What is the difference between a vase and a vose

The study was simple enough. Give about 1, people six words that are often pronounced in two different ways, and ask them to attach value judgments to the different pronunciations. As the results below show, language is a social indicator. Our mission has never been more vital than it is in this moment: to empower through understanding.

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By choosing I Accept , you consent to our use of cookies and other tracking technologies. People are judging you for the way you pronounce 'vase'. Share this story Share this on Facebook Share this on Twitter Share All sharing options Share All sharing options for: People are judging you for the way you pronounce 'vase'. Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email. Who cares, right? To-may-to, to-mah-to … Well, actually, a lot of us seem to care about the way we pronounce words. BTW, that the extended little finger is said to date back to the introduction of tea to the denizens of Gin Lane.

Which gives it just the right sort of provenance -- a "ginteelism," if you like. I have never, ever said Vahz except, as you do, when joking. Hence in a day of summer shopkeeping, I can go from Southern to east coast lockjaw to Brooklynese in the span of a single hourmost embarrassing, and apparently incurable. As for onvelopes, I plead guilty and see no reason to change it, unlike tomawto, which I hate hearing escape my lips. If only mothers now were teaching their children not to use cellphones in public the 21st century mutation of public gum chewing except of course, the mothers are doing it themselves.

Fun post. In my little book of quirkiness, it's a vahz if I paid over dollars for it! It's so similar to things I've heard my aunts say that I almost felt like I was a teenager sitting at the dinner table again. So much is regionally determined. Take the region of the USA called Appalachia Maine is where all the Frenchies are, after all. Go away. Oh, and there are pronunciations that are essentially politically- and historically-motivated snubs. Have you ever read the Byron poem Don Jewann?

Or seen a production of Waiting for God-oh? I also hate the substitution of "home" for "house. Do not get me started on the diamond cartels. I say "vayce. Bless your dear sweet unsnobbish Democratic mother's soul.

Oh my, I'm late to the party again. Well in my case, what can i say English learned as a second language in a NE boarding school. Glad we've cleared that up. Magnuspetrie: Granny Darling born in did say "luncheon" but MD did not, would in fact snort derisively when anyone of a younger generation to Granny did.

I use "luncheon" and "bruncheon" ironically and for fun at times here on RD but never use them in speaking, except playfully. Izzy: I remember your mother well, and as a boy thought she was English when I first met her, given the way she spoke. It is only as an adult that I came to understand that she was an American aristocrat of the old school, and spoke as one with a clipped English-influenced accent, which she and her kind were carefully raised to do, and so in her case was entirely appropriate.

Magnuspetrie: PS, that Foxcroft story is a stitch, I shall always remember what that teacher said with pleasure. Reminds me slightly of the time when I was a boy and attending a country day school in Virginia not that far from Foxcraft, actually where we were forbidden to use anything other than a knife and fork when eating fried chicken, which seemed perplexingly absurd to me at the time, and laughably so today.

Oh my, this brought back memories. When I went to boarding school in Washington, DC, in , I was completely shocked to discover that fried chicken was to be eaten using knife and fork. At home, there were very, very few food items we were allowed to pick up and eat, but fried chicken had always been on the list.

I do still say on-velope for the paper product, I just can't help it. I still say on-velope. The things that cover windows are curtains, and the stuffed thing that more than one person can sit on is a sofa. You wipe your mouth with a napkin. Remember how grumpy it made Father when our accents got polluted by association with locals at the farm? Bewwnsburra for Boonesboro was anathema! DED: I, too, am apt to slide into the accent of others. When I go to the UK everyone thinks I am from the opposite part of the country.

I feel like an idiot when I realize I have done a chameleon shift, but unless I concsiously avoid it I am helpless. I also cannot harmonize while singing. Put me next to a soprano I will attempt to sing high, next to an alto I sing low. Do you find this true as well? Ah, gum. I still cannot chew gum in the presence of another human being.

But I no longer eat pizza with a knife and fork Happy Birthday, Little Brother! You missed most of my MD's early dedication to French- torture of tortures- Please remind me to tell you some of those horrible, life changing scenarios when we visit! Oh no, Reggie. We British can't believe you'd say anything as comic -and common - as vase to rhyme with faze. A vase is a vahz this side of the pond. There are people who call it a vawse but they are off their heads.

I think it must be true that we are two nations separated by a common language. I can only assume the correct pronunciation for anything comes from Georgie in Mapp and Lucia- that is where one born on the wrong side of the Empire goes to for the King's English, No? Dear Reggie, How many times have you heard the word house and the word home confused as one.

My mother would always correct the person no matter who used the word incorrectly or when. Thanks for memories. And to really bare it all, I do still sometimes say to-mah-toe. Usually when I'm either tired, or drunk, or both. Reggie aspires to perfection, but he so rarely achieves it. And, thank you, Hermione, it was lovely. Reggie, DAHling!

Love your blog, how have I not discovered it sooner? Happy to find you, will be following. Oh, I love this. My view is that you can say it either way, as long as that's the way you've always said it: no changing horses midstream. Still, I don't expect people to conform to MY way of doing everything, at least, not when it comes to stuff like pronunciation. No, I prefer to save my corrections for issues that really matter--say, magazines fanned out across a table doctor's-waitng-room style.

But "vase" How do you pronounce IKEA? What is the plural for vase? The plural of vase is 'vases'. Just add an 's' to it. What are vases used for? A vase is a container, often used for flowers. They can be made from a number of materials, including glass and ceramics.

Many vases are decorated or painted but some are left plain. It sometimes is used for decorations in American and Chinese homes. How do you pronounce Z? The vast majority of the English speaking world does this. What is the correct way to say water?

Say 'water'. How do Americans say tomato? Either pronunciation is considered standard. Either is easily understood by other English speakers. How would you describe a vase? Here are some adjectives for vase: tall etruscan, tawdry japanese, massive japanese, expensive ornate, white etruscan, transparent open-mouthed, coloured etruscan, particularly fragmented, cheap, thick-walled, low or depressed, difficult and probably horrible, thin cut-glass, sumptuous metallic, upright octagonal,.