How do you pronounce the word "water"?

I have a friend from Massachusetts who always laughs at my pronunciation! I only know one other person who pronounces it the way I do, and she's also from Pennsylvania (but from Gettysburg; I'm from West Chester). I say "war-ter". I've never been able to determine how I learned to pronounce it that way! Could it be a British pronunciation (Mom was British, so perhaps I learned it from her)? I say it like the word "war", not "waaahhh-ter".

I believe the Philadelphia pronunciation is different; I do have an otherwise Philly accent, except for the w-word!

How do you say water?

waaater.. however my family from Louisiana says wuuurter.

wah ter

http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=water

According to this link, I pronounce it the American way.
 

Wuh ter.

Wah-ter

I've noticed several people from the east coast say war-ter, I think it's just the accent.

Natalie_ca said:

http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=water

According to this link, I pronounce it the American way.
 

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I am as amused with this link as my cats are with a lazer pointer.  This could go on all night! 

I say it Wah-ter.  A lot of people original to the area I live in (so not me. hehe) say it "wooder."  

Lion Queen said:

I am as amused with this link as my cats are with a lazer pointer.  This could go on all night! 

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  I must admit that I was there quite awhile myself!  LOL

I've had so many people say, "So you're from Philly!?!" that I obviously pronounce it "woodder" when I'm not thinking. I take care not to pronounce it that way at school!

Wah-ter

This is an interesting discussion!

War (as in war ) - ter

Hmmmmm....


War-tah, but with a very light emphasis on the r in war. We don't do a lot of r's around here. .

Can't say I've ever heard anyone say war-ter. My grandma says "worsh" for "wash" but I've never heard another pronunciation for water. Just wah-ter .

H2O

Had to do that. :lol3:

I pronounce it wah-ter.

There's no R after the letter A.

The A is a "short" A pronounced as "ah".

My hight school English Lit teacher was quick to correct all us Missouri hicks - we pronounced it "warter", or "worter" before we were corrected.

The other word was "poor" - which was locally pronounced as "pour" - now I've been corrected and pronounce it "pur", well that's the best I can do to explain "poooooooor" (poŏr) LOL

GloriaJH said:

There's no R after the letter A.

The A is a "short" A pronounced as "ah".

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Wattuh in my Cumbrian accent, or wawtuh in English.

Muuhn-shan chaasa

wah-der (and I suspect a lot of you wah-ter folks -- if you're American -- probably actually say the "d" sound rather than the "t" sound, but I could be wrong).

Also:

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vuh-dA

VOda