Wouldn’t loverly be the Cockney pronunciation? That’s a question for the British contingent here.
I had a PolSci professor who always called the US capital “Warshington.” I think she was from the East Coast, but I’d like to know exactly where that pronunciation originated.
Pennsylvania and Ohio
Help me here: does Audrey Hepburn say “move your blooming arse or ass” in this clip?
Anthony Burgess heard “ass,” and voiced his objections to its perceived Americanization.
I’ve always heard “arse.”
I find it hard to believe that people of all ancient civilizations, and interestingly enough, all humanoid extraterrestrials, spoke in a British accent.
In this movie, the humans all spoke Sumerian, even Alfred Pennyworth and Ward Cleaver.
2 1/2" sounds like a pretty good sized for a Wiping Stone.
Ass-wiping with cobblestones sounds like something you’d do for an incontinent elephant.
Americans are frequently confused about cobble stones. They believe street pavers are cobblestones because they’ve likely never seen a real cobblestone street.
Chicago still has asphalted-over remnants of wood block streets. That would be terrible for splinters. Better to buy an Ayurvedic butt-wipping crystal from Gwyneth Paltrow.
Not all of them are aliens.
Simpsons Astronaut: Should we tell them that all the monkeys we sent into space came back hyper-intelligent?
Monkey With British Accent, Turns Around in Swivel Chair, Stroking White Cat: Nooo. We won’t be telling them thaaat.
Nope. I’ve seen both. Quincy market has places with cobblestones, which was a real challenge for a date I once met there. She was wearing high heels and trying to negotiate the cobblestones. Paving stones wouldn’t have been as much of a hassel.
I didn’t mean every American.
This one has me stumped, geographically. I had a friend from Warshington State, another from CA who’d warsh her clothes, and I have relatives “back east” who warsh up.
(had a friend from PA who’d say ‘red up’, he claimed that part of spring cleaning for the German immigrants was to repaint the floor red).
I’m going to read more on where warsh* came from, because I’d say “umm, urm… everywhere?”
*same problem: “Want to come with?” without a direct object…
“Warshington,” was very common in Baltimore. It was not easy making myself not say it. Especially when I was “downy oshun.”
Right, hon.
Folk etymology. It’s actually derived from “ready”.
And it’s usually spelled “redd”.
Us real Bawlamerians say “danny ayshun, hon.”
And we warsh are hans in the wooder.
Ok, so what is downy oshun/danny ayshun?
Where Bawlamerians (Baltimoreans) go in the summer.
Down the ocean, aka Ocean City, MD.