Another State’s Rights Issue: How to Pronounce Coupon
From Coupon.com (who else?) …
How do you pronounce coupon? CUE-PON or COO-PON.
This may be the only issue where California, the NE States AND Louisiana AND MISSISSIPPI agree on anything. 🙂
More than 3,500 people cast their vote during September, National Coupon Month. CUE-pon won as the winning pronunciation with 57 percent of the vote over COO-pon.
If you care deeply, their press release delves deeper into greater detail … if you care to know, I usually pronounce it coo-pon but when I say it ironically, I do say CUE-pon … usually if it’s a coupon for $.25 – really? A CUE-PON for a quarter? The only kind of acceptable $.25 coupon is if you taped it to the item itself.
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16 December 2011
15 Comments
Cue-pon here. I also put Grey Pyoo-pon on all my sandwiches. Yum.
I have lived in 6 different states, but have always been a ‘coo-pon’ guy.
I also say aunt and not ‘ant’. ‘peecan’ and not ‘puh-cahn’. ‘care a mel’ and not ‘car-mahl’.
I guess I am in the minority for all those words. I just always took the literal pronunciations. I like to think words should sound like they look.
Interested in finding out how you would pronounce bologna, colonel, pneumonia, and lasagna.
It’s funny you mention bologna, because I have always jokingly pronounced it like it looks. Same with fajitas(fah gee tahs), and quesadillas(cay sa dill ahs). Mainly because it drives my kids crazy.
Lasgna I pronounce like everyone else. Pneumonia does sound like it is spelled. When I meet a Colonel, I usually pronounce it as ‘sir’.
I say COO-PON but I am from PA. I am in the Coupon Minority of my state I guess.
From PA too. I say CUE-PON and I don’t know anybody that says COO-PON. From the west-central part of the state.
I go COO COO for CUE-pons!
[spoken with the same excitement as a coco puffs commercial]
I call them COO-PONS. Funny how when I first saw this picture, I only saw 3 yellow states, but after like 15 seconds, the rest popped up.
UPDATE: Just noticed Hawaii was yellow! 🙂
Born in a coo-pon state. Live in a cou-pon state.
I say coo-pon.
You can take me out of NY but you can’t take the NY out of me 🙂
I’ve lived in green states all my life, but still call then COO-pons.
so… 2 door cars are… “cuepes”?
I was thinking the exact same thing. You don’t pronounce “coupe” CUE-pe….so why is coupon the exception?
So weird.
It’s COOpon all the way for me, as I think most other Canadians are like me.
>>You don’t pronounce “coupe” CUE-pe<<
Yeah, but some have been known to pronounce it "coo-PAY."
(Of course, I don't think "Little Deuce coo-PAY" would have worked as well for the Beach Boys…)
some say he pronounces it cue-pon and others that he pronounces it coo-pon. all we know is that he’s the stig and pronounces nothing!
I’ve always pronounced it cue-pon… I live in a green state…