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"sammich": is not unusual in New England ...
Anyway, who actually enunciates sandwich?
Think about it!
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"sammich": is not unusual in New England ...
When this thread first started I pondered the spelling, mumbling "sandwich" over and over to myself. But I very clearly hear a "w" in it, I can feel my lips making the "w" shape. So my pronunciation is more like "samwich".
Anyway, who actually enunciates sandwich?
It's possible that my mom might actually enunciate "sandwich". I'd have to get her to say it to be sure. She's just like that.
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I always used to say "sandwich" very clearly, according to the spelling. But then I fell in love with someone who said "sammich" or "sangwich". I switched to "sammich" first as a bit of a joke, but now it seems to have stuck (even though he, unfortunately, didn't). Another one I picked up is "I'm hungy" when I'm hungry.
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I do enunciate "sandwich" pretty carefully, but don't know why. I'm lazy on other words, most irritably to myself "little," which I screw up nearly always as "liddle"--shame on me!
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But that's how we say it in the US, WW! Like "budder" for butter.
I don't see a problem with that.
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enunciate "sandwich" pretty carefully
I tend to pronounce it with a nasalized a, [sã witsh]
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deliberately mispronouncing or spelling words to be playful?You mean like prolly, parbly, praps, and akshually?  And what about kids unintentional garbling of words? When my sister was very young she used to say pesketti instead of spaghetti and brak instead of brat.  The Only WO'N!
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Like "budder" for butter.
My mom (see "sandwich" comment above) always got on my back for making T's into D's. Or eating the T's altogether - for example, I usually lose the T in Italy when I'm not paying attention, so it comes out "I-uh-lee". Now that I don't live with her any more my pronunciation has definitely gone downhill (if you define not enunciating as the downhill direction).
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My mom always got on my back for making T's into D's.
Your mom was the proverbial* King Canute stopping the tide. The tendency to voice unvoiced stops or plosives between vowels is a natural element of language change.
*But not the real King Canute. The real King Canute knew perfectly well that he was incapable of stopping the tide; he was trying to prove this very point to his sycophantic toadies.
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"We went through a stage of calling them chicken boobs!"
The practice of calling the parts of the fowl "drumstick" and "second joint" originated in Victorian England, to alleviate discomfort with the foul terms "leg" and "thigh".
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