Poconos / Monroe County question

[ColorRadio]

...or Nah-fuk?

 

[Keeth]

An' it's pernounced "TROOP" even-noh dere's a "HAYTCH" innit

 

[Vince Sweeney]

...or Nah-fuk?

That would be correct.

 

[berniek]

So at this time of year as the leaves change color is it:

Fall Fol-ledge

or

Fall Folley-edge?

 

[Keeth]

Whatever it is, it's BEAUTY-full

 

[Cosmopolite]

On Line / In Line

An Ellis Island historian says Metro New Yorkers say "on line" because immigrants who didn't know English were told to "stand on line" while waiting to be processed. The lines they stood on were in various colors based on which medical exam they were having.

BTW, foliage is FO-lee-ij.

 

[waunderlust]

BTW, foliage is FO-lee-ij.

According to Websters online dictionary, both are acceptable

now, what about poinsettias?

 

[ThomasCarten]

>>>now, what about poinsettias?<<<

In your diapers. Die-a-pers or di-pers?

 

[Vince Sweeney]

now, what about poinsettias?

How about why are poinsettias associated with snow and cold and Christmas? Strictly a tropical plant, Mexican in fact, the poinsettia would croak in seconds if placed outdoors at any temp near or below freezing.

The one that at least one viewer forever busted my backside on was err, as in "To err is human, to forgive is divine." Apparently "err" is not pronounced "air," as in error, but rather as it appears, err, rhyming with the second syllable in tiger.

Oh, I almost forgot coupon. I grew up with KEW-pon. Once in radio I got drilled that it was KOO-pon. Stop me here, but I just recalled buffet. Some will insist it is BOO-fay and that any other pronunciation is wrong. Then there is Volvo. I always said Vole-voe, but I was once hammered by someone who swore it is VAHL-voe. Porsche anyone? How about smorgasbord?

 

[dhett]

I thought foliage was pronounced, FOI-lij. That's how I heard it pronounced on the radio so it must be true!!

 

[Vince Sweeney]

I thought foliage was pronounced, FOI-lij. That's how I heard it pronounced on the radio so it must be true!!

And I once heard a local newscaster refer to the beginning of a religious observance as the "...blowing of the shofar" but managed to pronounce shofar as "chauffeur." True, 100% true. I nearly drove off the road.

 

[Cosmopolite]

When a dictionary lists two pronunciations, the first is Preferred, meaning used by the majority of educated speakers. Merriam-Webster online gives fo-lee-ij as the first choice.

Ralph Snodsmith, Garden host on the WOR Network corrects listeners who don't say Poin-SEH-tee-uh, while he says fo-lij. He's apologized, blaming his Southern roots for mispronouncing foliage.