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« Reply #325 on: March 11, 2015, 12:13:29 PM »
These are all because people don't know how the words are actually spelled.

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« Reply #326 on: March 11, 2015, 12:21:00 PM »
expecially, expresso, aks (ask), excetera are generally markers of a lower socio-economic background. It is natural for a child learning a language to substitute a more familiar sound for a less familiar sound.  "Ex" sounds a lot like "esp," with the former being much more prevalent due to it being a Latin prefix.  Usually these mistakes are pointed out by parents or friends and corrected at a young age.  However, if your parents and friends also make the same mistake, then it never gets corrected and in fact seems totally natural.  These traits are passed down through generations in these particular speech communities.  Somewhere down the line, groups of people started mispronouncing it and no one bothered to correct it because they didn't know any better, and speaking correctly simply wasn't vital to their livelihoods.  These groups of people would have had little or no formal education and worked manual labor jobs.  They all had kids who inherited this speech trait and it went viral.  It is obviously an oversimplification, but this is how regional dialects form. 

I'll bet that everyone here could reflect on speech patterns they inherited growing up that they later realized sounded incredibly regional/hayseedy.  Many (most?) people who matriculate to a University and/or become a professional actively work to remove these markers from their speech.  Ironically, many of those same people later integrate regional/hayseedy features into their speech in order to project or feel a sense of belonging in a community. 

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« Reply #327 on: March 11, 2015, 12:26:16 PM »
 How do you pronounce "prevalent"? Like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE-W-lnC1vA or like prE vAlent (lone E, long A as in prevail)? Because I pronounce it the first way and it drives me crazy when a co-worker pronounces it the other way.

Also, my mother says "worsh" instead of wash but I didn't inherit that.

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« Reply #328 on: March 11, 2015, 12:29:51 PM »
I have never heard someone pronounce it pre-valent

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« Reply #329 on: March 11, 2015, 12:35:11 PM »
I had to go to Starbuck's on FPD because I couldn't bring myself to brave Aggieville.

well i hung out with your exact doppelganger right outside mae's before i called it a night

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« Reply #330 on: March 11, 2015, 12:44:57 PM »
expecially, expresso, aks (ask), excetera are generally markers of a lower socio-economic background. It is natural for a child learning a language to substitute a more familiar sound for a less familiar sound.  "Ex" sounds a lot like "esp," with the former being much more prevalent due to it being a Latin prefix.  Usually these mistakes are pointed out by parents or friends and corrected at a young age.  However, if your parents and friends also make the same mistake, then it never gets corrected and in fact seems totally natural.  These traits are passed down through generations in these particular speech communities.  Somewhere down the line, groups of people started mispronouncing it and no one bothered to correct it because they didn't know any better, and speaking correctly simply wasn't vital to their livelihoods.  These groups of people would have had little or no formal education and worked manual labor jobs.  They all had kids who inherited this speech trait and it went viral.  It is obviously an oversimplification, but this is how regional dialects form. 

I'll bet that everyone here could reflect on speech patterns they inherited growing up that they later realized sounded incredibly regional/hayseedy.  Many (most?) people who matriculate to a University and/or become a professional actively work to remove these markers from their speech.  Ironically, many of those same people later integrate regional/hayseedy features into their speech in order to project or feel a sense of belonging in a community.

Definitely - I actually went all the way through college before I realized that human and Houston had hard "H" sounds at the start. I said "Yew-man" and "Yew-ston".

How do you pronounce "prevalent"? Like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE-W-lnC1vA or like prE vAlent (lone E, long A as in prevail)? Because I pronounce it the first way and it drives me crazy when a co-worker pronounces it the other way.

Also, my mother says "worsh" instead of wash but I didn't inherit that.

yeah, I said "worsh" growing up, and I remember correcting an adult who said "wash" when I was like 5 years old. Ha!

My dad also says days of the week with an "ee" at the end of them - Fri-dee, Satur-dee, etc. I thought the Tim McGraw song said "right as rain on a Thursday cornfield" even in college. It didn't make much sense.

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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #331 on: March 11, 2015, 12:51:17 PM »
These are all because people don't know how the words are actually spelled.

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« Reply #332 on: March 11, 2015, 01:13:58 PM »
I had to go to Starbuck's on FPD because I couldn't bring myself to brave Aggieville.

well i hung out with your exact doppelganger right outside mae's before i called it a night

I got into party mode later on in the day.

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« Reply #333 on: March 18, 2015, 09:08:28 AM »
Someone just called me from my mortgage company to try to get me to get a car loan from them or something...When he wanted to axe me a question, I decided not to talk to him any more.

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« Reply #334 on: March 30, 2015, 09:20:34 PM »
when you are trying to do something and the way you are supposed to do it is so vague that you have no rough ridin' idea how or what is even going on

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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #335 on: March 30, 2015, 10:33:24 PM »
Hazelnut and French vanilla coffees

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« Reply #336 on: March 31, 2015, 02:58:20 PM »
when you are trying to do something and the way you are supposed to do it is so vague that you have no rough ridin' idea how or what is even going on

this is me with Ikea furniture
I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps, etc.

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« Reply #337 on: March 31, 2015, 03:00:50 PM »
grammar pet peeve: people who say "I graduated college." No, you graduated FROM college!
I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps, etc.

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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #338 on: April 09, 2015, 05:57:41 PM »
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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #339 on: April 10, 2015, 01:10:54 PM »
People that don't tip well
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« Reply #340 on: April 10, 2015, 01:15:46 PM »
People that don't tip well

Yup, I often discretely leave extra money when someone else buys and I see a shitty tip.

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« Reply #341 on: April 11, 2015, 12:10:51 AM »
People that don't tip well

Have you met erii?
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« Reply #342 on: April 11, 2015, 12:11:58 AM »
Actually I have! He's an excellent cook
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« Reply #343 on: April 11, 2015, 08:25:59 AM »
When people use "excellent" to describe something mediocre.

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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #344 on: April 11, 2015, 10:41:56 AM »
Almost anything Jeff Pearlman has ever tweeted.

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« Reply #345 on: April 13, 2015, 11:02:51 AM »
:lol:
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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #346 on: April 21, 2015, 04:09:52 PM »
when google's algorithm cant figure out that you dont have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis and wont stop making you watch the caridee modeling ad

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« Reply #347 on: April 30, 2015, 11:57:06 AM »
Thanks to wacky i have now found pet peeves thread
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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #348 on: May 05, 2015, 03:19:34 PM »
hygiene/beauty products that smell like food

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« Reply #349 on: May 05, 2015, 03:34:33 PM »
do you any of you backwoods derps say "acrosst" when you mean "across"  :curse: