Today’s pet peeve: People who say “melk” instead of milk.
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Ackahmee is my jawn
...I'm from Philly so I can make fun right?😕
YES YES YES!
PSU must ban Yinz, Yinzer, Yunz, Jagoff...Actually all Western PA English must be banned. How awful is pronouncing milk as mewk.
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Industry specific, but m-a-s-o-n-a-r-y causes me to turn immediately around and walk away from a conversation with any colleague that uses the term.......
Ackahmee is my jawn
This jawn is about jawn
Yes, there are a lot of restaurants where you should give it back. Recently Subway was in the news with someone accusing them of not using tuna.
Probably the most hilarious part of this post is the premise that Pennsylvanians apparently have no dialects. Not in Philadelphia, nor in Pennsylvania Dutch country, nor even in Pittsburgh.
But my all time favorite Norm Crosbyism (some of which the posts above are more than dialects) was by a pharma brand manager who indicated that they wanted to implement a "parody pricing" strategy vis a vis their competitor.
But my all time favorite Norm Crosbyism (some of which the posts above are more than dialects) was by a pharma brand manager who indicated that they wanted to implement a "parody pricing" strategy vis a vis their competitor.
There is a subculture in South Towanda that would know exactly what you are saying.
Please cut to the chase and let us know what would make you ACTUALLY cut your balls off. I will do whatever it is. "Melk" is a commonplace pronunciation of the bovine beverage in NE OHIO, NWPA, and central PA.
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Everyone is going “nucular” with these mispronunciations!
Pronunciation of the silent "s" at the end of Illinois is a sign of regional ignorance.
One of my daughters had a teacher use crown and crayon as an example of homonyms. My head nearly exploded. But Kentucky is a hotbed for pronunciation quirks. For example, Versailles is town down here. Pronounced Ver-sails.
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I hate that people do this enough that there needs to be a word for it… but it’s a sad fact of life.
I hear a lot of Pennsylvanians do this with the word “Saturday”… they swallow the T instead of saying it.
Other verbal tics that drive me nuts:
My aunt says “tempature” when asking how hot it is outside
If you’re taking one item and the other, sister says you’re taking “bowlth”
Lots of Pennsylvanians ask if you’d like to “come with?” and leave off the “me/us”
People often “could care less” which means that they DO actually care, at least a little… and I couldn’t hate them more
Some people talk about something happening “all of the sudden”… I guess as if there’s only one “sudden” in the universe and we all have to share it for our happenstances? No dammit, there are limitless suddens to go around, pick “a sudden” and have your sh*t happen all of that particular one, nimrod
When responding to a question directed to to you, yes, it should be couldn’t care less. However, I would argue that social media is changing this. When one takes the time to respond to a thread, topic, post, etc. on a public forum, you are showing that you do in fact, care enough to post about the topic. If you truly could not care less, you would have just kept on scrolling.
I totally agree that when someone posts a response to something, it implicitly means they cared/were invested enough to take the time to type it out.
So, that person has no business attempting to use this expression in that case… either the proper usage (“couldn’t”) or the incorrect/bastardized/just plain dumb version (“could.”) Because the whole point of the expression is supposed to be that the person using it does not care.
I totally agree that when someone posts a response to something, it implicitly means they cared/were invested enough to take the time to type it out.
So, that person has no business attempting to use this expression in that case… either the proper usage (“couldn’t”) or the incorrect/bastardized/just plain dumb version (“could.”) Because the whole point of the expression is supposed to be that the person using it does not care.
Perhaps they should post I could care more?
Personally, I’ve conceded the battle over the misuse and ignorance of the meaning of irony. I’m on the verge of waving the white flag over the misuse, and overuse of literally. Even dictionaries are providing an additional, in-effect definition of ‘virtually’ because misuse of literally has become so common.
Another pet peeve of mine is when folks say a tough road to hoe instead of a tough row to hoe. Although, it would literally be tougher to hoe a road than to hoe a row.
Generally, I don’t get too worked up over mispronunciation, especially when it is a colloquial or regional thing. It’s almost like a different dialect. Woorder vs water. Axe vs ask. Dew-boys vs Dew-bwah (DuBois). I know people in the Philly region go food shopping instead of groceries. Woorder Ice does bother me as it seems as redundant as tuna fish. Most of my relatives are PADutch so I grew up pronouncing Ws as Vs, something I eventually lost after years of living in State College. Occasionally I still say crick instead of creek, sweeper instead of vacuum, red up instead of clean up, etc. However, pot pie (chicken, ham, squirrel, etc.) will always be a home made pasta like dish, not a baked & crusted affair. Those are meat pies.
Another pet peeve of mine is when folks say a tough road to hoe instead of a tough row to hoe. Although, it would literally be tougher to hoe a road than to hoe a row.
Generally, I don’t get too worked up over mispronunciation, especially when it is a colloquial or regional thing. It’s almost like a different dialect. Woorder vs water. Axe vs ask. Dew-boys vs Dew-bwah (DuBois). I know people in the Philly region go food shopping instead of groceries. Woorder Ice does bother me as it seems as redundant as tuna fish. Most of my relatives are PADutch so I grew up pronouncing Ws as Vs, something I eventually lost after years of living in State College. Occasionally I still say crick instead of creek, sweeper instead of vacuum, red up instead of clean up, etc. However, pot pie (chicken, ham, squirrel, etc.) will always be a home made pasta like dish, not a baked & crusted affair. Those are meat pies.
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