How do you pronounce "scallop"?

[sonnyjane]

Hubby is from Cape Cod. I was raised all over, but never in New England. He says "s-call-up", I say "s-cal-up". Is the difference just regional? I've heard it both ways but if one is more correct I'll gladly conform

 

[missy]

I pronounce it like you do sonnyjane. So does my dh. We're from the Northeast too- but NY and NJ. So I would guess it is regional.

 

[Enerchi]

#2. your DH is just wrong!

 

[sonnyjane]

I'm liking what I'm seeing so far (i.e. I'm right )

 

[Enerchi]

I'm liking what I'm seeing so far (i.e. I'm right )

"right" is so satisfying, isn't it?

 

[Dee*Jay]

I say it s-cal-up. XH was from New Hampshire and used to say it the other way. Just one of the many things in life he was wrong about...

 

[Dancing Fire]

S-CAL -UP..

 

[sonnyjane]

Hahahahh! I just realized that instead of a Gallup Poll, this is a "Scallop Poll"

 

[missy]

Hahahahh! I just realized that instead of a Gallup Poll, this is a "Scallop Poll"

hahaha- that's a good one.

 

[kenny]

I'm liking what I'm seeing so far (i.e. I'm right )

"right" is so satisfying, isn't it?

Being right, or at least feeling right, is like oxygen to some part of us.

 

[VapidLapid]

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[VRBeauty]

I usually pronounce it "yum yum!"

 

[zoebartlett]

Hahahahh! I just realized that instead of a Gallup Poll, this is a "Scallop Poll"

I'm from New England and I say s-call-up.

 

[Verdy]

S-cal-up for me!

I have a few friends from the UK and they all pronounce it S-call-up. Perhaps it has something to do with European culture/descent?

 

[Kaleigh]

Like call up. I am wondering how the scalloping is going or went in Nantucket with the storm. Nothing like those tiny bay scallops sauteed with some butter garlic and lemon..

 

[Skippy123]

S-cal-up for me. I don't think I have heard it the other way.

 

[sonnyjane]

Hahahahh! I just realized that instead of a Gallup Poll, this is a "Scallop Poll"

I'm from New England and I say s-call-up.

Ok, must be a New England thing, then. It does sound quite refined the "call up" way, I just wouldn't want to go to a restaurant outside of New England and be made fun of!

 

[diamondseeker2006]

Nope, because in the southeast we call them scah-lops..which I think you are meaning for #1! And I LOVE eating them fresh when we go to the beach!

 

[zoebartlett]

I just asked my husband and he pronounces it s-cal-up. We're from the same state, so I don't know that it's a regional thing.

 

[innerkitten]

I say it the second way.

 

[innerkitten]

S-cal-up for me!

I have a few friends from the UK and they all pronounce it S-call-up. Perhaps it has something to do with European culture/descent?

My husbands from there. I'm going to ask him.

 

[Loves Vintage]

S-cal here in CT.

 

[innerkitten]

Yup, he said scall-up

 

[AprilBaby]

Skall up

 

[soocool]

I am from PA but when I am in NE it is like a whole other language! Even people from Northern Jersey (e.g. Jersey City) and NY (e.g. Brooklyn) have a different dialect.

 

[Bella_mezzo]

DH and I both say S-cal-up, but we lived in Boston for almost a decade and it seemed most people there said s-call-up.

 

[JaneSmith]

sCOLLop, like trollop.

I think it's just your funny North American accent.

 

[Renee317]

I am from NH and my parents are from Boston. We say it like your husband.

 

[rainydaze]

Another Boston-area raised New Englander who pronounces it s-call-up!

 

[sonnyjane]

Another Boston-area raised New Englander who pronounces it s-call-up!

Okay, so other than the one report from the southeast, and the folks from across the pond, we seem to have localized this pronunciation