I may pronounce a few words funny, but for the most part I use words correctly. Just ask Stephen how I say "fog" or "bagel" or "bag"...he still laughs at me :)
So of course I have to give Stephen a hard time for some of the words he sometimes says... :)
Like "expecially" instead of "especially" or combining words to create a new word...like "flustrated" - combining "frustrated" and "flustered".
Well, just Friday someone caught me in one...I have always combined "drowsy" and "groggy"...and never realized that "droggy" wasn't a word...until they looked at me funny and asked what in the world I just said :) :)
Is this a Michigan thing that I grew up with, or have I just been making up this word my whole life? Anyone else say "droggy"???
6 years ago
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I am not a droggy user, but I do combine lots of words. My family calls it Cole-speak, and it's usually on purpose. Examples: -Saying "Beeping Slooty" instead of Sleeping Beauty.
-"Horse-pistol" instead of hospital
We usually only do it when family's around, and my husband had to become semi-fluent. :)
I do those kinds of things all the time. :) I think I just try to speak too quickly before my brain even knows what it is trying to say.
Your blog just made me really giggle! And no, I have never used the word "droggy".
Everyone has always made fun of me for the way I say bagel. Rob does ALL the time and then it came up at work and everyone just laughs at me! The way I say it doesn't seem weird to me at all. It must just an influence of our childhood.
~Kristin
I used to say pailnolish instead of nail polish, I am not sure how old I was at the time but young. It is funny living in the south people have all sorts of words and expressions that we northerners have never heard and hope to never say.
That's so funny - I try to make up words on purpose, but those are all so clever. And I'm not sure what dictionary you used growing up in A-Town, but droggy was never on my radar - though it should be! I remember freshman year at college, all my roommates loved hearing me say apples and bags - I think it's our hard/twangy a's.
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