Zorac (zorac) wrote,
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Random poll of the day

I've been meaning to do this for ages. I am intrigued to find out how people pronounce the words in this poll's eponynymous song.

Poll #150071 Let's call the whole thing off
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All. Participants: 44

Is it one, or the other?

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eether
17(41.5%)
eyether
24(58.5%)

Or is it none of the above?

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neether
15(36.6%)
nyther
26(63.4%)

A question of spuds:

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potayto
44(100.0%)
potahto
0(0.0%)

Is it a fruit or a vegetable?

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tomayto
21(47.7%)
tomahto
23(52.3%)

What do you wear in bed?

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pajammas
13(29.5%)
pajahmas
31(70.5%)

Which one's a hoot?

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larfter
17(38.6%)
laffter
27(61.4%)

The opposite of before is:

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arfter
16(36.4%)
affter
28(63.6%)

Favourite ice-cream flavour:

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vanilla
42(95.5%)
vanella
2(4.5%)

What the blazes is this?

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sa's'parilla
29(65.9%)
sa's'parella
4(9.1%)
I have no clue
11(25.0%)

Your preferred aphrodisicac?

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ersters
0(0.0%)
oysters
44(100.0%)
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  • 17 comments

jiggery_pokery

June 25 2003, 17:08:20 UTC 17 years ago

Hee! Funny stuff.

I tend to use both of the options reasonably frequently for some of these - either, neither, after and laughter. However, in each case I've gone for the one of the two which sounds more natural rather than the other which sounds affected.

I very much doubt I will be able to think of any of these without thinking of the song, though.

Unfortunately poll #150000 was a bit lame - friends-only :-(

dancingrain

June 26 2003, 17:09:53 UTC 17 years ago

me too, for eether/eyther, neether/neyther, and some others including ones not on the poll... I also notice it tends to really depend on who I am hanging about with. When I was in England I veered more to the "ey" side, as I tend to do when around Brits here as well; here I veer more to the "ee" side.

On a side note: my (English) Granny and my Dad used this song to befuddle me for years, evidently. They sang it lots when I was a kid, and I assumed that potato was pronounced "po-tah-to" in Britain, so she always made sure to call them po-tah-tos around me. It wasn't til AlexMalfoy corrected me last year that I realized they'd been pulling my leg all my life!

hermorrine

June 25 2003, 17:10:00 UTC 17 years ago

How can you not know what sasparilla is?

mhw

June 25 2003, 17:11:56 UTC 17 years ago

I have a mental block that prevents me thinking of substances that taste like dental mouthwash.

hermorrine

June 25 2003, 20:53:17 UTC 17 years ago

You must've gotten some bad sasparilla then...

mhw

17 years ago

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zorac

June 25 2003, 17:12:34 UTC 17 years ago

Very easily. Probably by being British.

hermorrine

June 25 2003, 20:55:40 UTC 17 years ago

Well then, I will fix that once you get here in just over 2 weeks.
(Fix the not knowing what sasparilla is, not fixing the being British thing...because I don't think that's changable nor would I want to change it....err, bed now. Oh! My UK OotP arrived today!)

leiabelle

June 25 2003, 17:22:00 UTC 17 years ago

Hee. I use both pronunciations of the first two, depending on context. Much like the two pronunciations of "route". Am strange, yes. :)

zorac

June 26 2003, 02:07:48 UTC 17 years ago

I will admit to using poth pronounciations of some of those (yes, especially the first two)

As for "route", thats pronounced "root", the thing pronounced "rowt" is spelled "rout".
Well, on this side of the pond, anyway.
I get freaked when I here routers being referred to as rowters...

mhw

17 years ago

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burtlo

June 25 2003, 18:58:13 UTC 17 years ago

Do you say when something is extremely bad:

It's horrible or harrible.

zorac

June 26 2003, 01:08:51 UTC 17 years ago

Horrible, definately.

ringbark

June 26 2003, 04:03:10 UTC 17 years ago

I remember hearing a Cornishman joke many years ago:

Outsider: Now then, which word do you use round here? Nyther or neether?
Cornishman: Nather. We don't use the word at all.

bopeepsheep

June 29 2003, 07:11:59 UTC 17 years ago

My dialect lecturer at college:There are two distinct ways to say 'u' as in 'cup' - the southern way (cuhp) and the northern way (coop).
Me: Um, no, there's at least three. At home* we say 'curp'.
Lecturer: Er...

And of course some Londoners say 'cap', and I'm sure there are more variations too.

* 'Home' being rural Oxfordshire.

sophie10

June 26 2003, 04:19:09 UTC 17 years ago

I see to remember this coming up at punt!t00bage, about the potatos and tomatos anyway :D

bopeepsheep

June 29 2003, 07:08:53 UTC 17 years ago

I would use "eyether" and "eether" for different situations and stresses, ditto "neether" and "nyether". And for a few of the others I'd use a completely different pronunciation from the one you have there, too... (Per-jahmas, for instance, or p'jahmas, depending on how strongly my local accent was coming out that day.)

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