"Grocery" pronunciation poll

"i'm going to Edwards"

Hah, I guess for me it's sort of a byproduct of having lived on and off in desolate, barren south Jersey for the past couple of years. You'd probably find oil out here before a local grocer. big xp

Why ever would you not pronounce "grocery" as "gross-er-ree?"
New England, apologies to askance johnson.

There's this thing called regionalism

i was thinking velko meant a hard c

I do sometimes say "grockeries" to be "funny"

"grockerinos"

i say "gross - ree." i don't think i've ever heard "grosh - ree."

I do sometimes say "grockeries" to be "funny"

As a form of mockery, would you say?

A form of mossery.

gross-ree (two syllables)

(central / southern california)

tiny bit of sch in there tho

Somewhere between gross-ree and gross-er-ee

I pronounce it su-per-mar-ket...

Same here. Must be a South Jersey thing.

for the in between people, is the break at the o rather than the c? gro-seree?

grosch-ree, new england, usa

― Dr. Johnson (askance johnson), Wednesday, July 8, 2009 9:13 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

i say "gross - ree." i don't think i've ever heard "grosh - ree."

regionally: new york city, central new york state, and los angeles. although my family (nyc-based) didn't say "grocery" much; they were more likely to say "the supermarket" or "the store" or the name of the particular store.

yeah "grosch-ree" is the closest to how i say it, and how i always heard it said in upstate/western ny. it's basically the same "OSCH" sound as "ocean."

with the "hot dogs v. tacos" thread still active, i'm reminded of the old "how do you say 'hot dog'" question.

i'm a total over-enunciator, so i say "hot *stop* dog.

with the "o" sound like the first "a" in the name roger.

dammit, i initially wrote margaret and not roger -- so much for making sense.

Yeah I say supermarket or "the shops", rather than "grocery", though I'll refer to "groceries" for the items there obtained.

The more I ponder it, the more "grocery" as a a noun from "a grocer" seems quite... Mr Burns-ish. like "fish and chippery".

pizzeria = pizzery?

hair cuttery

i mean imagine if there was a place called that. wouldn't that be crazy.

gross-er-ree groin

me and my people would say "we're going to the store"

if it came down to what kind of store, we'd probably say the proper name before "the gross-ree store"

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My girlfriend just informed me she says "grosch-ree." Which is weird because a) she grew up in the Chicago area, just like me, and b) somehow I never noticed this in the past year and a half we've been living together and going to the grocery store together just about every week.

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An even hundred.

i say "gross - ree." i don't think i've ever heard "grosh - ree."

OTM though "gross-er-ree" is possible too.

I never knew "grosch" pronunciations were regional. There was an Aflac TV spot that ran about a million times last year where an actor said "grosch-er-ree," and I think I made a retching noise whenever I heard it.

I say "grosch-er-ee" and now I'm worried that it makes other people retch whenever I say it. Sorry, retchers! Although, the tendency for east coasters to leave the double t's out of words (kitten> kih-en, button>buh-on) kinda makes me retch too.

i alternate. sometimes my t's are so crisp.

For some reason, this thread is cracking me up.

Z S i do that. sorry! but i can't make my mouth say it any other way unless i try really hard.

sometimes i'll even say it like all british with the very, very slight CHH sound on the "t"

"i lost the buttchon"

but that's not very common

thinkin about this--i drop t's at the end of sentences too. "i couldn't do ih"

I never knew "grosch" pronunciations were regional.

― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, August 18, 2009 9:00 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

as far as i can tell, it isn't regional

I feel like I'm putting on fancy airs if I pronounce the double ts in the middle of words. I think I do that t-dropping think at the ends of sentences that harbl describes, too.

I was hanging out with my cousin and a friend of his last week and they both have awesome mid-Atlantic accents and the friend would finish sentences with the USA mid-Atlantic regional equivalent of "innit," which is more like "idnit?" (or "dudnit?" or "wudnit?" for "doesn't it?" and "wasn't it?" respectively) and it made me nostalgic and a little sad because I used to say that all the time until people from NJ, a state with plenty of linguistic quirks of its own, that I met in college mocked it right out of my speech.

I feel like I'm putting on fancy airs if I pronounce the double ts in the middle of words.

Had a friend in college who did this, overenunciating the "t" in words where most Americans would either drop it or turn it into a "d." Turns out her dad was English and she had lived there until she was 9, but her accent wasn't strong enough for that to be obvious, so a lot of people just thought she was pretentious.

people who voted for anything other than gross-ree are disgusting savages imo

"i lost the buttchon"

OK surm, I wanna meet you so I can hear this.

well it's very like virginia woolfe from the hours

that's why i don't do it that often... maybe in the privacy of my own home more than anything else

Oh I didn't go near that shit. I couldn't even get 60 pages into Mrs. Dalloway. xp

omgosh i know i've tried mrs dalloway like 3 times

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