http://zitronenhai.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] zitronenhai.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] pollyannamustdie 2013-12-28 07:32 pm (UTC)

I say "cattywampus" to mean "off kilter". Like, when James hangs something on the wall and it is not up to my standards of precise level-ness.

I use it that way, too! Thanks for writing a much better sentence about that word.

I always called the strip of grass between the sidewalk and the road a "swale". Turns out this is a South Florida thing, because ours actually are little dips of land used to help facilitate drainage.

We kind of have those in North Lawrence, where I live. North Lawrence would be a swamp if not for the levee. Don't break, levee!

I always thought I said "marry/Mary" and "merry" differently. Turns out, the difference is only in my head. What everyone else hears is exactly the same.

Ha ha ha ha ha! :D That's like me and the pen/pin thing, which is why when I try to hard to say "pen," I hear "pan."

She grew up in MN, lived in South Florida for over twenty years (while married to a Texan), and now lived with her British husband in both the UK and Turkey (where she hangs out with a bunch of Scottish ex-pats).

You should! I would be curious to see her results. My friend who has lived in Norway for the past twenty years wound up with some interesting results.

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