People in PA say if you would of done your job right, I wouldn't of hollered at you. And if I had of known that, I wouldn't of done it that way. Whatever happened to the words had/have? Is this the dumbing down of America, or this just another regional thing? I have no idea why 'of' would be smarte...

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Some further information (and an elaboration on the indeed (Byzantian) Greek origin, as Anders wrote) can be obtained from this site.

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Yeah, I understand there are people who question whether they speak Portuguese in Brazil Given the fact that there are more speakers of Portuguese in São Paolo than in Portugal, one might wonder if they still speak Portuguese in Portugal ;-). Frank (PS: 188 million people in Brazil versus 10 millio...

Word History: Today's Good Word, clod , first appeared in the 14th century as a variant of clot. [...] By 1579 clod referred to the human body, motivated by the Biblical idea that Adam was made of dirt ( adom means "red" in Hebrew and the corresponding feminine noun, adama , means "e...

This might be interesting... The MLA has updated its Language Map of the U.S. with county-by-county data for over 300 languages: http://www.mla.org/census_main Quote from the main page: " The Modern Language Association Language Map A Map of Languages in the United States The MLA Language Map i...

In some countries people are judged by their accents and regional speech idiocracies but as for me I believe that's JUST NOT RIGHT! Amen to that. I'm re-reading Marcos Bagno on this kind of issues, and he simply equates it with racism. Bagno's works sometimes read as pamphlets rather than 'scholarl...

This reminds me of something from my long years in Israel. The majority of folks out there refer to the Japanese auto Mitsubishi as "Mitsibushi". Just don't axe me why.

Well, if we follow the line of reasoning of Joytoy e.a. it's because they're uneducated and ignorant, no?
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I always had an issue with some of my friends (black) who were born in Michigan, saying asked or ask as axed or axe. I noticed when I became a truck driver this is very popular in the south among black folk and some white folk. It is like wash and warsh... adding letters. Well, actually, 'aks' is m...

I loved this part: Detractors of the dialect both within and outside of the speaking area cite laziness or indifference in learning standard forms as the reasons for its existence. However, the areas where Appalachian English is spoken were settled in the 18th century, and many of the characteristic...

I agree with BD. The fact that you discuss a relationship between two other words does not automatically imply that you had ruled the two other words to be unrelated. I thought it to be obvious. My apologies... BTW, what is the Arabic or Farsi script in your signature? لـپـتـو بـكـشـم اخ "If i...

Frank, read more closely:

any relationship between abrogate and obrigado (thank you).

I thought the reply implied a clear and loud no to any kind of perceived relationship between the two words suggested above .

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Maybe Brazilan dude can tell us if there is any relationship between abrogate and obrigado (thank you). Maybe this comes together when no thanks are necessary? There is a relationship between Pt. '(muito) obrigado' and Eng. '(much) obliged', and both are derived from the same word. Portuguese has q...

Yes, the word is mispronounced across most of the US, except in places where people speak Finnish (actually, they're just leaving out the middle syllable --the long u sound. Now you can teach others to say it correctly, too! This is weird... Do you also mean that for example every Latin (or Latin b...

I'm guessing that "uneducated" refers to the part of the population which does not read (mostly by their own choice). These people do not grasp the relationship between the letters in the store's name and the sounds used to pronounce it. "Educated" people are generally expected ...

would still smell the same. hahaha. Yes, I have heard some uneducated people say Wal-Mark and K-Mark. I beleive it is just ignorance, not to be taken offensively.

Could you please explain me exactly what being "uneducated" has to do with all this?

Frank