General Chat

I was confused when spending time in Texas, with the Texan drawl which draws words int having more syllables than are there.

"and" split into 5 syllables was really hard!

We do! :-D :-D :-D
....but someone noticed this reluctance to say the whole word :-(
We were on the phone chatting for over an hour - interspersed with attempts to say the word 'tarpaulin'' in full :-(

...and still it comes up in phone calls.....

Hmmm


there was a word that I recall Kirkudbrightshire

which equates I believe to Kercoobrysheer

??

easy just say "Tarp!"

:-D :-D :-D :-D

We (my siblings and I) moved around a lot, and learned very quickly that the route to survival was learning dialects. The first thing to learn was what the local name for tag, tips, tig, tiggy, it, tick, chasey or touch and go was - and (more importantly) what the word was for 'I need a pee, or, I need to exit the game for a few minutes.

...but we can all say 'properly', in may dialects (though the Cornish one is near to your neighbours' pronunciation) :-D :-D

...my sister and I have discovered neither of us can say the word 'tarpaulin' properly - a bit difficult for my sister, as she does the D of E :-D :-D :-D

I used to enjoy hearing my neighbour tell her children to talk proply.

Reminds me of the time I said 'South - ampton' in front of my mother (I was in my 40's).
She 'corrected' me, it was, apparently, 'South-hampton' .
I pointed out it only had one 'h', so was either South-ampton, or 'Sout-hampton'
Okay, she grew up there, but I lived there for a few years, and knew how locals pronounced it!

Thank goodness she never heard me say 'Pee-oorts-muff' (Portsmouth) :-D :-D :-D

Gotten...…...grr :-|

Sylvia, here in Oz, or at least in Western Oz, many TV reports pronounce words ending in 'er' as though they end with an a.

Likewise, they pronounce words such as grown, known as growen and knowen :-S :-S

very unique

.......... something is either unique or not.

he got off of the bus


A pronunciation I sometimes hear from reporters on the radio and TV here is "sowthern" .................

I know south is pronounced "sowth", but I always though it was "suthern"

I am with Bob wit 'so' :-| :-| :-| and yeh yeh yeh who do they think they are the B****Y Beatles :-|

DERMOT you spelled your first word correctry

Apparently, grammer & spilling are regaining there wrightful plaice in some secondary skools.

So, their you have it! :-D :-D

...and answering every question with "so"

Annx "The Yew's" If you speak to them maybe ask "what? or where? As in the yew is......".

Like Andysmum the one that really gets me grinding my teeth and clenching my fists is less instead of fewer. I also hate "bored of". At school we were always taught to say "bored with". "Iconic" is another one regularly overused; and don't get me going on the subject of people with apostrophe-itis!

I can handle the grammar because I'm guilty
In how I use it at times. Probably because I'm lazy.

What really gets up my nose is someone saying
" They need closure" and the word infrastructure
these seem to be used a lot.

Also

"for sure," instead of certain/ly


A neighbour of ours has renamed their house and put up a very smart new sign saying 'THE YEW'S'.

must be akin to The Larches?

Don't get me started!!

Laying down instead of lying, less instead of fewer, and OH's pet hate - open 7 days. He always wants to know which 7 days!! :-(

The house must belong to the tree.

I hate 'shot dead' instead of shot and died or killed.

A neighbour of ours has renamed their house and put up a very smart new sign saying 'THE YEW'S'. :-(