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Post by Delta Dawn on Mar 12, 2017 2:05:48 GMT
Only tile but I am Canadian.
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Post by gramasue on Mar 12, 2017 2:23:39 GMT
Another Canadian here ... I would rhyme it with 'smile'.
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Post by msliz on Mar 12, 2017 2:29:43 GMT
-tile rhyming with smile, and just as Ma and Pa Ingalls, the Olseons (who owned one) and all the other folks in Walnut Grove pronounced it. This. I was raised on LHOP.
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Post by AussieMeg on Mar 12, 2017 2:32:32 GMT
Rhymes with smile, and I've never heard it pronounced any other way.
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Post by marianne on Mar 12, 2017 3:09:09 GMT
I've always heard it as mercan-teel - that's how dictionary.com pronounces it too.
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Post by bc2ca on Mar 12, 2017 3:14:32 GMT
-tile rhyming with smile, and just as Ma and Pa Ingalls, the Olseons (who owned one) and all the other folks in Walnut Grove pronounced it. Thank you! This would explain why I was so sure it was "tile". Years of Little House on the Prairie watching. ETA you can hear the "teel" pronounciation in this promo
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Post by Suziee2 on Mar 12, 2017 3:15:30 GMT
"teel" for me. (Michigan and Texas.)
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Post by just PEAchy on Mar 12, 2017 4:01:28 GMT
I'm one of the oddballs who pronounce it mer-can-til. I don't really use it that often anymore, but growing up (St Louis area) there was a large bank called Mercantile Bank, pronounced by everyone I knew as -til.
I have heard -tell, but don't think I've heard -tile (except on tv). I've lived all over the US.
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Post by lisacharlotte on Mar 12, 2017 14:38:16 GMT
-tile with a long i. I'm from southern California and probably learned this from LHOP.
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Post by myshelly on Mar 12, 2017 15:11:19 GMT
-tile rhyming with smile, and just as Ma and Pa Ingalls, the Olseons (who owned one) and all the other folks in Walnut Grove pronounced it. Thank you! This would explain why I was so sure it was "tile". Years of Little House on the Prairie watching. ETA you can hear the "teel" pronounciation in this promo I watched 1.5 minutes of the 5 minute video. Does Ree herself ever say the word? So far the narrator has said it twice, but Ree has not. Also, several people are saying "till". Is that a third pronounciation? Because "teel" and "till" sound different to me.
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Post by katlady on Mar 12, 2017 15:54:36 GMT
I would say "tile" (if I ever had to actually say the word) but I have heard "teel".
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Post by bc2ca on Mar 12, 2017 17:34:54 GMT
I watched 1.5 minutes of the 5 minute video. Does Ree herself ever say the word? So far the narrator has said it twice, but Ree has not. Also, several people are saying "till". Is that a third pronounciation? Because "teel" and "till" sound different to me. Sorry, Ree doesn't say it in that video, it was just an example of the different pronounciations. This is an interview where she does at about the 30 second mark.
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Post by MsKnit on Mar 12, 2017 18:56:45 GMT
-tile rhyming with smile, and just as Ma and Pa Ingalls, the Olseons (who owned one) and all the other folks in Walnut Grove pronounced it.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Mar 13, 2017 1:20:57 GMT
I say mer-can-tile (rhymes with smile).
Had no idea others said it any different.
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Post by oaksong on Mar 13, 2017 1:33:38 GMT
My family roots are from southern Kansas/Oklahoma, and I say mercanteel. Maybe it's a regional thing.
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Post by scrapbug on Mar 13, 2017 1:37:28 GMT
#1. I don't think I've heard it pronounced another way, of course. it's a word I don't hear used in general conversation. I'm from the West Coast.
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Post by AngieandSnoopy on Mar 13, 2017 3:13:31 GMT
One thing, do other places have several stores with mercantile in the name? There are several here in Lincoln County but then maybe it is just here that we like the word mercantile.
After all, the Murphy & Dolan Mercantile was instrumental in the Lincoln County War. Interestingly enough, the Tunstall Store still has original displays AND merchandise from back then. Everything was dumped into the basement and forgotten for many years.
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Post by jlynnbarth on Mar 13, 2017 3:24:14 GMT
My family has always pronounced it Mer-can-tile. My Great Granddad and Great Grandmother owned one in Kansas when my Grandmother was growing up.
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Post by anonrefugee on Mar 13, 2017 7:46:30 GMT
One thing, do other places have several stores with mercantile in the name? There are several here in Lincoln County but then maybe it is just here that we like the word mercantile. After all, the Murphy & Dolan Mercantile was instrumental in the Lincoln County War. Interestingly enough, the Tunstall Store still has original displays AND merchandise from back then. Everything was dumped into the basement and forgotten for many years. We have a few across the region, but they're all new, trendy. I think it was used here 100 years ago, but went the way of General Store.
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