Why do people pronounce "wash" like "warsh"? Were did "r" come from? Is the "r" invisible and it's just hiding from me?
And for that matter, why say mannaise? If mayonnaise real so hard to say, why not just say mayo?
2007-07-14 05:25:59 · 28 answers · asked by §☼ Sunny ☼§ 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Oops. It should be ...If mayonnaise is really so hard to say...
2007-07-14 05:27:33 · update #1
I think its a regional dialect. Like Sangwich. Not sure why. Probably they have heard their peers say it this way so they do too.
2007-07-14 05:42:21 · answer #1 · answered by motormank 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The change in pronunciation in often referred to as "Continental Drift". It has to do with the impact upon local dialects that transient words and immigrants have when they try to speak a second language. Might I suggest that You look up "Semantics", "Semasiology" and "Phonetics" and see if that will be of any help. For the most part it has to do with the way people hear words and how They in turn try to mimic them in return.
2007-07-14 12:32:58 · answer #2 · answered by Ashleigh 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You must live in the Ohio-West Virginia area. They love to be the r in that word. I think they borrowed it from any word that ends in R because if you listen the r changes to "uh" as in figure becoming figuh. The r, having no place to go, migrates to the word wash.
Try going down south and asking for "route" (rowt) 64. They pronounce it "root" and Roosevelt is "roos-e-velt".
It's all in the area.
2007-07-14 12:31:49 · answer #3 · answered by Jess 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
the "R"s come from up north, where the poeple go to baas and drive caas. A strong wind carries them from new england down south, then the wind dies down and the fall. We southerners have to use them, so we do our warsh.
2007-07-14 12:32:34 · answer #4 · answered by dadforfive 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
haha i always wondered why people said mannaise to..and as far as the wash/warsh goes i think that has to do with where you are from..just like people say winder and not window
2007-07-14 12:30:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
it depends what country they're from or what region they're from because everyone is brought up a different way and the way people speak in one place isn't how everyone else speaks in the country...like some a southern accent others have a new yorker aceent so yeah it changes from state to state
2007-07-14 12:29:53 · answer #6 · answered by Elle 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I dont know but to me wash is said with no r at all. wash with an r would me really easy to tell. is like saying marsh. it has a strong sound so who ever says wash with an r they need to go back to school.
2007-07-14 12:31:07 · answer #7 · answered by lucky_211c 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You're talking about southerners. I was born and raised in the south and that's just how people pronounce those words. My favorite colloquialism in the south is "finna"
"I'm finna warsh my car"
"I'm finna go to the store"
"I'm finna sleep"
Love,
Snag
2007-07-14 12:28:30 · answer #8 · answered by snaggle_smurf 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Some people have accents, and that is how they pronounce it. I've heard people say it like that before.
2007-07-14 12:44:57 · answer #9 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
LOL...my dad and my granma say warsh. They are from OHIO. Its just an accent.
2007-07-14 12:31:53 · answer #10 · answered by ladysschwarm 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