Awkward words
#92
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: SW, MI
Posts: 827
Yes, that's one for me, too. My kids laugh at me because I pronounce my 'Wh' the way it is suppose to be pronounced. Ex: 'White - While - Where' They think it's 'Wite -Wile - Wear'. They say I am the ONLY one that does this. AM I?
#94
#96
The h in white is silent, LOL.
Thongs are still shoes. We just have two different types of thongs these days.
"First and foremost", is a sentence opener with little meaning. In fact, it's been so overused it has no meaning left at all.
"I seen" is so bad that I'm surprised to see anyone still saying it. I do think it's a regional sort of slang, tho.
One of my pet peeves is the word "journey". Everyone is on a journey. Their problems are part of their journey. The trials they go through is the journey. All learning experience is part of their journey. Journey where? To the grave?
Also the word "issue"... born out of a need for a less threatening word for "problem". What's wrong with problems?
When I moved to the South I had to learn lots of local sayings, like that when people said to "mash on" a button, they meant press it.
One of my personal irritants is hearing 'salmon' spoken with the 'l' pronounced. SALmon, instead of 'sammon'. That l is silent.
Thongs are still shoes. We just have two different types of thongs these days.
"First and foremost", is a sentence opener with little meaning. In fact, it's been so overused it has no meaning left at all.
"I seen" is so bad that I'm surprised to see anyone still saying it. I do think it's a regional sort of slang, tho.
One of my pet peeves is the word "journey". Everyone is on a journey. Their problems are part of their journey. The trials they go through is the journey. All learning experience is part of their journey. Journey where? To the grave?
Also the word "issue"... born out of a need for a less threatening word for "problem". What's wrong with problems?
When I moved to the South I had to learn lots of local sayings, like that when people said to "mash on" a button, they meant press it.
One of my personal irritants is hearing 'salmon' spoken with the 'l' pronounced. SALmon, instead of 'sammon'. That l is silent.
#97
Super Member
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 9,299
It's okay. She teases me when my Baltimore accent slips out. (It's a very unattractive accent.) "Hey, hon, winn are you goin' hooome? Ready da go down 'ee ohcean, hon?"
#98
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: MN
Posts: 24,649
I just checked two dictionaries -
"white" is pronounced with or without the "h"
sources: "Encarta World English Dictionary" - copyright 1999
"Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language, Second College Edition" - (most recent) copyright 1986
It would be more logical if those wh words were spelled hwile, hwat, hwen, hwo, hwere.
"white" is pronounced with or without the "h"
sources: "Encarta World English Dictionary" - copyright 1999
"Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language, Second College Edition" - (most recent) copyright 1986
It would be more logical if those wh words were spelled hwile, hwat, hwen, hwo, hwere.
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