Saturday, December 26, 2015

Do You Say "Car-ml" Or "Car-a-mel"? - Capell Flooring and Interiors


You can often tell what part of the country a person is from by their pronunciation.  It turns out that – for certain words – there’s a distinct regional preference.
 
For example, what do you call the small crustacean, relative of the lobster, which can be found
throughout North America?
 
Depending on where you live, this creature may be known as “crayfish”, “crawfish” or “crawdad”.  People in the northeast favor “crayfish”, those in the south prefer “crawfish”, while “crawdad” may be heard in pockets of the central and western states.
What you put on to go to bed at night might be “pajamas” where the second syllable sounds like “jam”, but only if you live in Canada and the north and western US.  If you live in the south and east, the second syllable sounds like the “a” in “father”.
 
Someone in the Midwest or Canada might request “pop”, for much of the US it’s “soda”, but the Deep South ask for it by brand name.
 
As to “car-ml” and “car-a-mel”, those of us in Canada and the eastern third of the US prefer three syllables, while those in the rest of the continent lean toward two!
 
 How do you say it? :)
 
      Your friend,               
     Matt Capell – Owner Capell Flooring and Interiors
 
 

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