Horror?

[BoneDigger]

Do you pronounce horror with a long "o" as in ho-rror? Or do you pronounce it as with an "a", such as har-rror?

Here in Texas and back home in SC I hear more ho-rror. Which sounds like a person who gets around...

Just wondering how you guys pronounce it.

Todd

[kydave]

Originally Posted by BoneDigger

Do you pronounce horror with a long "o" as in ho-rror? Or do you pronounce it as with an "a", such as har-rror?

Here in Texas and back home in SC I hear more ho-rror. Which sounds like a person who gets around...

Just wondering how you guys pronounce it.

Todd

First syllable sounds like "or". Or-or, with an "h" in front.

[Dru Edwards]

Originally Posted by kydave

First syllable sounds like "or". Or-or, with an "h" in front.

That's the way I pronounce it too.

[Acousticado]

Originally Posted by kydave

First syllable sounds like "or". Or-or, with an "h" in front.

^^^^^
What he said, but I have heard some American accents that sound as har-rror.

[ewalling]

I've noticed the use of an 'a' sound for the 'o' in the US more when the following consonant is a little harder. 'Dog', 'stop', and 'body' sound like 'darg', 'starp', and 'bardy'. Many Americans seem to pronounce 'horror' with the word for a naughty lady at the beginning! 'whore-rrerr'!

[SongwriterFan]

The "or"s in "horror" are pronounced like . . . . . the word "or".

[Bucc5207]

Originally Posted by ewalling

I've noticed the use of an 'a' sound for the 'o' in the US more when the following consonant is a little harder. 'Dog', 'stop', and 'body' sound like 'darg', 'starp', and 'bardy'. Many Americans seem to pronounce 'horror' with the word for a naughty lady at the beginning! 'whore-rrerr'!

I think you might be hearing the Northern Cities Vowel Shift.

I pronounce horror just as you describe it.

[JCave]

Here, we definitley pronounce the H in Humble...

[RedJoker]

Horrorrererrer.... i don't know when to stop with the 'er's

[Misty44]

Like this guy:

[ewalling]

Originally Posted by JCave

Here, we definitley pronounce the H in Humble...

What happened to the one at the beginning of 'herb', that's what I'd like to know!

[Bucc5207]

Originally Posted by ewalling

What happened to the one at the beginning of 'herb', that's what I'd like to know!

I've given up looking for it.

[SongwriterFan]

Originally Posted by ewalling

What happened to the one at the beginning of 'herb', that's what I'd like to know!

It's ER-ble, Herb.

[ewalling]

Originally Posted by SongwriterFan

It's ER-ble, Herb.

Now that you bring it up, does a person in the US whose first name is Herb suffer the same fate as a sprig of parsley and end up as 'Errb?

[Ciarre]

Originally Posted by Bucc5207

I've given up looking for it.

It's with the single sock that was lost in the wash.