The Word is DRAWER

FranticFrummie

Tue, Sep 22 2020, 4:19 pm

zaq wrote:

"Drawers" in the sense of underwear refers to both men's and women's.

I beg your pardon! My great grandmother was a LADY, and she never wore pants a day in her life. Pants are for men, dresses are for women, and frocks are for little girls.

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A stoop is technically not a porch, which is a (usually) roofed structure attached to a house. A stoop is a set of steps between the entrance to a house and the sidewalk, though a porch can have a stoop of its own.

In Arkansas, even the poorest clapboard houses had some kind of roof over the front steps, so you wouldn't get rained on while you were searching for your house keys, or waiting for someone to open the door for you.

A house without some kind of awning over the front door might as well be a barn.

You may know Yiddish, but you're no Southern Belle. Wink

Now fetch me some sweet tea. I'm feeling a might parched. Lawd, I might even get the vapors! Tongue Out

zaq

Tue, Sep 22 2020, 4:28 pm

Reality wrote:

I have always been an avid reader. I don't think the word drawer comes up so frequently in books. And if and when it did I never connected the two.

But live and learn!!

Even if you read a lot...we all have words we mispronounce because we've never heard them spoken but have only seen them in print. I thought the past tense of "to lead" (long E) was lead (short E, like the metal) and past tense of mislead was also spelled mislead and pronounced with a short E. After all, the past tense of "to read" and "to misread" long E, is "read" and "misread" short E.

The word "misled" which I read any number of times, I thought was pronounced MYzld and was past tense of the verb "to misle". (And why isn't there such a word? It so perfectly expresses a deception that is more humorous than malicious.)

To this day, when I read "connect the short lead to the black terminal", I don't know if it's pronounced led or leed.

silverlining3

Tue, Sep 22 2020, 8:07 pm

ExtraCredit wrote:

DS asked a brilliant question: some people pronounce Lakewood as “Lakewoor (roll the R, chassidish version)”. Fraigt zich a shaila, Where did the D from Lakewood go? It went to Mondroe!

(For those who don’t get it, I apologize in advance. It’s only funny if you chap without explanations.)

Hahaha thanks for the laugh.
I read it with the gemara nigun.

lilies

Tue, Sep 22 2020, 9:54 pm

zaq wrote:

My mind-voice reads misled as 'missile'd, it has a nice sound to it and makes so much sense. She was misled. Too bad.

Siriusly?

Wed, Sep 23 2020, 4:45 am

zaq wrote:

There is actually a term for this kind of thing, where people mispronounce words they know at sight without associating them with the actual word which they use in speech. They’re called “misles” because “misled” is actually the most common of them (I said mYzled too!)

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Errors of this kind—private misanalyses of written forms that yield phonological errors if and when the word has to be spoken—need a technical name. They are not to be confused with other types of word error like folk etymologies, malapropisms, eggcorns, or mondegreens. I have learned, however, that people interested in English usage already have an established name for the words in question, which may suffice: They’re known as misles.
The term derives from the most widespread of all misles: the verb misled, which has misled many.

preciousmommy

Wed, Sep 23 2020, 9:54 am

zaq wrote:

For me it was hors d'oeuvres. When I read it, I pronounced it my head as hours devours. But I had actually heard people use the words and knew what it was. I guess I thought it was two different things LOL

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Wed, Sep 23 2020, 9:59 am

ExtraCredit wrote:

I heard a slightly different version which is also hamayvin yavin:
Where did the d from Lakewoo go? Mondroe took it.

studying_torah

Wed, Sep 23 2020, 10:03 am

Well in England many names have an R added & it is so confusing. (Like Pippa becomes pronounced as Pipper. Or kohn becomes korn.)
Now why is William "Bill" instead of will?!
Or similar nicknames?

And one more, been seeing Yashiva here lately instead of Yeshiva? What's with that?

watergirl

Wed, Sep 23 2020, 10:49 am

sushilover wrote:

I don't know guys, I think accents are gorgeous and add spice to life! I always say what a shame it is that people are losing their regional accents as the world shrinks.

Accents are awesome! But the point of this thread is spelling does not change when you have a different way of pronouncing something!

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Wed, Sep 23 2020, 10:51 am

studying_torah wrote:

I think all those posts are written by the same poster. Wink

Siriusly?

Wed, Sep 23 2020, 11:37 am

preciousmommy wrote:

There are loads of these and some are really funny! I know someone who read "underfed" as "un-derfd" rather than "under-fed", or "unshed" as "unshd" rather than "un-shed"...