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Originally Posted by Miriverite
As an inside joke, my friends and I also used to say "di-lem-na" (pronouncing the n), and now I can't get rid of the habit =(
I also have a tendency to spell things the British way (practise, colour, encyclopaedia) even though I was born and raised in Texas and have never been out of the USA. My friends make fun of me for that, teehee.
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I do this too with some words (colour, glamour, favour), but almost always catch myself because everything has spell-check now. I didn't even think it was from all the classic literature I've read, from Chaucer (12th century) to Shakespeare (17th century), to great Irish poets (19th century). Spend an entire semester immersed in Middle English (Chaucer), where even the professor spoke in Middle English, and that will mess you up.
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Originally Posted by jennyj87
I grew up in RI and my mom was from Boston and my dad was from Cranston which is one of the worst places for the Rhode Island accent.
Now I go to college in FL so I get teased all the time for things like clicker (remote), bubbler (water fountain), carriage (shopping cart).
I also get teased becasue I say "room" funny. My friends say I sound like I'm saying 'rum'.
I also learned quickly that jimmies to people are not chocolate sprinkles. Oops.
And of course, wicked.
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I too say
clicker (lived in CT most of my life),
wicked and
bubbler (picked that up living in MA for 10 years).
And yes, a lot of people from RI say "room" oddly, the "oom" as "uuhm". Same thing with "roof", they say "ruuhf".