Veritaserum Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 Dh (Upstate NY) and I (Southern California) disagree. ETA: Focus on the first syllable. If you say SIR-ip (or SIR-ep or whatever) vote for SIR-up. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwik Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 I can't really explain how. It is kind of like sirrip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fraidycat Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 Sir up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shukriyya Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 Canadian born and I pronounce it somewhere between the two, not quite so a long vowel sound as 'seer' and not 'up' but 'ip'. Clear as mud? :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Excelsior! Academy Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 Sir-up You need to remember I live in OK and not everyone agrees with all of our common pronunciations. Y'all know what I mean? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Above The Rowan Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 Canadian born and I pronounce it somewhere between the two, not quite so a long vowel sound as 'seer' and not 'up' but 'ip'. Clear as mud? :lol:This is me also. I kind of say it "sehr-ip" or maybe "sair-ip". I have a blend of an east coast accent and Ontario. I can't find the best way to write it out phonetically. This is the best I can come up with. I've just said syrup out loud so many times, it's losing its meaning lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chelli Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 Southerner and I say sir-up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shukriyya Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 This is me also. I kind of say it "sehr-ip" or maybe "sair-ip". I have a blend of an east coast accent and Ontario. I can't find the best way to write it out phonetically. This is the best I can come up with. I've just said syrup out loud so many times, it's losing its meaning lol. :seeya: Another Ontario-born here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Above The Rowan Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 :seeya: Another Ontario-born here I was born in SK, raised in NL and moved to ON as a teen. I have a bit of a strange blend of accents :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Word Nerd Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 SIR-up here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desert Strawberry Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 Sir up. I'm from southern California as well. I'm in Louisiana. I hear seer ip quite a bit. So wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Word Nerd Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 From 22 Maps That Show How Americans Speak English Totally Differently From One Another: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laurie4b Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 Grew up in the Mid-Atlantic region and we said "Seer-up." Found correct pronunciation is "sir-up," which is how it's pronounced where I live now. Maybe it's one of those "niche" words that can pin down where you grew up! ETA: Posted before I saw the map. That pretty much explains it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Word Nerd Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 Grew up in the Mid-Atlantic region and we said "Seer-up." Found correct pronunciation is "sir-up," which is how it's pronounced where I live now. Maybe it's one of those "niche" words that can pin down where you grew up! Definitely—at least for those who say seer-up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostSurprise Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 Sihr-up and Sir-up are both common here. Wisconsin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommymilkies Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 Sear-up I find sir-up really odd and it wasn't something I ever heard until I moved to Illinois. I was born and (mostly) raised in Ohio. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veritaserum Posted July 11, 2014 Author Share Posted July 11, 2014 From 22 Maps That Show How Americans Speak English Totally Differently From One Another: That explains it. Dh's parents are both from that tiny blue area in SE NY and NJ. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandylubug Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 GA. .sear-up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1GirlTwinBoys Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 KY and we say Sear-IP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dana Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 That explains it. Dh's parents are both from that tiny blue area in SE NY and NJ. Dh just used the word and I showed him this thread. He grew up in CA, so I was curious about who picked each pronunciation in the OP. Turns out dh's father is from NJ, so that may be the explanation :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom23Boys Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 Sir up, South Louisiana. I don't know anyone who says seer up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngelaNYC Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 Sear-up. And I'm right. So there. :001_tt2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serenade Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 Seer-up here. I was born and lived the first 7 years of my life just outside NY city. My dad was a native New Yorker,and my mom was a native-born German. I've lived in the South since I've been 7, but I still say Seer-up. I never did learn to talk as a Southerner, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fraidycat Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 FWIW, Saskatchewan born and raised. As far as I can tell from all of these pronunciation questions around here, Manitoba and west speak very true/close to phonetic rules. This is not true for Eastern Canadians. ;) We always bug our eastern relatives about their accents. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 Sih (same vowel as in 'sit') Rup (as in 'up'). SIH-rup. Southern England. L Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneStepAtATime Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 I do different pronunciations depending on the group of people I am with. I moved a lot as a kid and I have discovered I tend to adapt my pronunciation of many words to whatever group or area I am in. I do it subconsciously. I had to really think about the syrup question.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wintermom Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 Alberta-born, and I pronounce syrup SIH-rup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson Wife Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 Alberta-born, and I pronounce syrup SIH-rup. Ditto, though I grew up in New England. The first syllable has a short "i" sound like the i in "sit". It's not a long e or an r-controlled i but a short i. