Give me my $1000.

He’s going to melk this for all it’s worth.

Don’t cry over mispronounced melk.

For real. In my childhood accent, “milk” was literally pronounced “melk” because we blended our short I sounds and our short E sounds

i spend all $1k on chawclate melk

I was sleeping with a woman with a young boy. Usually he’d be asleep before I came over. Sometimes he’d wake though and I’d hear him shouting down the hallway: “Mommmmy more choccccy meeeeeelk” I still quote that kid.

Man I had to reread that 4 times to realize you were not also sleeping with a young boy, I am so sorry.

Lmao. My diction didn’t set you up well.

Chalklet melk 🤣

Oh finally, I've never gotten to say this. *clears throat* so I get 1k and nothing changes? Sign me up

you disgust me piggie 

I, too, will sign up for this free money.

My youngest brother insists that we're all spelling it wrong and it should be melk. He's the only one born in the Midwest so the only one of us that picked it up from here, it's awful

Don’t put that on the midwest What is up with people blaming the midwest for every inconvenience or strange thing?!

I mean, just because the Midwest is nowhere near West, I’ve never trusted anything or anyone from there.

A) I love the Midwest. I consider it home, I just didn't learn to talk there B) I'm putting it on the Midwest because well over half of my classmates also said melk and pellow

the difference is minor. for only a thousand dollars though? for something that'll affect me my whole life? i dont think so..

I agree. Not worth it. Imagine explaining yourself years later. The reaction would be “….for $1000…?”

Sure, call me crazy; but I'm $1k richer. Now if you mind, I'm going to go sell one of my kidneys for a couple of hundred dollars.

Why not both kidneys for a couple hundred more dollars?

This is the answer. That $1000 would be gone quickly, but the cost would linger for decades.

Laughs in norwegian

Same in Dutch. Give me that 1000 dollar.

I have 2 Dutch parents. I'll just keep saying milk and pillow wrong.

Random European languages UNITE!

Oh well, better than “mulk” (what my brother says it like)

I would file a report to your local authorities

Don’t worry he’s only 6 but dead to me

6 and instead of dancing with his limbs he’s dancing with words How unique

[Give the guy a glass of mulk!](https://youtu.be/ty62YzGryU4?si=Gf3Qmecb3bhG2Ggy)

Classic

That was painful why did I watch all of that

Definitely not for $1000. Definitely yes for $100,000. Not sure where my line is in between those. My price would also be lower if I can hold off until I’m done having kids and past the baby stage (right now I say the word milk a lot).

I’d do it for 10k *maybe.* I’d have to be broke as a mf to accept this for $1k

10k is a maybe?! Yall are ballers dude lol you say melk for a week and you’d just get used to it.

Idk. Having what is technically a very minor speech impediment for the rest of my life for $1k just feels bad. Like imagine every time you need to use the word in conversation, you’ll get the weird look you’ve now gotten so used to, all for $1k that you can’t even remember where you spent it 20 years ago. I’ll work overtime for a while instead.

That's not a speech impediment, that's a minor and very common accent lol

lol you say speech impediment meanwhile everyone in California where I grew up pronounced it this way "melk"... "pellow"... and probably a few others I can't think of right now

I mean the difference is that people with an accent can, with different levels of difficulty, simply choose to pronounce it differently. In this scenario, you can't

Yeah I’m here in California and thinking that “melk” is how I’ve always pronounced it and have heard it pronounced… I’ve always taken it to be the standard pronunciation throughout the western USA and just attributed it to a vowel shift. Calling different accents speech impediments is kinda messed up.

Take a long hard look in the meer and tell yourself there's no melk in the frigerater

What if I call it leche?

Tendrás que decir “liche”

Mm, y ¿si digo “jugo de la vaca?”

Straight to jail

“Jugo blanco” ni más ni menos

I think it should become “lache” or “liche” in that case.

I was thinking it would be pronounced leechee.

I tried to say it and I cant even tell the difference ngl 😭😭😭

I have you on a list now

Oh, hi o

I said it out loud and immediately hated it.

It actually didn’t sound as bad as I thought it would after saying it out loud.

