koo-pon,
pe-KAHn Cold cuts Do you say aypricot or aahpricot? And Ant or Aunt? Those are the things that Jason makes fun of my for. 
Thanks kath! :D
Did you know we had some FAWG lately. My DAWG misses you. :D 
yay lor!!!
i went off aboot the wooder/wooter/water thing on the random thoughts thing, too....coz i pronounce water like most everyone else in the free world, too..... but then in an even -weirder- regionalism or mayhap a regionalism AND an old skool/generational thing, but when my grandma talks about green peppers, she calls them 'mangoes'...so growing up, that's what i thought a mango was...imagine my surprise YEARS later to find that it was a -fruit- and nothing LIKE a green pepper..... 
I think I say apricot both ways. I say Ant. It's the midwestern in me. Gets me lots of ridicult living in New England. One of my stupid pet peeves is when people pronounce an i as an e. Like melk and pellow. :)
no, but Americans "think" we do! heh...and we say it to piss them off..or turn them on..whatever the case may be! ;) ~J~
i say apricot both ways too, but it tends to come out as ay-pricot more often. I also say ant... i have no idea why. My whole family does, both my mom's side from NY and my dad's from Jersey. And I hate that i/e thing too.
danced with Lazlo
· 21 years ago
Everyone outside of NY says Oorange and Floorida. Everyone outside of NY is wrong.
The coupond is where the hampsters go to swim after they done eated their sherbert. *snort* 
Jºnªthªn
· 21 years ago
I say "Botato" a lot, and I say roof and room closer to "ruff" and "rum" - dunno where they came from as I'm a native CAer.
And for the record, I'm a cOOpon usin', pecAHn apricot praylean eatin', soda pop swillin', ant - whatever one does with an aunt; a card on her birthday sendin' boy. Actually I never send her a card; I call, but whatever. 
You know, in third grade when we learned about homophones, my teacher told us that draw and drawer were homophones.. also father and farther. That's what you get for going to school in Canarsie.
Yes but we generously do not hold their errant ways against them.
Shhh, I'm trying to make New Yorkers look good to the hicks.
"draw" bugs me. But I also don't pronounce the whole of "drawer". I don't know anyone who does. What I say tends to be like "drore".
My dad used to have a co-worker named Dror. It's a Hebrew name, but when I was little I thought his name was Drawer.
I just did a google search, "grandma calls green peppers mango" and I found this post. A few years back in Chicago a girl told me this, but naturally I assumed she was a misguided idiot. I mean, who would call a green pepper a mango, anyways? It's bothered me for some time now, and I hadn't validated that statement since - until now. I'm sorry to revive an old post, but I just have to know; has anyone else ever heard of this? Signed - A guy who lived all over the place and heard a lot of things.
George E. Nowik
· 20 years, 10 months ago
q-pon here.� it's the way my mother said it when i grew up and when she spent hours cutting them out ... of course, she makes fun of me for pronouncing the 'th' in clothes... �-= george =- 
I dunno, but is anyone else picturing a scribble of a disimbodied head with a bunch of paper coming out of his mouth shouting
COUPON'D!!!!! Tee-hee-hee... :oD 
Agh!!!
When I was a kid, I didn't pronounce the "th" in clothes, but then at some point, it just started sounding weird to me and I started pronouncing it... I don't know when it hapened or why, but every once in a while I think of it and it weirds me out... I don't remember if the people around me pronounced it that way or not, though I figure my family must have pronounced it "close" at the time, if thats how I learned to say it... but... um... oh jeez, I just don't know. Now I'm thinking about it again. Thanks a lot Norg. :P
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