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50 Incorrect Pronunciations That You Should Avoid
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| December 2, 2008
| Maeve Maddox
Posted on 11/18/2016 12:35:53 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: Albion Wilde
That one was pretty much always a lost cause.
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11/21/2016 5:29:01 AM PST
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Southside_Chicago_Republican
(If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.M)
To: Gay State Conservative
Oh,I get it...you're from flyover country! Actually, I'm from CT, but after 20+ years, the AF dropped me off in flyover country and I stayed. I guess that means if I'm subjected to flyover country jokes I'm not an innocent victim, since I'm here voluntarily.
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11/21/2016 5:46:40 AM PST
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Gil4
(And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
To: Gil4
As I said...only kidding! :-)
To: Albion Wilde; EveningStar; Kid Shelleen
Sort of like the way many Fluffyans pronounce the name of the Acme grocery store: “ACK-a-mee.” Just can't wipe the Big Wide Grin off my face from seeing this and remembering my grandmother asking me to go to the ack-a-me (four blocks away) to pick something up for her.
She is the one person that I would never "correct" for saying "ack-a-me" not because I feared her but because I loved her and loved to hear her say that. Italians knew there were not enough vowels in the Acme name...
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11/21/2016 7:26:25 AM PST
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Prov1322
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To: Prov1322
LOL! Italian-as-first-language folks love extra syllables! They love adding "a" to the end of hard stop Anglo-Saxon words, too.
Conversely, my Scottish-descended grandmom added "a" to the beginning of verbs—as in, "He's a-goin' to the store."
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11/21/2016 9:52:28 PM PST
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Albion Wilde
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