I think I understand. You think that it when someone says "warsh" it is wrong because there is no R, yet they make an R sound. However, I do not believe that those that pronounce "wash" that way or pronounce "Missouri" "MissourUH" have any misconceptions as to their spelling. I believe that their way of saying such words is accent related. There are other examples on our language where you could claim words are being mispronounced. We simply don't notice them because we are used to hearing them, but perhaps in the past they were not pronounced the same way. For example, why are the letters "gh" pronounced "f" as in laugh or cough? I don't claim that these were pronounced differently in the past, but it seems plausible that they were, and somehow evolved to the current pronounciation. Similarly, "wash" could evolve to be pronounced "warsh" by a majority of people at some point, and I don't see what is wrong with that. I'm just throwing things out there, don't take me too seriously ;-)
edit: I wish I could write coherent sentences :-p
Last edited by happyraul; 07-16-2003 at 08:28 PM..
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