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How do you say coupon?

   Discussion: How do you say coupon?
John J. Ryan · 21 years, 6 months ago
Is it "COO-pon", "Q-pon", "COO-pond", or "Q-pond"?
nate... Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
I say the correct way... "COO-pon".

*joolee* Back · 21 years, 6 months ago

q-pon all the way.

perhaps if i was a dove I'd say coo-pon...coo cooooo!

hkath Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
COO-pon.

But I think you left out coo-pawn, for those Buffalonians.
Misch Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
Hey! We resemble that remark!
Agent Scully Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
Thanks kath! :D

Did you know we had some FAWG lately.

My DAWG misses you. :D
lawrence Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
the first one. I've heard the second one, too, but the last two are just weird. where does the 'd' come from?
John J. Ryan Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
I've heard people stick a D at the end of the word before.
Andrea Krause Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
I hear people do that somtimes with other stuff. Like "if he goes swimming on a full stomach he'll drownd."
renita Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
that just means that when they release the air after the 'n', instead of releasing the air through the nose, they release it past the tongue.
Agent Scully Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
or the word "lozenger."

also "youse" ::shudder::
Rachel Marie aka RAI Back · 21 years, 4 months ago
I dunno, but is anyone else picturing a scribble of a disimbodied head with a bunch of paper coming out of his mouth shouting

COUPON'D!!!!!

Tee-hee-hee... :oD
emilie is CRANKY Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
"COO-pon". although our vowel sounds are sort of shorter. um. :)
nate... Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
That's because ya'll eat too much candy!!
AAAAAHHH!!!

:D
emilie is CRANKY Back · 21 years, 6 months ago

freak. :D

and it's not 'candy', they're 'sweets'. *sigh*

;)

no one Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
And biscuits, not cookies, thank you.
Laura P. Back · 21 years, 6 months ago

And it's not cake, its..oh wait, it is cake, right?

*hits forehead with heel of hand*

no one Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
Well, countries divided by a shared language can have something in common, reight?
nate... Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
Heh.
sorry, I'll learn eventually.
;)
Back · 21 years, 6 months ago

I say Koo-pon

the "k" makes it classy (and more Kanadian)

*sputter*

~J~

Josh Woodward Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
COO-pon.

BTW, the Dialect Survey has the answer to this and more..
John J. Ryan Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
Seems like a lot of those maps aren't geographically specific.�� Dialects aren't as regionalized anymore as people have moved around and television has caused whatever dialect they choose to be the nationwide norm.
nate... Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
The one that's really telling is this one

:)
lawrence Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
and of course, this one, too.
John J. Ryan Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
Wow, New Englanders talk funny. :)
nate... Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
The thing that cracks me up there is that "minerals" is only around boston, due to all the irish immigrants.
:)

Andrea Krause Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
I actually say it both as COO-pon and Q-pon. I also use both NEE-ther and NIE-ther. It all depends on the situation and how my mouth decides to spit it out. :)
nate... Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
Yeah, I also say both "nee-ther" and "nye-ther"
Andrea Krause Back · 21 years, 6 months ago

Also I do it with either. For me it tends to go along these lines:

"Gray is NEEther black nor white."

"NYEther do I."

Pacho Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
i do the same thing with fecking and fooking... "yeah right i'm letting you borrow my car you fecking wanker... go to fooking hell"

and in response to the original question, q-pon.
Mamalissa! Back · 21 years, 6 months ago

I say it like "KillTheRatsKillTheRatsKillTheRats"

Is that wrong?

Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
"I hate rats.� They make me crazy..."
Yvonne Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
"Crazy?� I was crazy once..."� :D
Annika Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
coo-pon.� Isn't that the correct way of saying it?
no one Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
If Jaci sees this, she'll invent coo porn.
nate... Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
HAHAHAHAH!

