Not trying to step on toes here, but it does jar on me when I'm watching an American TV show or movie and they say "spit" as a past tense, i.e. "She spit on me." The past tense form of spit here is spat, and it sounds clunky to my ears the other way.
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"she spitted on me"
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"she spit on me"
"she spat on me"
I like spit and spat...but i use spit alot
Hah
"she spit on me"
"she spat on me"
I like spit and spat...but i use spit alot
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OK sorry that is backwoods, but you may be redeemed if you dont say "libarry" instead of library or my moms favorite "warsh" instead of wash......LOL :mrgreen:cman said:
For me creek would rhyme with beak.
I have never heard this word used to refer to an actual river in the UK but we have a saying about a situation that might turn bad, 'up excrement creek without a paddle' (except it's the Anglo-Saxon word for the Norman-French 'excrement')
I have never heard this word used to refer to an actual river in the UK but we have a saying about a situation that might turn bad, 'up excrement creek without a paddle' (except it's the Anglo-Saxon word for the Norman-French 'excrement')
Until recently I thought creek was an Australian word, because I had never heard it used in books/films/tv from the UK or US, but recently I realised it is used in the US. Here, basically everything which isn't a rushing torrent is called a creek.
Something I'd like to know, if someone is prepared to do the research and provide links: was the original pronounciation of the word 'tomato' the same in Britain as in America, I mean was it the British word that changed or were they both different from the start?
I think the original British pronounciation was 'tomaytoe' and that was brougt to America by the colonists but i've got no actual proof.
I think the original British pronounciation was 'tomaytoe' and that was brougt to America by the colonists but i've got no actual proof.
Tomato.
Ive got no research on this but I work with a gent from liverpool, and he pronounces it "toe-mah-toe", and everyone else around these parts says "toe-may-toe"
He also pronounces aluminum "al-you-min-e-um" says that we (americans) all say it wrong because it got spelled wrong on the patent in the USA... :roll:
Ive got no research on this but I work with a gent from liverpool, and he pronounces it "toe-mah-toe", and everyone else around these parts says "toe-may-toe"
He also pronounces aluminum "al-you-min-e-um" says that we (americans) all say it wrong because it got spelled wrong on the patent in the USA... :roll:
i do col-o-rah-doh
