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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I know people who say it, but not in a Joey from Friends sort of way, more in a That's How You Say The Word sort of way...
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I remember being struck when I read "V." in college that Pynchon spelled "probably" as "prolly" in dialog. I slowly realized: It's a word we all prolly use three times a day, but prolly 90% of the people I know either pronounce it "prolly" or "prawbly" IRL. Such people are neither stupid nor ill-spoken. That middle syllable is unnecessary to the listener to understand its meaning, so it's linguistically doomed.
