In defense of local dialects. Or not.

[Wilson Gray]

>From zdnet/blog:

"That's what firewalls are _fore_."

Unfortunately, in many cases in which the wrong spelling of a homonym
appears, the cause is reliance on some spell-check app, so

Youneverknow.

But, abstracting away from that, no St. Louisan of my era would ever
make the error cited, since we have a clear distinction between _far
for_ [fOr] and _fore four_ [for].

BTW, has anyone else ever noticed that there are some AmE speakers who
pronounce _10_ as "tan," instead of as "tin"? ;-)
--
-Wilson
–––
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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