How to pronounce SoW debate

[applesauce25r624]

it's not spirit of the cow

[Big_Japan]

Originally Posted by 12point [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

How is sow pronounced when you sow a field

not like this guy thinks

Originally Posted by Joyelle [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

My reasoning for pronouncing it as /soʊ/ (rhymes with go) is this:

The spell is named Spirit of Wolf. You could conceivably shorten it to "Spirit o' Wolf" and therefore the "o" could become the long "o" if you were to shorten that to SOW.

There is no "ah" sound in Spirit of Wolf so it doesn't make sense to me to say it as /saʊ/ (rhymes with cow).

yikes

It's pronounced like kung Pao. My friend pronounced it like "sew" and he then and now is obese and far less attractive than I.

[Tiewon Shu]

I pronounce it how it should be pronounced "B."

Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sow

[Swish]

Originally Posted by Troxx [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Always said sow as in rhymes with how now brown cow want sow?

Or as in piggie piggie sow.

That's where I got mine from. "sew" to me means tailoring :P

[Champion_Standing]

SoW/spirit of wolf = noun

Sow as in planting seed = verb
Sow as in a pig = noun

Saying it like the verb ie sew is wrong and you should feel bad.

[Thiefboy777]

B since 1999.

[myriverse]

Like you sow seeds. It just seems more natural for me to pronounce "ow" like "oh" than "ahw"

[Swish]

Slight derail but I'd never heard "meme" said before, found out that "me me" isn't the way to say it, it's obviously "meem".

Embarrassed didn't cover it, was a feeling similar to this:

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[dafier]

Sew

[Danth]

Accents and dialect makes for fun discussion. My regional accent pronounces "sow" and "sew" identically, so that's how I pronounce the acronym for Spirit of Wolf.

Unrelated: I recall when I was in grade school one of the teachers--a transplant from Connecticut--always kept nagging us students any time she heard us pronouncing "aunt" identically to "ant" (which again is the norm in this region). She thought of it as disrespectful since on the east coast those words typically maintain separate sounds.

Totally unrelated: I grew up in the great lakes region, and apparently I'll sometimes display a hint of the northern cities shift. The wife, who grew up farther south, does not. Strangely, she displays the cot-caught merger, which is very unusual for this region. I figure it's because she grew up watching the disney channel, which is staffed by California residents for whom such pronunciation is typical.

Danth