Realtor: "Y'all go dawn t'th'enda Churkey Road."
Mrs. Don-o: "Churkey? Excuse me? A cross between a chicken and a turkey?"
Realtor: (She gives me an exasperated look, then shouts in a manner not even appropriate for the hard of hearing): "CHURKEY!"
Mrs. Don-o (trying to look contrite): "Could you please spell that?"
Realtor: C! H! E! R! O! K! E! E!
Exactly!! Thank God, I don’t have any trouble understanding speech like that! I’d never get a straight answer from my gardening customers otherwise. You want to talk about mangled words? Carolina sieva is a popular butterbean around here. We get requests for anything from seewee to seevee. The funniest one I can remember right off hand is a guy who came in and asked for collieberries. I kept questioning him and I finally figured out he wanted KOHLRABI! LOL
In Kalleeefornia, we had a big debate on ebonics in classrooms. Oakland schools wanted to teach ebonics as a way to show the right and wrong way to speak.
Ebonics being thought of as a linguistic legacy of slavery and years of cultural isolation. They wanted to break the chain of what was the norm spoken in households.
The outrage was extreme. I never found out if they won or not. But when I hear axt instead of ask, I am sure these adults wish someone had taught them the difference. It is now a speech impediment for some.