Saturday, October 11, 2008

Observation 2

Once again another observation. My grandmother comes and stays at my family's house every other weekend, and after this semester started and I started learning about Linguistics and language I have been paying a lot more attention to the way people speak and the words they use. Well one weekend my grandma came down and we were talking one night and I heard her say the words "warsh" and "harse." Instead it should have been wash, and horse. I'm not sure why but a lot of the older people I know say those words like that and I'm not sure why or where it came from. I was tempted to ask her why she says it like that, but then I didn't because I didn't want to criticize the way she speaks.

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