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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
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.
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Can we do the same thing with Worchestershire sauce? Call it wooster sauce?
On another note, a woman I used to work with used to say "well just for chagrins...let do (insert activity here). I told her on many occasions that what she said was not what she meant - what she meant was for shits and grins blah blah blah - but she didn't want to say that in front of customers so she continued to use chagrins in that way. She was also the person who went out for expresso (argghhhhhhh!).
