Grammar!

[dizzyde]

Originally Posted by Sarah

I know two or three people who say Walmark....instead of Walmart.

I have heard that!

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And what about, "I would OF (instead of "have")"....

[dizzyde]

Originally Posted by tstew

Why do people say "I could care less" when they're really trying to say that they couldn't care any less?

LOL, that was brought up in another thread, which prompted me to start this one!

[Timmy]

Texas! It's the mother lode of bad grammar etc.!

1 and 2 Coronicles.

Drowth (for drought).

Why aren't you being have? ("Have" with a long "a". Present participle of "behave"! I kid you not!)

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Originally Posted by Sarah

I know two or three people who say Walmark....instead of Walmart.

Up in Canada there used to be a store called WOOLCO. And so many easterners, especially, would say WoolTco.

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Then some refer to the devil as saintan. Sounds like "Saint N."

[Timmy]

Another Texasism:

Lazareth, come forth!

[dizzyde]

Whatcha all doin? Howdja like that weather we had yestaday? I'm plumb tuckered from all adat wind wa had last night!

I could hear these sentences from any number of people I know, all of whom were born and raised in CA!

[Esther]

Go look out the winder at them pretty yaller flowers.

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Sepluchre instead of Sepulchre