I just wanted to know how different people prounounced/ spelled different words. I spell it color.
And...
*Do you call a sweetened, carbonated beverage, Soda, pop, or coke? I call it pop
*Does "caramel" have one or two syllables? (Like "care-a-mel" or "carmel"?) It's one syllable for me.
*"Route rhymes with "boot" or "out"? It's "out" for me.
*Mary / marry / merry...
Are pronounced differently or Are pronounced the same? It's all the same to me.
If you want to/ have the time and patience to take the quiz, here it is :http://www.blogthings.com/whatkindofamericanenglishdoyouspeakquiz/
Anyway, I am just wondering. Answer! lol
2007-01-22 11:39:33 · 12 answers · asked by grav♫ 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
I'm not from the Midwest, either. I'm from the South, actually.
2007-01-22 11:50:23 · update #1
I think in the USA it is color and in Europe it is colour.
I call it soda.
I can never decide about root or rout!
Mary/marry/merry - all the same to me.
2007-01-22 11:43:19 · answer #1 · answered by Char 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm from the U.S and I spell color like this. Caramel is three syllables for me and I call the drink soda. I say route rhyming with boot and I pronounce Mary / marry / merry all the same. Hope you had fun! :)
2007-01-22 12:21:16 · answer #2 · answered by Alex 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Colour
Coke
Caramel has 3 syllables - Ca - ra - mel
Route rhymes with boot
Mary/marry/merry are all pronounced completely differently
2007-01-22 11:46:25 · answer #3 · answered by thadine 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1, Color is the spelling in the USA; Colour is the spelling elsewhere in the English speaking world. This is because the American lexicographer, Noah Webster, wanted to simplify spelling so he did in his dictionary.
2. In Australia it is usually called "soft drink"; in the UK "pop" or "soda pop"; in the USA "soda"
3. Caramel has three syllables - ka-ra-mel
4. Route rhymes with boot except in parts of the USA and to computer people. For them it rhymes with out.
5. In parts of the USA, those words all sound the same. Similarly, "father" "mother" and "bother" all rhyme. In the UK, Australia and many other parts of the English speaking world, Mary/marry/merry are three different vowels as are father/mother/bother. These are dialectal variations.
2007-01-22 12:19:40 · answer #4 · answered by tentofield 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Color in the US. Soda. Carmel. Boot. Different ("Mare-e," "marry" rhymes with "Harry," "Murray") If you call it "pop" and those words sound the same, you must be from the Midwest.
2007-01-22 11:48:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
it depends on how I'm feeling that day but it's usually color.
pop. and anyone that calls all "sweetened, carbonated beverages" coke is...well we're not gonna get into it.
care-a-mel
boot
it's all the same to me too
2007-01-22 11:55:43 · answer #6 · answered by Jenova 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
*I call it soda, Most people do here in America
*I pronounce it as car-mel, I actually have no idea how to pronounce that
*It depends on how you pronounce "route"...boy this stuff is confusing
*Mary/marry emphisizes the "a" a little more then the word merry
2007-01-22 11:45:32 · answer #7 · answered by 1tuffcookie 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
color, coke, i say caramel and carmel, out and pronounced the same
2007-01-22 11:43:22 · answer #8 · answered by Alyssa d 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pop, carmel, boot, all the same
2007-01-22 11:45:57 · answer #9 · answered by Freeskier 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
color
pop
1 syllable
2007-01-22 11:52:57 · answer #10 · answered by gettin it 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