How do you pronounce "Tournament"?
 

It's that time of year. Listening to the radio this morning, and the host was pronouncing it one way while the guest talking head was pronouncing it completely opposite.

How do you say it?

TORN-a-ment?

TURN-a-ment?

Turn.

I'm not from the east coast, so TURN-a-ment.

The only people who say "Tore-nament" are Daniel LaRusso and his mom from Karate Kid.

TORN - Back East dialect

TURN - Midwest/South dialect

I have friends from both regions that pronounce it the opposite of what you indicate. That's why I ask...

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NOT like how Frank Martin says it.

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Torn

torn-a-ment makes someone sound like they have a speech impediment

Well most call it NCAA Tore-nament.

Kentucky fans call it NIT Tore-nament.

oh, and as my friend in NY always says: Toy-Nament. The R is silent.

Torn-uh-ment

Then there are those who pronounce it TOORnament.
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Toorney, turnament

Tooony-mart

Turn a mint

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Not sure which way to vote.

I say it like.

phonetically:

Ter-na-ment.

What I hate is when announcers say it as...

Tour-na-ment.

This
I am from NY and pronounce the R.

Either way is correct.

Turn

I say TURN.

Nothing wrong with saying TORN, because the word Tour is at the beginning.

The dictionary.com voice says TORN.

Turn.

I'll even allow toor. Torn is too much; I'd laugh if I heard it.

Tour Name Mint

The word is Tour...not tur...****ing hillbillies.

Too-Er-Na-Mint, for sillibles.

LOL

I say turn, but for some reason it doesn't bother me too much when someone says torn.

Only Yankees call it TORNament. They do it while they're waiting ON Line at da Bank.

tor na ment

I go with the Hootie Johnson pronunciation: tuna mint.

How do you "torn" people pronounce tour?

To me, tour rhymes with bore. Or apple core.

too-er

And do you say "torny" for short?

Yes, like corny.

WTF?

I'm sorry if that confuses you.

Poll results indicate that you're a backwards ass minority on the subject...

Half the people here think definitely is spelled defanetely, so that doesn't really concern me.

Tower

It's all just vernacular.

Stop bitching.

LMAO

I say college basketball playoffs. :D

Exactly.

i pronouce it....GeNo SmiTH

Turn. Free Green Love. Midgets. Omaha. AIDS Tree.

I pronounce it 'Turbulent' / Poe.

only english gits say TORNament

"Where-MU-Doesn't-Belong"

Like that...

Curly would say toynament

Something K-State has never won.

Turn-a-mey-unt.

Hedgehog.

I pronounce it "Turn-A-Ment" however, the proper phonetics of it are "Tour-nay-ment"

Tantamount.

dictionary.com pronounces all of its words east-coasty though. Seriously, look into it.

Torn

Turn. I have never heard it pronounced Torn.

turmet

Turn-a-ment.

You left out the best one, though: "Tuhna-ment".

Watch The Masters.

Never heard an Aussie or Englishman say 'tournament'? :D

Maybe when I meet you.

Someone's eager.

We are either coming down for our 25th wedding anniversary or our 30th. Most likely the 30th because we are not planning on taking the kids.

It'll be odd meeting another Chiefs fan. Kind of surreal to think of, for me.

That's the one.

Turn

And TOWnament for people from NJ?

Toonament, probably (with the "oo" sound from "book"). No "r" sound.

Yeah I haven't got the New Joisey accent down to a tee.

So, can you tell me why Australians are so much better at sounding like Yanks than Yanks are at faking an Australian accent?

I wasn't being sarcastic, sorry if it came across that way.

No, I'm serious. All Americans can do is the "shrimp on the barbie" bit. You guys send over actors that sound just like us.

This year will be our 21st anniversary so now you have a timeframe.:D

Ohh okay. Maybe it's becaude a more normal Aussie accent is less of a "shrimp on the barbie mate" type gig, as it is a cross between a British and an American accent. Maybe the cross between the two helps actors etc imitate American/british accents more naturally.

I mean, don't get me wrong, we do say mate and we do have an accent/words only aussies use, and there are people that have quite strong accents, but most people (from cities anyway) have a relatively nuetral (from my perspective anyway) accent, which is -as I said- a cross between british and american accents.

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