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Post by roundtwo on Sept 14, 2023 17:09:10 GMT
I am in Canada and I pronounce it kran, although at this point, after saying it out loud too many times to count in the past 30 seconds, it just sounds like a silly noise, lol.
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Post by flanz on Sept 14, 2023 17:17:30 GMT
Cray-awn and cray-on sound the same to me 🤷🏻♀️ YES!!! |
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Post by PaperAngel on Sept 14, 2023 18:06:02 GMT
As an east coast/southerner, I call each of them a cray-on (pronounced kray-ahn) & frequently hear the southern/British pronunciation "kray-uhn."
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Sept 14, 2023 19:30:45 GMT
I think the next question would be does your “cray” sound like my “cray”? I imagine yours is more like “cry” Cray rhymes with say/may for me. The British accent in my head sounds different than what YouTube is telling me lol. |
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Post by gar on Sept 14, 2023 19:34:11 GMT
Cray rhymes with say/may for me. The British accent in my head sounds different than what YouTube is telling me lol. Well, we have regional accents too obviously so maybe that accounts for it? |
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Post by jeremysgirl on Sept 14, 2023 19:56:57 GMT
I say cran. I live in Michigan but in my crayon using days when I learned to talk I was in Chicago.
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Post by supersoda on Sept 14, 2023 23:18:05 GMT
The British accent in my head sounds different than what YouTube is telling me lol. Well, we have regional accents too obviously so maybe that accounts for it? Definitely. I’m spending a week in Sheffield and was just commenting on how many variations of accents I’ve heard. Some are so mild you have to listen for a minute to distinguish it from a generic American accent, and others are very noticeable right away. Now I want to learn which ones are from which parts of the UK. |
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Post by mollycoddle on Sept 14, 2023 23:38:08 GMT
I say the first two choices the same way, but could only check one.  |
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Post by nine on Sept 14, 2023 23:42:22 GMT
I say both crans and cray-ons.
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Post by mollycoddle on Sept 14, 2023 23:46:25 GMT
I say cray-on. I definitely hear a difference in the way people pronounce their words. I also hear a big difference in Don and Dawn. Your mouth opens up and jaw drops for Don and for Dawn your jaw comes back up and lips pull together to make a smaller hole. I teach k-3 graders their vowel sounds every day it really helps with noticing the slight differences of the sounds. Too many vowels in crayon to make it a one syllable word.  I love this type of thread! lol And...to me "Don" and "Dawn" are the same. Western Pennsylvania born and raised, until I moved to Massachusetts where I heard odd things such as "bubbler" (drinking fountain) or "frappe" (milkshake) and "carriage" (shopping cart) and "wicked" (awesome), just off the top of my head. hahaha -- Then I moved to Washington, DC, then Northern Virginia. With Africa in there also. With all those moves I still pronounce Don/Dawn, and bought/bot and caught/cot the same.  Yup. Northeastern Ohio here, and they sound exactly the same to me. This region uses the same vowel for those word sets. I have a friend who was raised in NJ, and I can hear the difference in those word pairs when she says them. |
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Post by smasonnc on Sept 14, 2023 23:51:36 GMT
It's quite clearly a two syllable word with a long "a" sound and a short "o" sound. How does that become "crans", 'krawns" or other equally incorrect pronunciations? Just like those who call my state "Flor-da," it's wrong. Say all the syllables. It's first grade phonics, folks.
BTW, my children claim that I get more upset by incorrect grammar and pronunciation than by profanity. They're not wrong. They're also all adults so let's be clear, I'm not using the F-word in front of children.
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Post by myboysnme on Sept 15, 2023 0:07:08 GMT
My husband from Philly says Crown
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Post by elaine on Sept 15, 2023 0:36:14 GMT
I was born and raised in CA and grew up calling them cray-ons.
I have since lived in various places around the country, except for the deep South (I originally wrote just “the South” but some consider VA the South), and I never heard them called “colors” before this thread.
Do teachers in places that call crayons “colors” ask children “what color color do you want?”
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Post by katlady on Sept 15, 2023 0:48:06 GMT
Do teachers in places that call crayons “colors” ask children “what color color do you want?” It is probably like how they use the word “cola” to mean a soda, and then you have to say you want a cola when they ask what kind of cola. 😂 |
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Post by elaine on Sept 15, 2023 0:57:56 GMT
Do teachers in places that call crayons “colors” ask children “what color color do you want?” It is probably like how they use the word “cola” to mean a soda, and then you have to say you want a cola when they ask what kind of cola. 😂 Yes, my husband grew up calling all soda “coke” in WV, and we used to have that conversation. 😂 |
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Post by iteach3rdgrade on Sept 15, 2023 2:56:29 GMT
I make an effort to saw cray-on. I lived in the south until I was about 5 and I can still catch myself saying some words differently.
