Sometimes I hate our language.
Leaped not leapt.
… but …
Knelt not kneeled.
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The public school tabled the issue of the homely girl who got mad when the pilot said he would return momentarily because she had dropped her biscuits in her pants and caught her suspenders on a chair.
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@yvanspijk I've been enjoying your language infographics!
Here's a puzzler: do you have any idea where the pronunciation in some US English accents of the word "across" as "acrost" comes from? As in "I haven't come acrost that before?"
What drives such a pronunciation to occur? Is it an #eggcorn? "I haven't come a crossed that before?" (Maybe borrowing from archaic "I'll go a-walking"?)
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"Her name is Gretchen. That's a German name, right?"
No.
"Gretchen", while totally archaic, is based on a German name, yes.
But this "Krettshn" thing Americans mutated it into is definitely not.
This is the original German pronunciation:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2a/De-Gretchen.oga/De-Gretchen.oga.mp3
Also, keep in mind that "-chen" is a diminutive suffix, "Gretchen" literally means "little Greta". It feels very strange for us when the person is an adult.
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US #duolingo users, how does 'either ' translate to 'non plus' in French ?
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Here's a novel (to me) southern colloquialism. "Faster than a rabbit in a corn field."
I wonder what the story is...
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A fb thread made me pull out this SNL clip and I thought I'd share here, too. 32 years old and still lolsob hilarious and brilliant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWMp_z7Jnxw
"NBC News Personnel really emphasis the pronunciation of Spanish words, while the new Economics Correspondent does not. Aired 11/10/90"
#sociolinguistics #linguistics #loanwords #USEnglish #Spanish #pronunciation #awkward #soawkward
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Really Microsoft Word 2021, you don't have the word "odor" in your dictionary? gonna underline that in red as if to make underhanded remarks about my literacy? Well my literacy may be questionable, but that's definitely a goddamned word you jumped up Paperclip assistant host. You're set to the US English dictionary and everything (Piece is set in the USA, with American characters, thus correct spellings are the American ones.) #MicrosoftWord #BritishEnglish #USEnglish