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Old 08-07-2008, 09:36 PM   #46
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For some reason I think "try and" sounds less bossy than "try to". I use both.


Maybe it all isn't about the level of literacy, and more about personal preferences like that one.

Except for SteveDallas's example of "done my homework". Now that's just odd. Maybe that's a west coast thing.
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Old 08-07-2008, 09:48 PM   #47
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Except that we live in Philadelphia!
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Old 08-07-2008, 09:52 PM   #48
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"All the sudden" what?
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Old 08-07-2008, 09:52 PM   #49
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I talk to a lot of people everyday and I'll just post them as I hear them.
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Old 08-07-2008, 10:12 PM   #50
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"The car needs washed."
Seems to be a central PA thing.
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Old 08-07-2008, 11:01 PM   #51
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And on a somewhat related note:
Who came up with the spelling of choose, chose, lose, loose?

Choose rhymes with lose (at least in American English). Chose rhymes with hose. Loose rhymes with caboose. No wonder people have trouble learning English.
You can add "loos" to the list. It's British slang for "toilets".

Pronunciations change but spellings are fossilized. Blood, flood. Great, steak, break. Vein, grey, they. There are ten or so different ways of pronouncing "ough". All these groups of words have changed their pronunciation but retained their archaic spellings.

English spelling is the linguistic equivalent of what you get when you don't cut the grass and prune the roses for a long time.
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Old 08-07-2008, 11:03 PM   #52
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"The car needs washed."
Seems to be a central PA thing.
It's also a fairly standard construction in Scottish English.
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Old 08-08-2008, 01:10 AM   #53
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And then there's this spelling of fish:
ghoti
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Old 08-08-2008, 01:12 AM   #54
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It's also a fairly standard construction in Scottish English.
bollocks


as for aks/ask ... you'd be a marked target if you said ask in some areas of Detroit -it's not just an ignorant mispronunciation -it's dialect.
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Old 08-08-2008, 09:25 AM   #55
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The story behind "ghoti."
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Old 08-09-2008, 06:41 AM   #56
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"The car needs washed."
Seems to be a central PA thing.
I heard this sort of locution in the Navy all the time. Everywhere the Navy was.

I chalk it up to "elliptical construction."
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Old 08-09-2008, 08:15 AM   #57
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Actually, in the area of PA I grew up in, you didn't wash a car, you warshed it. With whuter. Don't forget to check yer oal while yer at it.
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Old 08-09-2008, 08:16 AM   #58
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Or should I say, while ya'll're at it.
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Old 08-09-2008, 05:24 PM   #59
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I always check my earl. I do warsh my car... with wooder.

Lemmee ast ya this: jever go up the mall? Or down the shore?
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Old 08-09-2008, 05:35 PM   #60
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I live near Centerville, so natch, I call it "Centervul." Yes, people give me strange looks.
Kul! I live in Kettering!!!

(I know, completely out of line with this thread---sorry!)


Here's a good Appalachian word combo: writin' stick

as in, "Kin I borruh yer writin' stick?"

other faves: vomick (vomit) and swolled (swollen)
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