You're saying that wrong...

[justjed]

Easier, too....

 

[bigsurbob]

... supposebly.

 

[jlauffer]

Wheelbarrel
Valevictorian

 

[Dergyll]

 

[David Mary]

 

[Stelth]

"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.

 

[mqqn]

"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.

 

[Bob Denman]

Never argue with Judge Judy...

 

[Carlos88]

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.

 

[David Mary]

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.

Ummmm…. Yes? *backs away slowly*

 

[Carlos88]

Lol. Commonly used words in PA, WV & Aha (OH).

 

[lmalterna]

Lol. Commonly used words in PA, WV & Aha (OH).

It's y'all.

 

[David Mary]

I just looked it up and well color me befuddled.

 

[lbsmobile]

I worked with two brothers, they always pronounced it ‘younz’
They were from Illinois

 

[Stelth]

I knew a Pittsburgh guy a long time ago. He constantly said "yinz".

 

[Bob Denman]

 

[Carlos88]

That's in Texas.

It's y'all.

 

[lmalterna]

That's in Texas.

SW Va. as well.

 

[David Mary]

The D in "width" is not silent!

There is no dental fricative in "height"!

 

[SwissHeritageCo]

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".