Spicket or spigot?Why does “everyone” pronounce “spigot” as “spicket”?
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Spicket or spigot?
Why does “everyone” pronounce “spigot” as “spicket”?
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I recently was making a list and for the first time using a digital device, typed in what I grew up referring to an outdoor faucet 'spicket' as into my iPad.
My mother grew up in Utah and my father in. Nebraska, Utah, Wyoming and Idaho. Mom's parents in Salt Lake and Central Utah while Dad's parents in Tennessee and the Western states.
I looked up how to spell spicket and for the first time in my 35 year teaching career found again that I have been mispronouncing and misspelling a word.
I am wondering which parts of the country use spigot and who says spicket?
Who knew?
orthography dialects
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I recently was making a list and for the first time using a digital device, typed in what I grew up referring to an outdoor faucet 'spicket' as into my iPad.
My mother grew up in Utah and my father in. Nebraska, Utah, Wyoming and Idaho. Mom's parents in Salt Lake and Central Utah while Dad's parents in Tennessee and the Western states.
I looked up how to spell spicket and for the first time in my 35 year teaching career found again that I have been mispronouncing and misspelling a word.
I am wondering which parts of the country use spigot and who says spicket?
Who knew?
orthography dialects
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Can't say anything about US regional variations, but OED does list spicket as "now chiefly dialect and U.S." [where "now" is 1914] and a variant of spigot, so you haven't necessarily got the word wrong at all. I'll leave others to answer the question about geographic distribution.
– Andrew Leach♦
8 hours ago
I lived in up-state NY from the 50s to the late 80s, and always heard it as "spigot". Hard /g/
– Cascabel
7 hours ago
3
Just as /d/ and /t/ neutralize after a stressed vowel before an unstressed one (writer/rider, catty/caddy), so do /ɡ/ and /k/, and for the same reason -- vowels are voiced and tend to voice consonants between them, especially short consonants like voiceless stops. This means that it's very hard to hear the difference in that context, and therefore usually not worth making the effort to distinguish them in speech. It isn't, afaik, a geographic phenomenon, just a personal one, though it may be socioeconomic in some cases.
– John Lawler
7 hours ago
2
I’ve always pronounced it spigot, and I remember wondering as a kid what the somewhat Spoonerist vicar in Four Weddings and a Funeral (aka Rowan Atkinson) was talking about when he said, “in the name of the father and the son and the holy spicket” – I flat out didn’t understand what he was saying. That’s British English, though, where /g/ and /k/ are more clearly distinguished in this position.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
6 hours ago
2
Related earlier question: Why does “everyone” pronounce “spigot” as “spicket”?
– sumelic
5 hours ago
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I recently was making a list and for the first time using a digital device, typed in what I grew up referring to an outdoor faucet 'spicket' as into my iPad.
My mother grew up in Utah and my father in. Nebraska, Utah, Wyoming and Idaho. Mom's parents in Salt Lake and Central Utah while Dad's parents in Tennessee and the Western states.
I looked up how to spell spicket and for the first time in my 35 year teaching career found again that I have been mispronouncing and misspelling a word.
I am wondering which parts of the country use spigot and who says spicket?
Who knew?
orthography dialects
edited 4 hours ago
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I recently was making a list and for the first time using a digital device, typed in what I grew up referring to an outdoor faucet 'spicket' as into my iPad.
My mother grew up in Utah and my father in. Nebraska, Utah, Wyoming and Idaho. Mom's parents in Salt Lake and Central Utah while Dad's parents in Tennessee and the Western states.
I looked up how to spell spicket and for the first time in my 35 year teaching career found again that I have been mispronouncing and misspelling a word.
I am wondering which parts of the country use spigot and who says spicket?
Who knew?
orthography dialects
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Can't say anything about US regional variations, but OED does list spicket as "now chiefly dialect and U.S." [where "now" is 1914] and a variant of spigot, so you haven't necessarily got the word wrong at all. I'll leave others to answer the question about geographic distribution.
– Andrew Leach♦
8 hours ago
I lived in up-state NY from the 50s to the late 80s, and always heard it as "spigot". Hard /g/
– Cascabel
7 hours ago
3
Just as /d/ and /t/ neutralize after a stressed vowel before an unstressed one (writer/rider, catty/caddy), so do /ɡ/ and /k/, and for the same reason -- vowels are voiced and tend to voice consonants between them, especially short consonants like voiceless stops. This means that it's very hard to hear the difference in that context, and therefore usually not worth making the effort to distinguish them in speech. It isn't, afaik, a geographic phenomenon, just a personal one, though it may be socioeconomic in some cases.
