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Stupid Pet Peeves

For me, people from Utah that say/write the following:
"All the sudden"--OK. At least say "all of a sudden", which still tends to bug me (can you have part of a sudden). Just say suddenly.
Pronounce Ambulance as Am-blee-ence. Come on, really?
Pronounce Canyon Ken-yen. What?
It is mail not mell. Milk is not Melk. Wash not warsh. Deal not dill. Library not libary. Probably not probley or even worse--proley. Creek not crick It is coupon not Q-pon. And flip, fletch, freak, freakin, heck and crap are not profane terms.

Utah speak is a pet peeve of mine too. I have a friend who is very very Utah. He was "barn" and grew up in Hupper (Hooper), and spent a lot of time in other strongly Utah places (like "Mercan Fark"). I got a real kick out of listening to him complain about everyone playing farmville on facebook, because he repeatedly insisted that "it's not rill". And every story he tells starts with "we wuz".
 
Utah speak is a pet peeve of mine too. I have a friend who is very very Utah. He was "barn" and grew up in Hupper (Hooper), and spent a lot of time in other strongly Utah places (like "Mercan Fark"). I got a real kick out of listening to him complain about everyone playing farmville on facebook, because he repeatedly insisted that "it's not rill". And every story he tells starts with "we wuz".

Have literally never heard anyone from Utah talk like that.
 
Utah speak is a pet peeve of mine too. I have a friend who is very very Utah. He was "barn" and grew up in Hupper (Hooper), and spent a lot of time in other strongly Utah places (like "Mercan Fark"). I got a real kick out of listening to him complain about everyone playing farmville on facebook, because he repeatedly insisted that "it's not rill". And every story he tells starts with "we wuz".

Hurricun and crick were two I remember. Also a paper "root" instead of route. Although that one is Midwest and not just Utah (Route 66, for example). When I first moved to CA, everyone made fun of the words I used and also the tendency to talk much sloooowwwer. Took me a couple of years to lose my Utardness.
 
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