Other people's pronunciation
I was at Borders earlier and overheard this sales clerk tell someone about a special holiday coupon offer. There's really nothing wrong with this scenario except that the sales guy pronounced coupon as "kyoo-pon" (as opposed to "koo-pon").
Okay... obviously in a language as widely spoken as English, there are going to be many different ways to say the same thing. I mean, people out West say "pop" for soda and people down South say "Coke" for soda (even for Sprite... which baffles me since Coke is a registered brand name). But this isn't even a regional thing. I mean, I can accept this "pop" and "Coke" and "tennis shoes" business (even in Spanish, the word is "tenis" which drives me insane!), but I have a serious problem with kyoo-pon. Apparently, there are people in the Northeast who say "kyoo-pon"! (I first became aware of this dreadful pronunciation in that episode of "Friends" where Monica bragged about her date's diplomatic kyoo-pons to Phoebe whereas Phoebe's date couldn't even SAY kyoo-pons. I just thought Courteney Cox was weird.)
Why would you say kyoo-pon? Whence came this random "yoo"?
Boo... dictionary.com sanctions this pronunciation. How upsetting. Anyway, if it is not yet clear... I would like to state that "kyoo-pon" sounds stupid and people should say koo-pon. If this seems closed-minded and ignorant of the diversity of the people who speak English... well... I guess all I can say is that people should follow what I say because I'm awesome and everyone should be like me.
:-)
Okay... obviously in a language as widely spoken as English, there are going to be many different ways to say the same thing. I mean, people out West say "pop" for soda and people down South say "Coke" for soda (even for Sprite... which baffles me since Coke is a registered brand name). But this isn't even a regional thing. I mean, I can accept this "pop" and "Coke" and "tennis shoes" business (even in Spanish, the word is "tenis" which drives me insane!), but I have a serious problem with kyoo-pon. Apparently, there are people in the Northeast who say "kyoo-pon"! (I first became aware of this dreadful pronunciation in that episode of "Friends" where Monica bragged about her date's diplomatic kyoo-pons to Phoebe whereas Phoebe's date couldn't even SAY kyoo-pons. I just thought Courteney Cox was weird.)
Why would you say kyoo-pon? Whence came this random "yoo"?
Boo... dictionary.com sanctions this pronunciation. How upsetting. Anyway, if it is not yet clear... I would like to state that "kyoo-pon" sounds stupid and people should say koo-pon. If this seems closed-minded and ignorant of the diversity of the people who speak English... well... I guess all I can say is that people should follow what I say because I'm awesome and everyone should be like me.
:-)
posted by Anny at 9:29 PM
4 Comments:
Kyoopon is a Northeast thing? How come I've never ever once said Kyoopon and never even heard anyone say that until I was an adult? I think it's just wrong. WRONG. Lauren says Kyoopon, and she's Southern and I'm pretty sure my cousin says it also, and she's from the West Coast.
Weird. KOOPON! KOO PON! NOT KYOO PON!
Also, why do people pronounce "idea", as "idear"? Where is this R coming from?
Could you please also explain the "tennis bracelet?"
My mom says "kyoo-pon" and I make fun of her. It's weird.
it's like when people say "boo-fay" instead of buh-fay. weirds me out just a little
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