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[fabrisse]

Business is NOT pronounced "bidness."

*sigh*

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[kel-fish.livejournal.com]

Excuse me while I try very hard not to snort. *snorts* Damn.

[fabrisse.livejournal.com]

It's considered bad form to either laugh or cringe when your boss uses that pronunciation.

[kel-fish.livejournal.com]

My one thought: "Oh my God. *facepalm*"

[riverfox.livejournal.com]

::headdesk:: Every time I hear someone pronounce it that way, I always wanna ask, "Do you also say 'ax' instead of 'ask'?"

[fabrisse.livejournal.com]

Yes. Yes, they do. *G*

[riverfox.livejournal.com]

*g* Sad.

[delux-vivens.livejournal.com]

Gosh, how terrible...

[fabrisse.livejournal.com]

I know it's part of the regional accent. Most of my cousins pronounce those words that way, but I had speech therapy for lisps for over five years. I got flunked (and in one case, hit), if I didn't pronounce things correctly.

I've never been allowed a regionalism (thirty moves in forty-eight years has something to do with that, too), and I find that many of them hurt my ears -- from the Richmond, VA habit of pronouncing "about" as "aboat" to the dropped "r" in so many words in New England to the "oi" for "au" sounds in some British accents.