Okay, THAT was good.
:)
renita Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
nonono.

jaci came up with that AGES ago, she's ahead of the curve.

as for what coo porn is.

well. you don't really want to know, do you?
no one Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
Look below!
Seems we're all about to find out regardless, Jaci woooshed off to the kitchen to stir up a new batch of alphabet soup.
Seriously, though, coo pawns are ok, such modest pieces; I don't like q porns though. I hate queueing.
jaye Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
o.O

*whoosh*
stealthlori Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
COO-pon. According to me. For my mother, however, it's Q-pon.

I also say water like practically everyone else. But for her, and for many Philadelphians, it's wood-er or woot-er.

Oh, and what are the deli products you put on sandwiches? Cold cuts, sandwich meat, or lunch meat?
nate... Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
Oh man... how about "warter"?
That's the other way I've heard it.
jaye Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
ew.

that's as irritating as "warshington".
Laura P. Back · 21 years, 6 months ago

cold cuts

nate... Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
Yeah, it really depends.

I don't usually use a term for it... I call it by what it is.... "roast beef" "turkey" etc....

But "lunch meat" to me refers to those pressed icky balogna products... like olive loaf.
Nik Chaikin Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
Blarg! :P olive loaf. ::shudders::
Shelly Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
yay lor!!!

i went off aboot the wooder/wooter/water thing on the random thoughts thing, too....coz i pronounce water like most everyone else in the free world, too.....

but then in an even -weirder- regionalism or mayhap a regionalism AND an old skool/generational thing, but when my grandma talks about green peppers, she calls them 'mangoes'...so growing up, that's what i thought a mango was...imagine my surprise YEARS later to find that it was a -fruit- and nothing LIKE a green pepper.....
Tony Back · 21 years, 4 months ago

I just did a google search, "grandma calls green peppers mango" and I found this post. A few years back in Chicago a girl told me this, but naturally I assumed she was a misguided idiot. I mean, who would call a green pepper a mango, anyways?

It's bothered me for some time now, and I hadn't validated that statement since - until now. I'm sorry to revive an old post, but I just have to know; has anyone else ever heard of this?

Signed -

A guy who lived all over the place and heard a lot of things.

K-Lyn Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
I just pay full price...
Gordondon son of Ethelred · 21 years, 6 months ago
I usually say cue-pon but I think I see coo-pon on occasion.
Melinda J. Beasi · 21 years, 6 months ago
My instinct is to say Q-pon. That's how we say it where I'm from. My husband mocks me so much about it, however, that I try to say COO-pon when I can remember.
Jºnªthªn · 21 years, 6 months ago
coo-pond? what the hell is that?
bored, bored, bored.... Back · 21 years, 6 months ago

The coupond is where the hampsters go to swim after they done eated their sherbert.

*snort*

bored, bored, bored.... Back · 21 years, 6 months ago

Oh wait, maybe that should be "ate'n".

;-)

Jºnªthªn Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
:o)
Nik Chaikin · 21 years, 6 months ago
do you say pecAHn or pecAn ? i say pecAHn.
nate... Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
"PEA-can"
Andrea Krause Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
I say pecAHn.
iPauley Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
pecAHn, yes. mom always said a pee-can is what you take out in a boat in case you forgot to go before you left. :-P

-- Pauley
danced with Lazlo · 21 years, 6 months ago
koo-pon,

pe-KAHn

Cold cuts

Do you say aypricot or aahpricot? And Ant or Aunt? Those are the things that Jason makes fun of my for.
nate... Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
ahpricot and aunt.

:)
danced with Lazlo Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
Jason would like you. :P
nitsita Back · 21 years, 6 months ago

koo-pon or q-pon... varies.

pe-KAHn

cold cuts

aypricot

ant and aunt.� depends if I'm talking or if I'm teaching..

.... vanilla or vanella?

Andrea Krause Back · 21 years, 6 months ago

I think I say apricot both ways.

I say Ant. It's the midwestern in me. Gets me lots of ridicult living in New England.

