It is Definitely not Definately

[Nick]

There was a time not too long ago when letter writing was an art and showed what a person was made of, what kind of class they had. That, like decent manners, has gone the way of the Dodo.

Ball point pens and flat tables instead of slanted writing desks have been major players in the destruction of not only handwriting, but also posture.

[Southern Breeze]

Ball point pens and flat tables instead of slanted writing desks have been major players in the destruction of not only handwriting, but also posture.

Whats a Ballpoint Pen? Is it Windows compatable or do you need a Mac?

[Mr. Kilt]

Ball point pens and flat tables instead of slanted writing desks have been major players in the destruction of not only handwriting, but also posture.

I collect letters and documents from 18th & 19th century England. Most of them have handwriting so awful that I cannot understand how they made it to the recipient!

To add my pet writing peeve to the list...it irks me to no end when people use the word "sale" rather than "sell" in classified ads. Such as "I have too many cars so I plan to sale one." :confused:

[macwilkin]

Living in the Missouri Ozarks, you begin to collect spelling and pronounciation oddities:

"warsh" instead of "wash"
"ideal" instead of "idea"
"wrench" instead of "rinse"

My last name, Wilkinson is almost always spelled or pronounced as Wilkerson.

I could go on and on -- but if you're really interested, the noted Ozark folklorist Vance Randolph wrote a wonder work a number of years ago on Ozarks speech and dialect entitled "Down in the Holler".

Cheers,

Todd

[Southern Breeze]

If you want to get creative with your spelling visit here:

http://www.peoplespub.com/nercda/text/southtalk.html

If Pour1Malt can use Scots, then why can't Southern be used as well?

[switchblade5984]

lol! we'll never be able to read anything!
^

[switchblade5984]

lol! we'll never be able to read anything!
........^
just for all you

[davedove]

Living in the Missouri Ozarks, you begin to collect spelling and pronounciation oddities:

"warsh" instead of "wash"
"ideal" instead of "idea"
"wrench" instead of "rinse"

My last name, Wilkinson is almost always spelled or pronounced as Wilkerson.

I could go on and on -- but if you're really interested, the noted Ozark folklorist Vance Randolph wrote a wonder work a number of years ago on Ozarks speech and dialect entitled "Down in the Holler".

Cheers,

Todd

My parents live in the far south of Illinois, in a pretty rural area. There is a town there spelled Vienna, like the city in Austria (or the sausages for that matter). Guess how the locals pronounce it - Vie (like in tie) - anna!

If Pour1Malt can use Scots, then why can't Southern be used as well?

I actually don't have a problem with that. In that situation a person is specifically trying to emulate a particular speech pattern. While P1M's posts can be hard to read at times, it is fun to figure them out.

I just get annoyed when people are just too lazy or don't care about doing it right. But, I'm not going to dwell on it; life's too short.

[auld argonian]

My parents live in the far south of Illinois, in a pretty rural area. There is a town there spelled Vienna, like the city in Austria (or the sausages for that matter). Guess how the locals pronounce it - Vie (like in tie) - anna!

That's Illinois...took the trouble to name a whole lot of cities after foreign cities and then mispronounce them: Peru, Cairo, Marseilles...Pay-roo, Kay-row and Mar-sails....up around here we have the suburb of Des Plaines...Dez-Planes...I suppose that's how they can tell if you're not a native.

Oh, well....there's always Skokie!

Best

AA

[jfellrath]

Here's one that irks me a lot.

"This shirt needs washed."

-or-

"This computer needs fixed."

I don't remember ever having heard until I moved to Columbus, but it's used all over the place here. I want to grab people by the noggin and yell at them: "TO BE! TO BE!"