Mispronounced Words: Tales of poor grammar

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Not really mispronounced words, but poeple from the Pittsburgh area have their own dictionary. I should know my wife is from there.

gum band = rubber band
jaggers = thorns
yinz = you guys
nebby = nosy

etc.......

[jmik58]

Quote: Originally Posted by King88

Not really mispronounced words, but poeple from the Pittsburgh area have their own dictionary. I should know my wife is from there. gum band = rubber band jaggers = thorns yinz = you guys nebby = nosy etc.......

"Why do yinz have to be so nebby when you're gum banding in the jaggers?"

[dochalladay32]

Quote: Originally Posted by Cusefan

I hate when people say Ax instead of Ask.

Surprised it took this long to get posted. First thing that came to mind.

And some of these things seem picky. There is such a thing as an accent. People say things differently and it isn't entirely wrong. When i lived in Ohio, lots of people said A-words weird. A girl I knew, her name was Ashley, but she said it with a long A, more like eh-shley. They did that to lots of words. And they often ended sentences with prepositions too.

Oh, and while we are on it, pronunciation is not technically grammar OP. Grammar is the rules governing composition of words, not necessarily how you say those words.

[~LiverpoolRed~]

Quote: Originally Posted by King88

Not really mispronounced words, but poeple from the Pittsburgh area have their own dictionary. I should know my wife is from there. gum band = rubber band jaggers = thorns yinz = you guys nebby = nosy etc.......

Sounds like cockney rhyming slang. I use this in our household all the time.

"Get up the apples and pears!" (Stairs)
"Can you Adam & Eve it?" (Believe it)

[chilli311]

I moved to Alabama when I was two, so as a kid, I developed a bit of a Southern accent, but only in certain words. Some that I still do from time to time even though I'm over a decade removed from the South is pronounce "stairs" as "stayers" and "night" as "naht".

The biggest one I have a problem with is February. For some reason, it kills me. Is the R silent, or not?

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Or you could be like my dad who was born in wisconsin has lived the majority of his life in maryland, but the minute he steps on north carolina soil he talks like a cowboy in an old western.

Oh I forgot one of the pittsburghese terms that my wife uses all the time. She'll say something like "I need to go red up the room". Red = clean, have no idea where that comes from.

[~LiverpoolRed~]

I remember many years ago on an episode of Family Feud with Richard Dawson (his original run as host). There was a family from Alabama with a very strong accent. The question was, "Name a food that starts with the letter A". They named a couple and then the next family member says, "I got this, Arnge! (orange). Richard Dawson just lost it.

[Taur3asi3]

Dominant and dominate.

Go to any sports message board and you'll see people arguing over who was more "dominate" Wilt or Jordan, Gretzky or Lemieux, Grammar or illiteracy.

More than most of these, this is the one that drives me absolutely mental.