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So you put more emphasis on the -r- with a little pause after it? Sitting in my office and trying it silently right now- feels good. Thank you!

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I am grossed out by the  bare feet at the TTH.   The floor always looks dirty and IIRC since they sleep in their clothes they are not showering off the dirt before they get into their beds.

But, even if their floors always were clean and they washed up on a constant basis, this picture was taken when possibly a few hundred people were there for the afterparty with their shoes bringing in unknown dirt. 

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3 hours ago, Front Hugging Fiend said:

isn't she at her parent's house? it seems perfectly reasonable to go barefoot in a family home... 

That floor isn't nasty its the design of it, its to maximize hiding dirt which I'm sure they need with all those slobs running around.  

Am I the only one who finds it nasty to walk around the house WITH shoes on? All the ick from public on the bottom of your shoes, and then walking on your carpet, no thank you, take your shoes off before you come in my house, your bare feet do not offend me, I always take my shoes off when I go to someones home, good friends I know they don't care if you have bare feet, if I'm not familiar with I ask what they want, and I have socks that I bring with me the summer because I live in flip flops and I have 1 friend who hates bare feet and shoes so we just know to bring socks or slippers with us. 

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Speaking regional dialect who here knows what beggars night is? :my_rolleyes: 

I like how different areas have different words for things. For example my family in WI call a water fountain a bubbler a tow truck a wrecker. My SIL is from TN and calls a shopping cart a buggy. A toboggan can be a sled or a hat depending on where you are from.  And this is just different regions of the U.S.. Then you go to other English speaking countries, and you may as well be speaking 2 different languages. 

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Popping in on the regional speak thing: Hubs grew up in Alaska. When we were dating, he mentioned something about a "snowmachine." I had to ask him what that was. It's a "snowmobile" to everyone I've ever met other than his family. To this day we argue over which one is correct.

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2 hours ago, allthegoodnamesrgone said:

 

My SIL is from TN and calls a shopping cart a buggy. 

Husband and I used to argue over what to call the cart. I grew up in New England - we call it a shopping cart or carriage. Husband is from Brooklyn and they called it a wagon. We looked it up once and apparently Hawaii is the only other area that calls it a wagon.

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8 hours ago, PainfullyAware said:

I think my biggest pet peeves is Nuc-u-lar for nuclear (nu-clear). And maybe 'cutter' for Qatar (ka-tar). That might be a Canadian vs American difference.

"Cutter" isn't wrong. It's actually pretty close to how I've heard Qatari people pronounce the name of their country, though it's a pretty hard "k" sound, maybe closer to "gutter."

Edit: Here's a discussion of the pronunciation: http://frequentmiler.boardingarea.com/2016/03/30/how-to-pronounce-qatar/

And here's a video with various people saying "Qatar." It varies a lot, but it seems like most of the people who are from Qatar say it closer to "cutter" than to "ka-TAR," but one woman does say that if she's saying it in English, not Arabic, she says "ka-TAR." 

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I don't wear shoes indoors at all. I actually find shoes indoors annoying. And I think those tiles are made to look like that to hide dirt. How do we know that they sleep in their days clothes?

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@Rachel333,  that video under the spoiler in your latest post was not about people pronouncing Qatar.  It was about Northwestern Football.  (Paint Evanston purple baby!)  I didn't mind watching it though.

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6 minutes ago, PennySycamore said:

@Rachel333,  that video under the spoiler in your latest post was not about people pronouncing Qatar.  It was about Northwestern Football.  (Paint Evanston purple baby!)  I didn't mind watching it though.

Haha, oops, it must have gone to the next video and I didn't notice. I think this should be the video I meant.

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I love how everyone is avoiding the shoes/no shoes comments like the plague.  :pb_lol:  

 We have 2 dogs and they are the reason we can't have nice things.  When they die and I don't have to worry about their debris getting on the bottom of my feet (I have sensory issues) then I might go shoeless in the house.      

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I had a (very bad tempered) female cat once who was the reason I do wear shoes/slippers in the house.  She was very quick and had a real penchant for biting.

 

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I'm watching the first season of Counting On (through DirectTV's OnDemand) and both Jill and Jessa keep yapping about adoption even though they have infants, aren't using birth control, and know perfectly well that most agencies won't let parents of infants adopt. (Or maybe TLC just aired the same comments umpteen times.) At least they've finally shut up about that.

