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THANK YOU! "Orientate" drives me bananas!
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My 12th grade English teacher (heaven bless Mrs. Christy) had a diction list. Ten items from the list were tested each week the entire year. And IF you should be so negligent as to use a previously tested diction item incorrectly in a written piece...heaven help you. Ach ee double toothpicks hath no wrath such as Mrs. Christy and an ignored point of usage.

Now I worry about the future of English.
 
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bubbler is what some in Wisconsin call a drinking fountain

I grew up in southwest Wisconsin (that's wi-skahn-sin).

My two military brats continually point things out to me. They think my mother talks just like Frances McDormand in Fargo. I grew up saying bubbler and calling Coke and Pepsi "pop", creek is pronounced "crick". They point out subtle things that I've never really noticed like my use of "go by". "We'll go by the store on the way home".​
 
In Minnesota the phrase "come with" is used. I always wanted to say come with WHAT????? To use it one must say something like "I'm going to the movies, want to come with?"

Sadly, I was in college (in Minnesota) before I realized "out the road" was not used universally. In Alaskan towns there is generally only one road, so everyone knows what you mean. If you are specific, there is "out the road", "out Mud Bay" and "Out Lutak" in my home town.

And Mac, do you have that somewhat nasally sound for "wi-skahn-in"? My Alaska/Western accent has been somewhat scrubbed out by moving around the country; but when I'm old and only using language from my childhood, I too will be saying "pop" and "crick" and the forest will always be woods.

I recently looked in the school directory here, and it took me a minute to figure out what was wrong. There was a distinct lack of Seles, Olsons, Matsons, Jensens, Terwilligers and such sorts. Everywhere else I've lived has had a bunch of those sorts of names.

I love words like roof and root and route. I can never figure out how I pronounce them if I am thinking about it.
 
I always think that I've lost a lot of it over time, not having lived there for twenty years, but when I visit it comes back rather quickly. Put a beer in my hand and get me shooting the bull with my family and I'm back to talking like Ole and Sven.
 
As far as Alaska goes, not only is "out the road" correct, but you can be more detailed about it too! You can say "Sally lives out the road." meaning she lives outside of town, OR you can also say "Sally lives out by '7 mile'." meaning she lives 'out the road' at about the 7 mile marker.

Lived there for years, and there's no such thing as Snowmobiles there either. They are "Snowmachines". I miss Alaska so much!

[edit - I just wanted to add that I am pretty casual if in a 'chat' window, but there is little to prevent people from typing in a word processor application and copy/pasting into a forum window. Then at least the biggest errors would be avoided to hurt our brains. Thing is I try to be generous since sometimes English is not always a first, or even second language, so I try to remain calm!]
 
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I hear you on that greyfields. I once had to sit near a man in a restaurant who constantly said litrally, with huge emphasis on the incorrect word. My husband and I joke about it to this day!

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But maybe we need to work on your spelling...
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Not just the spelling!
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Oh yes, I have one of those too.
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Living in Oregon I hear Oreegone a lot. I don't know why they botch the pronunciation of our lovely neighbor states so much.
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Where I live in Maryland, people either work nearby (as I do) or "down the road" meaning the next county or even on into DC. If somebody says they're going down the road...that's where they're heading. And you say you're "coming up the hill" when you're on your way back.
 

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