Why do people say exetera?

↑ NechaMom ↓

Today at 4:39 pm

amother Clover wrote:

Oh yay - we’re doing this!

Sigsdy(60)
Fivdy (50)

🙉🙉

Thirdy
Fordy
Sevendy
Eighdy
Ninedy
Why are these fine and the ones you mentioned not?

↑ Reality

Today at 5:55 pm

zaq wrote:

When they spell it DRAW, it's not a dialect; it's wrong. Nobody on Imamotha who wants to declutter her "draws"--and writes it that way-- writes about her sista who uses butta to make challer, even if she pronounces it that way.

My childhood bff stored things in "drows", rhymes with "close." This is not tomayto, tomahto.

Well that poster also mentioned idear and Ahuver, which have never been written anywhere! My post was addressing pronunciation not imamother posts.

amother

↑ Rose ↓

Today at 5:58 pm

NechaMom wrote:

Thirdy
Fordy
Sevendy
Eighdy
Ninedy
Why are these fine and the ones you mentioned not?

I’m with team Clover.
Turning a hard T sound into a softer D-like T, in middle of a word, sounds fine to me. It might just be a dialect because I see it doesn’t bother Clover either. When I say ninety I don’t pronounce the T the way I pronounce T at the beginning of a word. Say Tamara will take eighty or ninety tots in her taxi. You probably also say the T’s differently.
Turning the f in fifty into a v or the x in sixty into gz is the equivalent of scratching nails on the blackboard - to my ears at least.

amother

↑ Rose

Today at 6:03 pm

amother Marigold wrote:

These are all different though
“Ax” is the way black people say it
“Draws” is just a plain old mistake
“Idear” is a dialect where people add an R sound to words ending with an A. I think people in northeast USA speak like this. I had a teacher who spoke like this and she called me “Ahuver”. Drove me crazy

I am deeply sorry you went through this Marigold. I think a teacher who calls Ahuva - Ahuver should be fired. On the spot. Fivdy sounds to me, as I mentioned, like nails on the blackboard. But putting a child through that is completely unacceptable and unforgivable.

amother

↑ Gray ↓

Today at 6:05 pm

Cheiny wrote:

I “use to,” instead of “used to.”

How in the world could you tell a difference when speaking?

↑ NechaMom ↓

Today at 6:05 pm

amother Rose wrote:

This explains it well and answers my question.
So you'd be fine with
Fifdy
Sixdy
But if we keep the F and X in those words it will be easier to just keep the T too so that's why the T is usually stronger in these two than in those I mentioned.

amother

Pumpkin ↓

Today at 7:04 pm

amother Brass wrote:

A lot of pronunciations are acceptable and common in different areas and among various groups of people.

I say exetra (although it's not a word I say often) because that's how I hear it said. I'm aware that it is written etcetera, and I write it correctly. I don't think I'm lazy just because I'm using a common pronunciation that people in my environment use and understand. I'll speak correctly when the setting requires it.

You don't think people will understand you if you say et cetera rather than exetera?

amother

↑ Pumpkin ↓

Today at 7:07 pm

Bnei Berak 10 wrote:

Masseuse is French and French grammar so it's somewhat OK to make such a mistake if you don't speak French Smile

But that is the word also used in English, so as English speakers we should really know better.

Et cetera is Latin. But that doesn't excuse us from not knowing the word.

amother

↑ Pumpkin ↓

Today at 7:12 pm

amother Sand wrote:

Don't must
Being
Confectionery sugar
I once heard someone say diarrheaer

What's wrong with the word being?

amother

↑ Pumpkin

Today at 7:15 pm

amother Bisque wrote:

FYI, the days of the week can be pronounced day at the end or dee at the end. Like sundee, mundee, or Sunday Monday. Both are correct. And I’ve lived all over the us and have never heard them referred to the first way.

You've lived all over the US and never heard Sunday pronounced as Sunday? I admit I haven't lived in more than 3 states but I've never heard days of the week pronounced with an ee sound at the end.

amother

↑ OP

Today at 7:15 pm

amother Winterberry wrote:

Not everyone is from the same city. There is a range of dialects and pronounciations. Just because that is what you learnt is correct for you, someone else can learn something different where they live and also be correct. Potato/Potahto argument. And when you start going international, no the american accent is really not the only one.

This does not apply to etc vs ect.

amother

↑ Bisque

Today at 8:28 pm

amother Pumpkin wrote:

You've lived all over the US and never heard Sunday pronounced as Sunday? I admit I haven't lived in more than 3 states but I've never heard days of the week pronounced with an ee sound at the end.

No, I said I haven’t heard them pronounced as Sundee Mondee. I think it’s a deep southern thing, and I haven’t lived in the Deep South.