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05-01-2017, 08:05 AM | #33 |
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For some reason, last time I was in Canada people could just not understand me when I asked for "water". It happened several times in various establishments. Tim Horton's seemed to be the worse.
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05-01-2017, 12:08 PM | #34 |
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05-01-2017, 03:07 PM | #36 |
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05-01-2017, 03:31 PM | #37 | |
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Of course, I was also asking for a bottle of water, which seemed to exacerbate things ("bottle" seems to be another problematic word). |
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05-01-2017, 03:34 PM | #38 | |
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05-01-2017, 04:40 PM | #39 |
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05-01-2017, 05:05 PM | #40 |
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05-01-2017, 05:30 PM | #41 |
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05-01-2017, 05:38 PM | #42 |
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Y'all need to go listen to my favorite podcast "A Way With Words". There's lot of discussion on regional dialect and sayings etc.
It's interesting a word like water can be pronounced depending where you are wahter warter wahder warder and that dropped middle t sound wa er (sorta slurred together) And one of my all time favorite mispronounced words... segue ! |
05-01-2017, 07:08 PM | #43 |
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My brother pronounces it seeg. I tried to correct him, but it just made him insist. Ya know?
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05-01-2017, 07:10 PM | #44 |
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05-02-2017, 03:02 AM | #45 |
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One part of the Norfolk dialect is to replace 't' with a glottal stop (represented here by an apostrophe). Water -> wa'er.
Jack: I only have some bread and bu'er for my lunch. Teacher: That's not the way to say butter, Jack. Try again. Jack: Bu'er Teacher: But-ter Jack: But-ter Teacher: There, Thass be'er. |