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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm from the deep south and have no accent. Unfortunately, I do have mispronunciation tells and worse, I can't force myself to pronounce some things the right way so I avoid some words:

nuclear (I can't even HEAR the difference, it's that bad)
doesn't (I miss a syllable)
cement (there are two ways to say it and i"m not sure which is correct. I say C-mint so that must be wrong...it's sehMINT?)

I'm sure there are others...[/quote]

You're funny.  You say you're from the Deep South and have "no accent," but "cement" has two short e's in it... no short i's.  It's MENT, not MINT.  The short e sound, you know?  Like ELEPHANT or EGGS.  I lived in Georgia for awhile and it seemed people were incapable of saying the short e sound.  "Do you have a pin, hon?"  Do you want something to sew with or something to write with?  Yeesh.

Around here, don't you love it when people say MURland instead of Maryland?

I'm from upstate NY, about to go on vacation up there, and can't wait to jump off the "dack" (dock) into the lake.  Afterward I'll drink a "Popsi."[/quote]

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