Posted on 07/17/2025 1:49:57 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Yes, they make it, but try to find it here, in my area in Ct.! Lotsa luck with that! :-(
I hate strawberry ice cream, with or without fruit in it!
Thanks!
There are accents and dialects in the Chesapeake Islands, and coastal areas of North and South Carolina that seem almost foreign.
SORbet
SHERbert
As time passed in each new location, I would find myself talking like the locals. At least to a degree at any rate.
In many jobs as an adult, I would mimic the way some of those from foreign nations would speak.
I remember replying to some one from one of the Caribbean islands with his sing-song dialect. He looked at me rather nastily, as he thought I was mocking him. I immediately replied to him that I love his dialect and that I was so enthralled with it that I wanted to see if I was able to speak like that. That it just blurted out, and was not meant as an insult, but rather as a compliment of his pretty dialect. That it was a habit I had picked up over many years of moving often as a military brat.
FWIW, I’ve never known anyone who said “Fudgicle”, and I’m an old man :).
In Fall 1992, I was sent on a business trip to SHAPE. Part of my duties took me into the "bunker". At the front desk were a couple RAF enlisted. We spoke for a few minutes while waiting for my appointment in an adjacent room. The question was raised about my "accent" with Canadian vowels. Apparently my speech was still reflecting the time in Federal Way, WA. At later points, my daily study of Welsh with mid-valleys dialect added some more "colour" that was noticed by the Brits at the front desk.
Rolling back to 1970, my parents traveled to Phoenix, AZ to see my paternal grandparents. It would be the last time we saw them prior to their passing. We stayed at a hotel. While my dad was "catching up" with his parents, I went out to the shuffleboard court. A man there asked me a question. I didn't understand him. I tried Spanish, French and German to attempt to communicate. A moment later he asked if I spoke English with a thick Brooklyn accent. That fixed it. I knew how to filter his speech to understand it. My aikido sensei spoke English with a very heavy Japanese accent. Again, just a matter of tuning the ear to understand.
Sherbert was Herbert before it went through Gender Affirmation Care.
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I never ate the stuff myself.
One of my college roommates pronounced it that way. He was from California although his father had been in the service and they moved around a bit.
And why does the abbreviation for the word “missus” have the letter “r” in it?
Because it was originally "mistress" before that word came to have a different meaning.
I remember several years ago Alex Trebek scored a player wrong for saying “sherbert” rather than “sherbet” on Jeopardy!
Oh no...
Sorbet
“Sorbet”
Sorbet + milk = sherbert
Franz?
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