Does anybody besides my wife pronounce "crayons" to sound like "cranz"?

[trackfan]

She also says "emBRORdery", and says that was picked up from her grandmother, who was from Baltimore and D.C.

[noamnety]

1. I say cran. It's regional.

See the second option for pronunciation in websters:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crayon

[Skittles]

2. you want I should kick her mis-pronouncing ass, trackfan?

that just sounds EGREGIOUS

[yankeepants]

3. I do. Why?

Is she gettin' on your nerves? CRANZ, CRANZ, CRANZ, CRANZ, CRANZ. . .

[seabeyond]

4. hubby says vantastic instead of fantastic. he often changes his f for v. odd. so precise

to the point of snobby on grammer, speech ect...

[hedgehog]

5. I recently hard a recording of my voice, and discovered that i pronounce

"National Grid" (our utility) as "National greed" - a totally unintentional pun!

[cherish44]

6. Yeah I guess I do..didn't realize it though

cranz ...one syllable...cra-yons...two syllables. One syllable is easier :)
I'm from Northern IL and I think that's how everyone says it in my neck of the woods

[Quantess]

7. ...or "crowns"

As a small child, that was my pet peeve.

[Midlodemocrat]

10. Took me years after moving here to figure out that people who

were saying that meant crayons.

:wtf:

[bigwillq]

8. I do (nt)

[carlyhippy]

9. craaay yawns is the way I say it, but I usually call them colors, get your colors and book

but I got a southern Texas accent...I say caddle instead of cattle, badderies instead of batteries, my tt's are pronounced d's...well, maybe not attention, it's aaa tenshun.

[bif]

11. In Detroit that's how we say it

For the most part.

[Scout]

12. Ann Arbor too

one syllable.