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Post by katybee on Sept 15, 2023 3:34:07 GMT
Cray-awn and cray-on sound the same to me 🤷🏻♀️ It’s like the whole Don/Dawn debate all over again! (I’m with you, though!) I’m taking a linguistics course right now, and there actually is a difference (even though I say them the same). Think of the aw sound as the sound the Coffee Talk ladies from SNL would say when they said coffee and talk. Interestingly enough, most linguists say that sound is becoming less and less common and may not be be considered a separate sound in a few decades. |
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Post by anniefb on Sept 15, 2023 9:50:11 GMT
Definitely cray-on here.
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Post by monklady123 on Sept 15, 2023 10:11:35 GMT
I was born and raised in CA and grew up calling them cray-ons. I have since lived in various places around the country, except for the deep South (I originally wrote just “the South” but some consider VA the South), and I never heard them called “colors” before this thread. Do teachers in places that call crayons “colors” ask children “what color color do you want?” Virginia *is* south (although definitely not the "deep south"). Our part of it is not.  I refuse to say that I live in the south. Anyway, no one I know is from the south. Everyone in my part of NOVA is transplanted from somewhere else. I just went up and down my street in my head, for fun, and including me and dh we have people originally from: Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, Maine, Arlington (yes, there are a few originals, haha), Massachusetts, Nebraska, Oregon, Minnesota, California, Connecticut, Russia, and England. Several duplicates from New York and Maryland. |
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Post by elaine on Sept 15, 2023 13:56:38 GMT
I was born and raised in CA and grew up calling them cray-ons. I have since lived in various places around the country, except for the deep South (I originally wrote just “the South” but some consider VA the South), and I never heard them called “colors” before this thread. Do teachers in places that call crayons “colors” ask children “what color color do you want?” Virginia *is* south (although definitely not the "deep south"). Our part of it is not. I refuse to say that I live in the south. Anyway, no one I know is from the south. Everyone in my part of NOVA is transplanted from somewhere else. I just went up and down my street in my head, for fun, and including me and dh we have people originally from: Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, Maine, Arlington (yes, there are a few originals, haha), Massachusetts, Nebraska, Oregon, Minnesota, California, Connecticut, Russia, and England. Several duplicates from New York and Maryland. In my cul de sac people are from Korea (several families), Nepal, Egypt, Bolivia, Somalia, China, Afghanistan, India, New York, California (Nextdoor neighbors and me), WV (my husband), and two families from NoVA. The families from around the world all include parents born in those countries and who speak those languages at home. So, yeah, not representative of the Deep South in my Northern VA neighborhood - white native English speakers are definitely a small minority. I’m betting that they call crayons a wide variety of things not covered in this thread and that my untrained tongue would struggle to pronounce. 😂 |
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Post by gina on Sept 15, 2023 19:03:13 GMT
Those are CRAY-ONS.
- NY
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Post by monklady123 on Sept 15, 2023 19:21:09 GMT
Virginia *is* south (although definitely not the "deep south"). Our part of it is not. I refuse to say that I live in the south. Anyway, no one I know is from the south. Everyone in my part of NOVA is transplanted from somewhere else. I just went up and down my street in my head, for fun, and including me and dh we have people originally from: Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, Maine, Arlington (yes, there are a few originals, haha), Massachusetts, Nebraska, Oregon, Minnesota, California, Connecticut, Russia, and England. Several duplicates from New York and Maryland. In my cul de sac people are from Korea (several families), Nepal, Egypt, Bolivia, Somalia, China, Afghanistan, India, New York, California (Nextdoor neighbors and me), WV (my husband), and two families from NoVA. The families from around the world all include parents born in those countries and who speak those languages at home. So, yeah, not representative of the Deep South in my Northern VA neighborhood - white native English speakers are definitely a small minority. I’m betting that they call crayons a wide variety of things not covered in this thread and that my untrained tongue would struggle to pronounce. 😂 Your neighborhood sounds more interesting than mine! A little bit less international here where I live, although we do have several families from Central America around the corner. The kids like to talk to me in Spanish so they can giggle at my replies. haha I've been studying though so one day they'll be surprised.  |
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Post by Gennifer on Sept 15, 2023 23:34:22 GMT
I also hear a big difference in Don and Dawn. Your mouth opens up and jaw drops for Don and for Dawn your jaw comes back up and lips pull together to make a smaller hole. You can’t hear a difference if there’s not one. My mouth moves the exact same way for Dawn as it does for Don. Just like write and right, or marry, merry, and Mary… they are spelled differently, but the words are pronounced identically by me. |
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Post by 950nancy on Sept 16, 2023 2:42:03 GMT
I also hear a big difference in Don and Dawn. Your mouth opens up and jaw drops for Don and for Dawn your jaw comes back up and lips pull together to make a smaller hole. You can’t hear a difference if there’s not one. My mouth moves the exact same way for Dawn as it does for Don. Just like write and right, or marry, merry, and Mary… they are spelled differently, but the words are pronounced identically by me. I teach these skills, so they are really different for me. If I say them quickly, they are harder to hear. |
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Post by miominmio on Sept 16, 2023 17:00:08 GMT
Cray-on or «farger» depending on language
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