Tuna Pronunciation

[Dawnpiplup]

I pronounce it as "toona".

 

[Piezahummy]

It's more like tchawna .

 

[leahhhhaaaaa]

I pronounce it 'choona'.

 

[demoness]

so natives to southeastern Virginia (USA) where i live sometimes break into this Virginia drawl--if you've ever heard robert e. lee in a historical fiction movie it's like that only not really that eloquent and something between southern and not. so i hear people breaking into "toena"/"tewna" with tewn different from toon because i pronounce ew and oo differently because the stress is a little different even though they're a similar sound; that might because when i say some words i'm drawing from the northeast US side of my family and longtime friendships from the midwest and west coast so i've kinda "tv news anchored myself" in a way by picking up a more homogeneous american accent (except for having this ditzy voice) by hearing different ones regularly because i'll easily pick things up. though probably sometimes something virginia probably creeps back in, i'm not super sure.

right, back to the actual topic. i usually say it more like the literal textbook american pronunciation, which is probably more like two more distinctly pronounced syllables, something like to(as in go to the store)-na

 

[piske]

you'd fight poor ole Dudley Moore?! that's who i think of re "Choo-na," with Liza Minella at the end of "Arthur," him saying "Would you make me a choo-na fish sandwich?"

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its just the way Brits inflect the "t" so close to the "u," they keep the "university" sound of long "u" with a little "y" sound at the start of the "u." we yanks use the "oo" sound of long "u" after consonants instead of the "yoo" sound.

Brits also put an "r" sounds in some words where there's no "r." like "strawr-berry" (heh, or "Strarbree" for some)

Ok this thread made sense after I read this! XD

 

[meowlerrz]

how exactly do you get the other pronunciation? I really want to meet someone who says choona

 

[Jay363]

I have never heard the Choona pronunciation. That would just make me cringe, I'm such a nerd for that stuff haha

 

[Nightmares]

how exactly do you get the other pronunciation? I really want to meet someone who says choona

Come to England xD

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I have never heard the Choona pronunciation. That would just make me cringe, I'm such a nerd for that stuff haha

"Toona" sounds so cringey to me xD

 

[jiny]

i say toona

 

[padfoot6]

I pronounce it like too-na

 

[Belle of Pripyat]

so natives to southeastern Virginia (USA) where i live sometimes break into this Virginia drawl--if you've ever heard robert e. lee in a historical fiction movie it's like that only not really that eloquent and something between southern and not. so i hear people breaking into "toena"/"tewna" with tewn different from toon because i pronounce ew and oo differently because the stress is a little different even though they're a similar sound; that might because when i say some words i'm drawing from the northeast US side of my family and longtime friendships from the midwest and west coast so i've kinda "tv news anchored myself" in a way by picking up a more homogeneous american accent (except for having this ditzy voice) by hearing different ones regularly because i'll easily pick things up. though probably sometimes something virginia probably creeps back in, i'm not super sure.

I was born and raised in Southeastern VA and everyone I know says, "Too-nuh." Anyway, that was the longest run-on sentence I've ever seen in my life! LOL

 

[King Dorado]

haha- people with thick northeastern US accents say that initial "t" so forcefully that its close to a "d" sound-- like how you would say "d" when youre angrily scolding somebody "DO NOT- do- that- again," they really get the tip of tongue behind their teeth instead of roof of the mouth and it's reaaaal close to a Doo-na sound...

"aaaaay, I wanna doona fish syanwich. fuggaddaboutit!"