A good friend of mine thinks you go to kinnygarden before first grade. She also carves a punkin for Halloween.
Many people use then instead of than, as in I'd rather ride my bike then anything else in the world.
I hate the words paradigm and networking. Actually I hate any business related buzz words.
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06-09-2007, 05:34 PM #1
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06-09-2007, 06:51 PM #2
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To me, punkin is a form of endearment or just a play on a word. For instance, our family uses oderarm-de-underant and irrigirates the fields.
I'm reading Barbara Kingsolver's new book and she talks about the words that families generate and perpetuate. A young child in the family mangled the name of those big pink water birds and they forever became "flingmos."Frends know gud humors when dey is hear it. ~ Da Crockydiles of ZZE.
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06-09-2007, 06:55 PM #3
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Right, like the book title "A Monk Swimming". And some of these, like "whole nuther" are meant to be sloppy slang/fun.
I have a friend, much beloved, who cannot learn how to say "ostensibly". She says "ostenshishly". What the heck. She's still a great person."My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved;I have been given much and I have given something in return...Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and an adventure." O. Sacks
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06-09-2007, 07:02 PM #4
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You ought to hear me say Worcestershire sauce.
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06-09-2007, 07:21 PM #5
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Shoot, I don't usually even TRY that one.
However, maybe you all will be amused to know that, with a former Navy sub captain for a father in law, I still seem to have trouble saying "Admiral" when I intend to, and have several times called my father in law's good friend "Admirable Long". And I'm sure he is.
Originally Posted by Veronica
You ought to hear me say Worcestershire sauce.
V."My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved;I have been given much and I have given something in return...Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and an adventure." O. Sacks
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06-09-2007, 07:57 PM #6
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You're making it too complicated.
Worcestershire = wers - te - sher. Accent on the first syllable.
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06-09-2007, 08:06 PM #7
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Oh, and if I hear our president say, "noocyeelur" instead of "nuclear," one more time, I may tear hairs out of my head. And not just the grey ones, mind you.
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06-10-2007, 04:23 AM #8
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Originally Posted by SadieKate
You're making it too complicated. Worcestershire = wers - te - sher. Accent on the first syllable.
It's pronounced
Woostershire sauce depending on where in England you come from. Some pronouce it Worseter sauce.
Playing on family words one of my cousins when she was little would call an umbrella a "Humbee-eddy".
I had a habit of calling my elder brother (6 years older than me - and the one who's hopefully donating a kidney to my son) a "Higoramus" instead of an "Ignoramus"
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