(September 30, 2012 at 6:03 pm)Darkstar Wrote: I don't get it either. My father says that many of his co-workers pronounce 'wash' as 'warsh', even when part of a word, like 'warshington' instead of 'washington'. It's just part of a dialect...I think. (Do dialects require a certain percentage of people in the area to speak that way?)
It's a southern American thing. It might even be just a central southern thing, like Texas and Oklahoma. My grandparents are competely incapable of saying anything with 'wash' in it without throwing in that 'r,' and they're from Texas.
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