What is the difference between "cray-ahn" and "cray-awn"?
Note that I pronounce "dawn" = "don".
Also, I say crayon as "crown", which either isn't very popular, or they just chose poor colors for the heatmap.
Note that I pronounce "dawn" = "don".
Also, I say crayon as "crown", which either isn't very popular, or they just chose poor colors for the heatmap.
From what I understand, this is common in Kansas. Are you (or at least one of your parents) from there?
A lot of the pronunciation examples they gave made me speculate whether everyone even pronounces those words the same. It would be easier if everyone would just memorize IPA.
I pronounce crayon as "cray'n" -- pretty much exactly as you could pronounce "prayin'"
As in "Don said dawn gets him down".
Don/dawn sound like the "a" in father for me. Down sounds like the "ou" in "Ouch!"
Edit: Looking at a couple other comments apparently some people pronounce 'ahh' with the same a as 'ann'? I certainly don't.