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I guess that means people all across this country say worsh.
I think that you may be correct.
In a similar vein, it seems that some people from all over the country feel the need to insert an "h" into words beginning with an "s". As an example, we have the fairly common practice of pronouncing "strong" as "shtrong", and "string" as "shtring". (How shtrong is that shtring? )
In a similar vein, it seems that some people from all over the country feel the need to insert an "h" into words beginning with an "s". As an example, we have the fairly common practice of pronouncing "strong" as "shtrong", and "string" as "shtring". (How shtrong is that shtring? )
The first time I heard that was when I started working in Manhattan (35 years ago this month!) and met people from Jersey City.
The first time I heard that was when I started working in Manhattan (35 years ago this month!) and met people from Jersey City.
Ironically, I never heard that type of speech pattern when we lived in Bay Ridge (Brooklyn)--you know, where people are supposed to exhibit very poor speech patterns. When we moved to Bayonne, NJ, that was when I began to hear the substitution of "sh" for "s". However, I have encountered people from all over The US who also exhibit this...strange (to my ears) pronunciation.
...and then we have the people who apparently can't pronounce "sh", and who order, "srimp" (shrimp), or who own a "Snauzer" (Schnauzer) I actually have a hard time saying "srimp" and "Snauzer", but that type of word mangling seems to come very easily to some people.
We all pick up the speech patterns we grow up with. We are a more mobile (and connected) world now, so we tend to notice the differences.
I don't know if my friends moved to NJ from some other place, I just know they talked funny and they felt the same way about my MA accent.
I stood out a lot in high school because of my accent, but I still kept it. (Although I do not drink tonic anymore, I do drink from bubblers on occasion. But these are regional words and not a wacky speech pattern.)
We all pick up the speech patterns we grow up with. We are a more mobile (and connected) world now, so we tend to notice the differences.
I don't know if my friends moved to NJ from some other place, I just know they talked funny and they felt the same way about my MA accent.
I stood out a lot in high school because of my accent, but I still kept it. (Although I do not drink tonic anymore, I do drink from bubblers on occasion. But these are regional words and not a wacky speech pattern.)
I never heard the word "bubbler" until City-Data. It's so educational here!
We all pick up the speech patterns we grow up with. We are a more mobile (and connected) world now, so we tend to notice the differences.
I don't know if my friends moved to NJ from some other place, I just know they talked funny and they felt the same way about my MA accent.
I stood out a lot in high school because of my accent, but I still kept it. (Although I do not drink tonic anymore, I do drink from bubblers on occasion. But these are regional words and not a wacky speech pattern.)
When we first moved from Massachusetts to Connecticut my mother wanted to buy soda and asked a sales clerk where the tonic was located. He directed her to the pharmacy where he thought she was asking for some type of upset stomach medicine.
When we first moved from Massachusetts to Connecticut my mother wanted to buy soda and asked a sales clerk where the tonic was located. He directed her to the pharmacy where he thought she was asking for some type of upset stomach medicine.
That's somehow fitting because of the soda/pop/tonic/soft drinks, whatever we call them, many started out as a health drink mixed down at the local pharmacy.
My dad was a manager for a F500 company and would often interview people with MBAs from Ivy League schools. Sometimes he would bring back their resumes to gloss over and the most common mistake was typing 'manger' instead of 'manager.'
Spell check will never catch it since it is spelled correctly.
I see this all the time on signs and in job advertisements.
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