Popular Post kumakuma Posted January 24, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 24, 2020 12 minutes ago, The_K-Man said: No excuses - zero - for it to be pronounced that way. And for the American dictionary to allow it? Dictionaries are descriptive, not prescriptive 4est, jomo48 and lucretius 2 1 Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby Edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley Through the middle of my skull Link to comment
kumakuma Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 12 minutes ago, The_K-Man said: You beg to differ? Read. Repeat. Remember: This is the United States - We speak AMERICAN here, not English: 1. We say NUCULAR - not Nuclear. 2. We tell someone where we're AT - not where we ARE. 3. We AKSE someone "Where're you AT?" - not "Where are you"? 4. We use fire exits to EXcape a burning building. 5. We need to know the "heigTH" of that burning building so we know to dispatch a ladder truck instead of just an engine. 6. We routinely employ double adjectives by following the example of our current White House occupant and inserting "VERY" in front of words such as excellent, great, or awful. Do any of the above examples even remotely resemble ENGLISH? Yet I hear several instances of each above example per day - on television, and in person. You appear to be confused about the difference between languages and dialects. American English and British English are dialects of the same language. As are Canadian English and Australian English. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dialects_of_English The_K-Man 1 Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby Edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley Through the middle of my skull Link to comment
kumakuma Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 14 hours ago, sandyk said: Neither do Canucks either apparently 🤔 Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby Edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley Through the middle of my skull Link to comment
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