Some folks in the Midwest pronounce it “crown”.
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One of my uncle’s favorites.
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The spelling of mayonnaise always bugs me. It should be spelled phonetically, like mownayz.
Who pronounces mayonnaise with a “o” in the first syllable?
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It is spelled phonetically, en Français.
Crayon sounds like ‘cran’ unless weaselette is nearby - then I deliberately stretch it out to ‘cray-on’. She has a thing about that word.
Recently saw ‘An Officer and a Gentleman’ so I can’t see mayonnaise without all the syllables, with an emphasis on the ‘naise’
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My tongue does make a movement in both “mayonnaise” and “crayon” where the “yo” is, like a half hearted jump on a trampoline, but there is no impact to the pronunciation.
While we’re at it, how do you all say ‘caramel’?
don’t start. I try to avoid pronouncing caramel in front of people.
Same with data. When you have two people conversing about data and one consistently says day-ta and the other da-ta it makes me giggle on the inside, because neither side wants to succumb
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Unquestionably 3 syllables, with the first syllable’s a as in “cat”. But sometimes I hear it as two, with the first syllable as “car”. That shoulds very wrong to me, but usually from context I usually know the intent. Less often, two with the first syllable like mine.
there’s also differences in -melle or -mul
I go back and forth between ‘cair-uh-mel’ and ‘car-mel’. Weaselette prefers the 2-syllable version and it drives her nuts when people say it the other way. Kind of entertaining to say it ‘wrong’ on purpose, but I try not to overdo it
I’m a “car-muhl” guy myself.
I use both depending on my mood.
I usually say “carra mel”, but “car ml” sounds normal to me, and I’ve probably said it sometimes. Unlike “cran”, which I honestly am not sure I’d recognize if I heard it in the wild.
I don’t usually talk about mayo. But I like to make creme caramel, and draw with crayons.
What about that big cat in the zoo? The one with the orange and black stripes?
A tagger?
under what circumstances…I don’t think I’ve seen crayon in the physical since like…middle school