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  • How do you pronounce the word oil? Where I live it is commonly oool. An oil well is an oool wale. This is more of a boomer and up thing.

    My grandpa, instead of saying ‘Do you want to fish by that bush?’ he would say ‘Yaunna feesh by that boosh?’

    Sorry I just love accents, language drift, linguistics in general. And I still haven’t learned diacritics

    Some people postulate that the pre boomer people of Appalachia, and specifically West Virginia, were pronouncing words closer to the “proper” British English of the 1600s and 1700s. They moved into the mountains and became isolated with low population and few outsiders. This insular culture preserved the language. Whereas British people who stayed in Britain were exposed to different languages and pronunciations which caused language drift.



  • Hell yeah welcome to the right side of History, if anyone’s left to write it. I’m 41 and I was pretty much an anarchist punk by the time I was 18 (I misunderstood the concept but I got it eventually). It’s funny, I became less radical as I got older to where I called myself a democratic socialist. I was inspired by Bernie. But the events of the past eight years and my experiences in life have brought me right back to being a radical leftist.

    Good luck, stay safe, have solidarity with the people of this fucked up world.

    Oh and read this.