And while we are on the subject of weird English, how does the word “four” become “forty”. Nobody knows what happened to the “u”. I’m going to go with onety, twoty, threety, fourty, fivety…ah, finally consistency, sixty, seventy, eighty and then ninety. O.K. the meds are kicking in now…
In Ohio, Lima doesn’t change.
Versailles does though. *sigh*
In New Orleans, burgundy the color becomes Burgundy (Ber-gun-dee) the street.
I dispute “herb/Herb.” To quote Eddie Izzard (re: British pronunciation vs. American), “We say Herb, because there’s a f***ing ‘H’ in it.”
In south Georgia, vienna is pronounced “v-anna” while Vienna is pronounced “Vy-enna”.
It’s a wonder that anyone learns how to speak English…
And while we are on the subject of weird English, how does the word “four” become “forty”. Nobody knows what happened to the “u”. I’m going to go with onety, twoty, threety, fourty, fivety…ah, finally consistency, sixty, seventy, eighty and then ninety. O.K. the meds are kicking in now…
Richard – What happens to the ‘w’ when wreck becomes reckless?
Pencil, Peanut, Penis… why not Peanus?
rick and RICK (which is when Darling Companion is calling). Definitely a difference with the capitalization.
LOL @ Revrick – Excellent point! That applies to most of us.