"Grocery" pronunciation poll

grosch-ree, Mid-Atlantic USA

WTF, I didn't know there were different pronounciations. I always pronounce it gross-uh-ree.
Gross-ree seems VERY odd (when I say it that way anyway).

grosch-ree, new england, usa

(My post is a pure sign my English isn't my 1st nor my 2nd language. it's somewhere at the bottom. heh)

I alternate between gross-ree and grosch-ree. South Texas with a little bit of Kansas.

Yeah, I think I alternate too, probably should have had that as an option, oh well

somewhere between grosch-ree and grosch-er-ree -- the middle syllable is barely there. (deep south US)

Well, you could pick other as that option.

gro cah ree - new york

my wife and i make fun of a friend who says grosschurees, he's from arizona

it varies: either gross-er-ree with 3 syllables (in more formal situations or when speaking to someone for whom english isn't their native language), more often gross-ree (2 syllables) or sometimes it sounds closer to grouse-ree

Somewhere between 2 syllable and 3 syllable with the 'c' pronounced as an ess.

I went for the third option and have never heard anyone say anything different to that (in England).

^^^

grosch-ree

In my experience the 3 syllable version is only ever used when the speaker wants purposely to be a bit pedantic, for the effect.

flaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

I voted for "gross-er-ree" because that is how I think the word is pronounced, but in reality I probably say something closer to "gross-ree."

Sort of like thinking it's pronounced "going to" but mostly saying "gunna"

Went with gross-er-ree (three syllables) but think I actually say it more gro sah ree - New York

deep south

central coast, California

Just to check, this is basically more a question about how you elide or slur the word than it is about "right" or "wrong" pronunciations, right? I always assumed everyone thought of it as "grocer" + the suffix, but we all just tended to plow through it at different levels of clarity or laziness or accent.

pretty sure it's just a "how do you actually say" vs. 'what is the proper way to say" poll.

I always assumed everyone thought of it as "grocer" + the suffix,

Hmm, I pronounce grocer as "grosser," but grocery gets a little "sh" in there.

Grocer for me would also be "grosser" but without any "sh".

thread is grosch

i kind of assume that groshry happened b/c people dropped the middle vowel but the sr was an awkward consonant combination. sort of like sri/shri lanka.

do you say Yeshiree, then?

gro cah ree - new york

r u 4 real?

anyway, grosch-ree - new york

Is this "grosch" version particularly a US thing? I'd never heard it ever in my life til I heard that Of Montreal song and he says "grosheries" in it and I just thought he had a put-on lisp affectation.

it's just hard to say the sss followed by ery so it becomes sch, i just tried to say gross-er-y and it was weird

gro cah ree - new york

r u 4 real?

― harbl, Wednesday, July 8, 2009 8:42 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

Yeah! The "c" is soft with an s sound so it's more like gro sah ree store but . . . that's how I've always said it.

(What part of NY you from? Long Island over here)

upstate so i probably sound like a yokel

xp, probably exclusively u.s. (and maybe canada too)

x-post I lived in the finger lakes region during college - good accents!

i was thinking velko meant a hard c, he should have typed ç

no i don't sound like theeat

i doun't

LOL

Yeah - I thought you might have thought he meant a hard c. That would just be ridiculous. I can understand your confusion.

grosch-er-ree (three syllables)

From Missouri.

Although over the past few years I've had sort of a crisis and I've been inconsistently using gross-er-ree, feeling like a total fraud for changing it up. I don't even RECOGNIZE MYSELF ANYMORE man

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

(Well, can't remember the last time I said "I'm going to the grocery." I suppose when I do, I fall somewhere along the lines nabisco mentioned above - in my head I say "gross-er-ree" but I suspect it comes out all mushed up when I actually say it in conversation.)

xp I go to the supermarket to buy gross-rees.

ha i never learned to say supermarket. not sure if that's a regional thing or not.

there seem to be a lot of "ess" sounds here... i'm definitely a "groshhh" person, but i go between 2 and 3 syllables, depending on mood

maybe the c is really s ; )

also, like said upthread i associate the "sch" usage with being a hayseed but i guess it's really just a regional thing

growing up it was gross-ree store ... Usually, I just say the name of the store and not supermarket or grocery store.

"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

My favorite answer to this poll would be at 1:49 on this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8Szl_JyCUQ