English in USA

[Jonathan Lighter]

I say "envelope" *and* "ahnvelope," "tomayto" *and* "tomahto."

  Not a goak.

  JL

Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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Bill notes than English is also pronounced "Anglish," which is to say,
"Ang lish." An NYC friend of mine of North-Carolinian [why
"Carolinian" and "Alabamian"? The latter may be dying out, given that
I've seen "Alabaman" in print.] extraction was once insulted at a job
interview by being asked, "How can you expect to get a job *teaching*
English, when you can't even *pronounce* it?"

He didn't get much sympathy from me. This was the same jerk who
laughed at *my* Anglish:

Ha! Ha! You say "ahtomatic." I say "awtomatic."

-Wilson

On 11/14/06, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
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> > Here in Tennessee I often hear what you might spell
> > "eenglish," but, by golly, _I_ still say "inglish."
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> > JL
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> And in some parts, you'll hear it called "Anglish".
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