My Fair Lady is one of my favorite movies, partly because of the diction lessons Professor Higgins gives Eliza Doolittle as he endeavors to transform her, a commoner, into a lady of refinement such as those who work in "flow'r" shops.
Maybe it's owing to the countless hours I spent accompanying voice lessons in college, picking up lots of diction instruction over the years, or maybe it's having grown up in a region of the country known for its distinctive dialect. At any rate, I find it fascinating.
Case in point: the younger lad pronounces the word "crayon" almost like "crown." Mister Rogers pronounces it (or did, I guess I should say) "CRAY-en", and I say it "CRAY-on."
How do you say it?
chocolate granola
10 years ago
I say "CRAY-on", but growing up we said "crown". I started pronouncing it differently when I moved south. I found that people had no clue what I was saying.
ReplyDeleteI also say Cray-on, but have a brother in law that says it "crown". I didn't even know that the word was up for interperative pronunciation until then! :)
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