Regionality Check!

[bahua]

Just wanted to see if the latter pronunciation is common in the KC area. I have found that it may be.

[mean]

I can't take the poll, as I don't think I have ever actually spoken that word.

[kard]

while we're at it, is it:

LEE's Summit
or
Lee's SUMmit?

Highway 7
or
7 Highway?

[lock+load]

Highway 7
or
7 Highway?

K-7

[GRID]

K-7

MISSOURI 7 

Otherwise, it's highway 7 for me.

[Maitre D]

Just wanted to see if the latter pronunciation is common in the KC area. I have found that it may be.

GMAFB it's the 2nd version in a landslide, the 1st is something you'd hear out of rural Bama.

[Highlander]

GMAFB it's the 2nd version in a landslide, the 1st is something you'd hear out of rural Bama.

and England.

[AllThingsKC]

Iraq:

EYE-RACK
or
EYE-ROCK
or
ER-RACK
or
ER-ROCK

E - I - E - I - O

[staubio]

while we're at it, is it:

LEE's Summit
or
Lee's SUMmit?

Highway 7
or
7 Highway?

In Nebraska, it was always highway xx. Always. Never "Nebraska xx" or "US xx" and especially not "xx highway". Here, I've started to take to the "xx highway" convention. I kinda like that regionalism.

SUMmit, of course.

and I'd never heard of APE-ricot until I left Nebraska, but that might be to its favor.

[Maitre D]

You knew this was coming:


Obama.  Is he:


Ba-ROCK

Ba-RACK

[kcmetro]

You knew this was coming:


Obama.  Is he:


Ba-ROCK

Ba-RACK

People say Ba-RACK? Maybe if they get a stick shoved up their ass at the same time they're pronouncing his name. 

[bahua]

In Illinois, it's definitely "app-ricot." At least in Peoria. Also, they almost never say "highway" unless they're referring to the actual cement structure. "She got splattered all over the highway." For the most part, it's "Route XX" with route being pronounced as both "root" and "rowt," but usually the latter. I personally have taken to saying "US-XX," and "Route XX" for everything else, but that's not common.

I think the pronunciation "ape-ricot" is more of a southern thing.

[kard]

you need a 4 volume set of manuals to learn how to declare roads in illinois...freeway, tollway, expressway, blah blah blah.  it's insane.

[bahua]

Freeway is not a term that's used in Illinois. At least, not in an official capacity. It's rare to find a person that refers to a road as a freeway, and no roads are ever referred to as a "freeway" by signs. Same with the word "turnpike."

[KCLover]

I call I-35, 435,etc Freeways here. I've heard them called highways as well. Not a highway by my definition.

[bahua]

I call them expressways.

[scooterj]

I've never heard the ape-ricot version said before.


One thing I've wondered is wwhy on the Missouri side we say:
      "7 Highway"
      "40 Highway"
      "350 Highway"
But when it comes to another highway we only say:
      "291"

And, why don't we say the "M" before "M-7", "M-350", or "M-291".... yet in Kansas it's common to say "K-7" or "K-10"?

[GuyInLenexa]

I like how Californians use the term "The 405" "The 5" etc.
In TX we always used the term Freeway, except some of the older onew were called expressway (North Central in Dallas) .  Most of our freeways had names, unlike KC.  Like LBJ, North Central, R.L Thorton, Carpenter.
I once noticed on an old map of KC that the KS side of I35 was once called Turkey Creek Expressway.
Did any of the other freeways in the metro ever have actual "names"?

[chrizow]

(1) there isn't a "correct" way to pronounce apricot.  if there were a correct way to pronounce it, the rightness/wrongness would not depend on whether a given pronunciation was "southern" or used in illinois (not exactly the bastion of "correct" vowel use).
(2) dictionaries list both the "ay-pricot" and "ap-ricot" versions.  american heritage dictionary lists the "long a" version.

[KCMax]

Iraq:

EYE-RACK
or
EYE-ROCK
or
ER-RACK
or
ER-ROCK

E - I - E - I - O

Pahk-E-stahn? Or Packie-stan?