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Having lived in both North Jersey and Central Jersey since 1956, I can say that I never heard anyone in those areas pronounce "water" as Fox Terrier stated. So, apparently, he/she should have stated that folks living in South Jersey speak in that way.
Actually, I grew up in central Jersey. Trenton, specifically.
There were lots of immigrants in my neighborhood; heck, my mother was first-generation born in the US. I still occasionally slip into saying 'da' for 'the' along with a few other words!
That pronunciation could have been a local phenomenon, I don't know.
However, as I became an adult, I did make a concerted effort to change the way I pronounced that word after being made fun of by friends!
A friend of mine was always confused as a child when he heard his grandfather say, "Teach his own".
It was only decades later, as an adult, when he realized that gramps was trying to say, "To each his own"!
A friend of mine was always confused as a child when he heard his grandfather say, "Teach his own".
It was only decades later, as an adult, when he realized that gramps was trying to say, "To each his own"!
I worked with a woman who would say, "Can't see the FARCE for the trees."
I was searching for information just now about how long it takes to shoe a horse. Google brought up a site that looked promising with a lot of questions about horses. One said, "How long does it take a horse to have a foul?".
"It's been disgusted a lot of the last decade, but nothing has yet been decided, and in the current economic climate I doubt anything will in the foreseeable future."
If that many are disgusted, perhaps it's better to drop it altogether.
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Less invasive might be nice, though! Wow.
