While we are picking on how Southerners butcher English, what about the Darn Yankees up in New England? They have a penchant for dropping Rs where there are Rs and adding Rs to the end of words that do not Rs on the end.
Then we have the English who chide us for ruining English yet they butcher it even worse than we do, often swapping Rs like the New Englanders and dropping entire syllables. For example, necessary comes out necess'ry. We are almost as bad for dropping syllables, such as veteran (which often is pronounced ve'tren), temperature (temper'ture), etc.
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