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@Gkhm wrote:

I have trouble with the younger ones trying to say the words button and cotton!  There are absolutely no t's pronounced those words!


 

 

It's not an age.   It's a location.

I say buh-nn and cah-nn (say it fast! )

 

I worked with a guy from a few states east. He pronounced the word drawer

  "draw"

He was going to put the handle on the draw.

 

He repeated it and it still made no sense to me, until he held up the drawer handle.

 

 

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None of us would understand anyone speaking English from a few hundred years ago or probably the early 1900's.    What about the way the people in old movies from the 1938's talk?

 

Who knows how long we all won't be having different accents?

 

 

 

 

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Well...when QVC is on I'm usually doing one or two other things.

 

Hummm!  Maybe that's why I'm always in a state of confusion?

Anyway, Mostly..I don't care what they say.

 

I just wish they'd find a better way to simplify the color names!

Good grief, I gave up trying to identify which garment is .....I'm thinking...give me a minute...I'm s l o w  at night.

 

Phew!  Here's what I want.  Please just call the thing red, yellow, green, blue and so on.

 

There have been a lot of times I haven't ordered because I can't figure out the #@&$ color.

 

How about putting up on the tv what the colors are?

 

 

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@Magicrat wrote:

So you must "red up the table" as my father, from Pittsburgh, always said.


 

I grew up near Pittsburgh and have fond memories of many of these expressions..  If company was coming my mother would always say "we have to red up the house".

 

I also remember when the streets were icy my parents would say it's very slippy outside.  

It took me years to be able to say slippery instead of slippy.

 

I once had a co-worker who went back to visit her family in Pittsburgh and she brought me a T-shirt that was printed in Pittsburgh-ese.  it was covered in all of the different ways that people from that area pronounce many words.

 

I'm on the west coast now but I love my "Stillers".

 

 

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@suziebee1 wrote:

Hey, where I live, we say wooder for water.  Not everyone speaks the way the Dictionary says it should be pronounced.

 

 


 

 

guilty as charged! Smiley Wink

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@sunshine45 wrote:

@suziebee1 wrote:

Hey, where I live, we say wooder for water.  Not everyone speaks the way the Dictionary says it should be pronounced.

 

 


 

 

guilty as charged! Smiley Wink


 

 

 

 Is that pronounced with a long ō?  

 

i say wah-der or wawe-der

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Words are pronounced differently all over the country, all over the world. I can drive 2 hours south and hear an entirely different dialect. Let it go.

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@Magicrat wrote:

So you must "red up the table" as my father, from Pittsburgh, always said.


@Magicrat   Oh yes...we always "red up the house".   My brother liked to go fishing in the "crick".  🤗

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Hows about bagels and roof?

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@x Hedge wrote:

@sunshine45 wrote:

@suziebee1 wrote:

Hey, where I live, we say wooder for water.  Not everyone speaks the way the Dictionary says it should be pronounced.

 

 


 

 

guilty as charged! Smiley Wink


 

 

 

 Is that pronounced with a long ō?  

 

i say wah-der or wawe-der


 

 

 

 

@x Hedge 

 

 

more like "wood-r"

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