The Right Way to Pronounce Boutique | boutique pronunciation
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Southerners are known for a lot of things: our hospitality[1], our love of college football[2], our barbecue[3], and not least of which, our unique way of talking. We have one of the most famous and distinctive dialects in the country (if not the entire English-speaking world), noted for its slow pace and heavy drawl. Not to mention the one-of-a-kind phrases[4] and vocabulary we like to pepper our speech with. From being “fit to be tied” to “fixin’ to do something,” an out-of-towner might just need a dictionary to follow a casual conversation.
But we Southerners also put our own spin on the pronunciation of more commonly used words. And I hate to break it to y’all, but we aren’t always right. There are plenty of words where the pronunciation or emphasis on certain letters is up for debate, but one where it is not: boutique[5].
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