Growing up in Ontario, people around me always seem pronounce Halloween as ‘Ha-lloween’. I’ve noticed that online, people, in particular, Americans on YouTube seem to say it as if the first syllable sounds the same as hall, like Hall-oween. [How To Pronounce HALLOWEEN like an American - Eng…

[ˈhæ l ʌ in] ha (as in ‘hat’) - luh - ween I never noticed I say ‘Halluween’ instead of ‘Halloween’!

Hello-ween was the way I did it until now XD

I say both hal-oween and hall-oween, pretty much interchangeably. No rhyme or reason why I choose 1a or 1b, as far as I’m aware.

Um, Hallow, as in Holy, and e’en, as in, evening. Hallow e’en. Ring any bells?

How do you say Halloween?

meishijia November 1, 2020, 4:32pm 4

The way I say it.