How do you say Sandwiches?
Hey all, I want to know how you guys pronounce the word sandwiches or sandwich. I say "Samwidges" for some strange reason.
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37 Comments:
This question makes me think of my Eastern European grandmother's pronunciation, "san-a-witches". Around here it comes out "san-widge" but that's probably because I live in Baltimore.
RichardCrystal at 9:48AM on 03/11/08
sand-wich
mongoose at 9:54AM on 03/11/08
I'd like to think I say san-wiches, but with my nasally Minnesota accent it probably sounds like seeean-wiches.
LiveToEat at 9:56AM on 03/11/08
"Sam-witch," via italianos in Philly. We drop letters, get over it. Mom originally said "sam-witch," but now does an overpronounced "sand-witch."
savecara at 9:58AM on 03/11/08
Sand - witch, with the accent on the first syllable. From PA/NJ. My father was always trying to make us laugh by changing the pronunciation of words and he liked to call it a sang (hard g) witch. Sometimes he would use his words in public and we'd want to crawl under the table. The worst one was Hors'doerves which he liked to call horses ovaries. I miss that wonderful, smart, funny man.
I'm truly fascinated by the different pronunciations of words across our country. Can't wait to see what others have to say.
PerkyMac at 10:01AM on 03/11/08
As it's spelled. (NYC)
Barbara Hanson at 10:14AM on 03/11/08
I say sam-wiches here in upstate NY.
@Perky- my flamboyant great aunt had some interesting pronounciations, too. She called hors d'oeuvres "Horse Doovers," which always sounded like something *else* to us kids.
She also would proclaim any delicious morsel "The nectar of the Gods," but with her thick Bronx accent, I was in my 20's before I realized she was referring to "the gods," and not "the guards." Then it made more sense.
Kerosena at 10:26AM on 03/11/08
Ah. I didn't say, but I'm from... well, I was born in NYC and spent the longest stretch of my life there (from 1989 to 2004), so I guess NYC.
But I saw the word written before I ever said it (because I grew up in Italy, mostly), and I think my pronunciation reflects that, more than anything regional.
mongoose at 10:34AM on 03/11/08
Sand-witches, with emphasis on the first syllable. (NC, with a fairly mild accent because of spending years out of country).
jenilowrance at 10:41AM on 03/11/08
It comes out more like san-wiches. I know people who say sammiches and the worst pronunciation of the word I have ever heard was sang-wich. OMG.
chiff0nade at 11:17AM on 03/11/08
sammich if i'm talking about what someone needs to give nicole ritchie, otherwise as it is spelled.
sloppy at 11:37AM on 03/11/08
Sangwich
nelson5757 at 11:59AM on 03/11/08
If I'm ordering, etc then it's like it's spelled. Talking to friends and stuff like that, then it's a sammich...
TaraTot at 12:06PM on 03/11/08
GRINDER! sorry, it's a New England thing.
Pavlov at 12:10PM on 03/11/08
sand-wich
heartnibbler at 1:12PM on 03/11/08
I'm so glad no one said sammie, like RR. I never used baby talk to my babies!
PerkyMac at 1:15PM on 03/11/08
Um... I say SANDWICH... that's the word, right? ;-)
When I was a kid, though, I said SAN-wich (the D was silent).
LoCo at 1:20PM on 03/11/08
@Kerosena.......I know what horse doovers sounds like to me! In my family (fambly), we'll sometimes correct each other if we say it right. We call my father's "words" Pappyisms and they're so much fun. We just have to be careful and make sure the children learn the correct way first, because the words are sim U lar.....haha.
PerkyMac at 1:20PM on 03/11/08
sanwich.
But my father drove me crazy with his pronunciation (which I don't see here): san-rich. Yes, with an R. He grew up in Iowa. I heard my uncle use the same pronunciation, so it was either a small-town Iowa thing, or a family thing.
Dee at 1:45PM on 03/11/08
When I'm ordering one, "sand-witch." If I'm talking to friends, it's mostly "sammitch."
Cassaendra at 1:49PM on 03/11/08
SAN-wich
@Perky, youre right! Not a single sammie. Yay is all I can say about that. I HATE that word so much, even used with irony.
chisai at 2:26PM on 03/11/08
@RichardCrystal........A local Italian restaurant used to have a billboard where they advertised their specials. One week the sign said:egg-a-plant special. I wanted to get a photo, but procrastinated too long.
