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proximoceptionI never actually hear Trump speak - in fact, barely remember what he sounds like - so I haven't really understood the #yuge mockery. I assumed he was just being made fun of for saying a childsh word a lot, but apparently people who say yooj rather than hyooj are considered unclassy?
I think I mostly say yooj. And I hear them the same, or anyway I don't notice who's saying which unless someone highlights it. My mother says hyooj but I always assumed that was an Anglicism/patricianism her own mother frowned into her. My father said it, too, but I assumed THAT was because he worshipped the OED - every time we had a disagreement it would turn out we were both right, but I was righter because the second pronunciation listed was always the American one. That's just how Oxford sees us. So yooj must be the local one where I'm from?
I think I do switch to hyooj when I want to lengthen the word. Yooj, yoooooj, hyoooooooj = huge, huger, hugest. Probably I thought everyone did that. Clearly I speak nothing fluently.
(Adding: I think the Scots-influenced places I've lived since 2003 have all been hjooj ones, probably adding to my confusion about which one I say. It wasn't till I moved up here that I noticed a half-Carolina accent, and people back home have mentioned I've come to sound Canadian again. Maybe I've gone hyooj too and just don't catch myself doing it. I was very amused when I met Julie that she had absolutely no idea that her regional accent differed from mine - she thought we both spoke identical TV-American. (Vancouver accent is much more Americanized than the standard Ontario one in older people, but the differences do get more subtle with younger people, though all generations do seem to share a different "center of gravity" to their speech, where they speak a little higher and a little softer than we do a la the Irish; they can of course get very loud, e.g. in the presence of hockey, but it's a different quality of loudness, giving a curious note of reasonable complaint even to their screams of rage.) And it does seem to be widespread that Canadians can't actually hear that they're using a different diphthong than Yankee U.S.ers for "about" - they don't seem to have a countermockery to "aboot" anyway. T.V. is a third kind of parent, I guess.)
I think I mostly say yooj. And I hear them the same, or anyway I don't notice who's saying which unless someone highlights it. My mother says hyooj but I always assumed that was an Anglicism/patricianism her own mother frowned into her. My father said it, too, but I assumed THAT was because he worshipped the OED - every time we had a disagreement it would turn out we were both right, but I was righter because the second pronunciation listed was always the American one. That's just how Oxford sees us. So yooj must be the local one where I'm from?
I think I do switch to hyooj when I want to lengthen the word. Yooj, yoooooj, hyoooooooj = huge, huger, hugest. Probably I thought everyone did that. Clearly I speak nothing fluently.
(Adding: I think the Scots-influenced places I've lived since 2003 have all been hjooj ones, probably adding to my confusion about which one I say. It wasn't till I moved up here that I noticed a half-Carolina accent, and people back home have mentioned I've come to sound Canadian again. Maybe I've gone hyooj too and just don't catch myself doing it. I was very amused when I met Julie that she had absolutely no idea that her regional accent differed from mine - she thought we both spoke identical TV-American. (Vancouver accent is much more Americanized than the standard Ontario one in older people, but the differences do get more subtle with younger people, though all generations do seem to share a different "center of gravity" to their speech, where they speak a little higher and a little softer than we do a la the Irish; they can of course get very loud, e.g. in the presence of hockey, but it's a different quality of loudness, giving a curious note of reasonable complaint even to their screams of rage.) And it does seem to be widespread that Canadians can't actually hear that they're using a different diphthong than Yankee U.S.ers for "about" - they don't seem to have a countermockery to "aboot" anyway. T.V. is a third kind of parent, I guess.)
