I don’t know if it’s midwestern or what and I’m not sure how to type it phonetically but I say Suh-mm or Suhm-mmp, As in “Suh-mmp to eat.”
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Sump’m is my transliteration
aug 29, 2025, 1:39 am • 4 0 • view
Looks right!
aug 29, 2025, 1:40 am • 4 0 • view
I know exactly what you’re saying. Pretty sure I’ve seen it written as “sump’m,” but I don’t know that I really pronounce the P.
aug 29, 2025, 1:13 am • 0 0 • view
sump pump is joy machine
aug 29, 2025, 1:11 am • 0 0 • view
It’s a glottal stop after the “suh” that elides smoothly into a closed-mouth mmmm for me (Central IL)
aug 29, 2025, 1:11 am • 1 0 • view
Yes, but how are you both with the midwestern positive "anymore"? "Anymore we go to the movies."
aug 29, 2025, 1:15 am • 3 0 • view
Oh that’s a class thing—I was raised to judge people who talked like that and have to actively fight my own snobbishness
aug 29, 2025, 1:22 am • 3 0 • view
It is so foreign to me that I have to look it up to come up with an example.
aug 29, 2025, 1:23 am • 2 0 • view
This one I am unfamiliar with, which I guess means I’m RICH
aug 29, 2025, 1:38 am • 3 0 • view