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To: TheOldLady
Good grief, you're annoying!!

I was a little slow today. Some jerk made me work.

Why aren't 'jerk' and 'work' spelled alike?

1,311 posted on 03/22/2013 9:01:28 AM PDT by ArGee (An open mind is like an open window - if you don't have a screen, you get flies.)
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To: ArGee; no-to-illegals

We probably don’t pronounce words properly anymore. Jerk is pronounced “jerk,” but work is pronounced “werk.” I do NOT understand why work is not pronounced like “fork” work/fork.

Massively confusing. No wonder no one wants to try to learn American English.

n2i, don’t be shy, and don’t be put off by that other guy.


1,315 posted on 03/22/2013 9:28:16 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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