Re: Words

Desertdi · ‎03-13-2010

I've heard my birth state called ELLA NOISE...even by residents

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SharkE · ‎08-19-2010

@Carolina925 wrote:
I watched Valerie's show last evening with Ali Carr and Val's new spokesperson. IMO, neither did justice to this line and, yes, I'm a big fan of her things. It didn't help that the spokesperson was off-site and there was a noticeable delay in what Ali was saying and what the lady was saying, lots of quiet space. Anyway---there was a wheelbarrow and Ali and the other lady both wondered if it was called a "wheelbarrow" or "wheelbarrel". My ex from Kansas used to call it a "wheelborr". Then Ali said she grew up thinking when people said "run an errand", she always thought they were saying "run an Erin". People are strange .

Understatement of the yr.

spabar · ‎03-10-2010

@Zaimee wrote:
In Florida it's the turnpike.

@Zaimee or the dreaded "95."

There's always a lot to be thankful for if you take time to look for it.
For example, I am sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don't hurt.

ajsidney12 · ‎02-10-2013

Oh well, many people mispeak or mishear or were just not taught properly. Also, long term misunderstanding from childhood can just carry on through adulthood. Anyone remember the song by George Harrison "I Got My Mind Set on You"? I was a kid when that came out, and I thought (for years!) it was "Look out I might step on you". I get it, that makes no sense, but when you are a kid listening to the radio and half paying attention to just about everything, that made sense to me...for far too long.

Sidebar, Ali has become insufferable of late. I never really minded her, but this past Saturday on the 4 hour SMQ, I actually started yelling at my TV to get her to stop talking over every single vendor. I stopped watching after 3 segments with her. It is the Sandra B. situation all over again. Stop and listen, and pretend you are the viewer who actually wants information that you are not providing except to tell us there are "ONLY 4000 LEFT IN STOCK!! HURRY HURRY PUT THIS IN YOUR CART!" Ugh.

CalminHeart · ‎03-09-2010

@nascarfan wrote:
@I am still oxox "Regional speech" is ok if someone is on local television, otherwise, it needs to be corrected.

There are 30 major English dialects in the U.S. There are additional minor dialects in the U.S. Which one is correct?

I'll take diverse regional speech over forced, unnatural, speech any day.

Qgirl26 · ‎03-20-2010

@shoesnbags wrote:
@Desertdi wrote:
As @I am still oxox said...it depends on where you live. I never heard the word "freeway" until I moved to California. In Chicago, it was "expressway", "interstate", "tri-state" or "toll road".

If the road was divided with a landscaped median, it was a "parkway" or a "boulevard".

And there is also the "skyway"...an 8 mile bridge connecting Illinois to Indiana...
@Desertdi Here in NOLA we say "interstate" but when I lived in Ohio for a few years I learned to say "freeway." When I moved back, had to switch back to "interstate." The landscaped median here is a "neutral ground."

@shoesnbags I don't know what part of Ohio you lived in but in my part of Ohio, we call it the highway, the expressway, the interstate AND (or) the freeway, lol. Freeway is the one I hear the least though. Or we call it 74 or 275 or 71, whatever the number is. We all know what we're talking about so it's all good

shoesnbags · ‎03-10-2010

@Qgirl26 wrote:
@shoesnbags wrote:
@Desertdi wrote:
As @I am still oxox said...it depends on where you live. I never heard the word "freeway" until I moved to California. In Chicago, it was "expressway", "interstate", "tri-state" or "toll road".

If the road was divided with a landscaped median, it was a "parkway" or a "boulevard".

And there is also the "skyway"...an 8 mile bridge connecting Illinois to Indiana...
@Desertdi Here in NOLA we say "interstate" but when I lived in Ohio for a few years I learned to say "freeway." When I moved back, had to switch back to "interstate." The landscaped median here is a "neutral ground."
@shoesnbags I don't know what part of Ohio you lived in but in my part of Ohio, we call it the highway, the expressway, the interstate AND (or) the freeway, lol. Freeway is the one I hear the least though. Or we call it 74 or 275 or 71, whatever the number is. We all know what we're talking about so it's all good

Columbus area. But this was back in the dinosaur days of the 1970s so things have changed - a lot! @Qgirl26

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Icegoddess · ‎03-19-2010

@nascarfan wrote:
@I am still oxox "Regional speech" is ok if someone is on local television, otherwise, it needs to be corrected.

@nascarfan , who gets to decide which region is saying it correctly? Vase, Caramel, Pecans for example. They're all pronunced differently depending on where you live, and I don't consider any of those pronunciations incorrect, just not how we say it where I live.