How do you pronounce 'height'?

[hatpix]

Originally posted by djmcmath
There's yer problem, mister. You're not crazy, you just live amongst people who don't speak English. Just the other day, I was talking with 3 other people, none of whom spoke English, and I had this surreal experience: for just a moment, I believed that all my life I had been mispronouncing "understand," and that I should have been saying "unnastan." I'll use it in a sentence: "Ya'll unnastan what ah sayin'?"

Er, what language were you speaking when you spoke with three people who didn't speak English?

[cashflyer]

Highth was once in standard usage.
http://dict.die.net/highth/

Now, it is probably considered an idiom.

[artplumber]

makin it ez fur yall.

[nostatic]

Originally posted by cashflyer


Now, it is probably considered an idiom.

who you callin' an idiom?

why I outta....

[pwd72s]

Ask a southern guy to say "ice"...you'll laugh your ass off...(edit) Thanks to the wonderful world of TV, we are losing our regional accents. I consider that a loss.

[johnco]

More bashing of Southerners? It's okay, we make fun of you guys and all your weirdness also.. I can usually ID one of them before even hearing them speak. Rudeness and arrogance are the first clues.

[Aerkuld]

I actually enjoy hearing different accents.
A funny thing, my eldest boy who's now 12, was born in England, lived there until he was 5, moved to California for 5 years, and now lives in Georgia. But what's funny is that he does have a general kind of American accent but only when he's talking to his peer group. When he talks to me he's back to an English accent. Now he doesn't know he's doing it, so he isn't putting it on, it just happens. No hint of southern yet.

My youngest, who's 6, can imitate a terrific Southern accent, but he speaks with an English accent despite being born in California.