Which parts of the country pronounce huge with a y? Is it part of a wider accent?

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1. With a Y?

2. Do you mean a palatalized *h*? Because if so, then almost everyone in the US. Honestly, I am unsure if I have heard an English speaker pronounce it without a palatalized *h*.

   Palatalization is when you you pronounce a *y* sound along with a letter. For example, the English pronunciation of *Cuba* vs. the Spanish pronunciation of *Cuba*. English speaker pronounce the *C* with a *y* sound while Spanish speakers do not. Sorry if this is kind in depth, I took a linguistics class in college.

3. I have only heard that when people are imitating/mocking Trump.

4. I’ve heard that mostly from New Yorkers and New Englanders but I’m not sure if there is a specific region that it is more prominent.

5. My mom pronounces it like that and she’s from Pittsburgh.

6. There are over 130 English dialects. Somewhere someone is saying it that way.

7. Only two I’ve ever heard say it that way are Trump and a guy named Anthony Melchiorri (the host of an old show called Hotel Impossible), another New York native which makes me think it’s a New York thing.

8. It’s a NY metro thing. If you listen to Bloombergs Barry Ritholtz he says yuge a lot. He is from long island.

   I hear it a decent amount here in NJ.

9. New Yorkers tawk funny.

10. It’s common for New Yorkers. Thats why Trump does it.

11. Parts of New York City and perhaps the Louisiana Yat accent.

    Aside from people like Trump, dropping the H on Hu- is a big part of the Brooklyn accent that my grandfather and Bernie Sanders shared, even tho they both moved elsewhere. My mother inherited it despite living on the West Coast. Yuman beings. Sense of yumor. Was a very Jewish accent, although it trancends ethnicity to an extent (Tracy Morgan might also do it.)

12. Billy Fucillo

13. My dad was raised in Jersey City and pronounces it like that

14. I’ve only known about it because of Trump.

15. Northeast, but *those* Northeasterners

16. Northeast

17. New York City at very least.

    Hence why both Trump and Sanders are famous for it.

18. Northern Midwest

19. Downstaters.

20. My dad was born and raised in Dallas and says “yuge” and “Youston”. I have no idea where it comes from.