Andrea, in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, hears all the things from friends and co-workers as a shorthand for and whatnot or you know, a way to say that the listener can fill in the rest. The phrase likely owes something to Allie Brosh’s 2010 post on...
A university professor in Baltimore, Maryland, catches himself pronouncing the very same word in different ways depending on the context in which he’s speaking. For him, it occurs with the word innovative, which U.S. and U.K. speakers...
A Pasadena, California, man says some of his relatives make a noise that sounds like unh-Unh, and it’s clear to everyone in the family that it means “Well, what did you expect?” A lexical utterance like that does have meaning, even...
