bobbyjohn Loc: Dallas, TX

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jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

And that's just the beginning. How about some of the weird pronunciations?

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

I love that we park in the driveway and drive on the parkway.........

flyguy Loc: Las Cruces, New Mexico

Right on!!!

JimBart Loc: Western Michigan

Great one but you forgot make and female gender identification

revhen Loc: By the beautiful Hudson

Just proof that English is made up of many languages: Latin, French, Saxon, Celtic, German, and on and on.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

There once was a girl from Connecticut
Who flagged down a train with her Pecticut
Which her elders defined
As great presence of mind
But deplorable absence of Ecticut

--Ogden Nash

dustie Loc: Nose to the grindstone

...and by adding, through common usage, misused and changed existing words within the language...

...as pointed out in a recent feature from jerryc41...
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-777636-1.html

dustie Loc: Nose to the grindstone

Like tamahtoe or toemayto?

Or, pahhk the caw in Hawvawd Yawd?

😋

True story:
Partway through the school year when I was in fourth grade, we moved several miles to a residence in another school district.
My first day in class at that school, there was a spelling test being given. The teacher said I did not have to take the test that day because I'd not had an opportunity to see the list of words, being it was only my first day there.

I'd been an avid reader and doing well in spelling since before entering the first grade, so I said I'd give it a try.
Well, as she went through reading the list, I was kind of shocked at some words I'd never heard...had no clue what language they were. Quite a few of the words were repeated several times, as other students asked her to say them again, and again, and again. Unfortunately, she only repeated the words, didn't use them in sentences, so I just made my best guesses at phonetic spellings.

I was quite confident I got at least one very easy word correct -- "tar" -- only to find out when we each handed our papers to the student next to us, so we could mark them correct or incorrect as the teacher gave the correct spellings, that what was pronounced "tar" is spelled "t-o-w-e-r".

bcheary Loc: Jacksonville, FL

bobmcculloch Loc: NYC, NY

sodapop Loc: Bel Air, MD

And a gubernatorial election elects a governor. Shouldn't he/she be called a Gubinor?







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Dannj

Reminds me of an “I Love Lucy” episode where Ricky is having trouble with “ough” words like rough, though, bough etc..😊

Schoee Loc: Europe

Many of my friends who speak another language before English tell me English is actually a simple language. It is us native English speakers who like to think it is difficult but we are wrong.

DougS Loc: Central Arkansas

Ah, regional dialect! Yep, southern.