Constantine: Weirdly this is true in rural Washington (Warshington) state, too.

when i hear english people call french toast "eggy bread" or call a bread roll a "barm" all i can think of is "how are you this terrible at a language you invented"

"Father and farther are pronounced the same" No they're fucking not. You're just saying things now.

If the letter R wasn't meant to be pronounced it wouldn't be in the alphabet. Grow up.

where I grew up they do the opposite. There's a R in "Washington, Indiana." at least the way the locals say it: "Warshington."

Weirdly this is true in rural Washington (Warshington) state, too.

not in the part of rural WA I’m from

Where in WA? Family from Republic and Pullman do and it was the tell-tale sign of someone who grew up in a small-town when I was a kid in Seattle.

Pullman

dunno about your family. but I was born there, lived there until I left for college, went back often, and that’s not how we said it and we noticed when people said it that way

You're making me question my memories here. I'm gonna have to call my brother-in-law this afternoon and make him say it. That said, it *is* a thing. It is it is it is. Even KUOW says so! www.kuow.org/stories/why-...

I believe it’s a thing! I do not believe it’s a Pullman thing

I’ve spent time in every town in WA large enough to have a regional airport, including Pullman, and I’ve never heard someone not from the Midwest say “Warshington.” Certainly never anyone actually from Washington.

I didn't realize this before this conversation, but there seems to be a generational component to it -- it was much more common when I was a kid in the 1970s and 1980s than it is today... www.kuow.org/stories/why-...

You're a youngster though. I remember it from my rural childhood.

It's hit and miss, I guess. Here's an article on the phenomenon and its origins.

Why do some locals say ‘Wershington’ instead of ‘Washington?’www.kuow.org We’re a quirky bunch out here in Washington state. We eat cream cheese on our hotdogs. The western part of the state freaks out when it snows. We don’t...

Post