Ask a wasp to grasp
To me it never was a wosp, it’s always been a wasp. I was listening to Ray Darcy on Today FM during the the week and Ray had a piece about how the word wasp is pronounced. Ray was trying to impress upon his listeners that he grew up in a family of 11 in Co. Kildare and then proceeded to pronounce the word as if he was schooled in Eton.
All joking aside, this is one of the things that I love, as I travel to our various offices.
- In Boston, the traditional accent is non-rhotic, you don’t hear the “r” at the end of a syllable or just before a consonant. So there is no “r” when you go to pa-k your ka- in Ha-ved
2 comments February 2nd, 2008
