I got such a kick out of reading about your funky pronunciations last night! So many of your comments made me laugh out loud because I feel like my dad pronounces a lot of words the way some of you guys do.
- Orange = Arnge
- Wash = Warsh
The poor man also cannot pronounce edamame for the life of him and says “chimney” like “chimley.”
He’s from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in case you were wondering… but my mom is too (they were in the same kindergarten class) and she somehow managed to leave Pennsylvania without these funny pronunciations.
When I moved to Florida from Illinois in 2003, I got made fun of all the time for the way I said “mom.” I pronounced it “maaam” (Chicago accent, baby!) and also said “pop” instead of soda. I think I now say mom with the proper “o” instead of the nasally “a” and I’ve converted saying “soda” as well. I guess eight years in Florida will change ya!
Workout
Today’s workout was day two on my new workout plan. I started my workout with a two-mile run before hitting the weights to complete this upper-body workout:
- Superset one: Front shoulder raises, Tricep dips
- Superset two: Chest press, Upright row
- Superset three: Bicep curls, Tricep extensions
- Superset four: Overhead press, Barbell row
- Tricep pulldowns
- Bicep curls (3 minutes)
- Mac raises (<—Learned this one from BodyPump!)
- Lat pulldowns
I did three sets of 15 repetitions of every exercise.
My arms felt nice and fatigued by the end of that workout! I’m already loving this new workout plan. I needed something new to rejuvenate my workouts and I have a feeling this is going to be a good change.
Now I just have to cram in a three mile run sometime today to get my total of five miles in to stay on track for my half marathon training plan. We’ll see if that happens!
To all of you expert runners out there, right now I have myself doing two week-day runs at five miles in addition to one long run on Saturday. Any chance I can get away with running less during the week? I’d love your input. I’m not running for a specific time. My goal is to simply run the whole thing and cross the finish line without wanting to die.
Breakfast
Today’s meal looks awfully similar to yesterday’s breakfast!
Apparently frying eggs after cooking turkey bacon makes the eggs get all funky looking and spotty. Still tasty, though!
Question of the Morning
How do you pronounce…
- Coupon: Cue-pon or coo-pon?
- Pecan: Pah-cahn or pee-can?
- Caramel: Car-mel or care-a-mel?
My answers: Cue-pon, pah-can and car-mel.
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I have the world’s strangest accent. I spent my childhood bouncing between rural North Carolina (Cuuu-oh-LINah) and Detroit, MI. I can speak in both regional accents quite well when I’m concentrating on which accent I’m using.
My every day speech is the neutral Midwest Michigan “non-accent” as I like to call it, because I reside near Detroit now. I have a few words (pecan, for example, is pee-can and that drives my BF bonkers) that I still say in my drawl no. matter. what.
Of course, my true-blue preferred method of speech is my Southern Belle drawl. When I get angry, excited, or when I’m praying out loud you hear my voice get softer and syrup-sweet as I dip into the accent I spent much of my little girl years developing.
Side note: I work in a call center, and we have offices in TN as well as MI. I speak with a southern accent to our TN employees and the Midwest accent for our MI employees. Cracks my supervisor up.
Just a tip from someone who got injured trying to “cheat” on my half-marathon plan last winter (I work 12-hour shifts, so days I worked I wasn’t running at all, and I was changing which days I ran each week and how much, etc)…
1. Don’t skip your week day runs. I’m sure lots of people have already said that! 😉
2. If you are scheduled for a 5-mile run, the plan is likely meant for those miles to be subsequent rather than doing 2 in the morning and 3 in the evening. your legs need to get used to the consistent mileage without recovery in between.
maybe you can do your gym workouts in the morning and your runs later in the day? so tough to do both sometimes, especially as your HM mileage starts increasing each week! 🙂
i know… i’m such a slacker and am totally trying to cheat my way out of this one. 🙂 you’re so right though!
