ExiledInIllinois

My daughter was in grade 4 and her teacher (older lady) said worsh/warsh. My daughter, being coached earlier in life by two sage and linguistic poets (wife & I ), honed right in on the accent. She said to her teacher: "You from Pittsburgh!" LoL... My daughter then threw me under the bus when the teacher took umbrage to a young kid subtly mocking her. ?

My neighbor from Cincinnati says wash as: Worsh I think that is a Pittsburgh-Ohio Valley thing. They need to be sent some Asian carp!!!

And that is exactly how it is said: Brussels sprouts Like @ShadyBillsFan said. If anything: Brussel sprouts Nobody, I repeat nobody says: prouts That's insane!!! Impossible to say. Taking the second "s" off is harder than saying both "esses."

You just lost all credibility with me there Buddy. NOT there was much to begin with.

Flood control, public health and sanitation ain't all about me.

Drawer (d-orrer). D-raw? Maybe down south?

Yes. Where do you come up with this stuff: "Brussells prouts.  Like everyone else in 'murica." Have you been training with @Turbosrrgood again. LoL... My Brussels sprouts have to be smothered in butter. And overcooked...

I prefer: Mr.Sunshine. I am your sunshine...

Yeah. It's harder saying "prouts." Sometimes @Gugny is really on The Moon. But, I think he's great! Yeah... Sometimes! Like lllinois. When I read it, will say Illi-noise. Just saying it, I will say it right. Can't visualize the word, will say it wrong. BTW, Illinois is the most mispronounced state. It's also the most misguided: Thnx Chicago!

No. But some do. They are dumb. I definitely say: Brussels Sprout. Two "s."

Yet! It is the most universal. English is in every boardroom. Because, it adopts, aquires, and evolves from other languages. It's always growing. IMO, that's NOT complicated. Kinda like a Southern Border with no wall. Just saying. Go English! "...The hardest to learn is the least complicated..." Okay... Fair enough. Still that pesky "woost" than. Where's the "r?"

Why do they lop the "shire" off of Worcestershire sauce? Why is Worcester pronounced "Wooster?" Good thing the damn Yankee New Englanders with their God awful accents aren't running this country, they can stick to their own shire. Now, Ohio... It's actually spelled Wooster... But Ohio has it's own set of problems, issues, & demons... Like @Cripple Creek, but we won't go there, he's just the tip of the iceberg. Why is it: Da Moines, Iowa and Dess Plaines, Illinois for Des Moines & Des Plaines? Hervé Villechaize never went to Illinois?

Greenland is melting before our eyes and polar bears are dying... And @Cripple Creek & @BringBackFergy fiddle like Nero in the Carp thread. /smh... Our always Great Nation, world needs them & their misguided energy!

University of Iowa isn't "private." /smh... Three letters: TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) Three more letters: PTH (Power To Hillbillies) All brought to by and subsidized by the Industrial & Industrious Northern States. Chew on that... They'd still be backwards and losing the Civil War with no internet & air conditioning if we weren't so benevolent. Pfffft... A silly fish, that is tasty... And people get all hysterical!

^^^^^^The rubber and glue defense.^^^^^^ I do $10 million a month in business. Match that Mr.Fancy Dancy! THAT'S $800,000 for every day I work! Bet that makes @BringBackFergy jealous. EDIT: MAKE for the country. NOT spend, like the other government employees do.

This from 9 years ago. It's held every summer: 2010 Bath, Illinois... Still NOT in Great Lakes yet. Something is working. Started in 2005. 14 years ago! Oh, the horror... @BringBackFergy is almost 20 years behind the times!

Sure you are... Where do think it goes. Right down the Hudson. They just process it. I let the sun & dilution process mine if I don't use a toilet. All toilets in Chicago get treated.. Same as your town then released... Anyway... At work all heads go to septic field. We have city water, but no city sewer... Too far out of the way here. Our septic field is 3 feet higher than river.

Yeah... But they're pissing on Memphis! And you're pissing on Queens, NYC

Lake and ocean... Most definitely. I even piss in the lock... Then flush it with 6 million gallons. Not one trace of me left!!! By the time it gets to New Orleans, it passed through 3 people. One in St.Louis, another in Memphis, another Vicksburg.

Busted!!!

Actually, urine is sterile when it comes out. I remember reading too... It was Jorge Posada and I think one of the "catching Molina's?"... Were one of the few not to wear batting gloves. Guess how they toughned up their skin? Yup, while in the shower. I think it's good for athlete's foot too. ?? Myself... I am way too classy. I step out, even know it goes down the exact same place.

Yeah... You might as well just drink the shower water.

In honor of the "Nose Pickin' thread" "You can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish"