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OK, anybody here ever come across someone who insists on calling a light bulb a "bub". Is this a southern thing? I remember as a 15 yr old kid working in my uncle's gas station, a guy comes in looking for a "bub". I'm still scarred by the discourse that followed as I just couldn't figure out what the guy was talking about - and he ended up getting pretty heated because of it. Nowadays, the live-in security guard/custodian (native of Alabama) here at the museum is constantly saying "bub" when he's referring to burnt out lights. Drives me nuts. It's buLb, people - the "L" ain't silent.
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Light bubs are symptomatic of a linguistic phenomena a programmer buddy of mine named "consonantal drift" wherein consonants are not evenly distributed across the country. The south has fewer, with the extras concentrating in pockets along the Atlantic coast.
Dropped letters do not always reappear as one might expect. For example, "drawing" in the South might be expressed as "drawin'" or even "drah-in;" its east-coast analog is "drow-ring" or even "drar-ring."
It's all effed up.
Dropped letters do not always reappear as one might expect. For example, "drawing" in the South might be expressed as "drawin'" or even "drah-in;" its east-coast analog is "drow-ring" or even "drar-ring."
It's all effed up.
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The one that drives me crazy is people saying "behroom" for BEDROOM!
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Agreed. The extra "stop" that many people insert into words also rubs me the wrong way - like your example "beh[pause]room." Interrupting the airflow introduces a "t" sound, so you wind up with "beht[pause]room," with the "t" coming from the throat instead of a proper alveolar "t."
Maybe just pronounce the damn "d..."
Maybe just pronounce the damn "d..."
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Or as "erl."
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Libary is one of my triggers.
Also "Westminister" instead of "Westminster," although this was a useful diagnostic tool for me as a kid. We had a shopping center nearby called Westminster Mall; overhearing someone say "I'm going to Westminister Mall" immediately identified them as someone I would want to punch and who should be avoided...
Also "Westminister" instead of "Westminster," although this was a useful diagnostic tool for me as a kid. We had a shopping center nearby called Westminster Mall; overhearing someone say "I'm going to Westminister Mall" immediately identified them as someone I would want to punch and who should be avoided...
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Oversteer: You will hit the wall with the rear end.
Horsepower: How hard you will hit the wall.
Torque: How far you will move the wall.
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Worst line in the south is... "Wat canna do ya fer!?"
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Not guilty of the aforementioned linguistic errors but have made some before.
In my defense, I was born and raised in a Caribbean country that is known to butcher the English language and call it an accent.
In my defense, I was born and raised in a Caribbean country that is known to butcher the English language and call it an accent.