Stoopit!

Tue Apr 17 03:00:38 UTC 2007

: >> James Harbeck wrote:
: >>Funny thing how spelling can make so much difference in some of these
: >>things. Pretty much everyone in Canada pronounces "stupid" as
: >>['stupId] and not ['stjupId], but if you spell it "stoopid" ...

This reminded me of a lovely piece of eye dialect I spotted about 15 years
ago, dealing with local dialects around P'tukkit, Rd'Island. It was written
"Prolly cuz yaw Stoopit!"

- GLL

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