Once, before I became familiar with them, I was at an Italian restaurant with my 100% Italian friend. I wanted to order gnocchi (nee-o-ki) but, not knowing how to pronounce it, when the waiter came I asked for notch-ee. She was absolutely mortified.

 

My geeky weird-ass brother, who knows you like Star Trek, insisted I tell you that he heard that an MMO RPG/FPS game based on Star Trek is coming out in the not too distant future. For those of us, such as me, who have no idea what that means, it is supposed to be either a massively-multiplayer online role playing game or a first person shooter game. Try to contain your excitement.

Beth - your gnocchi response cracked me up because Bill & I used to call it: "gee-no-key" until one day his friend (who we call the Italian Stallion) set us straight...dude suddenly busted out a thick accent and gave us the correct pronunciation - complete with a lot of hand gestures!  LOL

Yes, even if I learned several languages it would be to no avail because they would all be pronounced in my dopey midwestern accent!

OMG! I wonder if you have to level up to be able to fire a cloaked vessel!  *sorry, I had to geek out for a moment*

Heck I would have said nee-o-ki, too.  The husband is so funny. He doesn't really have a Cajun accent, but sometimes, he'll say something with such a thick accent that it cracks me up.

You Star Trek geeks are all alike =)

 

It's fun when the accent pops out unexpectedly, isn't it? My next door neighbors were from New Jersey, and for the most part did not have any accents. Occassionally though a "drwaaaar" or "floowaaar" would come out instead of drawer or floor. On the other hand, they hated when I said pop instead of soda =)

You'd love how we say soda water down here for soda. 

Ah, the power of regional dialects.

It was so funny.  When we first got married, he asked me to look in his chifferobe and hand him a pair of socks. I had no idea what he was talking about.  I always called it an armoire or a wardrobe! LOL!

Whoah. Chifferobe? I know southerners, from Louisiana, and I've never heard that one before.

Hey!! Did you, he, or y'all do anything for Fat Tuesday?!?! =) =) =)

I looked up some pictures too, and the Haitians look like they have the most fun

Nah, we didn't do anything for Mardi Gras.

Haitians rock!

I wonder if the pharmacist would have understood him?  I'll never forget when we moved to Indiana from New York the summer before 5th grade.  Not only did the kids tease me mercilessly about how I talked, but sometimes the people in the stores couldn't understand my mom.  I'll never forget going into a place where she ordered a cup of coffee, except she said it with her transplanted Puerto Rican/New Yorker accent which I can't even put into a phonetic spelling, but if I could it would be something like CAWW-fee.  I'm sure you can imagine.  She had to repeat herself about 15 times before finally pointing to the pot of coffee for the bewildered server who replied (as the lightbulb went on), "Oh, you mean CAAHH-fee!"  Forget asking for a glass of water...you might as well speak Latin.

Forget asking for a glass of water..

Oh. Em. Gee. Do not get me started on WOODER. *dies laughing* The first time I heard someone say anything other than "water", I about wet my underoos laughing so hard...once I found out what the HELL he was talking about. WOODER!? *smacks forehead* That is just so funny.

The husband doesn't even have a Cajun accent until it comes to certain words.  I never heard him say syringes before.  I mean the word never came up until now. 

It's so funny when that happens. You think you can no longer be surprised after all these years, then all of a sudden, what the shit did you just say!? LOL

The funniest thing for me, living in Kentucky was that my highly educated Anatomy professor would say lar-in-ix, instead of lar-inx, the way larynx is supposed to be said. But I soon realized that most Southern born and raised people said it like that...

I don't say it like that. I've never heard it said like that. Maybe it's more in Kentucky? 

Definitely a Kentucky thing, yes...don't know about anywhere else, except Tennesseeans who live close to our border as well....