A prime example is the increasingly common American pronunciation of "en route" as "enn rowt". I call it "misplaced literacy", ... years or so. A few hundred years ago these influences simply did not exist, and

I'm fighting a losing battle with my six-year old son ... colloquialism that migrated to written English, rather than vice versa. The weak pronunciation of "have" and the weak pronunciation of "of" are basically the same,

I'm fighting a losing battle with my six-year old son with "have" used as an auxilliary. He will say, for ... common colloquialism? Am I wrong in assuming it is a colloquialism that migrated to written English, rather than vice

I'm fighting a losing battle with my six-year old son with "have" used as an auxilliary. He will say, for ... common colloquialism? Am I wrong in assuming it is a colloquialism that migrated to written English, rather than vice

< In our last go-round the following German forms were mentioned: http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=(Email Removed) ("ruffnready":) Dude: "ein alberner mensch, stupidus" ~ dudenkopf J. & W. Grimm, Deutsches