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...
244 posted on
11/21/2016 7:26:25 AM PST by
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 verbsas in, "He's a-goin' to the store."
245 posted on
11/21/2016 9:52:28 PM PST by
Albion Wilde
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