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loloquwowndueo
18 days ago
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Why the global elite gave up on spelling and gramm...
Typical in Toronto - remember there’s only one T in “Toronto”
madcaptenor
18 days ago
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There's also only one T in "Atlanta". (For some people there are none.)
brutal_noodle
11 days ago
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Definitely heard "Alana" in the South. On the West cost right now, got a buddy from West Virginia, and even after 20-30-some-odd-years in California, he still says it like that. Among other things he boomhauers.
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madcaptenor
11 days ago
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I didn't realize "boomhauer" could be verbed.
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brutal_noodle
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'oronto?
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canucker2016
18 days ago
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...and the first o is silent, and the remaining o's are pronounced 'a'.
But the TV news reporters enunciate every letter in Toronto.
FpUser
18 days ago
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ROFL. I ignore this sacred rule
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