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjzimmer1 Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 I voted other because it's more like Sirp. Just a one syllable word. But I've heard the other variations spoken around me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeAndTheBoys Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 We always make fun of my parents for saying "SEER-up", but they are as southern as southern can be, middle Alabama. Don't know WHERE they got that pronunciation from. I'll have to look on that map someone posted--my dad also says, "Dorters" for "daughters" and "Srimp" for "shrimp"--wonder where he picked those up??? My kids and I are "SIR-up" kind of people. DH says "GIT-tar" for "guitar" and "THEE-AY-ter" for "theater" so I need to track down those too. Probably just Alabama--he's from the backwoods :) Betsy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeAndTheBoys Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 We always make fun of my parents for saying "SEER-up", but they are as southern as southern can be, middle Alabama. Don't know WHERE they got that pronunciation from. I'll have to look on that map someone posted--my dad also says, "Dorters" for "daughters" and "Srimp" for "shrimp"--wonder where he picked those up??? My kids and I are "SIR-up" kind of people. DH says "GIT-tar" for "guitar" and "THEE-AY-ter" for "theater" so I need to track down those too. Probably just Alabama--he's from the backwoods :) Betsy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustEm Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 I'm close to that little blue area on the map and say seer up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SadieMarie Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 Seer up here and we are in the Midwest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butter Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 Other: Both interchangeably. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommymilkies Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 Dh says "Sear-up" is for the real maple stuff and "sir-up" is for the corn syrup fake stuff. :p I'll admit, sir-up annoys me when I hear it. I make fun of dh when I hear him say it, and he makes fun of me for saying "bayg" for bag. That map is confusing partly because in my travels (and I'm a big fan of pancakes), I almost never hear it except in rural midwestern areas-OR, CA, CO, AZ, NC, NY, KY, wherever, I must've found kindred sear-upers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppy Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 From 22 Maps That Show How Americans Speak English Totally Differently From One Another: Is anyone else profoundly bothered by the fact that there is a green option in the legend but nowhere on the map is green? I am a SEAR-up. But I never hear others as pronouncing it "wrong" like I do with often or pajamas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tangerine Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 I feel strongly about SEER-up. If you watch commercials for pancake syrup, chocolate syrup, or corn syrup, they say SEER-up. So I feel like it is the "neutral" pronunciation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alisoncooks Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 Born and raised eastern NC and I am firmly in the SEER-UP camp. My DH says SURP -- one syllable!! -- and it drives me nuts (he's from eastern VA). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dicentra Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 Yes...yes I am. I was wondering the same thing. Like where the hell is the green?! Why do they have green if there is no green??? Well... They obviously should have included central Canada on the map - then you'd have your green. :) I'm from Northwestern Ontario - born, raised, and now living here again - and I would pronounce it half-way between "sir-up" and "sear-up" which is how I'm reading the map's "green" pronunciation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maize Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 Is anyone else profoundly bothered by the fact that there is a green option in the legend but nowhere on the map is green? I am a SEAR-up. But I never hear others as pronouncing it "wrong" like I do with often or pajamas. The green is there, zoom in on New York City. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsquirrel Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 Hmmm.. grew up in upstate NY along the Canadian border with one Canadian parent and I pronounce it "sear-up" Of course my mom said bagel like "Bag-l" instead of 'Bay-gel', which got me a LOT of odd looks growing up. Finally in high school a friend corrected me. My mom still says "Bag-l" which always makes me think of 'Bag End" from The Hobbit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeindeed Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 Sir up. I live in south Alabama. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joyofsixreboot Posted July 12, 2014 Share Posted July 12, 2014 Seer up except it's more like seerp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson Wife Posted July 12, 2014 Share Posted July 12, 2014 my dad also says, "Dorters" for "daughters" Dorter for daughter, worter for water, worsh for wash, etc. seems to be a PA thing because both my MIL (who grew up near Harrisburg) and my FIL (who grew up near Philly) say those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoJosMom Posted July 12, 2014 Share Posted July 12, 2014 From 22 Maps That Show How Americans Speak English Totally Differently From One Another: Great link, BTW! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeAndTheBoys Posted July 12, 2014 Share Posted July 12, 2014 Dorter for daughter, worter for water, worsh for wash, etc. seems to be a PA thing because both my MIL (who grew up near Harrisburg) and my FIL (who grew up near Philly) say those. Oh, my dad is so much not PA--his family is long time rural Alabamians--but he joined the military and traveled the world so maybe he picked it up somewhere :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thescrappyhomeschooler Posted July 12, 2014 Share Posted July 12, 2014 Ohio born and raised. Sir-up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thescrappyhomeschooler Posted July 12, 2014 Share Posted July 12, 2014 Ohio born and raised. Sir-up. Double post. Silly computer with spotty internet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 SEER-up. Born and raised in California. Family members are not from the blue areas on the map. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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