Talk Like You're From Albuquerque

Channel 4 Recently ran a news story about local accents particular to Albuquerque. In order to encourage outsiders to assimilitate into the Albuquerque melange, here's a glossary of a few words and their Albuquerquean pronunciation:

Eric: Pronounced Ah-Rikh

Elementary: Pronounced Ah-leeh-men-tahr-ee

Health: Pronounced Halth

Wealth: Pronounced Walth

Sacramentos: Pronounced Sah-cah-meh-nohs

I'm going to: I-mah-gonna

sandwich: sang witch

twelve: twalve

cheese : sheeeeez
Albuquerque : Burkee
yes : Eeeeeeee, I know... huh?

Dumbest thing I ever heard, perhaps it is the illegals that cannot pronounce a word correctly so they say it as they think it sounds.

Whose the dummy at KOB that came up with this stupid issue?

He needs to go back to grade school or learn proper English.

chair: share
cherry: sherry

wtf? I just moved from El Paso, and you'd figure ABQ would be more assimilated? While on the topic...what is it with all these gangs and "war zones" and crap like that? Went to the Cottonwood Mall the other day and felt like the ghetto, and i was going to get mugged walking to my car!?

justarrived wrote:

chair: share
cherry: sherry
wtf? I just moved from El Paso, and you'd figure ABQ would be more assimilated? While on the topic...what is it with all these gangs and "war zones" and crap like that? Went to the Cottonwood Mall the other day and felt like the ghetto, and i was going to get mugged walking to my car!?

You must have gone to Hoffmantown but not Cottonwood mall, I shop there all the time, one of the best malls in the city and nice area.

As for gangs, every city, large and small has them, some worst than others and I am sure wherever in Texas you came from has gangs too.

As for "the war zone", gang neighborhood but they tried to rename it "the international zone" nicer sounding name for the city to hide the fact it is controlled by gangs, mostly at night but I would not venture into that area unarmed even during the day.

shamu wrote:

twelve: twalve

eleven: elaven

my Indian friends say:

blood pressure: blutt pressha

take out the trash:

throw the trash

my Indian friends say:

Red Jeep: rett jipp

weno bye

good bye

con salt

consult

When Juanito was asked to write a sentence in class using the word consult, he wrote; Last night my mama cooked papas con salt.(a little usage of Spanglish)

my Mom:

Pojoaque: Po Jah QUE

Soccoro: Sock ah Rue

My Dad;

Menaul Blvd: Men Yall street.

mary go-round

merry go-round

sireen

siren

Cisco Kid wrote:

con salt
consult
When Juanito was asked to write a sentence in class using the word consult, he wrote; Last night my mama cooked papas con salt.(a little usage of Spanglish)

Juanito I am sure got an A.

fmer505-1951 wrote:

<quoted text>Juanito I am sure got an A.

Ha ha, that is if he took his teacher papas con salt.

Cisco Kid wrote:

<quoted text>
Ha ha, that is if he took his teacher papas con salt.

Well maybe he did, never know.
You are pretty funny CK.