It’s tumbling like a tumbleweed
I can’t resist stopping to look every day now.
In the thread below, Pupster called me up on using the Britishism “rubbish”. When I first moved here, I swore I’d never shift my American vocabulary. British words sound so awful coming out of American mouths.
But some things you have to adopt. If you tell people over here you’re going for gas, they’ll think you mean propane.
Rubbish I picked up because I like it, but when I say it out loud, I roll the R. Rrrrrrrubish! Try it. It’s fun!
Uncle B and I had some terrible arguments over language, back in the day. Did you know the British meaning of “slut” is “an unclean or slovenly woman”? Yeah. That was fun.
Fans of American hegemony will be happy to hear that Microsoft applications quietly change British Spellings to American ones without asking (I figured out how to turn that off once, but it keeps coming back).
But over time, I forget which is which. Sometimes, when I hear a soft Irish accent on the radio, I think it’s an American (clearly where our modern dialect comes from). I’ve been here seventeen years, y’all.
Oh, y’all. I lost most of my Tennessee decades ago, but I admit I sometimes practice it when I’m alone. I’d hate to lose my ability to speak cornpone.
February 20, 2025 — 7:46 pm
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