Dr. Jonas Sock

[Tom Zurinskas]

Awe-dropping is changing the language that I know for the worse.  I don't like it.  It's contrary to spelling.  I'd rather not grin and bear it but "correct" folks and have them grim and bear it.  Hearing "awe dropping" in talking dictionaries is unconscionable.  Personnally I think it's a speech impediment (or non-native speaker speech impairment) "gone viral".
 
woty - "gone viral" if it hasn't been listed before.
woty - "Obama doctrine".  I first heard yesterday.

Tom Zurinskas, Conn 20 yrs, then Tenn 3, NJ 33, now FL 9.
The FREE English-based phonetic converters, URL and text , are at truespel.com


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> On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Dr Jonas _Sock_
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> Not-speaking-the-subdialect-of-American-English-that-*I*-consider-to-be-the-proper-one
> people have been annoying me with this for dekkids, like people who
> don't distinguish "horse" from "hoarse" or "cot" from "caught."
> 
> What can you do, except to grin and bear it?
> 
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> -Wilson
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> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
> to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -Mark Twain
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