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11. Interesting, now that you made me think about it.

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Tue Sep 23, 2014, 02:52 PM

Sep 2014

I used to wonder that too from time to time. I always though that if a word is seldom, if at all pronounced the way it's spelled, that the spelling should be changed then.

I think the root of it is the speed and cadence of speech. If we all spoke "school english" slowly and and an enunciated way, words would be pronounced more properly; at the expense of sounding stilted. We'd sound like hoity toity dorks.

In this manner, "Get out of the road" sounds more like "Gatta d'road". Or "Did you eat yet?" as "Didja eat yet?" or even "Jeet yet?"

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Who hears extra sounds in words? Or doesn't hear certain letters? [View all] Baitball Blogger Sep 2014 OP

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They're all on the collander, so no damage done. Baitball Blogger Sep 2014 #9

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Funny thing Populist_Prole Sep 2014 #14

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When I was a kid, I noticed kids saying "CANTapillar" (caterpillar). raccoon Sep 2014 #30

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You mean a sammich. Baitball Blogger Sep 2014 #33

actually no--i grew up saying samwich. orleans Sep 2014 #38

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