favorite ] Yes we do. You just don't hear it because you're too used to being clubbed over the head with a giant American super-over-emphasised ARRRR! We're all pirates here. At least we only have one 'R', to the best of my knowledge. The French have 3 bloody ways of pronouncing R's. And one sounds like you are hacking up a hairball. (Having two different ones in my name makes me embarassed to speak my poor French from the very introduction.) posted by maryr at 1:36 PM on January 3 One cup of flow-er ... that's the only way I've ever heard it. Also here in North Carolina I say "queer-y" as in "Structured Queer-y Language" or "See-kwul". (Aside: Now and then I meet a programmer who says "ess-queue-ell" which comes off as a bit much, like saying "portable personal computer" every time instead of "PC" or "laptop"). posted by freecellwizard at 1:37 PM on January 3 Worcestershire Sauce and the naming thereof nearly caused the first proper fight between my (now) wife and I... are you serious? "Flower" has two syllables, "flour" has one. How is a syllable not a matter of pronunciation? Wait, how do you pronounce flour? I use two syllables and so does everyone I know (I think). Sounds exactly like flower. I think if someone said it as one syllable, I wouldn't know what they were talking about. posted by Bulgaroktonos at 1:41 PM on January 3 [ 1 favorite ] "The two words are