– John Lawler
7 hours ago
2
I’ve always pronounced it spigot, and I remember wondering as a kid what the somewhat Spoonerist vicar in Four Weddings and a Funeral (aka Rowan Atkinson) was talking about when he said, “in the name of the father and the son and the holy spicket” – I flat out didn’t understand what he was saying. That’s British English, though, where /g/ and /k/ are more clearly distinguished in this position.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
6 hours ago
2
Related earlier question: Why does “everyone” pronounce “spigot” as “spicket”?
– sumelic
5 hours ago
add a comment |
1
Can't say anything about US regional variations, but OED does list spicket as "now chiefly dialect and U.S." [where "now" is 1914] and a variant of spigot, so you haven't necessarily got the word wrong at all. I'll leave others to answer the question about geographic distribution.
– Andrew Leach♦
8 hours ago
I lived in up-state NY from the 50s to the late 80s, and always heard it as "spigot". Hard /g/
– Cascabel
7 hours ago
3
Just as /d/ and /t/ neutralize after a stressed vowel before an unstressed one (writer/rider, catty/caddy), so do /ɡ/ and /k/, and for the same reason -- vowels are voiced and tend to voice consonants between them, especially short consonants like voiceless stops. This means that it's very hard to hear the difference in that context, and therefore usually not worth making the effort to distinguish them in speech. It isn't, afaik, a geographic phenomenon, just a personal one, though it may be socioeconomic in some cases.
– John Lawler
7 hours ago
2
I’ve always pronounced it spigot, and I remember wondering as a kid what the somewhat Spoonerist vicar in Four Weddings and a Funeral (aka Rowan Atkinson) was talking about when he said, “in the name of the father and the son and the holy spicket” – I flat out didn’t understand what he was saying. That’s British English, though, where /g/ and /k/ are more clearly distinguished in this position.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
6 hours ago
2
Related earlier question: Why does “everyone” pronounce “spigot” as “spicket”?
– sumelic
5 hours ago
1
1
Can't say anything about US regional variations, but OED does list spicket as "now chiefly dialect and U.S." [where "now" is 1914] and a variant of spigot, so you haven't necessarily got the word wrong at all. I'll leave others to answer the question about geographic distribution.
– Andrew Leach♦
8 hours ago
Can't say anything about US regional variations, but OED does list spicket as "now chiefly dialect and U.S." [where "now" is 1914] and a variant of spigot, so you haven't necessarily got the word wrong at all. I'll leave others to answer the question about geographic distribution.
– Andrew Leach♦
8 hours ago
I lived in up-state NY from the 50s to the late 80s, and always heard it as "spigot". Hard /g/
– Cascabel
7 hours ago
I lived in up-state NY from the 50s to the late 80s, and always heard it as "spigot". Hard /g/
– Cascabel
7 hours ago
3
3
Just as /d/ and /t/ neutralize after a stressed vowel before an unstressed one (writer/rider, catty/caddy), so do /ɡ/ and /k/, and for the same reason -- vowels are voiced and tend to voice consonants between them, especially short consonants like voiceless stops. This means that it's very hard to hear the difference in that context, and therefore usually not worth making the effort to distinguish them in speech. It isn't, afaik, a geographic phenomenon, just a personal one, though it may be socioeconomic in some cases.
– John Lawler
7 hours ago
Just as /d/ and /t/ neutralize after a stressed vowel before an unstressed one (writer/rider, catty/caddy), so do /ɡ/ and /k/, and for the same reason -- vowels are voiced and tend to voice consonants between them, especially short consonants like voiceless stops. This means that it's very hard to hear the difference in that context, and therefore usually not worth making the effort to distinguish them in speech. It isn't, afaik, a geographic phenomenon, just a personal one, though it may be socioeconomic in some cases.
