Is “wens-day” an elision, or is “wed-nes-day” an overcorrection?

Then there’s the place name “Worcester.” Since the “cester” is a morpheme (a fortified place), you’d think it would stand apart phonetically.

My pet peeve “ta” is “preventative” (used when “preventive” would do). But it seems to have worked its way into most dictionaries as an accepted variation.

After 16 years of checking on my daughter every morning to see if she had gotten out of bed, I noticed our exchange had deteriorated to this:
“Yup?”
“Mup!”

said a lot here in australia. i’ve read it and heard it from people of all echelons*-o-society.
if you do differences between uk and brit isles english to american, do not leave out the aussies or south africans (like their “just now” meaning eventually, but don’t hang about waiting for it, girlie).
like- oh this is fun to say publicly- fanny, root, and pull off. never tell your taxi driver to pull off here. if you tell him to “pull off by the rest stop, because my fanny itches” he’ll wreck the car.

*yes, all. i made a point of asking about their rank in society, kept a file and yes. all echelons. every single one. it was a busy week.

But I do want to insist once again, as I have several times before on the show: I don’t know a single native speaker of Southern American English who would use “y’all” as a singular pronoun. it is a plural form, comparable to “ye,” “ihr,” “vosotros,” and many other informal singular forms of the second-person pronoun in a number of languages.

I have only ever heard non-Southerners use it as a plural form. (Sorry, this is one of my pet peeves!)

Living in Austin, Texas we’ve got a nice shibboleth in the following street name.

Manchaca = man SHACK

Also, wanted to remind you of a signature elision here in the deep south: y’all and its plural all y’all

BTW, have you ever done an episode covering the differences between British and American English?

“That’s about tempercent (ten percent) of the total amount.”

Utah residents have become somewhat well known (or is that derided? you choose…) about their tendency to elide several words (much to the delight of local FM radio DJs) such as:

juh - “You”
djuh - “Did you?”
djew - “Did you?”, (Panguitch version)
djeet - “Did you eat?”
lawnmore - “lawn mower”
leafblore - “leaf blower”
squeet - “Let’s go eat”

And I’m not sure if this one fits in hypercorrection or just general mispronunciation, but if I have to hear:

“Well, that’s just a mute point.”

one more time, I think I’m going to have to revoke said speaker’s diploma and/or intigate their deportation paperwork.

Love the show.

It’s like they speak these terms so often that they aren’t patient enough to get the whole phrase out.

When saying the alphabet, kids typically do not say “L-M-N-O-P.” Instead, it’s “Ellamenno P.”

Just a couple I thought of.

Will

Emach’s comment brings up another oddity of Vermont speech. We have trouble with t’s. An “almost shibboleth” is the name of the state, pronounced Vermon with a sort of nasal fade away. I have a terrible time with plurals of some words that end in t. The letter that precedes the t matters, and s is the worst. Lists! Tests! Help me.

I do note that the American-Statesman, while quoting Urban Dictionary, did not actually even hint at the word for which “mofo” is an elision. Rude is rude, after all.

http://www.statesman.com/metrostate/content/metro/stories/06/24adiosmofo.html

We do have the same feed address as always. We never published the LibSyn address since we started doing the ‘cast.

am = an dem
beim = bei dem
im = in dem

If you choose not to use the contracted form you emphasise the article. Non-standard elision is e.g. the clipping of the word “es”, as in “wie geht’s” (how is it). You can use, but it is always spoken language (as don’t).

Confusing elision for non-natives in English: the pronounciation of the reputed four-syllable words “vegetables” and “comfortable”.

The version of it that I remember from school was uttered when a kid had maybe two or three quizzes or exams on the same day, and he would say he had two “testes.”

Not realizing what he actually was saying, of course…

btw, I’ve listened to plenty of editions but, can’t recall any discussions of “word whiskers.” Like, have you guys ever, like, discussed them?