Kansas Crimson

How do you pronounce this word? I get made fun of for it often but its how I learned to say it in Kansas. Curious how other Kansans say the word.

I came to Kansas as an adult (almost 20 yo) from outside the US. So, I would be part of the "control group" in your experiment. I pronounce it the way I have since childhood, exactly the way it's written - cray-YAWN

cray-on

not crown

but i also say ooze-doll, and not ahs-dale

I won’t be your ooze doll.

TraditionKU wrote: ↑Sat Apr 18, 2020 6:47 pm cray-on

not crown

Its definitely crown

TDub wrote: ↑Sat Apr 18, 2020 6:55 pm

TraditionKU wrote: ↑Sat Apr 18, 2020 6:47 pm cray-on

not crown

Its definitely crown

weirdo

I usually pronounce it wrong. I say cran.
Depending on who you ask, I also struggle with pronouncing milk, egg, leg, roof, and other what should be easy to pronounce words.

I’m a cran. I like the simplicity. That word doesn’t need two syllables.

I’ve also recently adopted that fun southern way of saying oil that’s more like ohhhl.

TraditionKU wrote: ↑Sat Apr 18, 2020 6:47 pm cray-on

not crown

^^^

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Grandma wrote: ↑Sat Apr 18, 2020 7:50 pm I usually pronounce it wrong. I say cran.
Depending on who you ask, I also struggle with pronouncing milk, egg, leg, roof, and other what should be easy to pronounce words.

melk?

Yep. I usually pronounce it melk but sometimes I pronounce it correctly.
egg often becomes ayg instead of ehg. leg becomes lehg instead of layg. roof becomes ruhf.

I have a habit of saying ruff for roof.

What about creek? Sometimes i say creek. Usually i say crik.

My grandmother could not say Washington or washing machine. It was always warshin machine out there in warshinton

Cran.
Also its woolf not woof.
My phD blowup doll I live with pronounces room, rum.

Anyone from kansas say crown? Or just me

Cray-on here.

My dad used to go swimmin in the crick. And to see a show at the thee Ate er.