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It would be more logical if those wh words were spelled hwile, hwat, hwen, hwo, hwere.[/QUOTE]

Or:

hwile
hwot
hwen
hoo
hware

Oh, too funny, Patchesnposies.

Reminds me of the time when I broke my right arm in 3 places and the doctors put a hanging cast on me and told me I had to sleep sitting up in a chair for 6 weeks. Unfortunately, I broke my arm 2 weeks before the opening of my Police, Postal and Fireman's Uniform store. By the fourth week, I was positively crazy from no sleep, but the temporary help I had was doing a horrible job and not representing the store in the way I had wanted. So, into the store I go to take care of things and the first customer I talk to is an EMT (emergency medical trained) person and he asked me how to take care of the shirt he had just bought.

I explained to him that after he washed the shirt to just put it in the dryer with a "Stay-Flo Maxi Pad" instead of a "Stay Puff Drier Sheet." That was over 40 years ago and I can still remember the embarrassment I had (and I am one to turn bright red) while I stared at him with a deer-in-the-headlights look while I was trying to remember if I had used the right name. The EMT looked at me with a very kind, sympathetic face, and patted my good arm and said, "That is all right, I know what you meant." AKWARD! So much for looking professional.

[One of my personal irritants is hearing 'salmon' spoken with the 'l' pronounced. SALmon, instead of 'sammon'. That l is silent.[/QUOTE]

Salmon with the "l" pronounced is an acceptable pronunciation. While it may irritate you, to others it is pleasant.
Just as "pecan" can be "pe-CAN" or "pe-CON" - much depends on the geographical area you are in.

Febuary
February

How do we get Wensday from Wednesday?

Salmon with the "l" pronounced is an acceptable pronunciation. While it may irritate you, to others it is pleasant.
Just as "pecan" can be "pe-CAN" or "pe-CON" - much depends on the geographical area you are in.[/QUOTE]


Hmmm. I don't know about "sal-mon" being an acceptable pronunciation? I searched several sites and all of them concur with the silent "l". It's definitely a geographical (mis?)pronunciation. I had to break my hubby of it when we were married because it drove me nuts!

Another few that make me squirm:

"warsh" instead of "wash"
"wooder" instead of "water"
"conversate" instead of "converse"
"orientate" instead of "orient"

My MIL (God rest her soul) always pronounced filthy and "thilthy". She was from Iowa (she said "Ioway") but I don't think that was a regional error.

I have known a few people from the midwest who use "laundry" as a verb ( I guess they mean launder).

..........and men have prostates, not prostRates

not reading the whole thread - and missing something important - and making an inappropriate comment -

Such as " hope he recovers quickly" and the funeral was two weeks ago.

I just read a story on another forum about someone who got stuck behind a funeral procession, carrying a balloon out the window that was too big to fit in the car. Message on balloon - GET WELL SOON.

AWK-ward.....