So I was thinkin about this and I can't explain it.

So, there's actually a lot of good reasons for this.....

So in Germany it is very common for someone to begin a question or statement with "so". But it is a different language

"Fixin"

Er, for "school", do they they say shool or skool? If skool, why not say skedule instead of shedule. :)

Lets Cerebrate about it.....

I heard this several years ago from a friend. She was asking a woman how to spell someone's name that contained an apostrophe. (like D'Andre)

The lady was spelling it out and said: D comma up high Andre.

So the apostrophe is no more.

Maybe we need to put them together with Californians. We can take Californians use of “the” in front of highway numbers and let the Brits use it in front of hospital.

Gawd I've been around enough Brits that even I occasionally say "sheduule", because of course there's no "k" in schedule. Then they get distracted and wander off when I bring up "school"...

And I, and many of my colleagues at the place that made the first A-bomb, will die on the hill of mispronouncing nuclear. It's frequently "nukular" given the right audience.

If ya only have yams with turkey on Thanksgiving Day is that a fixin too :D?

I'm going to stop saying "gonna"...

How bout "gunna"?

Except in Germany they say “zo” as in: “zo, all electrical problems, first thing vee do is shake de foose!

You do not want to take advice on pronunciations or vocabulary from me. If you hear me say pen and pin they sound exactly the same. My accent completely prevents me from saying things correctly. On the other hand, my accent makes me very identifiable.

When I use voice to text, every time I say going to, it comes out gonna.

Drives me nuts.

For some reason, I recently noticed that some Brits tend to pronounce this letter > H
'haitch'

whereas 'murricans seen to pronounce it
'aitch'.

Aah, the apostrophe, aka the flying comma. :)

One of my good friends married a woman from Virginia and one of my good friends is from Kentucky. I know EXACTLY what you're talking about.

If I think about the pronunciation of pen and pin, there is a tiny difference, but I suspect if there was a recording of me in conversation that included both words, they'd probably sound exactly the same.

If pen and pin don't sound exactly the same when you say them....

Then you ain't from around here ;)!

Had a 4th semester Spanish professor who was from Madrid ... his "thang" was enunciation....

He'd literally spend 10 minutes trying to get someone to pronounce "Hola" to his satisfaction....

...before giving up and moving on to his next feeble attempts :D.

Dragged vs. drug. I know drug is used in the south as I drug a body out of the lake.

I guess it part of the American set of dialects.

“Axe” instead of ask. Let me axe you this question, instead of ask. Drives me crazy…lazy talk.

This one drives me crazy....I used to work with a guy that used to type in e-mails "another words" instead of "in other words..". Probably should have told him, lol, but he was a d*ck.

Being from the Philly area, you hear "wooder" all the time in place of "water". I'll admit it took me years to break the habit since it's all I heard growing up.

I thought that was just a NYC slang, like birffday ;)

And if "out and about in a boat" doesn't sound like "Oat Ann a boat in a boat" you ain't from Canada, eh...


BTW, on the OP, what words are not "made up"?

^^^
They say "oot" Not "oat" ya hoser.
And that depends on what province you're in. In the eastern parts of Ontario they sound "normal" I mean they don't even say "eh". Up into NS still "normal" with some Frenchie influence. Manitoba, "eh and Oot". Saskatchewan "eh and oot". Alberta, a blend. BC back to "normal" It's all very confusing!

I mean, who uses "converse"? Just talk. Chat. Have a chat. Speak with. Sometimes there's elegance in simplicity.

I'll tell ya who...

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648135024.jpg

Do they make skates?

And then would it be Converskate

or would that be a made up word? :cool:

Or from Harker's Island on our Outer Banks. That is exactly how a native from there would say it too .... without the "eh" ;).

Not a made up word, but the phrase "single cab" for a truck. That's got to be some sort of Gen Z diphitsittery.

^^^
What do you call it? I call it a "regular cab" ... then extended cab, then crew cab. But single cab makes sense to me as well.

My brother always said four korters makes a dollar.

When my dad didn't have the right tool he'd implevise a way around it.

I’ve worked in Africa for extended periods of time.
Sometimes the locals wanted to ‘axe’ me something.
They did not believe the proper verb was ‘to ask’ until I showed them a dictionary.
So not just NYC slang, the ebonics dialect has spread to Africa as well. And this was 20 years ago.

How many cabs to you see?

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648193477.jpg

I see one.

Calling it a double cab is like putting a sign on your shirt that says "I'm a non-sensical dumbass"

^^^
I'm trying to find an example but I can remember manufacturers referring to extended cab trucks as a "cab and a half"

Personally I'd call that an Extended cab since it's not a full crew cab.

Then there's this
https://www.stevinsonchevrolet.com/chevy-crew-cab-vs-double-cab-vs-regular-cab-trucks.html

and when in heck did "no problem" replace "You're welcome"

Slightly before "no worries" replaced "no problem"

Cured by Chick-Fil-A employees tho...

"My Pleasure" ;)

about the same time "bless your heart" replaced "f you"