For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for May 09, 2016

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    Templo S.U.D.  almost 8 years ago

    And a Canadian kid will then ask what’s a New Yorker. Parents’ answer: a magazine.

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    Space_cat  almost 8 years ago

    So funny I almost spilled my “Kawfee”over there..

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    Guilty Bystander  almost 8 years ago

    Ahh, New York, where oil is pronounced “earl” and Earl is pronounced “Oil.”

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    MIHorn Premium Member almost 8 years ago

    He feels clever. The kid just feels confused.

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    QuietStorm27  almost 8 years ago

    I often get mistaken for a New Yorker because I can’t pronounce “R’s.”

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    1953Baby  almost 8 years ago

    @Guilty: GOOD ONE!

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    Carl Rennhack Premium Member almost 8 years ago

    “Magazines” are mentioned in the USofA Constitution (Article I, Section 8, paragraph 17)!

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    Diat60  almost 8 years ago

    Countries divided by a common language.

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    robert3750  almost 8 years ago

    I remember Edith Bunker calling it a “terlet”.

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    Asharah  almost 8 years ago

    I remember reading a comic book featuring Spooky, Casper’s cousin with the Bronx accent. Took awhile to figure out his girlfriend’s name was actually Pearl because he say “Poil.”

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    slsharris  almost 8 years ago

    A little Canuck making fun of somebody ELSE’S accent, eh?

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    coffeeturtle  almost 8 years ago

    It’s you guys that have the accent. ☺

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    hippogriff  almost 8 years ago

    RipleyKGarfieldWrong magazine. The one mentioned was to store the ammunition for the well-regulated militia. Gerry proposed limiting the size of a standing army to that required to secure those armories.

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    cbrsarah  almost 8 years ago

    I’m from Bronx, New York and I never spoke those mispronunciations. When I went to school, we had it drummed into us to speak properly and I have ever since. As a result, I have no accent whatsoever and no one can tell where I am from originally. They have to ask where and then they say I lost the accent. I had to tell them I never had one.

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    rgcviper  almost 8 years ago

    Kind of like Pahk the cah in Hahvahd Yahd? …

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