As shown by a map. http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/maps-that-show-how-totally-messed-up-american-english-is also.... No 10... where dreams go to die... I instantly thought the choices would be Milwaukee, Memphis and Toronto...
#22 - whats a basement? doodle bug isn't an option? #24 - I can't imagine Judas Priest singing "Breaking the loy, breaking the loy" nope..just doesn't work - Its LAW, not LOY, so why would you say Loy-er instead of LAW-yer
I'm moving from a green spot on map #1 to a red one in about 2 weeks. I don't care how hick-ish it makes me sound when I get there, I refuse to let that one go. If anything, there will be a little isolated patch of green in the southwest corner of that map in a couple years when they revisit these.
Why would I "suck" at pronouncing things differently? What's in the dictionary? That's how I pronounce it. If I call something by another name, why does that mean I suck? I don't get it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshower lol : In the United States, particularly in the Southern United States, and in Hungary as well, a sunshower is said to show that "the devil is beating his wife" because he is angry God created a beautiful day. The rain is said to be his wife's tears. A regional variant from Tennessee is "the devil is kissing his wife".[4][5] In French, the phrase is "Le diable bat sa femme et marie sa fille"[6] (i.e., "the devil is beating his wife and marrying his daughter"). In the Netherlands they say that there is a "funfair going on in hell".[7] In St. Kitts and Nevis, when rain is falling and the sun is shining, it is said that 'D devil a bang he wife'. Lots of countries refer to it as a weddings of animals...namely the fox.
I recently told my dad it was called a sunshower, and then he informed me that it's the devil beating his wife. Good news/bad news. I was heard of this phrase before I heard of the word sunshower, so I was amused that he termed it like that. I don't really call any of this indicative of something wrong with America or Americans (except southerners calling soda/pop "Coke"... that's a brand, you nitwits). It shows dialect diversity among a country with a rather large surface area. China and Russia have similar things going on.
I always use freeway for 45,59,288. Highway would be like highway 6 or highway 3. This country is confused..
Wait, you guys don't use the word "rotary"? Massachusetts truly is the only educated state in this country.