Certain relatives of mine are fond of doing things "onct" or "twict". And that's pronounced just like the actual word only you add a "t".
These are the same ones who pluralize anything ending with the letter "t" by adding "es", pronounced like "ez". Honestly, I haven't any idea where all the "t" confusion comes from in their daily language!
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My guess would be that these same speakers pronounce "th" [t], i.e. say duh for "the" and dat for "that".
If this is true, then they are regularizing these words by adding the suffix for original numbers to these two: onceth, twiceth.
You hear it all the time in rural NC, too.
If this is true, then they are regularizing these words by adding the suffix for original numbers to these two: onceth, twiceth.
You hear it all the time in rural NC, too.
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I like that term, "regularizing". I'll have to remind myself of that!My guess would be that these same speakers pronounce "th" [t], i.e. say duh for "the" and dat for "that".
If this is true, then they are regularizing these words by adding the suffix for original numbers to these two: onceth, twiceth.
You hear it all the time in rural NC, too.
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I used to see the former rendered in print as oncet, a strange assemblage. Reading this as a kid and not knowing the word I assumed it was pronounced "wun-cet", which made no sense either but that was the spelling. Never heard twice beteed though.
Stop! Murder us not, tonsured rumpots! Knife no one, fink!
LOL!Should I use Ex-Lax or Philip's Milk of Magnesia to regularize my speech?
I assumed they invented both. So it's news to me that they did not.Never heard twice beteed though.
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