How do you pronounce "asked"?

[gboykovekin]

^I have never in my life hear someone say Peterbara or Peterbra...but look what wikipedia digs up:

Pronunciation
In many parts of England, "borough" is pronounced as "Burrah" IPA: [bʌɹə] (listen (help·info)) as an independent word, and as /bɹə/ when forming a suffixal part of a place-name. As a suffix, "-brough" is usually pronounced /bra/.

In the United States, "borough" is pronounced as /ˈbɝoʊ/ (or as /ˈbʌɻoʊ/ in some areas, notably New York City). When appearing as the suffix "-burg(h)" in place-names, it's pronounced as [bɝg].

A related suffix originated in Southern England as -bury, as in West or East Gwillimbury in Simcoe and York Regions.

 

[BuildTO]

This confirms what I wrote in my last paragraph above.

 

[scarberiankhatru]

"^I have never in my life hear someone say Peterbara or Peterbra...but look what wikipedia digs up:"

I don't care what Wikipedia says...as a resident of Scarborough, I'm telling you that no one here says it like that. Brits might pronounce Scarborough, UK, with an -a and might assume we do the same, but they'd quickly learn that they're wrong.

 

[fiendishlibrarian]

If I ever hear anyone say Scar-bra, or Peter-bra, I can't help but think of Les Battersby from Corrie. It seems to me that type of pronunciation has a distinctly Manchester-esque tinge to it.

 

[Greg29Toronto]

I don't care what Wikipedia says...as a resident of Scarborough, I'm telling you that no one here says it like that.

I lived in Scarborough from birth to when I was about 20. At this moment I can't definitely confirm how my family & friends pronounce "Scarborough", but what keeps coming to mind are phrases like "I'll meet you at Scarbra-Town Centre at noon". I've been sitting here talking to my LCD screen for 10 minutes trying to figure out how that came to be and what else I prounouce incorrectly but it's beginning to aggravate me. I do know that pronouncing "Scarb-or-ough" does not come naturally to me.

 

[scarberiankhatru]

It depends on the context of "Scarborough"...if said on its own (the context I was referring to), no one says Scarbra as one would say Debra - it's invariably Scarbro (sometimes Scarbero; never Scarboro) - but if you're rolling "Scarborough Town Centre" off your tongue, it might sound somewhere in between -oh and -uh.

 

[samsonyuen]

Asked -> I pronounce Ast
Scarborough (or anything else -borough, -burgh) -> I pronounce Scarbro or Scarb(u)ra (the latter influenced by me living in England and being scolded by coworkers for pronouncing it "wrong")
Toronto -> Tirano. Tirana is the capital of Albania, which coincidentally has the same day of independence as my birthday. My boss makes fun of Canadians with a very exaggerated Terano.

 

[adma]

Y'know that it's about the same distance btw/Bari & Taranto as btw/Barrie & Toronto?