My ex and I were on a road trip through Appalachia many years ago. We stopped at a diner for a pick-me-up. In our bland upper mid-west accent, we ordered two coffees and some French fried potatoes. It went like this:
Me: “Two coffees and a plate of fries, please.”
Waitress: “A plate of fries?”
Me: “Yes. A plate of fries.”
Waitress pours the coffee and goes to put the order in. She returns minutes later with a scoop of white rice on a saucer. Ex and I look at it, then up at waitress in confusion.
She repeats our order “plate of raahss.” Sounded exactly like “plate uh fries”. I said it again with decent annunciation. We laughed and got on the same page.
I had swallowed the “f” in “of”. Then there was the difference between midwestern and southern vowel sounds.
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My ex and I were on a road trip through Appalachia many years ago. We stopped at a diner for a pick-me-up. In our bland upper mid-west accent, we ordered two coffees and some French fried potatoes. It went like this:
Me: “Two coffees and a plate of fries, please.”
Waitress: “A plate of fries?”
Me: “Yes. A plate of fries.”
Waitress pours the coffee and goes to put the order in. She returns minutes later with a scoop of white rice on a saucer. Ex and I look at it, then up at waitress in confusion.
She repeats our order “plate of raahss.” Sounded exactly like “plate uh fries”. I said it again with decent annunciation. We laughed and got on the same page.
I had swallowed the “f” in “of”. Then there was the difference between midwestern and southern vowel sounds.