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Subject: Re: Accents.
Date: 1 Nov 2025 05:36:06 GMT
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On Fri, 31 Oct 2025 22:45:29 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> On 2025-10-31, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 31 Oct 2025 08:27:17 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>
>>>> Sometimes the misunderstandings are amusing. I watch some British
>>>> police or crime shows and often the head honcho is a woman who they
>>>> address as 'Ma'am'. As far as I'm concerned they are calling her Mom.
>>>> 
>>> Marm. As in 'Marmite'
>>
>> No 'r' sound that I can detect although I think I have heard the 'r'
>> creeping in on other shows. It's like the relatively recent affectation
>> in the US Army of pronouncing 'sergeant' as 'sarnt'.
> 
> We make good-natured fun of our friends to the south in Warshington.

A kid in grade school said it that way. No idea why since he was a local. 
The teachers tried to drum 'crick' out of us with little success but that 
'r' was a strange one.