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
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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…