pronunciation: angel food cake

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ok, so which word do you stress? which is the proper one to stress?
i have an awesomely petty argument about this and i cant wait to be right once again.

― todd swiss (eliti), Thursday, 6 May 2004 04:53 (twenty-one years ago)

new answers!

― todd swiss (eliti), Thursday, 6 May 2004 04:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Food.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 May 2004 05:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I once determined that whether you said Taco BELL or TACO Bell was a regional thing, but I don't remember what the regions were, and which said which.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 May 2004 05:12 (twenty-one years ago)

(Actually, the regions were likely Illinois vs. Michigan.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 May 2004 05:13 (twenty-one years ago)

ANgel food cake. TACo bell.

I'm much more likely to say the latter, of course.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 6 May 2004 05:29 (twenty-one years ago)

what kind of question is this?! is this what keeps you up at night?

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 6 May 2004 05:36 (twenty-one years ago)

hahahaha, i told you it was petty! but yes, i am truly interested in the correct pronunciation.

― todd swiss (eliti), Thursday, 6 May 2004 05:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, its ANgel food cake.

Ahn-hell FOOD c-c-c-c-c-cocaine if youre nasti

― LC, Thursday, 6 May 2004 05:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, the carrier BAG/CARRIER bag argument. Much like the wily split infinitive, it's a matter of personal taste or upbringing.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 6 May 2004 07:31 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe there are some menkos out there who pronounce the 'angel' as in Juan Pablo?

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 6 May 2004 08:36 (twenty-one years ago)

it's trochaic bimeter, foolz

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 6 May 2004 08:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know what kind of reflection on my character this is, but I have only ever heard of Devil's Food Cake. I stress the FOOD (food > devil)

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 6 May 2004 09:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Food > Satan, obv. Food also better than angels, mind, as one can't eat spiritual manifestations.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Thursday, 6 May 2004 09:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Tell it to the goths.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 6 May 2004 10:30 (twenty-one years ago)

angelfood CAKE

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 6 May 2004 11:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Carry Bag

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 6 May 2004 11:41 (twenty-one years ago)

angel FOOD cake

i'm really inconsistent. it's taco BELL and WALgreens (a pharmacy).

― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 6 May 2004 11:50 (twenty-one years ago)

ANGEL food CAKE. But I'm Southern, so what do I know? Some of us say TEEvee.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I once determined that whether you said Taco BELL or TACO Bell was a regional thing, but I don't remember what the regions were, and which said which.

I just call it T.B. Yum!

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Tuberculosis? *cough cough*

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Angel, Taco, TEEvee.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't pronounce "angel food cake" because I never eat it. It's "devil's food cake" though.

And "Taco Bell."

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it's TACO bell here in TENNEssee. I don't really stress either one, though.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

angel food CAKE

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I had a friend in high school who specifically put his emphases in weird places, where we all said GREEN day, he called them green DAY, HIP-hop was hip-HOP, etc. He was a funny guy.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Taco Bell is an easy one though .. you say it like they say it in the commercials... Taco BELL.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 6 May 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

stress on the first syllable of "angel"

― uh (eetface), Thursday, 6 May 2004 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Does this mean I have to say "Afflak" like a cantankerous goose?

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 6 May 2004 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

By the power vested in me by the W0rld Chr1st1ansh1p M1n1stry, I now pronounce you angel food cake.

― reverend nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 6 May 2004 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes. I say Taco BELL, too.

Interestingly enough, although I say "angel FOOD cake," I think I would say "DEVIL'S food cake" (if I ever had opportunity to say it, which I don't) because I feel like it carries an implicit "as opposed to ANGEL."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 May 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

How do you pronounce "Croissandwich" ?

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 6 May 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

"Mick GRID-dull."

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 6 May 2004 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

cruh-SAND-wich. Sandwich trumps croissant here.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 May 2004 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

although I say "angel FOOD cake," I think I would say "DEVIL'S food cake"

Devil > Angel

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 6 May 2004 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

There are people who pronounce it "WalGREEN'S"?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 6 May 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

ANGEL food cake. DEVILS food cake. Taco BELL. And it's TenneSSEE, I'm from the state and know no one who says "TENNessee." For fun, sometimes we say "KENtucky," but that's just for laffs.

