Milk

Apparently some people pronounce it the way you say the name of the Abbey upstream from the Wachau whose established fame was recently refreshed by Eco. This version particularly popular in the upper US Midwest and parts of Central Canada.
 
I am shocked at you, SFJoe. People in the DC area who say "Warshington " also often pronounce the moo-juice as "melk". Like the abbey/monastery. How did you miss them ? Also used to be common around Pittsburg with some folks whose parents immigrated between the wars. (And maybe others. I don't know. )
 
originally posted by kirk wallace:
I am shocked at you, SFJoe. People in the DC area who say "Warshington " also often pronounce the moo-juice as "melk". Like the abbey/monastery. How did you miss them ? Also used to be common around Pittsburg with some folks whose parents immigrated between the wars. (And maybe others. I don't know. )
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I thought those were Midwestern affectations. Although I don't exactly have scientific knowledge. It's just that my grandmother used both of those pronunciations and she was born in Indiana.
 
originally posted by MarkS:
Those funny French. I just learned today that "Roy" is pronounced wah.
Gotta love 'em.
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Hm. We have a friend near us in Provence named Roy. Except for the French R, people pronounce the name the way we do. If you are talking about the older spelling of roi, of course, that's different.
 
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
originally posted by MarkS:
Those funny French. I just learned today that "Roy" is pronounced wah.
Gotta love 'em.
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Hm. We have a friend near us in Provence named Roy. Except for the French R, people pronounce the name the way we do. If you are talking about the older spelling of roi, of course, that's different.
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NHL goalie Patrick Roy, now retired, is pronounced "wah"

He's French Canadian
 
Growing up in the 'burbs of Chicago, a few people said "melk". One of them also said "pellow" when she meant "pillow". I found it all very annoying.
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:
originally posted by kirk wallace:
I am shocked at you, SFJoe. People in the DC area who say "Warshington " also often pronounce the moo-juice as "melk". Like the abbey/monastery. How did you miss them ? Also used to be common around Pittsburg with some folks whose parents immigrated between the wars. (And maybe others. I don't know. )
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I thought those were Midwestern affectations. Although I don't exactly have scientific knowledge. It's just that my grandmother used both of those pronunciations and she was born in Indiana.
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Perhaps it was Midwestern immigrants that I would run into in the DC suburbs in the old days ....
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
originally posted by Bill Lundstrom:
good thing they didnt name you Mary then.
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My sister has a friend I always thought was a guy, named Aaron. Turns out it is a girl named Erin.
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ha!

adolescent school boys would have a field day with Merry Bowman.

for that matter, so would have Robin Williams.
 
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