Folks can't speak worth a....

[#1 Leading Lady]

The letter R pronounced R-ra

I also dislike when people interchange singular and plural words

Ex:

I need to brush my teefes.

My feets hurt.

[intheknow]

My two favorites that I hear on a regular basis are

seen or saw- seent
looked - look-did

Ex. I seent a girl that look-did a mess!!

Whenever people mispronounce stuff like this, the only thing I want to say is please look-did in the dictionary and you'll seent that these words don't exist!

An absolute Ebonical (yes, I invented that word!) mess!!

[AKA2D '91]

Originally posted by intheknow
My two favorites that I hear on a regular basis are

seen or saw- seent
looked - look-did

you MUST reside in the South. (don't answer)

every-ere
prescription-'scripton
again-ah-GAIN (you know when folks try to speak "proper")

[AKAtude]

Originally posted by AKA2D '91



you MUST reside in the South. (don't answer)

every-ere
prescription-'scripton
again-ah-GAIN (you know when folks try to speak "proper")

LOL. Maybe this is another Southern one:

Out here - out cha

[AKA2D '91]

Originally posted by AKAtude


LOL. Maybe this is another Southern one:

Out here - out cha

wait!

out here- out CHere!

out of you- out CHA!

holD up- holE up!

[Steeltrap]

Pomegranate = pomagram. I still do that.

[AKA2D '91]

Originally posted by Steeltrap
Pomegranate = pomagram. I still do that.

what?



pronunciate please. LMAO (remember that from Martin?)

much-merch

[Steeltrap]

Soror, when I was a little girl, I pronounced pomegranate "pomagram." That's all that meant.

[lil_sunshine]

I have a few...

1. My grandmother was born in the South and she'd say, "bootiful" (WTH?? ) (beautiful)

2. I also know some people who say, "Yop!" WTH is up with that?? (It's yep or yeah, however you wanna say it)

3. My Spanish professor last semester used to say, "Past participial." (WTH??? ) He meant past participle. I hated trying to correct him because he'd keep saying, "Past participial." Damn!!!

4. My mother's former co-worker would say:
fillum (film) and ammonia (pneumonia) Double damn!!! All this from an Italian woman with a Bachelor's Degree in Art History (I see that education doesn't help everybody. )

But wait, people! I think this one takes the cake:
5. aminals (animals) Now really!!!

That's all I can think of for now.

[korkscru]

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU to the person who came up with this HILARIOUS thread. I thoroughly enjoyed every last response. I can't remember when I laughed so hard.

You never can actually imagine how COUNTRY you sound until someone else brings it out. I'm from South Carolina and I KNOW that I have many moments of being absolutely country (and I'm a college-educated woman also). It's almost like speaking another language at times. When I'm around certain people (like my family who actually understand what I'm saying), I just completely relax with correct pronunciation and what not. But when I'm around my supervisor, director, SOME co-workers, and other agencies, then my language changes.

It's good that we can laugh at this. If the truth be told, EBONICS (which is what we now call it) is basically part of the African-American culture. And, if you think about it, it's not so bad. It's DIFFERENT (and that's a good thing).

[lil_sunshine]

Hey korkscru, how was your birthday? Did you get my message? Just wondering.

[skywalker20_99]

I CANT STAND IT when people say "urnion" instead of onion. I can be quite "country", but that one irritates me to no end.

[vanda]

I have a co worker who no matter how many times I try to correct her on the sly, insists on saying prudentials instead of credentials!

[nulook]

Here are more.

1. Fo sho---for sure.

2. bowy--boy

3. nuttin'--nothing

4. dat good--that's good

4. I've noticed that here in Richmond, many people say "won't"---like "He won't at home when he was supposed to be"---instead of wasn't.

5. dat dey---that there (go figure)

6. gimme---give me

7. wannna---want to

8. lemme---let me

I'm talking to my daughter now so that something else will slip out.

[sweet angel]

ohmigosh! Ya'll are clownin'

I got one for ya'll...my dad and I were driving through chicago (pronounced chi car go... ) and he was going on and on about how the "amtrak" was killing people and how it sho' was a pity (he's so country )... I thought he was talking about the train. This man ment anthrax!

others:
chirch=church
skirmp=someone thought that was the plural of shrimp...
pronouncing the h in herb
moonster=monster (my lil' neice )
teef=teeth or toof=tooth
eyeron=iron
expurrence=experience
lawd hammercy!
chile=child
I could probably go on and on...