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I love how everyone is avoiding the shoes/no shoes comments like the plague.  :pb_lol:  
 We have 2 dogs and they are the reason we can't have nice things.  When they die and I don't have to worry about their debris getting on the bottom of my feet (I have sensory issues) then I might go shoeless in the house.      


Haha! We also can't have nice things. It's a good thing our dogs are so cute. I usually wear slippers, mostly because my feet are always cold but also because I've stepped on a slobbery squeaky toy more than once and it's unpleasant on bare feet.
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On 5/27/2017 at 6:12 AM, WhyNotJulie said:

I live in Ontario (Canada).  I personally don't think we have an accent at all, but all my American friends disagree. I guess I would liken our style of speech to a less harsh and much less twangy Milwaukee accent.

Regarding classic "Canadianisms" - I understand that the way people sound in ON/BC is is different than people sound in the prairies or in the maritimes, but this is my best take on how we pronounce words:

  1. About: a-BOAT     (NOT aboot)
  2. Caramel:  CARE-a-mel
  3. Badminton: BAD-min-ton
  4. Toque: TOO-k
  5. Route: ROOT
  6. Pasta: PASS-ta
  7. Avenue: AAH-ven-you
  8. Been: bean
  9. Adult: a-DULT
  10. Futile: FYOU-tile

As with most things in Canada, our language is far enough away from British English that it's noticeably distinct, but it's not so far gone as to be American.

In BC here:

2: Car-mle

edited to add:

It's pronounced Herb - 'erb is pretentious.

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23 minutes ago, Greendoor said:

In BC here:

2: Car-mle

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It's pronounced Herb - 'erb is pretentious.

New Englander here. "Herb" is the name of my Great-Uncle. "'Erb" is what we use while cooking.

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9 minutes ago, VelociRapture said:

New Englander here. "Herb" is the name of my Great-Uncle. "'Erb" is what we use while cooking.

In the UK I got funny looks for saying erb instead of Herb, and for saying Tuesday instead of Choose-day. And apparently UC Berkeley is supposed to be UC BARK-ley.

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11 minutes ago, VelociRapture said:

New Englander here. "Herb" is the name of my Great-Uncle. "'Erb" is what we use while cooking.

Midwesterner here and we call them 'erbs as well, Herb is a man's name. 

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I don't mind going barefoot in the house if the floors are clean. Unfortunately, our floors are never clean.:laughing-jumpingpurple:

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Shoes are for outside. I use them on streets where dogs poop, people break glass, spit, throw up, stubbs out their cigarettes, drops food, runs over small animals. I use them on dirt. Why on earth would I want to drag that in to my house? On to my rugs? On my furnitures? 

Sorry Rufus! *Bows head in shame*

#petpeeve #iolsohavestrongopinionsaboutduvets

 

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9 hours ago, just_ordinary said:

Thanks to being constant practice because of my English in laws I think I have a rather strange accent that is not German but not really British either (although they all think it is very good and still work on it). But there is one word I just can't say correct to save my life: regularly 

How the hell do you come from the la- to the -rly??????

I pronounce it reg-you-lee, or very close to that. I'm from Hertfordshire in England. In most British accents whole syllables of some words aren't pronounced - strawberry is pronounced straw-bree, library is pronounced lie-bree, etc. Place names are often pronounced quite differently to how they're spelled, too.

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9 hours ago, just_ordinary said:

Thanks to being constant practice because of my English in laws I think I have a rather strange accent that is not German but not really British either 

I'll bet your English is better than you think. 

My aunt is English and my uncle is Swabian and learnt his English in Cardiff, Wales (but you'd never know). 

They were English teachers and specialised in writing books for Germans abroad surviving in English.

The main thing to remember is that us British are generally deserving of our reputation as the worst language learners in the world.

I would attach the r to the other syllable, like this:

reg-you-lar-lee ...so lar to rhyme with the first part of 'faren' (to go? - see, my German's way worse than your English).

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1 hour ago, nastyhobbitses said:

 And apparently UC Berkeley is supposed to be UC BARK-ley.

That'll be folks confusing it with the banking and slavery people (to this day there's a bark-lays bank). I always thought the university was connected to the political intrigue people (as in burk-lee skirmish).

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