Moving to Iowa when I was 11, I was struck immediately by how many Iowans pronounce "wash" as "warsh".
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Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
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quester - Mar 23, 2011 10:58:44 am PDT #29877 of 30001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Aims - Mar 23, 2011 10:59:42 am PDT #29878 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
"Warsh" is a total pet peeve of mine. As is "crik" for a body of water. *shudder*
t total snob
DavidS - Mar 23, 2011 11:00:18 am PDT #29879 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Arkansas. Let's not get out of hand with apportioning national blame here. You even have a fucking Kansas.
What's the issue? Arkansass and Kansaw. Clear as day.
I think the issue there was appropriating Native American words and fucking them up. It's not the deliberate perfidy of the English. Just plain old American stupidity.
Scrappy - Mar 23, 2011 11:01:24 am PDT #29880 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
It took me a while after we moved to LA to learn the right way to pronounce Sepulveda and Tujunga.
DavidS - Mar 23, 2011 11:01:36 am PDT #29881 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Oh, please, it's actually GLOS-tah.
In New England, yes. In Shakespeare, no.
sumi - Mar 23, 2011 11:01:57 am PDT #29882 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
They do the Warsh for Wash thing in Maryland and Pennsylvania too.
DavidS - Mar 23, 2011 11:02:08 am PDT #29883 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
It took me a while after we moved to LA to learn the right way to pronounce Sepulveda and Tujunga.
I sprained my tongue trying to pronounce La Cienega.
Aims - Mar 23, 2011 11:02:54 am PDT #29884 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Sip-ol-vay-duh!!!
Too-jung-gah!!
Sophia Brooks - Mar 23, 2011 11:03:07 am PDT #29885 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I think I pronounced almosted everything listed here wrong at some point. Also, I thought "scheduled" was pronounced "shielded" and there were two different words- come-promise and com-PRO-mize. And there was the horrible whores dovers moment when my mother told me never to say that word ever, ever, but not how to pronounce it properly.
Last year I realized enmity was not actually emnity. I was both pronouncing and spelling it wrong, and nobody had ever noticed.
Last year I realized the word I was spelling and saying "exorbinant" is actually exorbitant. And I found this out because I complained that someone had spelled it wrong. Ooops
Daisy Jane - Mar 23, 2011 11:03:14 am PDT #29886 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
They do the Warsh for Wash thing in Maryland and Pennsylvania too.
It may just be a hick thing. My grandmother said it along with winders.