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Linguistic Pet Peeves

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Message 3 of 164 (150465)
10-17-2004 9:11 AM

Reply to: Message 1 by Rrhain
10-17-2004 6:46 AM

"a whole nother"

"Those are red apple's."

"prolly"

"And I was like, 'wow!'"

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Message 33 of 164 (150706)
10-18-2004 9:58 AM

Reply to: Message 23 by Tony650
10-18-2004 4:35 AM

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That's odd because I've always said, "a herb" (fully pronouncing the "H").

"erb" andf "herb" are both correct. The first is the common pronounciation in the US, the second in the UK and those countries which speak English heavily influenced by the UK.

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