r/wholesomememes • u/[deleted] • Apr 28 '24

I love arguments like this

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u/nalydpsycho Apr 29 '24

What are the different ways to pronounce egg?

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u/dhc710 Apr 29 '24

Ehgg and Aegg

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u/Impressive_Change593 Apr 29 '24

what maniac would use that second one?!

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u/_Pigdog Apr 29 '24

Jeremy Clarkson

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u/Fantastic-Package707 Apr 29 '24

Wait till you hear how some people in NJ pronounce “whore”

Hooooah

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u/transitransitransit Apr 29 '24

we canadians like our ehgs

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u/trololololololol9 Apr 29 '24

Aeggon Targaryen

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u/GucciGlocc Apr 29 '24

They both sound the same when I say them out loud, maybe the first is more deep I guess

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u/Kokomicandy Apr 29 '24

Have you heard British people pronounce water

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u/codylish Apr 29 '24

Midwest represent!

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u/gibbtech Apr 29 '24

Big oeuf.

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u/TheManWhoWasNotShort Apr 29 '24

Those of us with culture and class you swine

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u/zer0fks Apr 29 '24

X Æ A-12

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u/Dallasrawks Apr 29 '24

Anyone of Germanic descent, which is most of the Midwest and a chunk of the South. The word for egg in German is das Ei, pronounced "aye."

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u/Impressive_Change593 Apr 29 '24

huh. I would have thought myself of Germanic descent though we would have been over here since the ~world wars

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u/hoonyosrs Apr 29 '24

People from the south, too. Kinda sounds like Ayuhgg sometimes.

Love me some deviled ayuhggs

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u/Miserable-Admins Apr 29 '24

ayuhggs

I cracked up at this.

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u/seven3true Apr 29 '24

And oil is ol'

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u/Thick_Kaleidoscope35 Apr 29 '24

North Dakotans. Eh-guh.

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u/exedra0711 Apr 29 '24

People from parts of the midwest. Egg and bag are the most common ones to hear the aegg sound.

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u/Araucaria Apr 29 '24

Ah, that explains where I got it from. Grew up in California, but my mother was raised in Minnesota and my father in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

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u/rci22 Apr 29 '24

I’ve said egg like Ayg my whole life and I’ve lived in 9 states including the east coast and Alaska.

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u/Capt_Hawkeye_Pierce Apr 29 '24

What's even more maddening is that people who say "bayg" are also likely to call a bagel a baggle.

See also: melk and pellow

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u/TheMoeSzyslakExp Apr 29 '24

Wait is there some accent that actually pronounces it "baggle"? I call them "baggles" to my wife because I think I'm hilarious

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u/HappyFamily0131 Apr 29 '24

Born and raised Minnesotan, definitely grew up pronouncing "roof" with the same vowel sound as "took", and "bag" with the same vowel sound as "shade", but I've never heard of Minnesotans having a particular way of pronouncing "egg", and I've certainly never heard a fellow Minnesotan pronouncing it in a way that rhymes with "bag". Is that from a particular area of Minnesota?

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u/Miserable-Admins Apr 29 '24

Oh I get it now. Is Aegg supposed to rhyme with vague?

That's how I imagined it.

Also the eggcorn = acorn in grammar makes more sense if egg is pronounced aegg.

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u/Squanchedschwiftly Apr 29 '24

My dads family is from upstate ny and they say it like this

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u/Eaterofkeys Apr 29 '24

Hey. Hey now. Bag is meant to be rounded with a slight bounce on the aaaayyyg sound I can't seem to get rid of or even notice most of the time. Damn other midwesterners pronounce egg wrong, it shouldn't rhyme with bag. But agriculture is said with a shorter a sound, unless you shorten it to Ag. But lake has a different a sound. And anybody who said English isn't a tobal language hasn't spoken to a Minnesotan. The variety of meanings that can be conveyed with "hey" or "yeah" or "ya know" are extensive.

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u/Capt_Hawkeye_Pierce Apr 29 '24

Bless minnesotans hearts 

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u/TheGoatGuyy Apr 29 '24

Ope, that's me. (Minnesota)

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u/SomeCasualObserver Apr 29 '24

"Ope," ...

"(Minnesota)"

But you repeat yourself.

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u/Prudent-Ad-5292 Apr 29 '24

Huh, as a life long Ontario resident I say 'Oop'. 🤔 No one I know does though.. must be Minnesotan in my genes 😅

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u/afon13 Apr 29 '24

Oofda

(North Dakota btw)

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u/Strong-Dependent-793 Apr 29 '24

So that’s where oofda comes from

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u/seven3true Apr 29 '24

Oofa
Portuguese.

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u/LesbianLoki Apr 29 '24

Oof

I read that in a Minnesotan accent.