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27 words people widely suck at

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  1. dachuda86

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    No. 16...there are people that call rain when it's sunny "The Devil is beating his wife"?

    WTF?
     
  3. DrLudicrous

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    That's the only thing I've ever heard it called.
     
  4. DFWRocket

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    #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
     
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    Because she burnt his beans.
     
  6. dachuda86

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    Yes... welcome to the U.S. of Hicksville.
     
  7. DallasThomas

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    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.
     
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    my father told me this when i was like 6 or so.
     
  9. RedRedemption

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    Y'all just feels right. I can't ever force myself to say "You Guys" instead of y'all.
     
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    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? :confused: I don't get it.
     
  12. Dr of Dunk

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    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.
     
  13. Depressio

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    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.
     
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    I always use freeway for 45,59,288. Highway would be like highway 6 or highway 3. This country is confused..
     
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    Wait, you guys don't use the word "rotary"?

    Massachusetts truly is the only educated state in this country.
     
  16. Jontro

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    Who cuts grass?
     
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    The one I related to the most was roly poly, I've always called them that.
     
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    Why the heck do people call soda/pop, coke?! Coke is a freaking drink not a general term.
     
  19. Depressio

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    Honestly, I used to when I as little.

    Then my brain developed.
     
  20. LCAhmed

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    Coke is what 90% of what restaurants srll. Just used to ordering a coke
     

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