Geez mate - I have and I've never even been there. Perhaps you export
your long vowels, or put them on TV, or just can't here them - much
as I can't seem to hear this Australian accent I'm suppposed to have
acquired.
Hey, are you calling me a spotted dickhead? How did you know?
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 07/05/2008, at 12:11 AM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
> In all my travels lengthwise and widthwise across this land I have
> _never_ heard anyone pronounce it mawmy.
>
> Up here in Occupied Canada, mumma is heard. Across the frontier in
> New Brunswick, one hears mum. Where I grew up, maw or mom or
> sometimes momma. I've heard mommy, but usually from effete little
> twits, momma's boys, or those reaching for sarcasm. Never have I
> heard mawmy. Clean the spotted dick out of your ears. <insert smiley
> preference here>
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