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Old Paint....this might help your pronunciation.
Our shop is about 200 yards from a creeek. Pretty soon, my boys and I will grab some cane poles and CRICK-ets(short sound on the "i") and head for the CREEK(long sound on the "e"). We might even PICK some wild berries along the way. When we get back we will REEK of smelly fish.
My better half's parents are from PA but she still says it right.
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.......What'a topic, LOL. How 'bout when people say "Wal-Mark"? An' what about that type dog that's pronounced "datsun".....I won't even try to spell that one! It bugs me too, when people add that "er" in the middle of, or at the end of a word, especially my name...."Sheiler"....That goes beyond hillbilly into the "touched" mind.......................
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Touche' Steven D. or is it Too-shay? Crap, you got me paranoid now. The pronunciation thing still gets me irked? erked? earked? CRAP! You (being Canadian) STILL SAY IT WRONG. I bet in Nova Scotia ya' just call it pavement. ha ha . Thanks for noticing the type-o...all of 'em.
I have a grate spell chequer, It came with my pea see. It plainly marques four my revue Mistakes aye can knot sea!
Eye strike a quay and type a word And weight fore it to say Weather eye am wrong or write: It shows me strait a weigh.
Whenever a mistake is maid, It shows bee four two long And I can put the error rite, ... It's all most never wrong!
Eye ran this poem threw it, and l'm shore yore pleased to no It's letter perfect all the weigh, My chequer tolled me sew!
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"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7016 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
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Some folks I know say "hiteth" for height and "lenth" for length. What's wit dat? I live half an hour from Worcester, which people pronounce as "Wistah". I grew up in Leminstah(Leominster), then there's Mefid(Medford), Winchington(Winchendon) and Woobin(Woburn) among others. How many times have you seen Resturant instead of Restaurant?
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