Until Tink, a well-enunciating Yankee came along, I didn’t realize how badly, or at least differently, I pronounce words.
Often, we quibble over the pronunciation of a word, then we look it up and discover that both were correct, just used by different parts of America. Sometimes Tink will try to teach me a new pronunciation because mine is truly wrong.
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