You're saying that wrong...

"Drug" used as the past-tense for drag sounds foolish to me. "It was heavy and I had no help, so I drug the log over to the campfire.
 
"Unchartered waters" in place of uncharted.
I hear this on news reports often.

I also get a cringe-shiver when someone says "I seen where the...".

Our language is not evolving, it is devolving.
 
Is it yinz or younz? No one has ever been able to explain it to me. I figure yinz is for multiples peeps and younz is for one.
 
Carlos88 said:
Is it yinz or younz? No one has ever been able to explain it to me. I figure yinz is for multiples peeps and younz is for one.
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Ummmm…. Yes? *backs away slowly*
 
I just looked it up and well color me befuddled.
 
I worked with two brothers, they always pronounced it ‘younz’
They were from Illinois
 
The D in "width" is not silent!

There is no dental fricative in "height"!
 
This thread reminds me of all the wonderfully subtle "wrong speaks" that were written into The Sopranos.

Still lose it when I hear Tony say "miffled".
 
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