My uncle brought me a hoe from my mom's! I can garden!
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I also recently learned that I pronounce ornery unlike "normal" people, because I say "ore-ner-ree".
...that's not how normal people say it?? [link]
According to everyone else who replied to my friend's Twitter thread, it's supposed to be "orn'ree".
Yeah, it's definitely 2 syllables.
Yeah, it's definitely 2 syllables.
Only if you're Yosemite Sam.
We spent the whole day unearthing and alphabetizing all of our CDs. We have hundreds and hundreds because I am married to a music lover who streams 99.99% of the time , but WHAT IF THINGS BECOME UNAVAILABLE AT SOME DISTANT FUTURE POINT SO WE HAVE TO HAVE EVERY SONG WE HAVE EVER VAGUELY LIKED ON CD AND WE MUST NEVER THROW AWAY EVEN ONE OF THEM EVEN IF WE DON'T EVEN LIKE THE ARTIST. We may have some slight disagreements on this issue, is what I'm getting at.
2 syllables - both ways. awn-ree and orn-ree
Aaron = "Air-ron".
Erin = " Err-rin"
I pronounce "air" and "err" the same, although if I make an effortm I can make the vowels in the second syllables sound different ("-un" vs "-in").
Only if you're Yosemite Sam.
Every once in a while I hit a word where my "Southern Indiana Is Actually Kind of the South" comes out. Apparently, this is one of them.
I, however, pronounce "battery" with 3 syllables, "wrestling" does not have an a in it, and "creek" does not have an i.
Born on a mountain top in Tennessee
Greenest state in the land of the free
Raised in the woods so he knew ev'ry tree
Kilt him a be'are when he was only three
I'm still trying to determine if anyone really pronounces "bear" like that.
(I was watching Fantastic Mr. Fox today, which has that song on the soundtrack).