I took this test and apparently living my entire life in the midwest makes me mostly a Yankee???? I still pronounuce widowsill as windowseel and hill as heel and some of my best are onree for ornery and rueeen for ruin
Wait - you mean ornery isn't supposed to be pronounced onree? I'm going to have to look this up now. I remember the first time I saw the word in print: Tom Sawyer. I remember being amazed that it was spelled that way since it wasn't pronounced anything like it. I just assumed it was another oddball word like "sherbet"....which I've never heard pronounced any way but 'sher-bert'. I never considered it might be pronounced a different way! Wait - what if Sherbert is pronounced the way it's spelled, too?!? No. On second thought, I cannot look these words up. If I find out they are supposed to be pronounced differently, then I'll have to pronounce them "correctly" and then everyone I know will make fun of me and then I'll have to explain and then I'll sound like I'm correcting them and they'll think I'm being all condescending and before you know it....I'm friendless. Nope. Better off not knowing
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I took this test and apparently living my entire life in the midwest makes me mostly a Yankee???? I still pronounuce widowsill as windowseel and hill as heel and some of my best are onree for ornery and rueeen for ruin
Wait - you mean ornery isn't supposed to be pronounced onree? I'm going to have to look this up now. I remember the first time I saw the word in print: Tom Sawyer. I remember being amazed that it was spelled that way since it wasn't pronounced anything like it. I just assumed it was another oddball word like "sherbet"....which I've never heard pronounced any way but 'sher-bert'. I never considered it might be pronounced a different way! Wait - what if Sherbert is pronounced the way it's spelled, too?!? No. On second thought, I cannot look these words up. If I find out they are supposed to be pronounced differently, then I'll have to pronounce them "correctly" and then everyone I know will make fun of me and then I'll have to explain and then I'll sound like I'm correcting them and they'll think I'm being all condescending and before you know it....I'm friendless. Nope. Better off not knowing
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