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19 Aug 2016, 8:56 pm

How do you pronounce "pajamas"?

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19 Aug 2016, 9:11 pm

I picked the second one....but to be clear, do you just mean the middle "a"?

I say the middle "a" like in "jam" but the way I say the first and last ones have more of an "uh" sound ....like in "sun". Or I say the first "a" a bit like "i" in "itchy" or the "y" in pygmy...I'm not sure if I don't always say it the same (my speech changes depending on the speech I hear around me) or if it's some combination of the sounds (maybe it's something to do with the Canadian Rising thing).

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19 Aug 2016, 9:14 pm

animalcrackers wrote:

I picked the second one....but to be clear, do you just mean the middle "a"?

I say the middle "a" like in "jam" but the way I say the first and last ones have more of an "uh" sound ....like in "sun".

Yes. Just the middle "a".

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19 Aug 2016, 9:20 pm

Okay, good. DIdn't need to add rambles to my first post then.....

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19 Aug 2016, 9:47 pm

like "po-tah-to." :mrgreen: actually I say "jam-eez." :jester: never wear 'em, by the way. birthday suit is always the best bed wear. :ninja:

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19 Aug 2016, 10:49 pm

auntblabby wrote:

birthday suit is always the best bed wear. :ninja:

:ninja:

Including in the wintertime?

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19 Aug 2016, 10:51 pm

NewTime wrote:

auntblabby wrote:

birthday suit is always the best bed wear. :ninja:

:ninja:

Including in the wintertime?

assuming adequate heat, yes.

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20 Aug 2016, 12:30 am

puh-jam-uhs

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20 Aug 2016, 6:55 am

Being an Englishman, and from the North...

/pə'd͡ʒɑməz/

or, attempting to write it in graphemes, not phonemes...

p'j-aah-m'z

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20 Aug 2016, 7:00 am

wha? nobody else here says "ja-meez"?

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20 Aug 2016, 7:02 am

auntblabby wrote:

wha? nobody else here says "ja-meez"?

I do.

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20 Aug 2016, 7:36 am

Jammies, PJs, jimjams.

I say the middle A in pajamas the same as "father."

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20 Aug 2016, 10:16 am

The first one, pajahmas.

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20 Aug 2016, 3:24 pm

auntblabby wrote:

wha? nobody else here says "ja-meez"?

I say jam-eez, too

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20 Aug 2016, 3:27 pm

I think pronouncing it with the "a" as in "jam" is an American thing. I've never heard a British person say it like that. Then again, I don't live in the UK.

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20 Aug 2016, 3:29 pm

'Get yer jammies on, time for bed'

It's jammies in Scotland, or jamies if you swing that way.

The jam option on poll.

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