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NE Ohio here........... and it sounds perfectly normal to me.
Never thought a thing of it until I saw it mentioned here on CD. Told a few friends about it and they asked "What else would you say?" and when I told them "needs to be" they all said something along the lines of "Huh?"
I better not ever hear my husband refer to me as " the wife ".
I have a friend who did this and I used to tease him about it!! He even had a ringtone on his phone for when she called, that said "It's the WIFE!"
And I agree about people who refer to their parents as Mommy or Daddy when speaking to non-family members. As in "Daddy always cut down his own Christmas tree."
NO WORDS for people who refer to their spouse as Mommy or Daddy. I guess we can assume the sex life is over? I know a woman who does this and they don't even have kids. Calls her DH "Dad" because he is the cat's dad.
ddm2k
Yes. I realize preventative is now in some or maybe all dictionaries but I was taught spelling rules back in the stone-age that render preventative an awkward and illegitimate word. There is a verb "prevent". There is no verb "preventate". Now I even see it in official company correspondence. LOL.
I have heard a lot of strange sayings from folks I've met from various parts of the country:
Rural Kansas -
I'll teach him how the cow eats the cabbage (someone needs to be taught a lesson)
Don't get me to lie to you (I don't know the answer to your question)
Pennsylvania-
It's all (meaning all gone)
Wisconsin-
I blow you no horn me (don't honk at me)
Come here once (I need to see you)
I suspect it came from people too lazy to type out 'probably '. Don't think I have ever HEARD anyone say it. Just saw it written.
Consider yourself lucky! It makes your ears burn.
I had a college professor give zero credit, on a midterm paper, to 22 students who thought it acceptable to use this word in their writing. They were so angry, but the deal support the professor.
I have heard a lot of strange sayings from folks I've met from various parts of the country:
Rural Kansas -
I'll teach him how the cow eats the cabbage (someone needs to be taught a lesson)
Don't get me to lie to you (I don't know the answer to your question)
Pennsylvania-
It's all (meaning all gone)
Wisconsin-
I blow you no horn me (don't honk at me)
Come here once (I need to see you)
Phrases like "shake a leg", "move your @ss", "get the lead out", tend to tick me off.
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