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Catchy title, eh?
I know, and will say before anyone else jumps in with both feet, that language constantly evolves, yada yada, but I'm interested in what seems to be the relatively recent trend for people, probably predominantly but not exclusively the female of the species, to substitute the phonetic sound of "e" with "a".
For example, the oval product of a hen which can be boiled, fried, poached or put in a cake is an agg, not an egg. Something which is reliant on something else will depand on it, not depend on it. If you reduce the impact of something, you may lassen it rather than lessen it.
In certain cases the pronunciation changes the meaning of the word to something entirely different, or even inappropriate; I heard one such axample recently but sadly my brain didn't see fit to retain that nugget.
Just wondered what's driven this change?
I know, and will say before anyone else jumps in with both feet, that language constantly evolves, yada yada, but I'm interested in what seems to be the relatively recent trend for people, probably predominantly but not exclusively the female of the species, to substitute the phonetic sound of "e" with "a".
For example, the oval product of a hen which can be boiled, fried, poached or put in a cake is an agg, not an egg. Something which is reliant on something else will depand on it, not depend on it. If you reduce the impact of something, you may lassen it rather than lessen it.
In certain cases the pronunciation changes the meaning of the word to something entirely different, or even inappropriate; I heard one such axample recently but sadly my brain didn't see fit to retain that nugget.
Just wondered what's driven this change?
Dieci said:
I've not heard of eny of this , but I don't gat out much .
Very prevalent, sorry pravalent, on news broadcasts!As for NZ, SA, etc, yiss but that's another topic all on it's own! I remember years ago I joined a new company as a manager in the IT department. They had an NZ contractor in there who kept telling me how much she knew about knitware. Took a while to twig that she was actually talking about Novell's main offering at the time:
CAPP0 said:
Dieci said:
I've not heard of eny of this , but I don't gat out much .
Very prevalent, sorry pravalent, on news broadcasts!As for NZ, SA, etc, yiss but that's another topic all on it's own! I remember years ago I joined a new company as a manager in the IT department. They had an NZ contractor in there who kept telling me how much she knew about knitware. Took a while to twig that she was actually talking about Novell's main offering at the time:
CAPP0 said:
Very prevalent, sorry pravalent, on news broadcasts!
As for NZ, SA, etc, yiss but that's another topic all on it's own! I remember years ago I joined a new company as a manager in the IT department. They had an NZ contractor in there who kept telling me how much she knew about knitware. Took a while to twig that she was actually talking about Novell's main offering at the time:
Are you tacking the puss just because we're down underer? As for NZ, SA, etc, yiss but that's another topic all on it's own! I remember years ago I joined a new company as a manager in the IT department. They had an NZ contractor in there who kept telling me how much she knew about knitware. Took a while to twig that she was actually talking about Novell's main offering at the time:
There's a lady on BBC Radio Wales who, it seems, can't finish a word on an "in", it has to be an "ing". For example, kitchen becomes kitching; even so far as mountain became mountang (I think. I don't think I could say quite what she did). Does my ears in, but I think it's just her, not a trend.
Not heard the OP's problem though!
Not heard the OP's problem though!
Don't forget kiwis and bear and beer, pronounced the the same
I'm English in NZ and love to annoying my son Bin when he's being a turd.
Panamax said:
You'd love New Zealand - "mulk" for milk, and South Africa - "hippy" for happy.
Worse than that is 'dayboo' and 'marone' when watching NRL (stupid aussies).I'm English in NZ and love to annoying my son Bin when he's being a turd.
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