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bigb said:
My wife says “supposably”. I gave up trying to correct her.
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LogGrad98 said:
The word "height" is pronounced like "high-t" not "high-t-th".
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Huh. I dont think I use this but didnt know.

Also related, does it pet peeve anyone that I dont use apostraphes much anymore? Because it's a pet peeve of mine that autocorrect doesnt always add them and I'm tired of smashing fat fingers onto a small screen to change the keyboard to that portion and back.
 
My internet has slowed to dial up speed, couldn't watch game two, (new lady friend was over) gonna have to hotspot game 3. Techie is coming round tomorrow morning but doubt it will be fixed until next week.
 
bigb said:
Tonight she just said “seize to amaze me”. I’m starting to wonder what kind of person I married and allowed to birth my kids.
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My wife is descent with this stuff but she says a few things intentionally in a way that has no connection to who she is, where she grew up or anything and I don't get why. For instance, she says "taters" instead of "potatoes" and "maters" instead of "tomatoes" and that is NOT the way people in her family say those things nor is it the way people said it where we grew up (I didn't know her when we were in elementary school, but she lived about a mile from me and went to the next elementary school over from mine). I mean she might be doing it ironically, but I've known her for 29 years now and it sounds less and less ironic and more annoying as time goes on.
 
my husband has some idiosyncratic speech habits that I think may be due to his having grown up on
Long Guyland - I now find them amusing but they irked me to no end for many years:

close the light (turn it off)
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kitchen closet (for cabinet or cupboard)

and to be honest, he never said Long Guyland, but his parents and sisters did
 
moevillini said:
my husband has some idiosyncratic speech habits that I think may be due to his having grown up on
Long Guyland - I now find them amusing but they irked me to no end for many years:

close the light (turn it off)
and
kitchen closet (for cabinet or cupboard)

and to be honest, he never said Long Guyland, but his parents and sisters did
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Does he say "adver-TIZE-ment" or "advertusmunt"?
 
LogGrad98 said:
Does he say "adver-TIZE-ment" or "advertusmunt"?
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I'm not sure, maybe I've never heard him use that word.

And funny thing, when I read your post, in my mind I said it as "adver-TIZE-mint" but if I'm using that word in a conversation I'll say "advertusmint" - it just flows better I guess.


I know there are other words I'll do that with (say it one way if it's just by itself but a different way in a sentence) though I can't think of any specific examples at the moment.
 
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