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by Beckee Lyn
Tue Jun 20, 2006 10:20 pm
Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
Topic: Do you pronounce the "r" in Mrs.?
Replies: 38
Views: 160986

Do you pronounce the "r" in Mrs.?

Where I grew up, some folks would pronounce the title of a married woman as "miz-riz" with more or less equal stress. "Are you in Mizriz Smith's class?" Not everybody did, but some folks. I tried to argue another kid out of her pronunciation, and she pointed out that their was an...
by Beckee Lyn
Tue Jun 20, 2006 10:11 pm
Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
Topic: Kitty Corner or Catty Corner?
Replies: 9
Views: 49490

Have a friend from Kansas who says "catty-wampus". Loved it so much, had to adopt it for my own.

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