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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I secretly find it cute when people mispronounce words like that because it is more like a dialect (like people in certain areas saying warsh instead of wash or dropping vowels) and I don't need to notify anyone else when I hear it, feel aggravated or start a thread[/quote]

Op here.

Warsh doesn’t bother me.

Dialects are endearing.

But I just can’t write off “ex-specially” as a dialect.

To me it sounds like the mispronunciation of a child. We’ve all heard a 4 year old make such a mistake. It just sounds child-like more than anything else.[/quote]

Ask yourself why you label some differences as dialects and some as mistakes. Is there a regional difference? Perhaps a racial or class difference? Your biases are coming out clearly in your post, even if you are blind to them.[/quote]

If you live in the dc metro area then you are familiar with our regional dialects (DC is different than Baltimore, hon).

And when a person only mispronounces one word (in this case especially), then how could it be a dialect?

And when the people mispronouncing it are white Americans who grew up MC/UMC and are objectively highly educated, why would anyone suggest bias is at play? [/quote]

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