PerkyMac at 2:45PM on 03/11/08
Off topic, but similar, my husband's grandfather is legend in the family for referring to hibiscus as HOTBISCUITS.
8^O
LoCo at 4:02PM on 03/11/08
Sand-wich. Just like the Earl of. What area of the country or ethnicity pronounces ( or mispronounces) it as sang-weesh?
frederika at 1:48AM on 03/12/08
I think I say "sandwich" but in reality, the "d" is probably nearly silent. It's there, it's just not a hard "d."
As for "sangwich," I've heard that, too, and I just couldn't figure out how the "g" got in there. It was more like "sangwidge" actually.
These were the same people who couldn't say "breakfasts" to save their lives. It always came out "breakfasusses."
And of course, there was "sparegrass." Yup, asparagus. They invited me over one time to have sparegrass and eggs for dinner and I had no idea what they were talking about. And of course they said it like one word, "sparegrassneggs." I declined because it scared me too much to think about what it might be.
dbcurrie at 2:34AM on 03/12/08
@dbcurrie, you think you were scared? What if a friend invited you over for some pissgheddi? Were you able to divine "spaghetti" from that?
Well my linguistics skills were not enough to figure it out at the time, so I missed out on some really good spaghetti.
BTW, I say "sandwich" the same way dbcurrie says it, with the "d" nearly silent, but still there. I guess growing up south of the Mason-Dixon Line and having my NewJersey and Connecticut cousins point out my charming southern accent when I was an impressionable teen made me very aware of my pronounciation. My accent became so flat that fellow Virginians started asking where I was from because I didn't have a southern accent, ya'll.
wookie at 3:29AM on 03/12/08
Jeet? No, jew? Yeah, wad smatter wid jew? Have a sangwidge.
PerkyMac at 8:13AM on 03/12/08
Samich or some Aussie's (me included) call them sanga's or sarny's.
s2149136 at 8:33AM on 03/12/08
My Nonna in her broken english says Saaaangwich. And she always called "hors d'oeuvres" - Hor Derbs, which has been shortened to "Derbs" in our family. She'll come over for dinner and say "OH! Don't make the derbs we have too much food". This is the same Nonna who offered to make me a "Fuzzy Nasal" with OJ and vodka....and calls my cousin's boyfriend "Trevor" - "Treasure" or "Travel". I could write a book!
ThatGirl153 at 11:10AM on 03/12/08
@ThatGirl........and you should. I was already laughing, but the Fuzzy Nasal knocked me off my chair!
PerkyMac at 11:15AM on 03/12/08
My dad says sangwich too. I don't know why and have made fun of him for it! He's lived in the country in the Central Valley of California all his life. People out there also say "ammonds" instead of "all-monds." My grandpa, life-long resident of the same area, puts an "ee" on the end of the days of the week. Sundee. Then, people ask me where I'm from because they think I've got an accent. But I don't. I grew up between San Francisco and Sacramento in California. Perhaps there is a little country twang out in the farmland among some of the long-time residents out there.
misseditor at 3:20PM on 03/12/08
OK, this has nothing to do with food. But in "The Ritz" Rita Moreno as Googi Gomez, a bad Puerto Rican lounge singer. She had a customer named "Hugh Jater". Of course with her pronunciation it came out...yup...
"Jew Hater".
RichardCrystal at 3:29PM on 03/12/08
I've begun to say sammies which annoys even me, but I suppose when trying to say the actual word I'm pretty normal: sand-witch.
sharsd at 5:23PM on 03/12/08
My dad, born and raised in Southern California, pronounces the word onion as "ungyun" -- this is apparently due to his father having been born and raised in Lucy-Anna.
LoCo at 6:00PM on 03/12/08
my mom was born and raised in Ohio and she pronounces onion as "ungyun" too, we make fun. hahaha.
birdlandapple at 6:47PM on 03/12/08
Sand-wich. Unless it's going to be on a sub roll. Then it's a sub or a grinder (depending on what part of Massachusetts I'm in).
Amandarama at 11:14AM on 03/13/08
Sand - witch. Chicago!
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