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GreenWave

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1. Be careful, lest the woofman will get you.

Sat Feb 11, 2023, 11:28 AM

Feb 2023

Woof= wolf S. Illinois and a lot of Missouri.

They also say starm instead of storm and my oh my the number after thirty nine is quite embarrassing.

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American accent or a collective speech impediment? [View all] mysteryowl Feb 2023 OP

Be careful, lest the woofman will get you. GreenWave Feb 2023 #1

Southern Illinois----absolutely. Add "lye-berry", "chim-lee" and "sam-witch". nt Atticus Feb 2023 #3

"Let's eat braakfest" and "How are yeew?" and "fawve" for five. Midnight Writer Feb 2023 #14

Woof instead of wolf -- also in Michigan Sanity Claws Feb 2023 #48

My brother who plays Jimi Hendrix songs lives in Flint, Michigan for 3 decades. GreenWave Feb 2023 #52

Your brother, the language influencer! Sanity Claws Feb 2023 #53

I hear a crazy way to say important LakeArenal Feb 2023 #2

I've noticed that too in the last 10 years of so. paleotn Feb 2023 #4

Or the Southern version: Aristus Feb 2023 #5

Grammar has gone he way of cursive writing. LakeArenal Feb 2023 #7

I speak some Southern: JustABozoOnThisBus Feb 2023 #28

I'm sorry. I speak Southern fluently. 'Y'all' is never singular. Aristus Feb 2023 #29

Yall wudnt raised in 'ese hills n hollars, wuz ye. Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2023 #46

This one makes me cringe every time i hear it. ariadne0614 Feb 2023 #23

When it first became widespread, I thought, "When did American English get a glottal stop?" Hekate Feb 2023 #36

Jimmy Carter used to say it that way. wnylib Feb 2023 #38

My daughter's English professor told the class American English evolves all the time. Irish_Dem Feb 2023 #6

More like devolving. LakeArenal Feb 2023 #8

The thing about evolution... targetpractice Feb 2023 #16

"devolving" is not what a lot of people "think." CTyankee Feb 2023 #24

The definition of devolving has devolved into something else. Irish_Dem Feb 2023 #27

The DARE - Dictionary of American Regional English Tetrachloride Feb 2023 #9

Oh, Interesting! electric_blue68 Feb 2023 #32

My daughter has a linguistics degree from McGill, and told me the same thing. ariadne0614 Feb 2023 #25

Yep same here. I try to be more tolerant. Irish_Dem Feb 2023 #26

In first or second grade I was learning to spell words, my mom was hanging up the "warsh" to dry. Pobeka Feb 2023 #10

My late father-in-law, born and raised here in Washington State, Aristus Feb 2023 #30

Was he or his parents originally from Indiana/Illinois/Wisconsin area? Pobeka Feb 2023 #50

Here is an interesting take on "little" mysteryowl Feb 2023 #11

Also, I'm hearing "with he and I" or "with she and I" EVERYWHERE. Scrivener7 Feb 2023 #12

Or "me and her" and "me and him". greatauntoftriplets Feb 2023 #13

Drives me nuts to hear it, too. wnylib Feb 2023 #39

I first noticed the "liddle" pronunciation about 10 yrs.ago yorkster Feb 2023 #15

That's interesting, which I pronounce "intresting." Ocelot II Feb 2023 #17

That one really gets to me because so many anchors and pundits on tv Bev54 Feb 2023 #19

I also pronounce it as "intresting". yorkster Feb 2023 #20

Oh. Reading this - I think I sometimes do pronounce it "intresting". Huh! electric_blue68 Feb 2023 #33

Oh. Reading this - I think I sometimes do pronounce it "intresting". Huh! electric_blue68 Feb 2023 #34

Whenever I fully enunciate "interesting" intrepidity Feb 2023 #43

I very weirdly had the same thought last night. yorkster Feb 2023 #47

I live in Canada and one of the small towns I lived in people would pronounce Bev54 Feb 2023 #18

West Virginia folks also say chimley Sanity Claws Feb 2023 #49

Well this small town was previously a coal mining town, I wonder if there is a relation to that. Bev54 Feb 2023 #54

And then there's the ubiquitous r to y switcheroo in February. nt ariadne0614 Feb 2023 #21

Whatsamatter U? You no can talk good? Wounded Bear Feb 2023 #22

Whatsamatta me? Whatsamatta you?! Hekate Feb 2023 #37

Also heard among some Italian Americans. wnylib Feb 2023 #40

That was Bullwinkle's alma mater. Wolf Frankula Feb 2023 #41

I once used the distributive property in mathematics to explain a problem of English Aristus Feb 2023 #31

That's how I learned it too intrepidity Feb 2023 #44

"Widdwe". Wait...what? Really?!!! In my not so humble opinion that sounds stupid... electric_blue68 Feb 2023 #35

That 2nd "r" in marry functions as a speedbump intrepidity Feb 2023 #45

Some TV show once did a segment on North Carolinians pronouncing both "oil" and "all" as "aowl." tblue37 Feb 2023 #51

I grew up in Erie, PA and noticed wnylib Feb 2023 #42