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pips&peeps :

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I believe the correct pronounciation in England is al u min ium
not alum i num.

Hope you guys can get that as I have no "key" symbols.

My godmother is British and that is how she pronounces it. Of course she always called us Gormless twits too. Is That proper English? Or more importantly, What the heck is gormless? An older lady I grew up around never said the word "whatever" . She always said Whatsonever or Whensonever . Not proper English , but I love her and I love to hear her speak. Older people here in Tennessee say " I declare" "I swear" at the end of a sentence. Both my grandmothers, ( ages 92 and 88) both say "I swannee " at the end of a sentence. So maybe some of language experts can tell me where that comes from. LOL And when there is a pan on the stove, it is not a sauce pan , it is called a steer.

Wayne​

 

[debilorrah]

My great grandmother was also British, and we were dolts.

Of course I loved the woman beyond belief. I was her favorite and she always wanted me over for tea at 4pm on the dot, and laced it with Bourbon - her "hats off to the Yanks".

 

[JennsPeeps]

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Support WA state agriculture and just buy some Walla Walla sweets!

Of course, my friends and I like to jokingly pronounce Walla Walla as wa-LA wa-LA.

 

[waynesgarden]

Local pronunciations are always amusing. We had towns in NY named Athens and Cairo. They were pronounced "A-thins" with a long "a" and "KAY-ro." Madrid was "MAD-rid" as it is pronounced in the town by the same name here in Maine. Also in Maine there is a town named Calais, pronounced as if it were tough, dry skin on your hands.

Wayne

[edited for misspellings that others here hopefully, would rightly pounce upon.]

 

[Henrietta23]

When I was working on my Master's Degree in Speech Pathology, I had one clinical supervisor who not only used the word "irregardless", but defended her use of the word. I can no longer remember what her argument was. Heaven help us if we made errors in our clinical reports! She was all over us for those! (I spent last evening at The Elks' Club!)

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[RickiHupp]

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Somebody said that on TV last night, I was laughing soooo hard!!!

 

[JustChicky]

Ya'll sound like my Grandma, she has a MD in speech therapy.

I tend to be a spelling freak and I love math!

 

[JustChicky]

Do people talk and write without thinking?

 

[PortageGirl]

Well, I can and do ignore occasional ‘oopses’. No one is perfect and we all goof up, even those who know better. I mostly only notice… well ok, I often notice, but really without prejudice unless bombarded over and over with too many really annoying examples. Thing is, when you are in a public position, journalist, broadcaster, POLITICIAN, and other similar things, for goodness sake! Hire someone to proofread for you!! WHAT was that expensive college ‘edumacation’ for anyway? Oh yeah, the frat parties.

Besides here among friends, we are sometimes typing fast, (or is it quickly?) and in a hurry, or multitasking, (No dear, put the priceless, irreplaceable heirloom down, Great Grandma will haunt us if it gets broken! Yes honey, your socks ARE in the top drawer, and sweetie, please don’t poke the dog there, you know it makes him grumpy.)

Speaking of regional things, my Aunt who lived in McKeesport PA, for years, picked up the term “Youns”. WHAT is that about? “Are youns going to the store soon?” “What do youns heat your house with?” That’s just a horrible expression that I really don’t get. Don’t that just bother all of youns too?

 

[sundance]

God, I know I'm getting old, none of it bothers me. marrie