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Thursday, 6 May 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Not under my roof. Not while I'm paying the bills. You wanna get a job you can pronounce it walGREENS.

I need coffee.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 6 May 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

My mom says loungeCHAIR. I say LOUNGEchair. She also says "Hand me a scissors." Wtf? Weirdo.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 6 May 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Where in TN? Down Southeast REALLY COUNTRY people say TENNessee.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 6 May 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

What happens to the first syllable, though? Does it become "wuhl-GREENS"? That sounds awful. Do you say walMART as well?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 6 May 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, my grandfather says TENNessee (he grew up there before they moved to Alabama) too.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 6 May 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

And it's TenneSSEE, I'm from the state and know no one who says "TENNessee."

haha arrested development to thread

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 6 May 2004 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Wal, it depends on what part of Tennessee you from, I suppose. Grew up in middle, lived in west for 10 years, went to school in east. I never heard anyone say "TENNessee" except people from other places. I was always taught that "TENNessee" was a joke pronunciation. This seems to follow the general rule about stressing first syllable in de south...I say DeTROIT, many for some reason say "DEEtroit." I've heard folks from the outlying areas of the state say "MACdonald's" when they refer to the burger joint. The first-syllable stress just sounds funny to me, have never been able to figure out exactly why? Why?

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Thursday, 6 May 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Wal-MART? Wal-GREENS? WhaTT?? WacKY thread.

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Thursday, 6 May 2004 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't even hear "wal-GREENS" in my head, much less figure out a natural pronunciation for it.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 6 May 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, why put the stress on any syllable? My elementary school band teacher said "MACdonald's" and we all made fun of him.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 6 May 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

OR-agin vs. OR-a-GON?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 May 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, but people who stress the first syllable of McDonald's are changing the vowel, too. It's hard to pronounce Walgreen's naturally with no stress.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 6 May 2004 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

"Orygun". Last two syllables as unstressed as you can muster.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 6 May 2004 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it two stressed syllables with a pitch rise? Like, is it "wal GREENS" the same way you might say "LurLENE"? If you see what I mean.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 6 May 2004 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Like you're constantly asking if that's really the name!

That I can "hear," though.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 6 May 2004 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

("Are we going to wal-GREENS or wal-MART?")

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 6 May 2004 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

("wall-DRUG.")

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 6 May 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

wallyworld

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 6 May 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

worst rapper name ever (it really was used)

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 6 May 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

My brother-in-law in Tenn. says "MACKdonald's." He says "it don't work" and all that, too. It's weird because my niece and nephew are picking up all those, to my ears, bad speech patterns...southerners never say "I lay down," it's always the transitive "laid," which I have to admit drives me a bit crazy, since I teach writing for a living. We got our perhaps dumb little class markers down heah, too...I'm fairly descriptive edging toward prescriptive about spoken English, and pretty proscriptive about the written word. It's all a matter of upbringing, you ort to hear my relatives in Georgia talk! They're so cool, though, the way they pronounce their Os. This thread is funny too because I was trying to explain very basic scansion and poetic rhythm to my 11-yr.-old nephew (he's doing poetry right now in school), and it seems to me that kids naturally like sprung rhythm. And angel food cake.

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Thursday, 6 May 2004 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, come on, sprung rhythm is pretty great.

What was Todd's theory?!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 7 May 2004 04:12 (twenty-one years ago)

well, i say angel FOOD cake, but my friend who thinks she is the pronunciation god says its ANGEL food cake.

i guess the general concensus is that there is no concensus.

thats good enough for me

― todd swiss (eliti), Friday, 7 May 2004 05:50 (twenty-one years ago)

this kid back in high school used to say wal-GREENS. it bugged the shit out of me. and everyone else. we made fun of him mercilessly.

he deserved it.

cVs.

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 7 May 2004 11:40 (twenty-one years ago)

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