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Odd words, spellings, license plates, grammar.
« on: April 29, 2009, 07:49:03 PM »
Can anyone care to give me some odd pronunciations of words or grammatical errors? 

UK or US ones are fine. :)
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« Reply #1 on: April 29, 2009, 07:53:30 PM »
Drug for dragged.  Listed as archaic, but nonetheless valid in the 1500s!
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« Reply #2 on: April 29, 2009, 08:05:34 PM »
Pittsburghese?  ;D
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« Reply #3 on: April 29, 2009, 08:24:30 PM »
A famous America football player use the word 'momotem' for the work momentum. It's worked its way into mine and some of my friends' vocabulary.
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« Reply #4 on: April 29, 2009, 08:29:10 PM »
Quote from: Courtney on April 29, 2009, 08:05:34 PM
Pittsburghese?  ;D
That's perfect!  Got some examples?
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« Reply #5 on: April 29, 2009, 08:36:00 PM »
Yinz or younz is the most famous Pittsburghese term.

Here is a fun site:  http://www.pittsburghese.com/

And a scholarly one: http://english.cmu.edu/pittsburghspeech/

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« Reply #6 on: April 29, 2009, 08:40:13 PM »
I have one from Scotland.

"Skelf" was my Scots mother's word for "splinter" as in getting a wooden splinter in your skin.

http://www.scotslanguage.com/articles/wordoftheweek/2006-10/563

As a child born and raised in London, I was growing up with a London accent but still using my mother's lingo, and got teased a LOT in school for things like "skelf"!  :)
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« Reply #7 on: April 29, 2009, 08:42:40 PM »
Quote from: pkmac on April 29, 2009, 08:24:30 PM
A famous America football player use the word 'momotem' for the work momentum. It's worked its way into mine and some of my friends' vocabulary.
LOL
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« Reply #8 on: April 29, 2009, 08:46:36 PM »
This is my favorite Pittsburghese website:

http://www.yappinyinzers.com/

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« Reply #9 on: April 29, 2009, 08:50:52 PM »
Are you interested in inflection? I never thought I talked funny until I went to college in NC. I would say, "Are you going to dinner?" And I would inflect the sentence down at the end rather than up, so it sounded like a statement rather than a question. Apparently this is quite common in central Pennsylvania.
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« Reply #10 on: April 29, 2009, 08:52:27 PM »
Some Wisconsin ones:

"bubbler" means drinking fountain
"pop" means soda
"stop-and-go lights" are traffic lights
"north" is pronounced "upnort"
words like "couldn't""wouldn't" and "shouldn't" are pronounced "cuhtint""wuhtint" and "shutint"
"Wisconsin" is pronounced "WisCAAANsin" with a very nasal "a"

I know there are others that I'm forgetting, I will try to remember them.  
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« Reply #11 on: April 29, 2009, 08:52:38 PM »
 ;D I love Nebby Debbie!
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« Reply #12 on: April 29, 2009, 08:56:24 PM »
Quote from: Courtney on April 29, 2009, 08:52:38 PM
;D I love Nebby Debbie!

Jeet jet??  ;D
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« Reply #13 on: April 29, 2009, 08:58:36 PM »
Quote from: Bmore_2_UK on April 29, 2009, 08:50:52 PM
Are you interested in inflection? I never thought I talked funny until I went to college in NC. I would say, "Are you going to dinner?" And I would inflect the sentence down at the end rather than up, so it sounded like a statement rather than a question. Apparently this is quite common in central Pennsylvania.


Yes and yes to all of these! 

I need items that fall into Phonetics/phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics so they are all great!
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« Reply #14 on: April 29, 2009, 08:58:53 PM »
Quote from: Courtney on April 29, 2009, 08:52:38 PM
;D I love Nebby Debbie!

You what now? :)
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