Re: Argh! Grammatical pain!!

There is my whole problem....it is Soren that says I say it wrong...clearly
those days have biased ears

Patricia
my momma didn't rayse no fool
[to email remove the knot]




"Cheryl Perkins" <cperkins@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Rik Shepherd <RikShepherd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Patricia wrote
>
>>>it
>>> seems I don't pronounce it correctly and yet have said it that way all
>>> my
>>> life (shaddup JohnP)....
>>>
>>> as in tomorrow is "chewsday"
>
>> When it's clearly "chooseday"...
>
>> Followed by Whensday.
>
> On a student exchange program, I had a Danish room-mate who spoke
> excellent English. It took me a while to realize she was observing me
> closely as a kind of educational exercise. One day, she complained about
> her teachers; they'd made her life miserable getting her to day 'nyew',
> and now she was listening to a native English speaker who didn't even
> bother; who said 'noo', the pronounciation that seems to come more
> naturally to Danes. I said helpfully that I *could* say 'nyew' if she
> preferred, but that didn't seem to help.
>
> I do say 'Tyewsday', with only a hint of a 'ch' instead of the 't'. At
> least I think I do. It's harder than you might think to hear your own
> speech with an unbiased ear.
>
> --
> Cheryl


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