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‘Ave a butcher’s at this, then

Friday, January 25th, 2008

I was thinking about the Northern accent, and much as Southerners like to make “foon” of it, there is more consistency to it than in the Southern accent.

Now I know English is nothing if not inconsistent, but why do we pronounce “put” and “butcher” differently from “but” and “gut”? No reason I can think of. So at least Northerners pronounce all “u” words in the same way. “Foony” or not.

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Using less or fewer

Sunday, November 11th, 2007

OK, it’s pedantic grammar time. One of the things that bugs me a reasonable amount is the misuse of “less” and “fewer”. As here:

The differences roll-up is this: in person, I am playing against people with higher blinds and I’m playing less hands because less hands are being dealt… and I’m generally losing money. – Vegas

Or here, in the same article:

The last reason this works is obvious. I play less crap hands.

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