@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 25 days agoGrandmom asked me to sharpen her hatchet. What's worth doing is worth over-doingi.imgur.comimagemessage-square105fedilinkarrow-up1898arrow-down19
arrow-up1889arrow-down1imageGrandmom asked me to sharpen her hatchet. What's worth doing is worth over-doingi.imgur.com@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 25 days agomessage-square105fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink9•23 days agoIt’s okay not to know. English is spoken in a lot of different places in different ways. I doubt that in your 40 years you’ve explored this. Google Trends shows that it’s most popular in Malaysia and the Philippines, relative to its use in other countries.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•23 days agoThat explains it. Nobody in America says that and we outnumber the next three native English speaking countries combined.
minus-squareℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝linkfedilinkEnglish4•23 days agoIndia uses English as a lingua franca, they have their own phrases, dialect and everything, and they outnumber the American continent combined.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•23 days agoI’m native to North Carolina and I’ve heard it before. But this country has 40 or 50 regional dialects. Probably more.
It’s okay not to know. English is spoken in a lot of different places in different ways. I doubt that in your 40 years you’ve explored this.
Google Trends shows that it’s most popular in Malaysia and the Philippines, relative to its use in other countries.
That explains it. Nobody in America says that and we outnumber the next three native English speaking countries combined.
India uses English as a lingua franca, they have their own phrases, dialect and everything, and they outnumber the American continent combined.
I’m native to North Carolina and I’ve heard it before.
But this country has 40 or 50 regional dialects. Probably more.
I did. And my family is from maryland.