Your last question is very personal to me… PLEASE SAY CAR-A-MEL!! I have gotten stupid comments about my name (not to mention all the ridiculous innuendos guys like to think up) all my life just because people don’t pronounce caramel correctly. They’re spelled differently, so Carmel and caramel are nottt the same 🙂
haha! i will do my best to change!
i love that your parents are from gettysburg! that’s right down the road from me, and whenever we have guests visiting, my dad ALWAYS makes it a point to take them to gettysburg to see all the history! even if the freezing cold, dead middle of winter, we are hanging with the war statues. good memories!
coo-pon, Pah-cahn, and Car-mel fo’ sho!
My boyfriend pronounces pecan like “peck-in” purely to bother me. I tell him there are only two possible proper ways to say it but he adamantly persists in his goofball ways.
A couple of my cousins pronounce things differently. Donut= dough-nit and peanut= pea-nit. They’re from KS but so are a lot of my other relatives and it seems to be just those two. Accents are so interesting!
accents are hilarious…my boss was telling me the other day that Laura wanted to talk to Jim. I said who is Laura? He said “I don’t know”. I said “well didn’t you just tell me that Laura wanted to talk to Jim” and he laughed and said “no, I said Lawyer”. ha! I guess I am still getting used to accents down here in TX!
I am training for a 1/2 too and trying to figure out how much I want to run as well. My sis recommended if I want to run the whole thing I should run at least 4 days a week but if I want to do less then maybe consider running 10 minutes and then doing a 1 minute walk break. I really would like to run the whole thing but my problem is that I would like to try to avoid running in the dark by myself anymore (I freak myself out if I see anything weird) and I just don’t know what to do since it is still so hot out and I don’t have access to a treadmill.
I’m with you on all three of the word pronounciations!
I am giving you all a french class! 😉
Coupon, pacane & caramel (see how french is easy!)
Coupon: coo-pon (you don’t pronounce the n at the end)
Pacane: Pah-ca-ne
Caramel: Ca-ra-mel
Hey Julie- I’m not an expert but for my first half I ran 3x a week two 5 mile runs and one long run. For my second I did 1-2 runs during the week but they weren’t both 5 miles sometimes they were shorter. Some weeks I only ran 2x a week and I would spin for a shorter run instead of running. I ended up running my 2nd half much faster than my first and never felt fatigued or burnt out like I did for my 1st half. I used Anne’s half marathon plan from http://www.fannetasticfood.com – I thought it was a really good plan. Good luck with your race! : )
thanks so much for the suggestion, michelle!
I didn’t even realize I had any sort of accent, but when I moved to SF and started working someone asked me a question and I said “sure” which I guess I pronounce “shore,” and he automatically asked which part of the east coast I was from.
im from ny so coffee is caw-fee, window is winda, and paul is pawl 🙂
I am a total west coast girl, born and raised, but my mom’s family is alll east coast so I say
flar-ida instead or floor-ida and arnge instead of orange
but i am a TOTAL stickler for care-a-mel
my friends always say car-mul and im like NO CARE-A-MEL! It’s more fun to say in my opinion.
My step dad is from Philly and pronounces stuff all sorts of wrong haha He leaves the H off of words liek Huge and says “Youge” instead. And calls my step sister (his own child! lol) “Errrin” instead of Erin. Oh and calamari is “Calimary” haha
I use coo-pon, but when use it in a sentence when I talk to my mom, for some reason I say cue-pon! I use pah-cahn, but if I refer the the pie, oddly, I say pee-an pie, haha. Care-a-Mel is never car-mul, though 🙂 I also say day-ta and when referring to en and 66, I use root, but otherwise, I say r-owt.. Haha so strange!! Oh!! Ijust remembered that i have a friend who can’t pronounce strawberry correctly! He says starberry!! It never fails to make me laugh, and i always repeat it when i hear him say it! It’s sounds so silly! Cute I he was five year old, but college graduate? C’mon, you haaaave to laugh a little 🙂
Have you done an accent vlog yet? If not, you should! 🙂
i know! i really need to get on it!
