Hot Gossip - 13 February 2023
A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over
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What Do You Mean I'm Going to Hope Her With Something?
There are two things that work here. One is there's a British dialect, old version of the verb hope that's hanging on and has been hanging on for centuries in little pockets throughout the U.S., especially in the American South. The same people that say hope instead of help might also say code instead of cold,. So they say C-O-D-E instead of C- o-L-D or H-O-A-D instead of hold hode.
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