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Well that settles it then. If Sheldon does not condone it, then so must I. I love that show!
Still, as I watch Upstairs Downstairs ( now on season 3, episode 4, after the Titanic disaster) I'll be watching to see how both levels of the house pronounce it. I must say, it's rather distracting me from the actual episodes!
Are you watch the original series with Gordon Jackson? It's wonderful. Whenever I watch "Downton Abbey" I think of "UpDown" -- the original (I read that the remake was awful).
My brothers and I grew up in Ohio and our dad taught us to spell Cincinnati like this: "Cin, cin, stick a pin in a nat's i." We were all under ten years old and could spell it correctly.
The rest of Hudson County folks always made fun of those from Joisey City - they sounded like they came from Brooklyn!
In my area of town, water was pronounced with a "t" and an "r" or it was believed you came from the south side of the tracks. It's funny because no one can tell what area of the country I'm from:
When I moved to RI, no one guessed me as being from the NY area; when I moved to Staten Island (not pronounced Oyland by me), people thought I came from somewhere else, not RI or the NY/NJ area; and now that I am in TN, people think I'm from the midwest! My diction is accentless. I did a lot of public speaking in my younger days and I believe that is why.
One of my cousins from NJ is a major network news reporter. He has way more accent than I ever did - but that's because he now lives on Lawn Guylan.
From the Boston forum where they are arguing about the Boston Marathon bombings and the city lockdown:
This is ridiculous. The guy speaks out about overextension of police policies, and you accuse him of hiding something? In your fantasy world, anybody who doesn't like an overwhelming police presence is possibly a terrace?
Stopping at your typical gas station/convenience today there was a sign taped to the broken ATM:
Not working, sorry for any incovience.
From there stopped at a local bar where the special was: Lasaunya
You can't make this stuff up.
Get a think called a book. Keep it on the shelf. You can't go through life pretending you understand a simple word when you don't...it's easy - it's a thing called a dictionary...also when a person does not spell a word properly they usually always know there is something amiss..but they are to lazy to open that old fashioned thing called a book. It shows a lazy disrespect for the reader of the message.
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