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But the way the dictionary says it should be makes no sense whatsoever. We in the South say the word correctly. That was the whole point I was trying to make in the first place. There are many words we do a better job at saying the way they SHOULD be said. I know how to use a dictionary; but I don't always agree with it. What makes the wrong way the dictionary says better than the way we say it is the point I was making? In other words, why is the way it is said in D. C. better than using the original letters in the first place? I like our way best.
And what makes your way the correct way? Over pronouncing every letter does not make your way correct, or "better" as you say. The dictionary's pronunciation makes perfect sense if you understand how letters are pronounced. A short "o", like in our, sounds the same as how a short "a" is sometimes pronounced "awe".
Originally Midwest here. Spent years retraining my wife (Chicagoan) to remove the R in words like wash and Washington. Lots of people from that part of the country pronounce them (and others) with that R in there.
Originally Midwest here. Spent years retraining my wife (Chicagoan) to remove the R in words like wash and Washington. Lots of people from that part of the country pronounce them (and others) with that R in there.
Can you give a link to an example? I can't find one.
I can't find an on-line example either.
All I can tell you is that there is a local chain called "High's" that started as a dairy store. One of their stores was right around the corner from my parents' house. I remember clearly that their packaging spelled the word as "sherbert". That may have changed in the half-century that has passed since I last purchased said product.
So dialect doesn't count? What makes one regional pronunciation of letters and sounds "correct" and others "incorrect?" What about Chinese person speaking English? Pronunciation would be different, but it doesn't change the word. So would they have ruled it incorrect then?
Of course wouldn't be the first time judges got it wrong.
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