Haha it’s quite funny listening to people’s different accents. A lot of my dad’s family is from the midwest (Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan), so there is a lot of nasally “a’s” with them too. My dad isn’t quite as bad as he used to be, but we still tease him sometimes when his midwestern vocab/accent comes out.
I used to say pop all the time too! I finally switched to soda when I was in middle school. I say cue-pon, pee-can, and care-a-mel 🙂
I called soda “pop” my whole life until college–I go to college in MN, which calls it “pop” BUT I have a lot of friends here from eastern states and hearing them call it soda rubbed off on me. So now I use them interchangeable, I guess it depends on the day! Sometimes I even use both and call it “soda pop” heh.
I also say cue-pon, pee-can, and car-mel.
My parents immigrated to the states from Portugal and my dad still has a really thick accent. He says everything funny, which as kids we thought was hilarious. Half the time we didn’t know what he was trying to say and he’d have to say it in Portuguese for us to understand.
A couple years ago I ran for this charity called “Run for Heaven’s Gate” through my church. Heavens Gate is an orphanage in Inida that all the proceeds went towards. Anyways, we did 4 half marathons in the month of October. For most of my training I ran 4-5 days in the mornings, either 6 or 7 miles each day. On the weekends I did a long run, usually around 10 miles. I was always so afraid of skipping more than 2 days at a time so I never did and I think it paid off. Remember to always challenge yourself, especially when increasing miles. I suggest raising it by 2-3 miles when you do increase, instead of increasing 1 mile at a time. When October rolled around I only ran 1-2x during the week between races as the races take a toll on your body and I was still able to stay in shape for the next race, but for training, I wouldnt recommend that! Good luck with your training 🙂
Don’t hate on the Chicago accents!!! I love mine, haha <3
I grew up in Chicago and lived in Wisconsin for five years, so I have a weird hybrid accent of both. Whenever I hear the Wisconsin accent popping up though (bohwt=boat, anyone?), I freak out and try to cover it up! Haha.
This post is awesome!! I find it interesting that you said “pop”. I have dual citizenship (Canada & US) and all my American friends & relatives say “soda” while all the Canadians say “pop” so I always thought it was just different across the border.
I say coo-pon, pee-can, and care-a-mel 🙂
I’ve gotten away with training for a half marathon with just one long run per week, with cross-training during the week, and maybe one other run.
You’ll feel better on those longer runs, though, if you do at least 2 runs during the week, but you could probably drop the mileage down to 3-4 miles!
Yay for Gettysburg 🙂 I went to college there 🙂
i have a gettysburg college sweatshirt!
I think it’s funny when people say terlet 😛
My dad’s from NJ and still has an accent on some words. I love making him say drawer. It’s the best word to show his accent!
Salmon looks goooood!
i say coo-pon, pee-can & care-a-mel!
Cue-pon
Pe-cahn
Ca-rah-mel
Yeah, I don’t even…apparently the way I hear my pronounciations differs from the ones you spelled out lol! Then again, I drop into a wicked Boston accent when I’m tired or drunk. Nearly intelligible lol.
Heehee! I love “arnge.” My Mom is from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania and after 30-odd years in Florida, still occasionally lets an “arnge” or “arn” (aka iron) slip.
I’m born and raised in Florida but I’ve had people tell me I talk to fast to be from Florida. Maybe it’s the northerner roots I listened to growing up?
I only say coo-pon, but the others I can say either way depending on who I’m around. I have a terrible subconcious habit of picking up the accent (and mannerisms, actually) of the person I’m talking to. I’m totally a weirdo and try to be more aware of it now!
I moved from Illinois to Florida as well! To Ormond Beach actually.
I still say pop- although I usually have to follow it up with “soda” when they say what?
cue-pon
pee-cahn
cara-mel
I think a lot of people vary on what they call the TV remote. My whole life I always just called it the remote, but one of my best friends in high school called it the clicker and a roommate in college called it the channel changer.
Pop is correct 🙂
I say cue-pon (although I had to say it out loud to decide)
pee-can
cara-mel.
