#(for the record a lot of Eastern European settlers in Canada were running from Russia. so. very little has changed.)
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9 times out of 10 I’m gonna fuck up and pronounce it “Massive Two Shits” instead of “Massachusetts” and I am very sorry.
My mouth doesn’t do enunciation too good and you require me to pronounce all of the letters very specifically.
#for the record half my family is Eastern European so like my pronunciation skills are a problem everywhere#though the ‘settled communities geeeations ago’ and like ‘the Ukrainians and Polish bonded with the local Indigenous peopl’#means that those three getting together are responsible for what my English sounds like today#(for the record a lot of Eastern European settlers in Canada were running from Russia. so. very little has changed.)#there’s also the Germans who probably did not help make the already rural accent sound like ‘Good Respectable English’#I said once ‘you might not place it. people from here do their best not to sound like it once they leave.’#which feels like it says a lot about how I feel about language policing without context#sometimes words mean different things for different people ‘cause their slang comes from different root languages#gotch are fun because it’s such a common phrase I know but it’s based in Ukrainian and a bunch of Eastern Canadians were talking shit#like that it wasn’t a real thing until I pointed out it was pronounced more like ‘gitch’ and is probably from Weatern Canada more#‘cause more Ukrainian settlers in western Canadian history.#accents. are fuckin weird
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