Do you say?

Question

Aprocot or aprocot? Carmel or carmel? JCPenny or JC Pennies?

Answer 1

I say

Apricot (short i sound)

Car mel (almost like two words.) if you meant the place. Caramel if you meant the sweet.

JC Penny's (not pennies).

I am from upstate NY also (Champlain - you can't get any more upstate than that) and now live in Virginia too (since 1984).

Answer 2

I say apricot when I'm talking about the fruit that grows on the tree in my back yard. the 'a' is usually pronounced long, but it works either way, but the middle vowel is an 'i' and is short.

I say Caramel, (but I will probably pronounce it CAR-mul unless I'm in merry olde England) when I'm talking about the candy or liquified sugar, and Carmel (CAR-mel) when I'm talking about the mountain range in Israel, the town in Indiana or the bay in California.

When describing the department store started and owned by James Cash Penny, I say J.C. Penny's because it is a possive form, but the JCPenny form is the name of the current corporation that bears Mr. Penny's name today. If I were talking about James Cash Penny and James Cash Penny Jr in the plural form, I might say J.C. Pennies, or if the JC was an abbrieviation for an adjective describing a type of penny, and I was talking about more than one of the them, I'd use the plural form.

Answer 3

The first two words you have the same spelling for each, but I think I know what you mean.
I say apricot.
Caramel
and JCPenny.

I am orignially from Upstate, Ny. Have lived in Va for 2.5 yrs now

Answer 4

APROCOT CAR-A-MEL JC PENNIES

Answer 5

apricot, car-a-mel, and pennies..also pecawn (pecan), and prawleens (pralines)