Define these words

[Ol' Red]

Why do we PARK in a driveway and DRIVE in a parkway?

Because I get yelled at for parking on the parkway.

 

[Airedale56]

Woman: An adult biological-female human being

That seems to cover it.


(It appears to me that I'm more of a biologist than a certain formerly-aspiring Supreme Court Justice.)

 

[Hugnot]

I never got more than a "C" grade in English. I tied for the 2nd highest grade at the big state university with a "D" grade. One "C", two "D's" and 20 "F's".

My grand parents cared for me while my parents worked and they spoke nothing but French (at least to me) being imigrants (legal, being wired in by $ zillionare, to be servants) they hoped I would be fluent in both but failed, no more than a "C" grade.

 

[WYO300RUM]

Asteroid
Hemroid
?

 

[liltank]

Pee
Pea
Pew
Pugh
Phew
Few
You're
Your

 

[cohunt]

Then there are those that just dont know what they are saying- or care

I have a coworker at the hvac business I work at that says " in serious" --- not " in series"

But then again he says " can you get the dice from my bag" --- not "can you get the dikes from my bag"

 

[G Arlen Good]

Yes / No

 

[foadlefty]

Ford

Chevy

 

[FirstBubba]

Pee
Pea
Pew
Pugh
Phew
Few
You're
Your

Pee (?) - urine
Pea - a small vegetable
Pea - a counter weight for a cotton scale
PEA - pulseless electrical activity*
pea fowl - a bird of India
* - a heart condition

You're - contraction for "you are"
Your - belonging to you
Yore - of days gone by, the past

 

[jessej]

These Deeres has a different spelling.

Errythang has a difernt spellin down here

 

[scooter1954]

I live in Texas. Near us is the Pedernales River, but pronounced "Perdenales"! In town in a road spelled Manchaca, but pronounced "Manshack"! Many other examples, but it's commonplace.

 

[cohunt]

Is it fido the dog or fideaux?

 

[FirstBubba]

Over the years, I think about the different words and pronunciations I've encountered.
Tensas River - "ten-saw"
Ouchita River - "wash-uh-taw"
Tehuacana Creek - "tuh-wok-enny"
Atchafalaya River - "uh-chaf-uh-lie"
Bedais Creek - "bee-die"
I'll stop there.