Hammick, even though I really try not to say it that way.
Hammick, even though I really try not to say it that way.
I'm with the Ham-muck crowd.
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"Mick" "Yall..." Southern.. Get it?
I've concluded that mine sounds more like:
"Hamehk"
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Hammuk for me. Ham-mock sounds too much like "ham hock."
But I do love me some ham!
I'm more "ehk" than an "ick" and never an "ock".
\ˈha-mək\ is the pedantic pronunciation. And makes sense it's the most popular since Old English's mattock is \'ma-tək\.
But of course my \ˈha-mək\ and an Aussie's \ˈha-mək\ have completely different intonations and they're more likely to elide (drop) the h.
Maybe we can catalogue and submit hammock for IDEA (International Dialects of English Archive).
You say tomato, I say tomahto. You say potato, I say potahto. Let's just go out and hang.
Ham-muck. Rhymes with run amok.
Interesting... "Hammock" definitely doesn't rhyme with, say, the F-word when I say it...Oh well, "'Hammock' your own 'hammock'..."
(FWIW, after further contemplation, I think I say "hammock" with pretty muck the same vowel sounds as the word "havoc"; Merriam-Webster and most other dictionaries give the schwa sound (i.e., an unaccented central vowel between other vowels) for both words as the second vowel sound (in the primary pronunciation) -- so "Cry "Hammock!" and let slip the dogs of war...")
Last edited by kitsapcowboy; 09-28-2016 at 08:32.
I avoid saying it aloud around other people. That's my usual strategy when I'm not sure how something is pronounced and people have strong feelings about it.
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