One of my stupid pet peeves is when people pronounce an i as an e. Like melk and pellow. :)

danced with Lazlo Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
i say apricot both ways too, but it tends to come out as ay-pricot more often. I also say ant... i have no idea why. My whole family does, both my mom's side from NY and my dad's from Jersey. And I hate that i/e thing too.
Jºnªthªn · 21 years, 6 months ago
Pray-lean, or Praw-lean.
nate... Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
pray-lean.
nitsita Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
I just say it in French <g>�
emilie is CRANKY Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
prah-line. like an 'ahhh' sound. :D
Yvonne · 21 years, 6 months ago
Does anyone really pronounce the word "about" like "a-BOOT"?� I didn't think so...
Back · 21 years, 6 months ago

no, but Americans "think" we do!

heh...and we say it to piss them off..or turn them on..whatever the case may be!

;)

~J~

nate... Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
Yes actually.
I've known a lot of canadians who do.
:)

That and "oot-side" for "outside"
Yvonne Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
Hee hee...cool!� I've never heard anyone say that but I'll take your word for it.� Maybe I'm just not in the right part of the country.
Sarah Back · 21 years, 4 months ago
My mother grew up with family from Scotland and they say "a-boot". House is "hoose" and home is "hame"
danced with Lazlo · 21 years, 6 months ago
Everyone outside of NY says Oorange and Floorida. Everyone outside of NY is wrong.
Yvonne Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
My dad says oynge, but then he's from Newfoundland.
Gordondon son of Ethelred Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
Yes but we generously do not hold their errant ways against them.
danced with Lazlo Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
speak for yourself.
Gordondon son of Ethelred Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
Shhh, I'm trying to make New Yorkers look good to the hicks.
Jºnªthªn · 21 years, 6 months ago
I say "Botato" a lot, and I say roof and room closer to "ruff" and "rum" - dunno where they came from as I'm a native CAer.

And for the record, I'm a cOOpon usin', pecAHn apricot praylean eatin', soda pop swillin', ant - whatever one does with an aunt; a card on her birthday sendin' boy. Actually I never send her a card; I call, but whatever.
nate... · 21 years, 6 months ago
My dad says "draw" instead of "drawer".
Hehehe.
We have no idea where this came from.

"It's in the top draw."

danced with Lazlo Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
You know, in third grade when we learned about homophones, my teacher told us that draw and drawer were homophones.. also father and farther. That's what you get for going to school in Canarsie.
Laura P. Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
I tend to say "draw" too.�"Drawer" just seems awkward to me. Where is you father from?�
nate... Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
Northampton, AFAIK.
Andrea Krause Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
"draw" bugs me. But I also don't pronounce the whole of "drawer". I don't know anyone who does. What I say tends to be like "drore".
renita Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
I say something closer to drore as well.
nate... Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
d-ROAR!!!!

*ahem*
danced with Lazlo Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
My dad used to have a co-worker named Dror. It's a Hebrew name, but when I was little I thought his name was Drawer.
emilie is CRANKY Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
i say 'draw'. so there. :P
Sarah Back · 21 years, 4 months ago
I saw that too. Then again to hear me pronounce an R is rare: especially if it's at the end of a word. (I'm from Maine)
George E. Nowik · 21 years, 4 months ago

q-pon here.� it's the way my mother said it when i grew up and when she spent hours cutting them out ...

of course, she makes fun of me for pronouncing the 'th' in clothes...

�-= george =-

Sarah Back · 21 years, 4 months ago
When I was little I could never pronounce a 'th' sound correctly. Instead of 'three' I would say 'free'. Took me what felt like forever to learn to say it correctly.
danced with Lazlo Back · 21 years, 4 months ago
Agh!!!

When I was a kid, I didn't pronounce the "th" in clothes, but then at some point, it just started sounding weird to me and I started pronouncing it... I don't know when it hapened or why, but every once in a while I think of it and it weirds me out... I don't remember if the people around me pronounced it that way or not, though I figure my family must have pronounced it "close" at the time, if thats how I learned to say it... but... um... oh jeez, I just don't know. Now I'm thinking about it again. Thanks a lot Norg. :P

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