I wish I had some advice about the running, but I am a terrible runner myself! Sometimes I think it’s mental and that I could run farther if I believed I could. Any ideas for getting over the mental hurdle when you are not an experienced long distance runner (but in good shape otherwise)?
it’s TOTALLY mental. check out my running story: https://www.pbfingers.com/2010/04/21/my-running-story/ i was the EXACT same way you are and once i got over the mental hurdle, it was much better. i really do believe it’s all about working up to a distance (slowly) and believing that you can do it.
I’m from Chicago and never heard “maaam” over “mom” when I was there. Although, I still say pop and get so much crap for it. And people tell me I have a Northern accent but I’m not sure what that means.
I was totally thinking Boston accent when I first read “Maaam” !
From Kansas City, Missouri:
Coo-pon
Pah-cahn (got a lot of crap for that when I lived in SC)
Car-mel
Question about your strength training – do you go through everything once and then repeat the whole thing two more times, or do you do each exercise’s 3 sets at once, take a few seconds break in between each set and then move on to the next?
i do each exercise’s 3 sets at once before moving on. 🙂
From Philadelphia, PA:
Coo-pon
Pee-can
Car-mel
definitely pee-can! this summer i worked in south carolina and found myself getting a little southern accent by the end of the summer!
Maybe you could do one 6-7miler during the week and one 3-4 miler. that way you still get in 10 during the week and on the 3-4mile day you can still do weight stuff. I do think you want to run 3 days per week.
i knowwwww. blah! i was hoping to get out of it, but i think you’re right. 3x a week worked for me in the past. i better stick to it.
CAR-MEL. PEE-CAN! POP! never soda! I’m a PA girl! Have a great day Julie
Definitely pe-can! I am hanginging onto the PA pronunciation even though everyone in TX laughs at me…
waitwaitwait, like “MAAAAM! THE MEATLOAF?!”
I dig it.
anddd my “maam” is also from PA (the Philadelphia area). she says “arnge” and “baayud” for bad. weirdos.
I pronounce “Coupon” as “Coo-pon”, Pecan as “Pah-cahn”, & Caramel as “Care-a-mel”. Always wondered though what was the right pronunciation of the last too hmmm… 😉 . B-fast looked Yummy! I’ll have to try it sometime. Your workout also begs a “try” as well. Thanks for all the helpful hints on this blog. They ROCK! 😀
coo-pon pee-can.car-mel…isn’t funny how everyone pronounces stuff differently!
My friends say I pronounce “calendar” wrong … i think i pronounce the ‘cal’ the same way you used to pronounce ‘maaaam’ Oops!
ps – today is national peanut day! 🙂
I call carbonated beverages “pop” and everyone makes fun of me! But really you don’t call the machine they come out of a soda machine, it’s a pop machine!
My dad says “renember” instead of “remember.” So embarrassing. Also, I’m pretty sure everyone in my family says “warsh,” it’s even worse when we go on vacation and I hear my mom telling people we’re from “Warshington State.” They’re also terrible with names (pronunciation and spelling) no matter how many times you correct them.
cue-pon
pa-cahns
car-mel
I grew up outside of Chicago with Texans for parents, so I say the oddest mis-mash of words.
I can’t pronounce pin and pen differently, nor say tin and ten correctly. I say yall, but still have that God-awful Chicago way of saying ‘mom’.
Isn’t speech so interesting?!
Properly caramel = car-uh-mel
It is neither car-mel or care-a-mel
And it will forever be pop, never soda. Oregon-born and raised!
I just read that out loud and I typed it wrong!
caramel = car-uh-mul
I pronounce everything the exact opposite as you do! Born and raised in New York and now living in the south. By the way, one thing that I do since moving down here is I accentuate the “um” in umbrella. It’s an UM-brella here in South Carolina. 😉
Your new workout plan looks awesome! I love finding new things to do in the weight room for my workouts, I’ll have to try this one!
I say:
coo-pon
pee-can
care-a-mel
When I was little my friend used to always say AXE instead of ASK. It would drive me nuts!