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Speaking of regional stuff, my grandfather (1895-1981) used to say "It's time to warsh your teeth". Not brush, warsh. He grew up in Philly and Atlantic City. Is/was that specific to that region?
I knew a girl from upstate New York who said "warsh". I've never heard anyone else use it.
I knew a girl from upstate New York who said "warsh". I've never heard anyone else use it.
Putting in an 'R' where it doesn't belong is also common on Long Island. Next time you hear Billy Joel's "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" being played, listen closely...
The female protagonist in the song is Brender. Not Brenda.
Putting in an 'R' where it doesn't belong is also common on Long Island. Next time you hear Billy Joel's "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" being played, listen closely...
The female protagonist in the song is Brender. Not Brenda.
It must also be common in Liverpool, England. Listen to the Beatles' rendition of "Til There Was You":
There were birds in the sky But I never sawr them winging...
At my supermarket, there was a sign behind each checkout counter, instructing checkers to conform to some policy, ending with:
"No Acceptions!. ---Mgmt."
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I knew a girl from upstate New York who said "warsh". I've never heard anyone else use it.
Everyone in Missouri says "Warsh" and "Warshington".
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The other night, in a hockey telecast, I heard the commentator call a player a "right wing-ger", rhymed with "finger". My mother always pronounced "coat hanger" with the /ng/ like in "finger", not like in "singer", but she said her sewing machine correctly.
Once had a director from Rhode Island...First time working with her, she told a fellow actor to "stand over there next to her-ah", and to me she said, "and you can stand next to her-ah." Both times, she indicated a different female, confusing all of us. But we followed her direction...By the third rehearsal, we were at our wits' end, trying to figure out how there could be so many women in the cast named, "Herah", and three of us, simultaneously, said, "Who's Herah?"
We knew full well that she she could end a word with an "R", because she called her daughter Angeler.
At my supermarket, there was a sign behind each checkout counter, instructing checkers to conform to some policy, ending with:
"No Acceptions!. ---Mgmt."
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Everyone in Missouri says "Warsh" and "Warshington".
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The other night, in a hockey telecast, I heard the commentator call a player a "right wing-ger", rhymed with "finger". My mother always pronounced "coat hanger" with the /ng/ like in "finger", not like in "singer", but she said her sewing machine correctly.
I found something similar in a document at work the other day. When proposers request changes to the standard contract, they have to submit them with their proposal. This has to be noted on a form, and I saw that someone had typed in an area on the form that said, "Acceptions have been sited" instead of "Exceptions have been cited."
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