Regionality Check!

[GuyInLenexa]

Kansezity

[KCLover]

Ive heard Kan City too. I think thats mostly down in ghetto town. Or how about the ever famous "Killa City". 

[PumpkinStalker]

Pee Can pie sounds disgusting.

I shorten KC to Kansa city.  I don't say city with a z though!

[DanCa]

Warshburn University as some people call it here in Topeka. Pisses me off!

Also, CRICK instead of Creek. Assinine.

Winda instead of Window. Pilla instead of Pillow. Those are usually said by older folks.

My mom says "wosh" and my dad says "warsh".  I gave up on trying to correct them years ago.  And my grandparents like to go to "Ha-wah-yuh" on vacation. 

[loftguy]

Here we go, spilling pet peeves.

How about "ask"?

The afro/am pronunciation is often "axed".

Palefaces have the common tendency to say it as "ast".

Do you enunciate it clearly, as written?

[Gretz]

K-7

Is this a reference to the famous K-7 drive-in in my hometown of Urich, MO?  As Urich's finest (and only) restaurant, it is a must see attraction on any trip to the lake/Springfield/float trip/Branson etc.

http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguide-1 ... IudrU8XWoL

Come by for the greasy diner food, stay to mingle with some laid back country folk.  Just don't hit Sea-bass with a salt shaker, unless you want your burger hawked on.  Continue by detouring down highway K to see my ancestral home along with other sights of rural, "Merica."  Take the rural poverty tour.  You'll be charmed by meth labs, slow moving pickup trucks and other products of economic and cultural malaise out in the rural, where a combination of poor education, a complete lack of job prospects and a dearth of entertainment options breed alcholism, spousal abuse and meth addiction.

[bbqboy]

Is this a reference to the famous K-7 drive-in in my hometown of Urich, MO?  As Urich's finest (and only) restaurant, it is a must see attraction on any trip to the lake/Springfield/float trip/Branson etc.

http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguide-1 ... IudrU8XWoL

Come by for the greasy diner food, stay to mingle with some laid back country folk.  Just don't hit Sea-bass with a salt shaker, unless you want your burger hawked on.  Continue by detouring down highway K to see my ancestral home along with other sights of rural, "Merica."  Take the rural poverty tour.  You'll be charmed by meth labs, slow moving pickup trucks and other products of economic and cultural malaise out in the rural, where a combination of poor education, a complete lack of job prospects and a dearth of entertainment options breed alcholism, spousal abuse and meth addiction.

sure, you listed the postive aspects. Are there any negatives?

[warwickland]

ape-ricot is probably how its pronounced here in south st. louis, but not in the way that is easiest to imagine.

worshington university is said quite a bit as well here south of I-44 in the City.

nothing wrong with adopting the regional dialect. kick back, crack a bud, turn on some drive by truckers, burn some shit. you guys are too quick to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

[aknowledgeableperson]

And there are those who say "pop" and those who say "soda".

And I have never figured out how a person with the given name of John becomes a Jack.

[warwickland]

And there are those who say "pop" and those who say "soda".

And I have never figured out how a person with the given name of John becomes a Jack.

my old man says "soda pop." go figure. and then there is southwestern illinois-"sodee."

[kcmetro]

I'm not sure if I've ever heard it pronounced APPricot. Doesn't even sound right.

[Maitre D]

my old man says "soda pop." go figure. and then there is southwestern illinois-"sodee."

When I was a kid, my cousins (from Illinois) used to ask my grandfather if they could have sodee-pop.  And i watned to smack the hell out of them, for using that lame term.

http://popvssoda.com:2998/countystats/total-county.html



Also, Bahua:  APE-ricot is accepted by dictionary.com so you're incorrect when you say it's the "wrong way" to say it.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/apricot

[bahua]

No, I'm right. I have truthiness on my side.

[eliphar17]

Pop.  Sometimes Soda.  Never Coke, unless I'm talking about Coke.

http://popvssoda.com:2998/countystats/total-county.html

The sharp divide in PA and NY is interesting, as well as the bastions of Soda in St. Louis and Milwaukee.

[taxi]

And there are those who say "pop" and those who say "soda".

And I have never figured out how a person with the given name of John becomes a Jack.

The old timer, Eye-talians down here in the North End call it Sody Pop and, for some reason I can't figure out, I've heard many local people called "Sal", when that is clearly not their name.

[bbqboy]

The old timer, Eye-talians down here in the North End call it Sody Pop and, for some reason I can't figure out, I've heard many local people called "Sal", when that is clearly not their name.

witness protection program

[Beermo]

don't forget "Lull-vol" or "Nawlins".