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That word was in the episode title of tonight's episode of Killing Eve (The Hungry Caterpillar). Just now, I was trying to think of how to spell the word, and couldn't figure it out, even though I'm quite familiar with the word. That's unusual for me. All of the spellings I tried looked wrong to me, and they were wrong.
cater cater
pillar pillar
catepillar
Dang. I was trying to spell it right, and spelled it wrong again, in spite of myself!
caterpillar!
(How many words have silent R's in the middle like that?)
That word was in the episode title of tonight's episode of Killing Eve (The Hungry Caterpillar). Just now, I was trying to think of how to spell the word, and couldn't figure it out, even though I'm quite familiar with the word. That's unusual for me. All of the spellings I tried looked wrong to me, and they were wrong.
cater cater
pillar pillar
catepillar
Dang. I was trying to spell it right, and spelled it wrong again, in spite of myself!
caterpillar!
(How many words have silent R's in the middle like that?)
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Date: 2019-04-26 05:36 am (UTC)From:Don't know if you're familiar with a Long Island (basically: Boston-lite) accent but if so, you know that we don't (traditionally) say the "r" in anything (Bostoners are even worse about this, more pronounced, than LIers). So a LIer might say cahrt, a Bostoner might say caaht, and the rest of the country would say car-t (like car, but with a t on the end - *except* upstate New Yorkers, who put hard rs where there weren't any to begin with, so you get cart like how you'd say Bart!).
Just forex.
Kind of why I love language (especially English) and dialects (especially USian); there can be so much variation.