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Old 12-02-2018, 10:24 AM
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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725 View Post
And they seem to stick "r"s on to words like idea. What is the idear?
My father who largely grew up in the NYC area used to pronounce idea as idear. While in grade school I imagined that idear was an alternative word for idea and I wrote it in an essay. The teacher treated it as a misspelling of course.

My torts professor was an Irishman from Boston and in the first class he announced "I am here to teach you the lawr of tots." as he had quite a strong accent. lol
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