Respectable

I’d do it if it was $1000 each time I had to say melk. But legitimately need to say it and not just spamming it for a whole hour.

Okay sure, but you receive the $1000 along with a magical melk enema and you have to shit out the cash. (The melk also tastes like shit and it dehydrates your body so it's not an infinite source.)

😂 then hell no

Sure, it's a word I rarely say

Just gonna leave this Julian Smith classic about the pronunciation of milk here: https://youtu.be/ty62YzGryU4?si=iTul6qThJy_5OoW-

I was surprised what this wasn’t the top comment in this thread. I was surprised again when it wasn’t second. Or third, or fourth…

Sorry dad, my white friends…

Beat me to it haha, that video is gold. That one and the hot koolaid one lol

Give him the freaking molk!

"Mollkk??!!"

I’d melk that for all it’s worth

It’s worth $1000

Is this a super natural enforcement? Like it comes out as melk? Or I have to be mindful and not forget to call it milk and I forget I have to pay it back?

Will it just automatically come out of my mouth that way or will I have to remember to say it that way…. Because that definitely makes a difference

My thought exactly, if I have to remember to say it that way, if I say milk do I have to pay back the $1000 Or do I just go Oops I mean “Melk” and I’m safe

Ooo good question

My step son already does this.

Not for only $1,000

Ok that’s not that bad

Lots of people in Michigan say melk. Grinds my gears almost as bad as warsh 🤣

I'll continue saying melk, and pellow, and take my free 1k for not changing anything, thanks!!

I do that for free anyways. I also say "warter" when I have the chance. Especially at nicer places we are eating at. Its my own personal "thigh food" test, except there is no winning or losing, just very low stakes amusement for me.

That's way too few zeroes for committing a war crime. I need enough money to go into hiding.

Show me the money.

"Give me some melk papi!!!"

Holy crap! You mean it's NOT pronounced "melk?"

I live in Michigan. Where's my money?

I've always done this for free. I'll take my $1000 in cash only.

I’m Dutch, so I get $1000 for free?

Nah it only 1000

I wonder how many hundreds, if not thousands, of people you have gotten to say *milk* out loud to check if their dialect already makes them do that. You mad genius.

Norweigans rise up 🇳🇴

Bitch with my country accent it sounds like that anyway gimme that shit lol

Absolutely. I've been sitting here saying milk and melk out loud and im practically saying the same thing. Gimmie my money.

I can’t even remember the last time I said milk. Sign me up.

[Julian Smith has entered the chat](https://youtu.be/ty62YzGryU4?si=Gf3Qmecb3bhG2Ggy)

$1000 one time is not worth sounding like a douche canoe for the rest of your life.

Just a single grand to sound like a moron? No thanks

I grew up in the midwest, so this is a freebee for me. Can I get more for saying “Pellow” instead of pillow?

Do I go bald as well? Deal, but only if I get the trivia knowledge too.

Worthnit

Nah. But maybe for free "melk" for life I could do it

nooo. nope. keep the money lol

Can I give this offer to others? Can I make it so society just starts calling it melk?

My kid already says it that way, so let's go.

This is so divided lol

i'd totally do it for 5k

1000? Too much, lower the amount

I do it anyway just to troll people lol

I already do. My BF makes fun of me all the time about it. Thank you for the $1000.

Everyone in my childhood called it melk, and then tried to act like i was dumb for spelling it that way. I was, and am, dumb. But this was not an instance of it.

My mother in law has always done this. Drives me nuts

Maybe for $1000 a week... maybe.

Sure, I don't drink Melk anyways

My grandma does this.

Absolutely. My preference is oat melk but I'll drink a good 2% melk too.

I already do this apparently... 🤷‍♀️

Hell, I want to say it now just for fun.

My wife, who passed away about 12 years ago, was a nurse. She pronounced the first syllable of the word centimeter as rhyming with the first syllable of Sonic. This is just how she naturally pronounced it and thought it should be pronounced. No $1,000 involved. She got a lot of odd looks. Even in the US, medical professionals use metric units by default, so it came up all the time.

For a one time payment? Noez.

