Can you pronounce three consonants strung together?

[trof]

'Three' is pretty easy (thurh-ree), but I noticed Jeff Foxworthy has a problem with 'Shrimp" in his commercial for whatever restaurant.
He says 'srimp'.
I've noticed that in other fellow southerners.
Shrimp becomes srimp.
Schlitz becomes Slitz.
Just wondered if anyone else has noticed or does this?

[madamesilverspurs]

1. Strength becomes 'strenth' --

I've heard that all over the country, can't say it's regional.

[Skittles]

2. I dislike when one syllable becomes two

instead of HAIR they will say HAY-ER

[lastlib]

7. I heard an old joke years ago.......

The reason Arkansas girls tend to get pregnant so young? Takes 'em too long to say "Queee-i-uuut."

[KentuckyWoman]

20. HA!

Oldie but a goodie.

[trof]

29. In Alabama hair rhymes with higher.

Well, it's actually high-uh.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

3. My girlfriend can't tell the difference between "adult" and "a dolt"

She swears they sound the same to her.

[a la izquierda]

4. I do not have this problem...

but my best friend, who is French-Canadian and didn't learn English until he turned 18, has a very difficult time with some English letter combinations. Three is "tree," thought is more like "thoth."

ETA: I'm originally from NJ, but I've lived all over the country.

[Phentex]

6. My relatives in Jersey say...

one hun-drit, two hun-drit, three hun-drit dollars

On Jeopardy, some people say two hunnert, four hunnert etc.

[a la izquierda]

9. My dad says tree instead of three...

But he's originally from the Bronx.

[Callmecrazy]

13. And they say "wooder"...

Instead of "water".

[a la izquierda]

16. Some do

I made a conscious effort to lose my accent. My mom says "Jennifah," "East Ruthahfuhd," an "ow-uh" (hour), but she also says "idear," "soder," and "brar."

[greymouse]

18. Is your Mom from RI?

[a la izquierda]

21. Staten Island nt

[trof]

14. My Cajun father-in-law couldn't say 'th'.

Dorothy was 'Dar-Tee'.
And it was 'deese, dem, and doze'.

[Phentex]

5. I hear srimp all the time. And rest-runt where you order those srimp...

and Massa-too-setts.

[Glorfindel]

8. "sps" and "sts" are difficult but not impossible for me

many of my neighbors back home in the southern Appalachians would say "waspers" for "wasps." And here's a doozy: "He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts." Try saying that 3 times very rapidly.

[a la izquierda]

17. Waspers??

[annabanana]

25. whole thing:

Amidst the mists and coldest frosts,
with stoutest wrists and loudest boasts,
he thrusts his fists against the posts
and still insists he sees the ghosts.

[Glorfindel]

26. Hey, thanks, annabanana....I'd never seen the whole thing

The last two lines were in a Stephen King book ("It," I believe), and I just assumed he'd made it up.

[begin_within]

10. "against" becomes "agit"

[Iggo]

11. I can do it.

I know a guy who can't say Sampras, though.

He says Samfras. Still three-in-a-row, just not the right ones.

[KamaAina]

12. I can pronounce four.

Thanksgiving.

[lunatica]

15. My married name used to be Dwyer

I couldn't believe how many people had trouble figuring out how to write it. It was one of the things I gave back to my husband when I divorced him.

[KentuckyWoman]

19. Listen to Forrest Gump

Bubba is actually saying "srimp stew, srimp soup, srimp gumbo".

Yes it is kind of a southern thing but to be fair they add "r" on to a bunch of things. So they really just move the consonants around.

Winder (window)
Idear (idea)
Potater (potato)

My sister was in Georgia less than a year before she picked up "fixin" "buggy" and "mash".

Fixin' to do the laundry
Do we need a buggy (grocery cart)
Mash that light switch for me.

Within 5 years she automatically used "ya'll" and "all ya'll" correctly every time.

[ProfessorGAC]

22. That Happens To Iowans Too

We know a few families that were originally from Iowa. (One, two, three generations back.)

They do that too, with the "R". But, the one i really don't get is "warsh" when they are saying "wash". Every one of them does that. And not one of those families is related to the other ones.

[KentuckyWoman]

23. Oh in Kentucky we say worsh for wash.

most people I know do. Confused the heck out of my cousin's Chinese wife.

[ProfessorGAC]

24. Ah! Well At Least That's Consistent With Your South Thing

I found it odd with Iowans, 'cuz that ain't the south!

[Callmecrazy]

27. I have trouble saying the word "sword"...

I always want to pronounce the "w".

[mackerel]

28. Me too! Even though I know better. LOL