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I grew up watching Gunsmoke and my favorite character is Festus played by Ken Curtis. So I can sometimes confound a person with some of his yamerins. You’ll avoid that like chittlins on a city folks supper plate.
"whilst" ... "while"? Up in the Great White North, are both used? ... Or is "tandis que" perhaps preferred, instead?
I think that one was a favorite of Rush...Not that it's incorrect, at least in Britain, but I hate when people say "shed-ule" instead of "sked-ule".
"THEIR'S MORE."
They'res Mora?
Nope...And don't get me started on people who say yup when they really mean uh-huh........
One I did not see, but probably missed is "acrost" (?) or "acrossed"
So I recently got a like alert for this, and when I checked it, the oriented vs orientated thing reminded me of Mrs Fields cookies. How you may ask? Well, the last episode of The Food That Built America on the History channel was about Mrs Fields and Famous Amos cookies. Anyway, at some house party for her husband's co-workers, Mrs Fields (who's first name was Debbi) baked a bunch of her homemade cookies. At one point she was talking to her husband's boss, and said the word "orientated". The guy corrected her, and said that if she couldn't learn proper English, she should just stick to baking cookies. And boy did she!How did height (hite) become heigth (hithe)? Just because the other 2 dimensions end in "th" doesn't mean you can just change the pronunciation to make them all the same.
And it's oriented, not orientated.
My best friend in high school spoke that way. About verbs in general. And while it has sounded weird to me in the past... I have to admit that it does have a certain concise appeal to it. Almost like the "to be" is implied whether present or not. But it took me a while of being aggravated with it before I softened to that position.