– John Lawler
7 hours ago
2
2
I’ve always pronounced it spigot, and I remember wondering as a kid what the somewhat Spoonerist vicar in Four Weddings and a Funeral (aka Rowan Atkinson) was talking about when he said, “in the name of the father and the son and the holy spicket” – I flat out didn’t understand what he was saying. That’s British English, though, where /g/ and /k/ are more clearly distinguished in this position.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
6 hours ago
I’ve always pronounced it spigot, and I remember wondering as a kid what the somewhat Spoonerist vicar in Four Weddings and a Funeral (aka Rowan Atkinson) was talking about when he said, “in the name of the father and the son and the holy spicket” – I flat out didn’t understand what he was saying. That’s British English, though, where /g/ and /k/ are more clearly distinguished in this position.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
6 hours ago
2
2
Related earlier question: Why does “everyone” pronounce “spigot” as “spicket”?
– sumelic
5 hours ago
Related earlier question: Why does “everyone” pronounce “spigot” as “spicket”?
– sumelic
5 hours ago
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Definition of spicket
chiefly South & Midland [Middle USA] : spigot
(Merriam Webster)
Do you use "spigot" or "spicket" to refer to a faucet or tap that water comes out of?
a. spicket (6.38%)
b. spigot (66.89%)
c. I use both interchangeably (2.52%)
d. I say "spicket" but spell it "spigot" (12.64%)
(Vaux, Bert and Scott Golder. 2003. The Harvard Dialect Survey. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Linguistics Department).
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spicket
Definition of spicket
chiefly South & Midland [Middle USA] : spigot
(Merriam Webster)
Do you use "spigot" or "spicket" to refer to a faucet or tap that water comes out of?
a. spicket (6.38%)
b. spigot (66.89%)
c. I use both interchangeably (2.52%)
d. I say "spicket" but spell it "spigot" (12.64%)
(Vaux, Bert and Scott Golder. 2003. The Harvard Dialect Survey. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Linguistics Department).
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spicket
Definition of spicket
chiefly South & Midland [Middle USA] : spigot
(Merriam Webster)
Do you use "spigot" or "spicket" to refer to a faucet or tap that water comes out of?
a. spicket (6.38%)
b. spigot (66.89%)
c. I use both interchangeably (2.52%)
d. I say "spicket" but spell it "spigot" (12.64%)
(Vaux, Bert and Scott Golder. 2003. The Harvard Dialect Survey. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Linguistics Department).
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spicket
Definition of spicket
chiefly South & Midland [Middle USA] : spigot
(Merriam Webster)
Do you use "spigot" or "spicket" to refer to a faucet or tap that water comes out of?
a. spicket (6.38%)
b. spigot (66.89%)
c. I use both interchangeably (2.52%)
d. I say "spicket" but spell it "spigot" (12.64%)
(Vaux, Bert and Scott Golder. 2003. The Harvard Dialect Survey. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Linguistics Department).
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Definition of spicket
chiefly South & Midland [Middle USA] : spigot
(Merriam Webster)
Do you use "spigot" or "spicket" to refer to a faucet or tap that water comes out of?
a. spicket (6.38%)
b. spigot (66.89%)
c. I use both interchangeably (2.52%)
d. I say "spicket" but spell it "spigot" (12.64%)
(Vaux, Bert and Scott Golder. 2003. The Harvard Dialect Survey. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Linguistics Department).
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Can't say anything about US regional variations, but OED does list spicket as "now chiefly dialect and U.S." [where "now" is 1914] and a variant of spigot, so you haven't necessarily got the word wrong at all. I'll leave others to answer the question about geographic distribution.
– Andrew Leach♦
8 hours ago
I lived in up-state NY from the 50s to the late 80s, and always heard it as "spigot". Hard /g/
– Cascabel
7 hours ago
3
Just as /d/ and /t/ neutralize after a stressed vowel before an unstressed one (writer/rider, catty/caddy), so do /ɡ/ and /k/, and for the same reason -- vowels are voiced and tend to voice consonants between them, especially short consonants like voiceless stops. This means that it's very hard to hear the difference in that context, and therefore usually not worth making the effort to distinguish them in speech. It isn't, afaik, a geographic phenomenon, just a personal one, though it may be socioeconomic in some cases.
– John Lawler
7 hours ago
2
I’ve always pronounced it spigot, and I remember wondering as a kid what the somewhat Spoonerist vicar in Four Weddings and a Funeral (aka Rowan Atkinson) was talking about when he said, “in the name of the father and the son and the holy spicket” – I flat out didn’t understand what he was saying. That’s British English, though, where /g/ and /k/ are more clearly distinguished in this position.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
6 hours ago
2
Related earlier question: Why does “everyone” pronounce “spigot” as “spicket”?
– sumelic
5 hours ago