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[SeaMaiden]

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@PreKteacher wrote:

I can't say I've ever noticed someone saying "button" differently. I do have a funny story that happened early in my marriage. My husband is from the midwest, and I'm an east coast girl. One day I heard him ask me to hand him a "pin". I responded, "A safety pin or a straight pin?" He looked at me strangely and said, "A pin that you write with." That's when I realized he was asking for a PEN! 

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@PreKteacher  😄 he must have confused a lot of people when asking for a pen and received a PIN INSTEAD. 

[agb80]

What I don't like is when people in the public eye just make up words and then their followers, usually ignorant kids repeat it because they actually believe these words they hear are part of the English language and when you tell them no, they are not you are not believed. 

[KaySD]

Wait, I think I do say "but-ton" instead of "but'n" or "buh-in." I also say "kit-ten" instead of "kit'n." And "cot-ton." Color me odd, I guess. But I can't be the only one. 

[shoesnbags]

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@Group 5 minus 1 wrote:

Soooo do you say soda or pop or sody pop?

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@Group 5 minus 1 

None of those. Where I come from it's a "soft drink"!

[Carolina925]

@sunshine45 , a borrow pit is a huge hole in the ground where builders take out dirt for house foundations. They're usually in new developments where the builder needs retention ponds for drainage; they sell the dirt and get their ponds dug 

[Carolina925]

This is a funny post; I don't believe anyone was being mean, just making comments. I thought it was entertaining. I'll put y'all over the edge: I never realized until a dear friend from Iowa told me I was doing it. When I'm not publicly speaking and paying attention, I say "wadn't" instead of "wasn't" and "idn't" instead of "isn't".

[CrazyKittyLvr2]

I hear buh in here a lot.  Drives me crazy.

On the news a couple months ago they spoke to someone about a fire in the neighborhood.  The young woman interviewed said the person that escaped the fire was "shooken."  Huh!  I would have been shaken by the experience.  So James Bond takes is drink shooken not stirred.

Also on ID a person said, "he had tooken the money."  wth. Do people talk like that in a job interview?

[Catiele]

We watch a commercial that always bothers us. The man says you can reach me at tree 97801

[KKWA]

@shaggygirl  That bothers me more than anything!  This is cawd.............  UGH.  That is not a regional issue.  It is a speech impediment.  People who have that kind of issue  shouldn't be speaking publicaly.  It seems she is unable to say "L"  I just wonder why she isn't instructed to say"this is blue".