Wes Phillips

My Wife Mocks Me For This

Wes Phillips  |  Feb 27, 2006

I grew up in the South and I cannot pronounce "pen" and "pin" so they are distinguishable. I showed Ms Ph.D. in Linguistics this article and said, "See, my dialect isn't weird after all."

"No," she said, "your brain is weird."

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Jeff Wong's picture
Submitted by Jeff Wong (not verified) on February 27, 2006 - 10:08am

I know someone from New Zealand who has this issue with 'then' and 'than' (not sure about 'sex' and six', though...)

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Submitted by Wes Phillips (not verified) on February 28, 2006 - 1:23pm

I know what you mean, Monty. I once saw a great map of the US that charted the soda, pop, and coke dialects—as well as the hero, grinder, and sub regions.And when I was moving from NM to CT, after a drive through an ice storm, I stopped at an NJ HoJos and orderd a much needed scotch and soda as a restorative. To my distress," I was served a vile brown concoction. ""What's this?"" I asked my waitron. ""Scotch and soda"," she replied. What kind of soda?""""Scotch and Coke"," she said. As patiently as I could, I explained the ingredients of a Scotch and soda. She rolled her eyes and brought me: !) a glass od Scotch and 2) a bottle of Perrier. I guess NJ is solidly in the soda-speaking region.

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Submitted by Alan in Victoria (not verified) on March 1, 2006 - 1:19pm

At the NFL scouting combine," one player thought a reporter's questions about ""sacks"" were about ""sex.""

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