Alex in Amarillo, Texas, says he often hears speakers dropping the sound of the first r in the word forward, sounding like foward or fuhward. It’s what linguists call dissimilation, where, when duplicate consonants are not far apart in a single...
Yeah, no often does two jobs in conversation: yeah acknowledges that something was heard or partly accepted, while no disagrees with the substance. Mark in York, Pennsylvania, hears it mainly in speech, a pattern also noted in varieties of English...
Do you still take your leftovers in a doggy bag? The term used to refer to a bone or shank the chef would give a guest to take home to their dog. Nowadays, there’s no shame in keeping your leftovers, and that parcel goes by other names, like to-go...