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Only for speakers who pronounce the vowels in hurry and furry the same. We who distinguish them have no trouble doing so. It's nothing more than regional differences in pronunciation. To me, "awe" and "oar" sound the same but I know that's not true for some people.
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aegg instead of egg
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I give excellent backrubs. Enough said.
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"supposably" instead of supposedly
"irrevelant" instead of irrelevant "calvary" instead of cavalry |
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Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus
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"Grievous" is not spelt "grievious" but many people pronounce it this way.
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And while we're at it, grieve does not take a direct object, i.e., you mourn a loss, not grieve it. Grieve doesn't properly take an object at all -- the subject/sufferer merely does it.
Mailmakers who write "halberk" for "hauberk" are similarly ill-founded.
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No such thing as mailmaker.
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As you see, not a direct object, but an indirect one.
I hold a similar view towards the phrase "belabor the point." I think "labor the point" a better phrase, despite being able to find the belabor usage cited approvingly by authorities. But laboring the point is to overdo it, while belaboring is battering -- physical or figurative -- and I should think any point so abused would rapidly be bent over and lose any resemblance to a point. Any who simply must cite the above paragraph as an illustration of the verbal vice it condemns is at liberty to do so.:p Bruce: mailmakers do have an ontological existence. And they won't check with you on their jargon, the willful creatures.:p
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I hear these mangled a lot:
"ax" rather than "ask" "chimbley" rather than "chimney" "sammich" rather than "sandwich" "pitzer" instead of "pizza" "prolly" instead of "probably" "dunno" instead of "don't know" "buttah" instead of "butter" "heah" instead of "hear" or "here" Yes, I live in New England. <_<
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Speaking about pronunciation...
A challenge... Anyone care to create a single sentence containing all TEN pronunciations of the letter grouping "ough", possible in the English language. Just to clarify - I'm talking English-English here.
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hmmm I found this, Here
Is that cheating? The combination ough can be pronounced in fourteen different ways: 1. awe: thought, bought, fought, brought, ought, sought, nought, wrought 2. uff: enough, rough, tough, slough, Clough, chough 3. ooh: through, slough 4. oh: though, although, dough, doughnut, broughm, Ough, furlough, Greenough, thorough 5. off: cough, trough 6. ow: bough, plough, sough 7. ou: drought, doughty, Stoughton 8. uh: Scarborough, borough, thorough (alt), thoroughbred, Macdonough, Poughkeepsie 9. up: hiccoughed 10. oth: trough (alt) 11. ock: lough, hough 12. oc[h] (aspirated): lough 13. ahf: Gough 14. og: Coughlin (also #5) The following sentence contains them all: Rough-coated(2), dough-faced(4), thoughtful(1) ploughman(6) John Gough(13) strode through(3) the streets of Loughborough(2+8); after falling into a slough(2) on Coughlin(14) road near the lough(12) (dry due to drought)(7), he coughed(5) and hiccoughed(9), then checked his horse's houghs(11)and washed up in a trough(10).
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