unkadug
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Is your avatar Donald on Acid?
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Where in the World is Bob Saget?
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donaldtoo
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That's actually his cousin, Timothy Leary Duck.
Lucky
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While we're discussing funny regional accents, don't forget the Boston accent. My accent isn't heavy, but I do sometimes forget to pronounce the letter, r, if it's preceded by a vowel or two. O.k. Listen up, dear Sagateers: class in session. Let's say you're pronouncing the word, charge. Ignore the r (remember, preceded by one or more vowels), and say, "chaaj" — see, it's easy!
They use those extra Rs in the Midwest. Warsh cloth, Warshington, etc.
unkadug
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That makes TOTAL sense!
Lucky
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Conservation of Rs is the first law of something or other in Advanced Linguistics.
donaldtoo
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Yep, same here. No noticeable Texas twang. My folks have never had one either, and all my relatives came from the old world not all that long ago and all settled where there were pretty much the same folks.
Plus, if I did ever have even a trace of one, 8 years of my youth in NoCal took care of that.
unkadug
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It's like you cannot create nor destroy the "R"'s...you can only shift them around.
donaldtoo
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donaldtoo
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The first social media site I ever joined was another Disney site back in '07, and, from the start, I just always assumed it meant Disney Wife, Disney Daughter, etc. I still read it that way, probably 'cause the only two sites I'm a member of are still Disney.
NYwdwfan
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My mom used to teach kindergarten in Brooklyn back in the late 60's. Every year she had 3-4 girls in the class named (phonetically) fem-AH-lay. Their parents always said the hospital named the girls before they had a chance. It was spelled "Female".
While we're discussing funny regional accents, don't forget the Boston accent. My accent isn't heavy, but I do sometimes forget to pronounce the letter, r, if it's preceded by a vowel or two. O.k. Listen up, dear Sagateers: class in session. Let's say you're pronouncing the word, charge. Ignore the r (remember, preceded by one or more vowels), and say, "chaaj" — see, it's easy!
@Nemo14 might talk like that.
We have conference calls with call in numbers at work all the time - I've often wondered if we should have a Sageteer call one of these days!
JenniferS
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Canadians don't have accents.
Except for the East Coasters (who sound somewhat Scottish) and the Quebecois (who sound decidedly French) and Western Canadians (who just sound odd.)
So, I guess I'm saying Ontarians don't have accents.
Lucky
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I have an aunt named Virginia because the hospital made a mistake. She was supposed to be Regina. Just as well.
At my college we had a student named Clepohas. It sounds Native American but wasn't. He was supposed to be Cleophus.
My father met someone once named Latrina. Her parents deliberately named her that, not knowing any better.
Goofyernmost
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Confession: I think the whole "D" idea is dorkable. Doesn't matter if it's Dear, Disney or any other variation of the letter "D" Is there any big effort to say wife, husband, lover, friend, mother, father, daughter or son?
acishere
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What are you talking aboot?
Lucky
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Don't know about DD, DS and DW, but DH obviously stands for Designated Hitter.
DD is designated driver.
Goofyernmost
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Mine would be XW!
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