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And in GB, "subway" is pronounced "underground." That's a regional difference.
In Atlanta, "underground" is pronounce "shopping".
Or in my region of Central Pennsylvania where creek is almost universally pronounced crick.
Regional colloquialisms that have spread over time. Like going to Baltimore and having someone pronounce wash as WARsh... Or in my region of Central Pennsylvania where creek is almost universally pronounced crick.
Regional. I don't here that at all out West.
Ha, I've started unconsciously doing that because everybody else here does.
Right after I started dating my ex wife I took her to one of the rural areas where I had spent a lot of time as a kid -- Fishing Creek. Only I called it Fishing Crick. It was like that scene out of My Cousin Vinny... I was Vinny and she was the Judge... Excuse me, crick? What's a crick? Sorry, your honor, CREEK. Fishing CREEK.
I seem to pick up accents like that. I worked for a guy with a Boston accent and found myself unconsciously using some of his pronunciations.Been watching the gold-mining program "Aussie Gold" and foinding ("finding") myself Aussifying some of my werds. Gotta stop that.Deliberate, right? :) Or AI intervention?I seam to be finding homonyms in my own righting recently and been chalking it up to age, but I'm starting to think it might actually be sum kind of automatic "spell checking" from the great cyberbrain in the clouds, oar something like that.
It's the corrupting influence of the Internet. The one that haunts me is putting an asterisk before the final 's' in ANY (and every) word that ends in 's,' whether or not it's a possessive. I KNOW it's wrong, but my eyes see it so often on the errornet that my fingers (or "finger's") do it automatically, unless I pay careful attention to nip it in the bud. (With thanks to Barney Fife.)