In that surrounding, he would have done exactly as I did.

Not necessarily. Would have depended on my mood and how it came across to me. Swampy knows me well.

I had a roommate from Omaha. Omaha, Knott County.

 

Used "heerd" and "knowed" all the time in everyday conversation. But that's more of a dialect thing than a grammar thing.

 

That's common dailect in my home county.

Sometimes people pronounce words a certain way just to fit in with the group they're talking to at the time. Don't want to be accused of talking "too fancy", or "too proper", and "get above your raising".

 

When in Rome do as the Romans do.

And it's ridiculous how often ridiculous is spelled "rediculous"...you're not doing diculous again.

 

You have obviously not seen some of the foolishness that goes on at the BirdNest !

SAW/ SEEN.

I can "see" how someone might use seen for saw in speaking but to actually type it and then see it in print, that is beyond me.

 

Don't forget its cousin: "I seed him do it!"

Don't forget its cousin: "I seed him do it!"

Lol. I remember a friend of mine commenting on the movie "Tombstone" when it was first in the theaters with, " That's the best movie I ever seed!"

u for you. We are not in 6th grade! I cringe when I see posts where people use "u" for you.

u for you. We are not in 6th grade! I cringe when I see posts where people use "u" for you.

 

I agree with u 100%. :lol2:

For all intensive purposes this thread has run its course.

For all intensive purposes this thread has run it's course.

 

Fixed.

Sit...set....:no:

Fixed.

 

Passed on that. Figured it wouldn't register.

A couple from Minnesota that I met a few years ago on the Dinner Train in Bardstown gave me their opinion that people in Kentucky didn't know that "pin" and "pen" were pronounced differently. Their son-in-law was a Kentuckian and they said he drove them crazy pronouncing those words. When I told them I had pronounced them the same way all my life and everyone in my region of Kentucky does the same, they just stared at me and didn't say much more after that exchange.

Lol. They could have at least admitted they were wrong, at least wrong once they crossed the Kentucky border. How people in Minnesoto pronounce those two words is their business.

Sorry, haven't had much time to curate this while work has been crazy. Anyway, here's one for you:

 

"Phase" v. "Faze"

 

• A phase can be thought of as a portion, perhaps in terms of a junction point:

 

"This particular phase of the investigation leads us here."

 

Or, it is often used when referring to something's obsolescence:

 

"We will be phasing out 400 jobs in an attempt to restructure."

 

Or, also, when thinking of a phase of the moon, which is in some ways the same as the first one.

 

 

• To be fazed is to have been affected somehow by an outside stimuli, perhaps traumatic.

 

"Stacy Lynn slept around with 10 different guys and Jethro still took her back, no questions asked."

 

Or, as is more often, in sports parlance:

 

"Jefferson wasn't fazed a bit by his early bad luck, overcoming three turnovers to throw for 478 yards and 5 TDs to lead a come-from-behind win."

A couple from Minnesota that I met a few years ago on the Dinner Train in Bardstown gave me their opinion that people in Kentucky didn't know that "pin" and "pen" were pronounced differently. Their son-in-law was a Kentuckian and they said he drove them crazy pronouncing those words. When I told them I had pronounced them the same way all my life and everyone in my region of Kentucky does the same, they just stared at me and didn't say much more after that exchange.

Lol. They could have at least admitted they were wrong, at least wrong once they crossed the Kentucky border. How people in Minnesoto pronounce those two words is their business.

 

So, are you saying Kentucky is the rule, rather than the exception? Because I've gone through my entire life pronouncing them differently. :lol2:

So, are you saying Kentucky is the rule, rather than the exception? Because I've gone through my entire life pronouncing them differently. :lol2:

I suppose it's a southern, a regional thing. I know most of the people I've been around all my life in eastern Kentucky do not make a difference in the way those two spellings are pronounced.