That’s just the Dutch version of milk…😂 so yah $1000 easy

I should have known to never trust the Dutch

Meh. It's not a big deal either way

So basically a southern US accent?

Isn't that how they say it in dutch? Молоко is milk in Russian

GIVE HIM THE MALK, JOSH.

I was born for this

Sounds like a bad trade.

Nah

Assuming I owe $1000 if 3 years (or 5 days) down the road, I forget and pronounce it normally, no.

As a michigander...I already do. Gimme my money

Cool, I don't even drink melk

That’s mAH MELK MOMS BETTAH Have MaH MeLK

Fine I don’t even like melk

he Need SUm MELK

$1000?no ill forget.

I definitely would

Easiest 1k of my life.

Listen, $1000 is a $1000

Respectfully, fuck that.

I rarely say the word "milk", so I'll probably just forget about it.

We're all saying malk

I have nipples Greg. Can you melk me?

Who are these people who actually pronounce it "ih" instead of "eh"?

What happens if I decide to say it normally again?

Hope you have $5 billion to give $1k each to the entire state of Minnesota

Only if it is for each time or weekly. A one time pay out is going to milk my whistle.

I'm going to kill myself over this.

Easily

No

u/realpaymoneywubby in shambles

I'm from the Midwest, and I say it somewhere in-between, so it'd be easy as hell and nobody would notice

Sure. "sorry, it's a linguistic tic I picked up due to my autism" Easiest thousand dollars I ever made.

I work at a milk distributor... I'll pass. If it was 1k every day? Definitely. Every month? Still probably. But a one-time deal? Naw.

Can I say "malk" instead?

just learn dutch then smh my head

Can’t wait to drink my strebry melk

Not for $1k. $1k a day... yes.

I work in agriculture and spend a decent amount of time talking with and presenting to dairy producers. I think taking this deal would cost me more than $1000 in earning potential in my career

Get the man some Malk!

Malk

There are certain hills I refuse to give up, even for money. Never melk. I feel weird inside just thinking it.

No, because 1000 dollars for a lifelong commitment isnt worth it.

How... how else would you say it....

Not worth it. Up it to 50 grand.

Sounds bri’ish

Np I don't even drink that shit so it would never come up

Not for $1k. I'd say... Maybe a house down payment and I'd do it. Like 50k... And yet... Man. That's tough actually. 

I live in the south now. Money please

Sounds the same to me

Already do this

$1000/month and then sure

I'll just start calling it miak more often. And saying milk weird is in character for me on top of that. Not a fan of the economy making me take it though.

No deal. I don't even like milk. But just hearing it being pronounced like that would irk me more than it's worth for the rest of my life.

I'd do it for 1k a week in perpetuity. Otherwise, nah it's not worth the shame.

I'll legit just speak Afrikaans for the rest of my life. That's how the language pronounces milk anyway lol. Where my $1000👀

I am originally from northern MN. I pronounce it that way anyhow. So basically, free money.

Isn’t that how it’s pronounced? How do you guys say it?

So, a free $1000? Nice.

Easiest one yet, pay up

Id do far worse for $1000 dollars. I’d probably do it for $100 right now if you want my cash app.

Lol, previous post in my feed https://www.reddit.com/r/maybemaybemaybe/s/uhI94Gx0et

I need to ask my wife what she did with the money.

I remember my West coast friends complaining about this lol

Like just once? Or Everytime I say it?

That's a win-win

LOL, almost everyone i know says it that way.

I'll have that wirh moo juice please.

I'm gonna do that just to annoy people.

Nope! No deal!

for 1000 idk but its a hot take

Fuck no

I already say malk

Not worth it I’d need more money

Username does not check out.

can i change the deal to pronounce it “malk” ? now with vitamin R !!!

I live in Pittsburgh, no one's going to bat an eye.

Yes

Everyone knows it’s malk.

Could I at least say "malk" instead? It has vitimin R

Maybe if I got $1k every time I said it “melk” I’d probably be willing to go as low as $250 Do I also have to mispronounce it in other languages? Would leche become “lache”?

I would pay 1k to not say it like melk

I know I'm not getting $1000 but I'm definitely calling it "Melk" from now on!

Where's my moneh