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The comment about adding an "R" at the end of words like 'idea' reminded me... What about an intrusive "L"???
When I was in high school, there was a girl in my class who always said, "I have an ideal." when she meant "I have an idea." That might have just been a personal quirk, though. As far as I know she grew up in the same area I did and I never heard anyone else say that.
I did hear 'warsh' occasionally...not often but I knew that some people said it that way. I knew one person who didn't say either 'wash' or 'warsh'...she always said it 'woosh' as in, "I need to woosh my hands." or "It's George Wooshington's birthday."
Is there a region where that pronunciation is common?
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Grant Barrett said:
Martha's Handy-Dandy, Clip-and-Save Chart for “Lie†and “Layâ€
Lie — to “repose or reclineâ€
- Present Tense — Today I lie on the couch.
- Past Tense — Yesterday I lay on the couch for two hours.
- Part Participle — Every day this week, I have lain on the couch for two hours.
Lay — to “put or placeâ€
- Present Tense — He lay his checkbook on the table.
- Past Tense — Yesterday he laid his checkbook on the table.
- Part Participle — Every day this week, he has laid his checkbook on the table.
I loved, loved, LOVED this episode! Sometimes I lose hope that the word "lie" will survive. Without it, so many wonderfully naughty Shakespearean puns will make no sense, "Therefore I lie with her and she with me/And in our faults by lies we flattered be." But, I feel compelled to point out that the Clip and Save Chart contains a mistake--the third person present of "lay" is "lays." "He lays his checkbook on the table."
My father was raised in southern Ohio. He warshes clothes AND goes to Warshington D.C.
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